Ask The Fox: "People keep telling me to learn to code, but I don't wanna"

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2024-05-07 21:00:18

Struggling with the awful UI in most open source tools never felt particularly free. Engaging with the kind of people who comment on issues and pull requests on Github has never been fun. I'm never going to out-do the people who make my tools: stuff like Ableton Live and the Affinity Suite are lightyears ahead of every open source alternative, and I just do not have the interest in coding to get capable enough to make my own.

Sure, sometimes I make a little script in WSL for some useful thing, but it takes an hour of research to remember all I forgot from the last time I thought about code. I spent 2 years getting a networking degree (AAS) with a focus on Linux. We had a whole book on Bash! I still have to look up the operator for sending output to a file.

And as a job, most people who make more than they could doing just about anything else came out of elite colleges with job offers in hand. You and I are not destined for high-paying careers in software development without an amount of effort that would get meaningful results doing what we actually want to do.