Ramana Venkata @vramana@mastodon.social

I am looking for a new job, remote (preferred) or in Bangalore, India. Most of my experience has been in System programming (embedded systems - video conferencing, encoding, audio algorithms, distributed systems - distributed db, storage etc), but I have a strong interest in Functional Programming and static typing and would like to find a job building systems with Haskell.
Please ping me - ram@rkrishnan.org

I'm engaged to @nolan as of 2 hours ago and I'm tooting it to all of you in the fediverse!!!!!!!

I am by no means any sort of expert at running a Mastodon instance and am pretty much winging it on a couple tiny instances, but if you represent or know representatives of an underrepresented group looking to get an instance off the ground on a VPS but without a good picture of how to start, I'm willing to put some time into helping you set yourself up if you're interested, gratis.

Feel free to reach out and I'll see what I can do or point you to something closer to your needs.

Eugen wrote about scaling Mastodon to 43k users! Time to start studying… https://medium.com/@Gargron/scaling-mastodon-1becde463090

there's no magic. every function you call, every tool you use, was designed and created by humans like you; you can learn how each piece of it works, it is masterable.

got that? cool. now use this overwrought IDE that will offer to support 20 ways to deploy code, the service we actually use to deploy code, three build tools, this library that re-writes all of our code before it runs, and the 8 different mini-programming languages and 17 context-specific config files you need to program *those*

boost this toot if capitalism is garbage

Really though, why does mastodon have to be the "twitter killer"? Can't it just be a thing?

Capitalism makes it so natural for us to rhink in terms of scarcity that usually doesn't exist or doesn't *have* to exist.

The CSSWG now has its own Mastodon instance at https://social.csswg.org

Reading Mastodon documentation then : "you can increase the number of Sidekiq proletariat by increasing the variable NB_PROLETARIAT"
https://anticapitalist.party/@nogodsnohelmets/170847

@vramana CATS. HOW DO CATS NOT BEAT CAFES?

Wait. Surely cats + cafes go together.

I worked for a company in the past―a distributed company. We had a policy that all developers should be able to recreate their development environment within an hour of putting a bullet through their current one. Good policy. Kept everything distributed, and lightweight :)

I like to tell my children the parable of the nearly blind men and the mastodon. "Each man had such poor visual acuity, he could perceive only one of its columns," I tell them. "The first thought it was a timeline. The second, notifications. The third, some sort of context-dependent fluctuating situation. But none of them appreciated the mastodon for what it actually was."

You will also get a Mastodon Gold verification checkmark if you go to Twitter.com/settings and then delete your account

There are NO checkmark verifications on this instance or any other. People just put emoji in their display names for a joke