It is worth learning Portuguese just to get the feeling of this one.

And you were thinking Sebastian was programming in Rust all this time.

Such a funny rant. But I think this video is here because of the farm segment.

"As of this moment I officially resign from my job as software engineer and will take up work on a farm shoveling pig shit and administering anal suppositories to sick horses because it will 1000 time more tolerable…" As a software engineer for 20+ years, I think this is true regardless of who you work with.

A comment that made me appreciate Second Reality even more:

I'm not sure younglings now can appreciate how utterly jaw-dropping Second Reality was in the day. In October 1993 my uni flatmate got it on a magazine cover-mount floppy, and he yelled at me to come in his room and watch it on his 486 PC (with stereo sound card). We just stared at it on a loop for about an hour, in complete disbelief that a home computer was capable of generating such images and sound. Then two months later we got the first demo of Doom and lost an entire weekend. In that second half of 1993 we thought we were plummeting into the future and it had no bounds. The only comparisons I can think of are the first time seeing Elite on the (32K!) BBC B, and watching Terminator 2; and some current experiences of Turing-test-beating Chat GPT-type LLMs.

How did I write and publish this? Emacs.

Emacs takes a lifetime to learn. So the sooner you start, the longer it will take.