Miah Johnson @miah@mastodon.social
Gamer, Transgender, Abrasive, Pariah, Programmer, UNIX, pronouns: she/her
Have been very frustrated at work for a while now. Said some things to managers with little action. Last week I said some things on Twitter and now they are inspired. Going to be an interesting day. Wonder how my 1:1 meeting with my manager will go today?
The daily struggle.
When your confidence is trashed, you're feeling stuck, and everyone is leaving your team.
Stopped at Goodwill on the way home & found this Atari VCS prototype cart. Looks like this proto version hasn't been seen before. Pretty great for $2.
https://mastodon.social/media/RvSvOIao5ix7onP3wZ8
What are these plugs called so I can buy more?
https://mastodon.social/media/RwpgROSXonzGmBiqSxg
l miss being excited about the things I'm building, as well as learning how to build them. I know that having that excitement at all is a luxury, but without it I'm too apathetic. Its hard to be creative and positive when I feel stuck and bored.
I need to take a class on how to not feel shitty at work every day.
When you want to set up your own mastadon instance just to avoid the 500's.
Feeling very meh today. Exhausted from the amount of added process to getting shit done at work. Honestly missing actual PR based development and getting shit done. As well as missing doing actual development and getting shit done.
watching "my neighbor Totoro" with daughter. we've seen this movie so many times and it's still amazing.
Computer-minded friends, The Recompiler is running a fundraiser to maintain operations: https://recompilermag.com/2017/04/17/celebrating-year-two-by-the-numbers/
If you haven't read it, it is an EXCELLENT magazine and podcast!
For whatever reason Mastadon web hasn't been updating my stream automatically. Have to reload the page otherwise its hours old toots from the last time I looked.
Wife and I went to a 1930's themed costume & murder mystery party this weekend. Was tons of fun.
litch lord jesus roams the streets today. protect yourself by putting chocolate eggs/rabbits around your home. peeps are a ruse, they actually attract him.
It's banal, but working w/ others is completely essential to doing good work, not least of which because it's the only way to maintain a healthy mindset.
Working alone makes it easy to:
* slack off
* work too much
* work _way_ too much
* think you're genius
* think you're dumber than sand
* work on the wrong thing
* work on the right thing badly
* work on the right thing well, but then market it wrong
you get the point
Not working alone anymore is sort of everything to me now
had a nice week of no pain. guess I walked around SF to much yesterday because I'm feeling it today.
Super tired. Forgot to start coldbrew before bed so I am lacking caffeine today.
I just went around and did some basic nmap-ing on the most popular Mastodon instances, and there's some seriously sketchy stuff in there. Publicly reachable Postgres servers, tons of open internal HTTP ports, SSH with password login, multiple Mastodon instances that seem to be running on mail server VMs, …
I guess if you're just running a single-user instance for yourself, sure, but those are all 2000+ user instances.
early morning with wife in San Francisco. sitting in citizenship and immigration services building, writing for her citizenship test. she has lived here since she was 7. I think she's got this.
You know instance admins can read your direct messages in the fediverse? Twitter and Facebook also can - and sometimes do - read your private messages, and they have infrastructure to comply with law enforcement requests. I'd love to see some end-to-end encryption built into Mastodon clients.
