I look up from my laptop screen and smiles as I see ew approach. The sight of the bartender playing a juggling act with filled glasses had me chuckling a little. As ew approached I say cheerfully, "Thank you for joining me. I was just adding a few touches to some disgustingly complicated HTML code. A good friend of mine wanted me to build him an e-commerce site, it is almost done, thank the stars." I go for my glass of whiskey and takes a sip. I add, "Other than the headache of dealing with coding, I am well thank you. How have you been?" I put the glass down, I look towards the bartender and say, "Can you please get me another whiskey and water and get my friend whatever he wants, thank you" I shut down the laptop and turn my full attention at ew with a smile I am all ears now.
Bartender? When I'm finished with that coffee, would you please be so kind as to serve the best beer from your selection of microbreweries? Yes? That would just be so nice!
// And while I take a seat and find a place for the stuff in my hands ...
Hello rosie88, nice to meet you!
E-commerce site? I wouldn't even know, where to start. Gives me the shivers. So do you understand all that magic, that ~she12 is mixing up in the shed? Really???
// Me looks impressed
You know, the stuff I'm dabbling with --- 8 bit micro-controllers with maybe 2kB of RAM ... I wouldn't even attempt to build anything html-like on these little fantastic machines. Seriously. I have toyed with the idea to add something gemini like, BUT that would require some other component to deal with the certificate stuff. Well, maybe in another life in another universe ...
// me takes a sip of coffee and staring out of the window into the rain ...
I'm not a prepper, but maybe it would be good to get to grips with these low power radios called LoRa, and build small, solar powered stations with little screens, that ping the neighborhood like twice a day. And the folks across the street can answer by typing in "we are well! come over for coffee if you like". Like a neighborhood telex machine or something such.
// Other part of brain: Shut up Nerd! So I switch gears, sit upright, take another sip of coffee ...
This coffee really is good! Just what I needed. Do I bore you already? Isn't hardware supposed to "just work"?