Where’s my emotional support coupling capacitor? I can’t function without my emotional support coupling capacitor!

Hand drawn PCBs from the 60s: look at my beautiful curved tracks, don’t they just accentuate my thick copper fills?

Any PCB since Gerber: you’ll take my 45 degrees and like it!

Glares at high-speed DAQ electronics and high-frequency analogue sensing circuits

PCB cries in EMI

Also true in the UK, I could get an extra +£10k just by leaving for a senior position elsewhere.

But I don’t want to for two reasons:

1. I don’t feel I have enough experience to actually be a senior in my job and want to stay where I am currently to learn some more before I leave.

2. I really like my current company because they treat me very very well and are the complete opposite of my previous company who gave me workplace PTSD, anxiety, and made me suicidally depressed. On top of that my company commits to inflation matching yearly wage adjustments, so I’m not loosing money by staying here.

Yes that’s right, it goes into postgres.

Counter point: KiCAD

Yes I know it’s schematic capture and PCB layout, but I’m giving it as an example for two reasons:

1. The UX is genuinely really good and easy to use even for a novice following YouTube tutorials because it follows the norms of a schematic/PCB software package you’d expect to pay for (OrCAD, Altium, etc.)

2. It’s open source and used in industry so GIMP and Inkscape have ZERO excuses for their horrific UX which is the prime reason industry professionals don’t want to spend an age re-learning all of their workflows.

There I said it, I’ll get down off this soapbox now.

cough Inkscape cough …

Why are y’all looking at me like that?

MATLAB: And I took that personally.

The Royal Observatory Greenwich:

“Well, as the first to co-ordinate time we-”

The International Telecommunication Union and International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service in Unison:

“Excuse me, I think you’ll find we manage the time.”

NIST: “I don’t see your footprints up there! We’re going off my Omega Speedmaster!”

So is there a 9th circle? Would that be a programming language where the only way to compile would be to speak op-codes out loud in the correct sequence & cadence into a microphone?

That’s if you’re a business student obsessed with automating their side-hussle.