While some people maybe have a bit of a tendency to treat programming and computing in general as Very Serious business and only really ever work on Very Serious projects, I'm obviously in the camp that encourages doing frivolous silly things for equally frivolous silly reasons.
And there really is something about the fact that it's not only feasible but downright trivial to bang out an application in an afternoon that reads realtime telemetry data from a frickin' space station's toilets, that's just… I don't know, delightful? Sort of amazing?
While some people maybe have a bit of a tendency to treat programming and computing in general as Very Serious business and only really ever work on Very Serious projects, I'm obviously in the camp that encourages doing frivolous silly things for equally frivolous silly reasons.
And there really is something about the fact that it's not only feasible but downright trivial to bang out an application in an afternoon that reads realtime telemetry data from a frickin' space station's toilets, that's just… I don't know, delightful? Sort of amazing?