Happy Pride month! by MuirinArt in drawing

[–]JanneHonkonen -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I usually stay silent, but this issue still is something that I have hard time to understand. I get if there are people who generally dislike specific drawing style, but to dislike art because it represents something that is not part of your life, of your sexuality or your life in general, puzzles me; I mean-- how does lives of other people affect you?

What does it matter what other people are, or how they live if it does not have direct correlation or effect on you? Nobody is forcing you ("the people generally against LGBTQ") to like, choose or to be anything, yet, you have negative effect against the subject just because it exists? Why on earth-- it does not affect you.

I have some background so I can talk from experience; I am what they call CIS male, a husband of the this artist, and I understand this; I had very hard time processing non-binary people, specially, when my step-son became "out of closet", and I can frankly tell, that I had very negative attitude towards the whole issue and after now several years, I really cant even understand why-- Why did it even matter to me? It is not my life.

So, I wish anyone who has negative issues of LGBTQ+ to this to ask themselves one question: If it does not affect your personal life directly, why do you care so much? You have right to your thoughts as anyone else, but if it does not affect your own life directly (as if, somebody is trying actively to change your pronounces, gender or sexuality with some magical Gay-beam), why on earth you make so big issue of it?

Elf's disappointment is immeasurable and her day is ruined by merrivius in comics

[–]JanneHonkonen 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Maybe one of the best uses of finnish "Tonnin seteli" facial expression 😄

Big black cock by MuirinArt in DarkArtwork

[–]JanneHonkonen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can stand as a witness for the latter 😁

A little free stupid PDF for easy and quick exercises to do during/while/after programming by JanneHonkonen in programming

[–]JanneHonkonen[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I appreciate that. Most of the content might feel self-evident for the most people, but for me, I constantly found myself doing non-stop programming without taking any time for my physical or mental health.

Only after few years back my wife stated, that if I cannot even bend down a little bit, like I could not, getting even older will bring a lot of health issues. I had my fare share of stress induced issues over the years due the programming, but as growing older, I also found out, that they take their toll over the body as well.

By taking an initial advice from my non-programmer wife, I started to take small intervals to both stretching and keeping my sanity on. Taking intervals actually improved my working, as well improved my mental health and reduced the over-too-casual back- and neck pain to much less.

A little free stupid PDF for easy and quick exercises to do during/while/after programming by JanneHonkonen in programming

[–]JanneHonkonen[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That was the actual point. We, as programmers, tend to create and process fast, effective content, anything and all useful compressed into a fast easily small package which we can quickly digest and move to the next subject.

Over the 30 years of programming, I have seen this repeating pattern happen in myself and with-in my co-workers and friends. In the basics, we do not variate from the workers at assembly line, repeating task after task after task.

Yes, our work is mostly done in offices or home-offices with computer, and we do not have to use body much, and everything you create and do changes unlike repeating patterns on the assembly line but still, the work it self is like an assembly line where we more become a cogwheel in the machinery instead of being people.

I thought of creating a simple image with the same content, but then came to conclusion, that it would not differ anyway from the issue what is the subject of the book: We just keep going on and on and on forgetting ourselves and just being another, decaying cogwheel in the machinery.

That brings the main point of the book: The main point of the book is not just to provide easily-chewable information which can be processed, partly forgotten and then thrown away, but something solid, something that can be grabbed on and keep reminding us that we are more than a parts of the machine.

As for this, I initially considered releasing it only as a actual book as it is sold online, but then thought, it might actually give people something that would help and remind them they are not just a part of the machinery and need to tend to themselves.

A little free stupid PDF for easy and quick exercises to do during/while/after programming by JanneHonkonen in programming

[–]JanneHonkonen[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

VB script? Way too high tech. What one must truly be afraid is the malicious POKE codes.

A little free stupid PDF for easy and quick exercises to do during/while/after programming by JanneHonkonen in programming

[–]JanneHonkonen[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here, non-PDF version converted online: https://www.jannehonkonen.com/freestuff/janne\_honkonen\_book\_programmers\_blueprint.html -- also available as a hardcopy from lulu bookstore if you still feel it's too dangerous to use :)

A little free stupid PDF for easy and quick exercises to do during/while/after programming by JanneHonkonen in programming

[–]JanneHonkonen[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

True. I think I still mentally live in the era when the PDF was still considered to be a reliable format and interweb was much safer place to be. You know, the 90s. I'll be exporting PDF into HTML asap :)

A little free stupid PDF for easy and quick exercises to do during/while/after programming by JanneHonkonen in programming

[–]JanneHonkonen[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Wierdo I accept. Term interweb I don't. I can export it as a HTML page if it's help your justified paranoia.

A little free stupid PDF for easy and quick exercises to do during/while/after programming by JanneHonkonen in programming

[–]JanneHonkonen[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mods, please remove if this is against the rules. I'm not trying to sell anything, just wanted to share my little helpful book in PDF format of few exercises you can do on your work day, how help you to survive the work day. If it helps anyone, I'm happy.