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The beauty of working in an office highly integrated with Microsoft products is consistency. You can write a document in desktop Microsoft Word 365 saved as Microsoft's DOCX format so that when you send it to a co-worker on Microsoft Teams and they click on it to open it in web Microsoft Word 365 you can consistently expect the formatting to be completely different.

This quote has been circulating recently, from a 1985 paper that was part of a conversation at the time about what a computer program *is*. Is it the source code? Or the final executable binary? Or the sum of its versions? Or the people who wrote it?

I've been programming for over 40 years, and I can tell you with great confidence that Naur was right. When I'm building software, first and foremost what I'm building is me.

SMD soldering using the sun.

it works astonishingly well. the trick is to de-focus the spot and light up the whole PCB. first we failed by heating the metal plate underneath with a highly focused spot. but that led to accidentally burnt PCB spots at corners and didn't melt the paste.

it works so much better than using a hot plate, so I officially declare it state of the art as of today.

#SMD #soldering #solar #solarpunk #flwr #anal0g_flow3r #sks2026