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I am in urgent job search mode, so I'm gonna throw this out here and see if anything comes of it.

I am a #Canadian, fluent in both #English and #French. I have experience with several programming languages. My strongest proficiency is with #Haskell and #C. I also have a reasonable grasp of #HTML, #JavaScript, #SQL, #Python, #Lua, #Linux system administration, #bash scripting, #Perl, #AWK, some #Lisp (common, scheme, and emacs), and probably several others I've forgotten to mention.

I am not necessarily looking for something in tech. I just need something stable. I have done everything from software development, to customer support, to factory work, though my current circumstances make in-person work more difficult than remote work. I have been regarded as a hard worker in every job I have ever held.

#GetFediHired

in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

have a try here ? careers.ovhcloud.com/ and search for Beauharnois. HTH
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hey! I'm a founder with myascend.ai. We're an early stage startup working on making professional networking suck less with AI Agents. We could use some hard engineering expertise to ground our engineering team. We have a really solid go to market plan and are getting good traction. Thought I'd say hi and see if you're interested in chatting.


It may become necessary for me to shut down this Friendica node. Since this is essentially a single-user instace, I won't necessarily give a lot of notice. If that happens, I'll be migrating to a friend's instance and will announce my new home from my old Fosstodon account: @Jonathan Lamothe


I've been an #Emacs user for like 20 years because there was one thing I needed to do back then that was made easier by elisp, and I just got used to using it. In all that time, I hardly ever tinkered much with the config, save a few minor tweaks it was pretty much stock. I had no strong feelings about Emacs in general, it was just the text editor I'd grown comfortable with.

I've recently been diving into #Lisp and poking around with my Emacs config, and after all these years, I think I'm starting to get the appeal. I am still a proponent of "use the tool that works for you", but I'm personally firmly on team Emacs now.

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I'd been told that there were add-ons that could do things like making vim more Emacs-like, but I never saw the point in spending energy to make some arbitrary tool more like the one I was already using for no particular reason.


I've been an #Emacs user for probably about two decades. Despite this, I only recently learned that ELPA and MELPA are not the same.

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Welp, it's #FountainPen cleaning and re-inking day. #Today I re-learned why I don't use shimmer inks in my #TWSBI Diamond 580. In fact, I usually reserve them exclusively for dip pens.

Time to meticulously clean out a clogged feed. It didn't even make it a paragraph.

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I've got J. Herbin's 1670 Emerald of Chivor in my TWSBI Diamond 580, and it's working fine. I'm not seeing any shimmer though, as I've got an EF nib on it. It looks REALLY cool inside the pen.


So, I've been taking another run at learning #CommonLisp. The last time I tried, I simply could not wrap my brain around macros. I'm reading the same book again, but this time am a more experienced programmer, and it all just clicked in my head.

I might actually end up enjoying #Lisp after all. I don't know if it'll dethrone #Haskell, but I'm starting to get why people like it.

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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

Don't start with macros. It doesn't make sense to until you really get the "vibes" of how it all goes together.

I've seen so much common lisp code out there that doesn't ever touch macros. They are super powerful, but you don't need them until you do.

Having Haskell down though, you are probably most of the way there.

in reply to Karsten Johansson

@Karsten Johansson Tell that to the author of Practical Common Lisp.

That said, I get it now. It's so stupidly simple when it finally makes sense.

Also, yeah, learning Haskell in the interim helped a lot.

in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

I like the book enough that I bought a physical copy of it.

Siebel (the author) said, back when Twitter was Twitter and everyone liked it just fine, that he was considering updating and adding a few chapters. afaik he hasn't, but it brought my hopes up quite a bit. :ablobcatrave:

If you want truly complicated, check out the book Let Over Lambda. It is mind blowing, but you'll come away from it with a whole new level of understanding.

in reply to Karsten Johansson

@ksaj
one can get pretty far without macros, but there are certainly some scenarios where macros are needed and super helpful.

The main use case is to control the evaluation (order, timing) of arguments. Can't do it with functions.

@me

in reply to hajovonta

@hajovonta Sure, but that isn't what was being said. The point was only that one doesn't need to think Lisp is too complicated just because of macros. They are not the right place to start. Hence the bit about not starting with them.


I finally got around to setting up a gopher hole. There's nothing there yet, but hopefully soon there will be.

gopher://sdf.org/1/users/jlamothe

(Apologies to anyone with a screen reader. There will be an accessible version.)

in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

Cool! The Lagrange browser is also a Gopher browser, making it easy for me to check it out.


I recently got a #Sailor #Hokoro dip pen, and much to my chagrin have found that several of my #FountainPen inks do not work well in it. It's almost like the ink refuses to be picked up by the nib/feed.

Has anyone else encountered this? Is there a solution?

