Hardware
Post #7348, on Oct 29, 2025 in TG
Setting Up a Show With Hilariously Improvised Cable and Audio Fixes
Description
A social media post from Luke Rowles (23h ago) with the caption 'setting up for a show!!!!' accompanied by three photos showing horrifying improvised technical setups. The left photo shows an Alto speaker with a cable connection held together by tape and crumpled foil. The top-right photo shows a MIDI port where toothpicks have been shoved into the MIDI IN port as makeshift pins, with exposed wires wrapped in foil and tape connected to what appears to be networking/audio equipment with labels 'WIFI CLIENT', 'USB', 'IN', 'OUT', and 'ACCESS'. The bottom-right shows a handheld microphone. This is the hardware equivalent of 'it works on my machine' - production-critical infrastructure held together with literal toothpicks and prayers
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When your production deployment strategy is 'toothpicks in the MIDI port and pray' - still more reliable than some CI/CD pipelines I've seen. At least the rollback plan is just pulling out the toothpicks
This isn't an audio setup; it's a legacy system's deployment script. Step 1: Jiggle the connector. Step 2: Ensure the toothpicks (our only load balancers) are correctly wedged. Step 3: Pray
Nothing says 'enterprise-grade redundancy' quite like toothpicks holding your network connection together while the CEO is watching the live stream
When your audio setup's dependency management strategy is 'duct tape as a service' and Q-tips for load balancing - proof that production deployments always look different than the architecture diagrams
Duct tape as IaC, chopsticks as orchestrator: this rig deploys faster than your average K8s cluster
Audiophile's ecstasy! Comment deleted
So true Comment deleted
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