![]() In more recent years, I’ve turned my focus to creating universal systems that support our natural state of effortlessness. I enjoyed the insightfulness of your talk, as it applies to system design at every level of our experience. I went on to develop several fairly complex sites using WP. I laid that hat aside and started sharing content through WordPress sites. I was a software developer in the telecommunications industry in the 80’s and early 90’s. One never knows how one’s words will find their way into the lives of others. I enjoyed viewing your talk, after finding this page through an image search for chicken wire. This article was adapted from part of my “ #NOCODE” talk. What’s the leverage ratio of the code you’re working on today? This observation suggests a ruler that we can apply to code: how much leverage does it add? What is the effort that stakeholders expend to use it, and what level of impact on the world does that translate to? How would they have accomplished that same impact without the code? Particularly changes in how we work, play, or in how we connect and coordinate with each other. A lot of the code we write is there to effect some kind of change in the world. ![]() And that definition is fine as far as it goes.īut a lot of the work we do with software isn’t about puzzles to be solved. Why do we write code? The most common answer I hear is to solve problems. They are methods of achieving maximal impact in the world, with the minimum expenditure of effort. And along with my driver/spud-bar combo I was able to quickly reposition them in preparation for chicken wire.Īll these tools are examples of leverage. This tool worked great! I had no trouble at all extracting the stubborn fenceposts from the ground. You latch one end onto your fence post and lean all your weight on the other end, and out it pops. A fence-post puller is just a big steel lever on a base. Back to the hardware store I went, this time in search of a fence-post puller. ![]() I pulled and yanked and tugged with all my might, in vain. When I stepped back to evaluate my work, I realized there were a few posts that needed to be moved.Īt this point I discovered a new problem: once this stony soil had bowed to the inevitability of accepting fenceposts, it did not want to give them back. In fact I got a little over-eager, and didn’t think too hard about where I was putting my fence posts. I was putting fenceposts into the ground in minutes instead of hours! You use your fence-post driver on the spud bar instead of on a flimsy fencepost, and it drives a hole just big enough to slide a fencepost into. This is basically just a six-foot steel rod, flattened on one end and sharpened into a hardened chisel on the other. So I went back to the hardware store and purchased a spud bar. ![]() In this case the ground won, and the fenceposts lost. You slide the open end over your fencepost, lift it up, and hammer it down, over and over, until the fencepost is driven sufficiently deeply into the ground. So I went back to the hardware store and bought a fence-post driver: essentially a steel cylinder with one closed end and handles on the side. After an hour of sweaty labor I had dug one (1) relatively shallow hole. The topsoil of the foothill our house was built on consisted more of rocks than soil. So I procured a pile of fence posts and a post-hole digger, and went to work.īut I quickly encountered a problem. And for a pen you need chicken wire, and to hold up the chicken wire you need fence posts. Now to raise chickens you need a pen to (theoretically) keep the chickens in and the foxes out. And as is customary for upper-middle-class white technocrat exurbanites, we decided it would be fun to do some lite “homesteading”. In 2015 my family and I fulfilled a longtime dream by moving to a big house in the woods in Eastern Tennessee. ![]()
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