What else are you super knowledgeable about?

Would rather be caught dead than claim I'm super knowledgeable about anything really but I guess I'm doing alright as an industrial automation engineer doing custom machine development, which is basically embedded systems programming where instead of having a nice standing desk in a cool lab you get to do it in a most inconvenient, noxius place where everything you touch is greasy and you are constantly trying to avoid getting hit by welding sputter or getting run over by forklift operators. I've been programming most of my life and I know a thing or two about computers in general, for example I can reinstall Windows on your computer no problem. Other than that I'm into motorcycles, specifically ones of the hard enduro description, which I occasionally race in the amateur class and do alright in.
 
I have a side-gig as the technical director of a non-profit performance space, and due to it being non-profit (i.e., broke as all hell) I regularly do/program lights, audio and video tech for shows and then have to run them all by myself during performances. Since it's a new show every week and every show is different, I'm super knowledgeable in pretty much every aspect of theater production... but only in my space. I built it, so I know it inside and out, but put me in any other space and I'm completely lost lol
 
I'm much better at recording engineering at this point than I am playing guitar. I can barely play at this point beyond some stuff that I wrote. I've spent the last 20 years being obsessed with the idea of having great sounding recordings while being completely unwilling to pay anyone for it...meaning I had to learn how to do it myself. However, now I'm really confident in my recording/mixing abilities and intend to put the singer/songwriter cap back on in the near future.
 
UNIX and Linux system administration, with a very strong emphasis on automation via scripts in various languages such as shell (Ksh, bash), perl, and for the last 6 years Ansible.

I used to do a lot more playing with this stuff in my personal time, but these days I just do it for work... I'd much rather play guitar!
 
Motorcycles and Heath/Fitness.
Maybe a little bit if 'in progress' luthier...doing set ups and small repairs. Would like to do that more in the future.
 
Programming: programming languages/compilers, general web/app dev. Been practicing UI design lately.

Currently learning how to lift weights well. Would like to learn the basics of marketing and nutrition next year, if anyone has any recommendations on books!
 
This year I wrapped up a 36 year career at a national laboratory where I built and ran high-end computing systems for scientific research. I started out as a green computer scientist knowing how to program in a couple of different languages. By the end I was doing system design of multi-hundred node (petascale) compute clusters and wrangling the teams of Linux system administrators and system programmers to build and run them. We did systems for computational chemistry, bioinformatics, computational biology, high-energy physics, and cyro-electron microscopy, among other things.

I've also done a lot of shotokan karate, though my arthritic knees are now raging at me about that nonsense.
 
I have an uncanny ability to wax poetic about forgotten professional athletes (mostly baseball and football) from the early 2000s. Some people call it sports trivia. Others call it “knowing ball”
 
OrpheusTrek said:
Programmer mainly c++ and c#. Wouldn't call myself an expert though. It seems to just move too fast to keep up. A constant swim upstream.
I'm also not at all surprised that there seems to be lots of programmers and electronics nerds on this forum. Fractal seems to be the logical choice.
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Same here: c# (Visual Studio), CAT, sql. Now way to keep up with the ever changing IT world...
 
unix-guy said:
UNIX and Linux system administration, with a very strong emphasis on automation via scripts in various languages such as shell (Ksh, bash), perl, and for the last 6 years Ansible.
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I got away from perl for 10-odd years and then had to confront it again and good gawd was that painful! I'd gotten out of the habit of grokking how much context rules everything in that language. That was after I'd learned enough python to get myself in trouble so it was hard to go back. My last bits of technical work were wads of Ansible and containerization (Docker and Singularity).

Cool work, but I'm glad I'm done! I was staring down the barrel of "AI ALL THE THINGS!" and management that had IMO the wrong priorities. It was time to execute on the early retirement I'd been planning for.
 
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