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Posts like this are the reason why the internet and software development felt magic to me as teenager.

This stuff still is magic to me. Wonderful work!

Same but too late I realized almost nobody hires and pays for this type of fun work and I have to do stuff I hate, like migrating pipelines from Azure to Github, if I actually want to pay rent. And now AI can do both the unfun migration type of work and the fun reverse engineering work.

The pipeline to get to this work is starting as a solder junkie for a music store and documenting every repair and custom mod while also reaching out to the big companies for schematics....all while doing the fun stuff as work adjacent hobbies.

Eventually, you make contacts with the technical teams at the big companies and then you start applying....it's a long road, and I have been making audio electronics from scratch since I was 10.

I'm finally making those big industry contacts though, hoping to get in with either Kustom\Hanser or directly into JAM in Alberta (because I'm done with this country)

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