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Entry: 1 - Web Development, Technology, and Brickmaking
Category: {General}
Tags: {programming, brickmaking}

I do wonder at times whether I should be in the engineering business...
Not simply due to philosophical reasons -- though I do have many
concerns in that regards, but also because I have many disagreements on
how technology is being built. For a project I am working on now with a
group, I'm handling the programing side as well as some of the hardware
side. I was excited at first, but due to certain forces, web 
development has now become a big part of it. "Okay..." I thought, "This 
won't be too hard. Just some REST API work, some HTML, CSS, and a 
little Javascript (yuck), and I'll have this part out of the way..."

At this point, I tried refreshing my memory on these things as well as
catching up on what the current practices are. After a little 
searching, I realized something... web development sucks. How anyone 
can be interested in it is beyond me. Look at how many crapJS's we 
have. Over the years, we have shoehorned so many requirements into what
web browsers should do. Whatever happened to writing specific programs
for a single purpose. If you need networking, then open a socket. But 
instead, we somehow decided that the web browser should do everything. 
Everything through the web browser... everything as a service... The 
web browser has functionally become an operating system in and of 
itself. And now I find myself forced to contribute and perpetuate this 
mess.

Oh, how I yearn for the days of Mel Kaye! [1,2]

I guess in terms of programming, I'm not cut out for web development.
And I don't think I'm cut out for anything higher language than C.
And to be fair, even C is sometimes too high language for me.

I also yearn for the days when microcontrollers didn't have neural nets
in them... but, alas, here we are...

Well, enough complaining. In other news, over the weekend I checked up
on the spot where I'll be experimenting with making clay bricks. The
clay that I dug up last year has weathered over the last many months, 
resulting in most of the soluble substances being washed away. Here in 
the Southern US states, we have (hopefully) had our last frost, so in a
few weeks I'll be forming the bricks, experimenting with various 
mixtures, and getting a clamp built for burning. Hopefully the first
burn will be at the beginning of this June. In the meantime, I'll be
looking to build a new mold as my old one might not be up to snuff.


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