igor, the blessed algorithm @hirojin@mastodon.social

hi folks

this is my first #introductions

my name is igor, and this is my (mostly) technical musings (rant) account.

i speak several human languages, and some more computer languages.
i'm self-employed, and currently on "vacation".
as a public speaker, i mostly talk about "soft" stuff these days. here's a talk about how i moved from ops to dev: https://blag.esotericsystems.at/articles/ops2dev/

i'm queer and enby, but ~most of that can be found on @meena

i want computers to be as magical as their promises

i want to meet the person responsible for android's cursor design, and repeatedly punch the air close to their head.

then walk away in frustration without saying a word.

n.b.: i'm not bored, OR frustrated with $current$job — but that's because i'm self-employed, and highly selective what projects i take on

the whole way we approach work in IT is pretty much… fucked.

companies are trying to entice you with exciting technologies and interesting sounding projects

as though i'm bored with what i'm doing at $current $job, instead of being deeply frustrated with the processes

if you can offer a work environment where i can have some semblence of agency, some delusion of power to shape the process i wouldn't mind doing the same damn thing for 60 years.

current status: replying to messages of recruiters from the past 5 months.

Hi,

as you may notice from my very late reply, i was rather busy for the past couple of months…

…i was working on *two* open source container (orchestration) projects.
From home…

You can find my CV here anyway: https://blag.esotericsystems.at/igors/cv.html (and if my late reply hasn't, my CV should def disqualify me for this job)

Kind regards,

i

reminder that without javascript, almost no one today could read your complaints about javascript.

and i don't mean this in the sense of, "without capitalism you wouldn't have this phone"

i mean: look at how far we've come, ffs!

so it has come to this.

to: users@trafficserver@apache.org

Hi,

Anyone have Trafficserver rpm 7.1.2 can you send pls ?

thanks & Regards
xxx x

Sent from Mail for Windows 10

@ada please look at this tell me what went wrong

i was gonna link a cool picture from this artist, but their website's source code makes me extremely uncofortable: https://www.scrapteeth.com/

i love that every week Craig Kerstiens reminds people with his Postgre Weekly newsletter, that `EXPLAIN` exists, and should be used.

(to their defence, they meant the "puppet-server")

me to customer: which puppet verson are you targeting right now?
customer, slightly confused: 2.7 or 2.8
me: goodbye

seriously, y'all, if you're complaining about javascript based on the fact that we have *really* solid libraries which abstract away all the platform differences, can i ask you to just *stop* programming, please.

or else, just look at the technology that browsers and every library they use are written in, and cry: https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf-archive/The-Macros.html#The-Macros

maybe a second coffee will help me comprehend what the heck i just committed to working on for my client

*tüüüüüüt*

*PIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEP*

oops… that was the fax number