Fullstack Farmer

Never frustrated? Never learning. I'd like to take a minute to point out a failure of mine. After almost 20 years of enterprise software development I'm working to expand my skills into fabrication. I wanted to make a bunch of indexing locations to help with seating dimensional lumber on my milling machine. I got it wrong... More than once. First time I decided to flip over the spoil board and try again. Burying my mistakes. This time; that luxury is already spent. CNC, 3D Printing, small electronics and construction. None of them come naturally to me the way that software development does. Perhaps it's my aphantasia but I can think for hours about how to lay things out but when it comes down to it; numbers just come out wrong sometimes. What's a guy to do? Give up because of mistakes? Gosh no. My mind is drawn back to university when I was studying 2nd year neuroscience as an interest course trying to figure out how learning actually works. I oversimplify here; but doing things that push you up against the boundary of getting frustrated is the best way to learn. So what if I'm deeply seated on the left side of the Dunning-Kruger curve for this new skillset? It's better than getting complacent and being a stagnant expert. Tell me; what do you do to get out of your comfort zone and get into the learning seat? What's your frontier of learning?

@mela_1111 @FoodProfessor Nice! Thanks for the share :)

@FullstackFellow @FoodProfessor I've been taking this online course (she does live Q/A sessions too) and I love it! It's quite beginner friendly. potagerhelene.com

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@HumansNoContext "Context? No humans." Or "AI generated slop."

First three words that come to mind when you see this pic?

@ShaunRickard67 @TD_Canada Your customers will need to book 2 weeks in advance because the bank can't give out that much money at once. 😂 Your customer can always pay in bitcoin though. :p Good job @TD_Canada and @cibc for making the crypto argument stronger than ever.

So get this, yesterday my @TD_Canada Bank Manager suggested that I ask my customers to pay in cash to avoid having 5 business day holds put on bank drafts or certified cheques that I receive as final payment from my clients. Apparently Bank drafts & certified cheques are now useless and will be treated like personal cheques by all major Canadian banks and 'Cash is king' once again. I went to my TD bank branch in Pickering, Ontario yesterday to deposit a $22K final payment for an exterior renovation project that my company had just completed. As always, I specifically asked my customer to provide a bank draft as it's been a slow year due to the economy and I needed the funds to clear quickly so I could pay my guys. I even asked the homeowner to leave the receipt portion attached to the draft as my bank had previously instructed me to do so to prove that the draft wasn't fraudulent. Despite this, the cashier, after speaking to his Manager, informed me that due to the amount of fraud out there now, they will need to place a 5 business day hold on the @cibc bank draft to ensure that it's authentic. I wasn't happy, I had my crew and suppliers to pay, so I questioned the manager as to why banks are still issuing these types of payments and charging between $10 to $25 for these services, while knowing full well they are now essentially useless, I received no response. I then sarcastically suggested that perhaps I should ask my clients to pay in cash from now on, no matter how large the dollar amount, her response, "yes, that would work and will prevent any holds being placed on your funds". Just a heads up for anyone out there who plans on purchasing or receiving any of these forms of payment in the future. Has anyone else experienced this at a major Canadian bank?

@ShaunRickard67 @TD_Canada Valid first question for any time you're talking to a TD rep. "Do you have authority to do anything other than what's been done?" Then the ever present follow-up, "then are you going to pay me for the time you're wasting?"

UPDATE - Attached is a screenshot of the chat I just had here on X with @TD_Canada after they saw my post - As suspected, it was a complete waste of time. My closing comment in the chat: "So it looks like I will need to make alternative banking arrangements, or ask my clients to pay in cash from here on as your branch manager suggested. I would suggest @TD_Canada immediately cease issuing bank drafts if they are no longer accepted by TD and other banks. For @TD_Canada to continue issuing/selling drafts would be a fraudulent act, given the fact that you are fully aware of the fact that they are essentially useless and cannot be used as a guaranteed form of payment. Please provide me contact information for your governing agency - Thank you"

@parthingle_x I've got a plasma cutter, a set of stepper motors and a few threaded rods from Home Depot and a pile of wood... Is it a bad idea to make a plasma cutter table and gantry out of wood? ... Yeah, actually probably... Otherwise I'd anyway have done it.

@parthingle_x I've heard the siren call of diy. $6000 retail? You do mean $300 and a pile of scrap parts right?

If your attitude toward problem solving is something like this get in my DMs

@_Stocko_ We ride at dawn.

i should do this too but for weeds in my yard

@rybinfx Oh I'm not suggesting you change it. More power to you if this is your vibe. I added some trill codes to a LLM chat tool I had built with different pitch combos and lengths having different meaning. Kinda like Star Trek computers. Just because I hate it doesn't make it bad.

@FullstackFellow Now imagine me watching this for hours. Sometimes if I get the sound wrong, I genuinely feel sick after some time. But can’t help myself. I will polish this to something more digestible. Thanks for the feedback btw!

Code patterns 🎨🐍 #touchdesigner

@rybinfx Watching it makes me feel like I'm having some kind of seizure.

@FullstackFellow Thanks 🤗 Which part do you hate the most?

@trikcode Yes. That's exactly what we were doing.

How the hell were folks coding before AI!? Doing all this by hand???

@haydendevs Given the failure modes that I regularly catch it in I see people saying things like this as a massive lapse in judgement.

I cant fathom using an LLM for anything but code gen. yall actually talk to these things?

@_Stocko_ It took me a solid minute to realize that the arc is covering the same amount of the circle perimeter. As an aphantastic I genuinely can't see any that's more visually appealing. Definitely harder to model. Is it at least proportionally stronger for the amount of material?

wow.. i didn't know this was a thing

@Danielstilwell "Spare the rod, spoil the child." (Paraphrased from) Proverbs 13:24 Best achieved through firm application of boundaries without relying on base corporal punishment, but the underlying sentiment stands.

Stop coddling young men. Instruct them, correct them, and strengthen the next generation of men.

@s_chiriac I'm not too proud to go outside mid-day and let the kids run around while I tend the garden. ... I'm also not too proud to be making coffee at midnight and hitting the keyboard. 😂

@FullstackFellow Yah, I work hard all the week. So I feel like in the weekends I need a break 🤭

Don’t forget, burnout is real. Step away. Touch some grass… or sand 🌊 Breathe. Spend time with your family. Recharge. You’ll come back stronger.💪

@ooeygui @_Stocko_ Hey! You're my kinda guy! Followed. DMs open?

@_Stocko_ I started a farming related robotics company - does that count?

isn't it the same thing really? working with machines that do valuable things for you

@_Stocko_ The contrast is what does it for me. Going from hyper-cognative work to fingers in mud work means I have the stamina to do both at a high level. Decision fatigue hits? Go touch grass. Back aches from weeding? Go you keyboard. Rinse, repeat, pray, sleep.

@joestackss The payment is your data. The money is just a distraction.

Deepseek v4 pro stays at 75% off forever. 1 billion tokens = $12.5 The Chinese have unlimited compute.