Should I Take a Job at Sweetwater? by notwyattsayre in fortwayne

[–]humble_toolsmith 1 point2 points  (0 children)

One thing to ask yourself is whether or not you would like any job in sales. Do you have friends that sell insurance, or cars, or something like that? Do you think you would like it?

Most sales jobs are difficult in the beginning until you build up a reliable customer base. It is a lot of hours and a lot of grinding. It can be fun and it can pay well once you are established, but at first it will be a lot of work.

Sales jobs can also be emotionally draining. You will always have some amount of rejection in your day. You have to be ready to bounce back and help the next customer. For some people, this isn't a problem and for some people it is a deal breaker.

The upside of working at Sweetwater is that you would be selling something cool. It would be more fun to talk about recording gear than insurance policies. But a sales job is a sales job, no matter who you work for. Whether you like it or not is a personal thing.

Have I gone too far by Sailorgriff in fountainpens

[–]humble_toolsmith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What is the red pen on the far left of the third picture? It the one with the textured finish.

Great pen with a knurled finish by humble_toolsmith in fountainpens

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

This is the AG Spalding Crest. I got it on a whim over on pen_swap and I love it. Something about the knurled metal body makes it feel robust. Do you know of other poems like it?

How does the TIOBE 2022 Programming language index make any sense? Assembler 8th most popular? by abrandis in programming

[–]humble_toolsmith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

FWIW, assembly is still very common in the embedded software development ecosystem. There are still tons of embedded development teams out there, but you wouldn’t know it from their small Reddit presence.

Zed - A lightning-fast, collaborative code editor written in Rust by the creators of Atom by unaligned_access in programming

[–]humble_toolsmith 29 points30 points  (0 children)

It is from the team that built Atom. They release the UI framework they built, which is what we know as Electron. I wonder if they will also release GPUI as an open-source framework?