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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



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.

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Also, there are two types of people in the world: those who divide the world into two types of people... and those who don't.
in reply to CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch)

What about correlating causes and effects? And what about identifying a correlation as the cause of some effect---such as a misunderstanding?


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.

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@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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@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.

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@actuallyautistic

It will soon be Autism awareness month, that wonderful time of the year when many autistics hit their foxholes screaming "incoming", or take to their bunkers and hide.

"But why?" I hear you ask. "Surely awareness is a good thing?"

Well, obviously yes, normally, but mostly, actually, no. Not in the way this normally pans out, anyway. Because this is the time of year when everything starts getting lit up blue and puzzle pieces start making their appearance and Autism Speaks articles rear their ugly, eugenic, heads. No matter how many times the vast bulk of the autism community explain that these symbols and the organisation that they are linked to, do not bloody speak for us and never sodding will.

Pity-me mothers parade their kids to showcase how terrible their lives are, or how there isn't enough help for their darling children. Which, whilst admittedly this is true for the kids, could be highlighted in better ways. Various celebrities and sports stars come out about the wonders of being diagnosed with autism and the huge change it has made in their pampered lives and puff pieces pop up everywhere about how someone succeeded because of their autistic superpower, or how they wouldn't be where they were now without it, or how someone's a hero, for standing up for their autistic friend. And editors across the land, slap themselves on their backs for such a wonderful job of awareness and here's to the next year and then silence once again falls.

OK, I may be slightly exaggerating this, but unfortunately not by as much as you might be thinking. So many times, even within the good articles and representation, there is the implicit message that only an official diagnosis can do this for you, which is a real kick in the teeth for everyone who has as much chance of getting one of those, as of winning the lottery. That this is something that is seen in us, rather than something that we can see ourselves. And all too often, even with the good stuff, it's always accompanied by the stock, what is autism? answers, from the internet. You know, the ones that just dryly quote the highlights of our disorder, in a way that none of us can actually recognise ourselves in and certainly don't help with others seeing us.

And this is the real problem with awareness month. It's all fine and dandy trying to increase awareness. But of what? Is it the problems and struggles, the difficulty of having autistic children, or being autistic in a world without support? The virtues of finally having your eyes opened to your autistic superpower? Of how the community and others could finally rally around you.

Or is it the different stories that finally allow others to see us, or even for us to finally see ourselves after decades in the dark. That allow the friend or neighbour, or workmate to maybe stop seeing you as the weird, or creepy, or even scary, person. But instead, someone who's just different, who sees and perhaps understands the world in a way that they don't. Not superpowered, or a burden, or broken in any way. Just yourself, just autistic. The stories that lead to acceptance and not just awareness.

#Autism
#ActuallyAutistic

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Maybe I should also mention the theme of this month. Would be a good teaching lesson, Shit, they may even be autistic themselves. Who knows!
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@mrpieceofwork I'm sorry to hear this. It's a level of shit that shouldn't be happening. But unfortunately all too often does :bear_hugs:


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Okay, this book got real weird real fast. I have so many questions, but I guess I'll just have to keep reading.

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@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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!Friendica Support
Whenever I see a post with an "invalid" (e.g.: gemini, gopher) link, there doesn't appear to be a way to see what the original link was short of hopping over to the post on the originating server. Is there some way I can get this information from my local server? Being able to copy it to clipboard so I can open it with an appropriate client would be nice.

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AFAIK we have got a setup where we can define valid links, but for this I have to look into the code. Possibly @Hypolite Petovan knows this out of his head?


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.


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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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#Android phone: Human, a call is coming through!
Me: fumbles with phone
Phone: did you mean to pull down the notification shade?
Me: NOOOO!!!
Phone: Here are all of your notifications for you to peruse while listening to your ringtone becoming increasingly frantic!
Me: No, no, no! Just let me answer the phone!!! <swipes up frantically>
Phone: Yes, sir, I will let you scroll up to view more notifications! I know you certainly were not trying to dismiss the notification shade, considering how important that is at a time like this.
Me: NOOoOooOOooo!! Get away, let me answer the call! Ahhhhh!!!!

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Oh, my goodness, this struggle is very real! Especially when you go to your phone app and it just shows the dialer while it's still ringing so you have to dive back into the notifications again and by that time the war is lost.


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.

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#Iceland introduced a 4 day week with no reduction in pay 6 years ago, with the result of steady or higher productivity, with workers reporting reduced stress and better home-work balance. (The plutocrats in the US want a 60 hour work week for the plebes). wecb.fm/in-2019-iceland-approv…

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

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Hot take: Pirating music is MORE ethical than using Spotify. The artists don't get paid either way, but at least piracy doesn't support exploitative corporations.

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My partner wants to share a sewing pattern on the internet somewhere. She's not trying to sell it, just have it in a place where people can get it. Is there a thingiverse/printables type place for sewing stuff (that is also free to post things on, and is also not "run your own website")?

things that are not this:
- freesewing.org (neat, but does not appear to be a place intended for people to upload their own things)
- artisans.coop, etsy, other similar sites (these are storefronts, she literally just wants to share a file, the same thing 3d printing people do with thingiverse)
- a git forge (I... guess you *could* do that? is that a thing people do in practice?)

#sewing

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in reply to Lotta

Shout-out to @artcollisions and @bammerlaan for both pitching @freesewing much appreciated 😊

Seems like @emily is looking for a place to dump a PDF or something. That's not what FreeSewing does (my life would be so much easier if it was 😂 ) .

Emily, if your partner ever wants to get into parametric design, refer them to our contributor docs: freesewing.dev/



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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Time for some lighter reading again.

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A reminder due to recent history erasures…

Grace Hopper has a posse.

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@theruran thinking also of Admiral Rickover, an abrasive genius who did what he wanted the way that he wanted to, and the Navy gave him whatever he asked for because they had nothing to gain and everything to lose by getting in his way


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


!Friendica Support

I recently upgraded to the latest version of Friendica (I hadn't noticed there was an update until yesterday) and now when I see a post on my timeline from one of the less popular services (e.g.: BookWyrm) there is no longer an icon in the corner of the post linking me back to the source. There used to at least be an icon for the protocol with a link back to the source post. Is there no way to find this now?

Edit: The problem turned out to be that some of the icons weren't visible against my theme's black background.

Edit 2: Changing the theme and then changing it back fixed the problem for some reason.

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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

The icons have been replaces by SVG images. Maybe your browser can't display them?
in reply to Michael 🇺🇦

@Michael Vogel They appear for most services (Mastodon, Friendica's, PixelFed, etc.), but they don't appear for others (e.g.: BookWyrm, Diaspora)

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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

@Michael Vogel I tried to share an example of one that wasn't working and found my problem. It was a black icon displaying on a black background. It's there; It's just not visible. I'll have to change my theme.

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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

Not all icons exist in all variants. e.g. there is an open issue to add a colored variant of the iceshrimp icon.
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

A common problem on updating web applications is that the browser still might have old data (images, CSS files, ...) cached. Usually a forced reload (Ctrl-Reload or Cmd-Reload) will help in that case.
in reply to M.Scheriau

@M.Scheriau @Michael Vogel I do not believe this to have been a caching issue (at least not on the part of the browser) as the previous icons were not SVG format. I imagine it was a bug in the database migration that changing the theme resolved.

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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

I think that this is unrelated to the database. Possibly it was a template caching problem.
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

Can you share browser and version as well as your instance.org/settings/display > Platform icons style setting.

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