[teacpde]

It is amazing to find woodworking is such well received topic on HN. I don’t remember how I stumbled on a woodworking video on YouTube about a year ago, and last week I just finished building the Christopher Schwarz knockdown workbench. This hobby is truly addictive, to me, it resembles a lot aspects of software engineering, but in a more vivid and interactive fashion.

[websterisk]

I think this is particularly true in the sense that woodworkers (like software people) can make much of their own tooling in their native media. Nothing I've seen on youtube is a better example of that than Matthias Wandel. Need to make a bandsaw out of wood? Here, hold my beer. The Pantorouter... really? Even dust collection! This makes wooden stuff out of wooden stuff out of wooden stuff. Three levels deep, inception style.

[quicksnap]

The thing that draws me to woodworking, as a software engineer, is that it resembles many aspects of software, but has a wonderful imperfection inherent to it.

The more skilled at woodworking I become, the more I learn that every piece of wood is unique, and does not care about systems and methods. The grain will happily explode in your face if you try to work with it the wrong way. =)

It all makes me appreciate the physical aspects of things much more.