I bought and worked through Let’s Go by Alex Edwards and found it really good and re-use lots of the code ideas and structure in other projects - link (no affiliate) https://lets-go.alexedwards.net/
I’m not a coder day-to-day (I was in the past, mainly C#) but I still write toy stuff to make my life easier, and the stuff I write in Go I’m more likely to be able to return to a year later and be able to quickly understand what I was doing, why I was doing it and fix/enhance what I need to.
I left tech (C# developer for a partner reselling/customising the MS XRM/Dynamics CRM platform in the UK a few years ago to get my HGV (CDL in the US?) license and drive trucks.
Honestly, I love it, generally I talk to the office to get my route/keys at the start of the shift and I won’t talk to them again until the end of my shift.
Money wise I’m earning more (but working longer/more “antisocial” hours) and I like when I drop my keys off I don’t have to think about work until my next shift, no emails while I’m off with “just one quick thing” I can genuinely enjoy not working.
Made the change probably 2 years ago now, and lucked into a decent company who take on new drivers (most places want 1-2 years experience for insurance purposes) who I’ve been with since I started.
As a current UK HGV driver (currently on my break at services in a max 44t unit+trailer) a range of 375miles would just about cover the longest shift I do but some range anxiety would set in.
Longest shift is London->Birmingham->London with 3 collections and 2 deliveries on the route, and comes in at 275miles (if there’s closures/diversions it could be 300+) and the longest I’m stopped at any one place is about 45minutes so unless everywhere had fast chargers on their bays so you could charge while being loaded/unloaded, it wouldn’t get charged, plus at our company the units are basically handed over to the next driver at the end of our shift, they don’t sit around the yard for hours as they’re not earning if they are.
Interested to see how this would work in practice, I think for a lot of hauliers electric for their fleet just isn’t going to work right now.
I’ve tried Factorio and could never get into it … Satisfactory on the other hand is a game where I can look at the time and realise I should of had lunch two hours ago