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

hot technology to implement in your favourite mobile OS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multipath_routing for phones with two SIM cards

idea for future generation computer programmers: making "exchanging" "files" "work"

@ConnyDuck sorry it took a day to respond to this, https://github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/issues/716 but i have a new phone where i'm not logged into GitHub yet, and transferring files between a phone and a computer is still and unsolved problem

idea: next @AtomEditor@twitter.com & @code@twitter.com release fixes that issue where i cannot run my browser, my editor & my chat apps on a 8G RAM machine.

why is no "natural" progression thru programming styles while retaining compatibility with the same programming environment?

the "best" we have is the C ABI, or the java interfaces
javascript might get something thru WASM, but we really don't know yet.

so, effectively, we have nothing equivalent within functional programming languages

you have to pick a level and stick with it and hope there's enough library support

or else drop all the way down to the C ABI.

https://www.saturn.de/de/product/_hama-mhl-1469437.html ← 26€ for checking and de-linking 2 bank-identity apps from my broken phone.

cool, cool.

this toot brought to you by my phone being b0rked and *two* banking "identity" apps on it being inaccessible.

apparently you can connect your phone to an HDMI display with an HDMI MHL (Mobile High-Definition Link) cable.

however… if your display is actually hosed, that means your touch-screen is hosed.

with this in mind: There are no micro-USB buses that also have a micro-usb plug.

Which means: There's no way to plug in a display *and* a keyboard / mouse into your phone at the same time (unless you have a specific docking station for it)

(bluetooth would be an option, but there's a setup hurdle ;)

at this point my expecation at a non-evil cloud provider is relatively low

- doesn't build drones to bomb brown children

i just explained to someone my title:

Homoiconic Ops Witch

i work with computers — in Operations specifically

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homoiconicity is a very witchy property of some computer programming languages

also, i'm self-employed and my title is self-chosen.

wow

what a start

You’re reading this book because you want to be a good manager, but do you even know what one looks like? Have you ever had a good manager? If someone were to sit you down and ask you what you should expect from a good manager, could you answer that question? — Camille Fournier