Edit: the paper also seems to be a factor

in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

do you have a nib with or without reservoir? It works better with reservoir so I put them on all the nibs. You do have to keep it dipped in the ink for a few seconds for the reservoir to fill up, which is something that’s not necessarily intuitive.
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in reply to paradoxmo

@paradoxmo Ohhhhhh... I do have a reservoir. I shall have to try keeping it submerged a moment.
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

I've had good luck with cleaning the nib gently with an extra-soft fine toothbrush and a little toothpaste. Wash the natural oils off your fingers before handling the nibs as well.
As to the ink- some of my fountain pen inks absolutely refuse to work with my various dip pen nibs, while other ftn pen inks of mine work fine and coat/cling nicely.
Adding about 1/5 volume of Gum Arabic does work to adapt a small vial of ftn pen ink for dip pens, but then don't use that ink for your ftn pens. The gum-treated inks tend to dry a bit shiny and make shimmer inks less shimmery... something to keep in mind. There are dip pen-specific inks for sale, of course.
For black waterproof ink that works really well right out of the bottle in both ftn pens and dip pens, I like my De Atramentis 'Archive' black ink. It's luxurious! That ink can also be used for drawing and then watercoloring over when dry, btw.


@someodd Sorry, I made a bit of a mess of your gopher forum. I kept replying to the wrong threads. It took me a while to realize that the reply links were at the tops of the threads, not the bottom.

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Just grabbed a recipe off of gopher. It was amazing. No dodging ads. No popups. No cookie settings. Just the recipe I wanted.

This only served to reinforce for me what trash the modern web is.

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Hmm... looks like my Hetzner storage box is out of commission again. Good thing it's not critical infrastructure.


What search engines are available for #Gemini these days? The one I've been using seems defunct now.


We made burgers for dinner last night. Now the whole apartment still smells like burgers.

I suppose there are worse things it could smell like.

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Yeah that's always the case. We like to cook fish and it's the same the whole house smells afterwards. But I do love my fish and I'm partial to a homemade burger too.


As much as I love a good book, throwing a weighted blanket into the mix makes it 10x more enjoyable.

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Neighbour just gave us an earful because the car was parked "crooked". It was off by perhaps 5 degrees.

Seriously?

I moved it and gave her more space, but now I'm crowding out the car to my right.



Okay, I've once again set up @Delta Chat. My previous setup stopped working because of the strict spam filters I'd set up.


It's amazing the number of cat toys that suddenly reappear when you get rid of a couch.


Fun fact: understanding an idea is not the same thing as agreeing with it.


There was a temporary outage because a switch accidentally got disconnected from power. Apologies for the disruption.



It's that time again: time to clean my #BaystateBlue #FountainPen. How many times do you think I'll have to run it through the ultrasonic 'till the water stops turning blue?

Time will tell.





There are things I need to do today, but there's a cat on me, so I guess not.

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Learning to sew was decidedly one of the best investments of my time in recent memory. I was just able to mend a jacket that I really love. It's perhaps not the neatest stitching job ever, but it's pretty secure again and not in a paricularly visible spot.

The cost? A little bit of thread and about a half hour of my time, versus buying a whole new jacket that I probably wouldn't like as much. I'll take that deal any day.

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For some reason I can't SSH from my laptop to my #Gitea server via its public interface. It just keeps timing out. It's only the laptop having this issue; my tablet and phone are doing this just fine. I was finally able to push my commits by sending them directly over the LAN instead. I've tried resetting the VPN on the laptop, but it's still not working normally.

I am officially confused.

Edit: Mystery solved. I forgot to pay my VPN provider... again.

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@Joe Figured it out. I forgot to pay my VPN provider.

Edit: typo

@Joe




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Waiting on my ride home and a guy comes in ranting about "two years of fake COVID" and spouting similar conspiracy nonsense.

This man is voting as well.

If you are sane and elligible to vote please do.

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We voted last week in the advanced polls. It would be nice to be able to flush Ford today but that does not look like it will happen.


Called for a tow to take our disabled car to the mechanic. The muffler was dragging on the ground. Not only did they not send a flatbed (which they're now having to dispatch) but the snow under the car has melted and re-frozen so the still somewhat attached muffler is lodged in a block of ice...

It's going to be one of those days...

in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

First piece of positive news all week, the part that was dragging was a heat shield, not the muffler. It's probably not as bad as we thought. Waiting on the verdict from the mechanic.
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

The mechanic's trying to price out replacement parts for us. In the meantime, since the car is still technically driveable, we've taken it home. Hopefully, he'll be able to get us a good deal.

In the meantime, I take some solice in the fact that some people pay a lot of money to get a car that sounds like this one.

(my apologies to the neighbours, though)

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@Parker51 Better. The previous crisis (of which this was a part) has been tentatively dealt with. There's still work to be done, but I'm in a much better place mentally.


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