Handsome @anson@qoto.org
Software Engineer working on space stuff at Blue Origin he/him
Joined Jan 2021
Tinkering with #homeassistant is one of those things where you have a cute little idea after dinner and all the sudden it's 1am and I don't even remember what I originally wanted to do
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I'm really not worried about Mastodon scaling issues at all.
When I left Twitter in 2008, we had roughly twice as many users as the current combined Mastodon network, all running on one MySQL server that had the same specs as a high-end 2013 MacBook Pro, plus roughly 10 web servers and 5 queue servers.
To be fair, growth wasn't as rapid, and we had local-infra advantages over federated systems, but these problems are solvable and I have no doubt will be fixed soon.
*Hugops to all admins!*
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Tech layoffs
Great talk about tech layoffs today by @bcantrill and @ahl on their Twitter Space.
A couple of thoughts afterwards, if you’re laid off:
* don’t sign anything in the room. Let them know you’ll be speaking with an employment lawyer.
* actually go speak to an employment lawyer. Even if their answer is “yeah, they did it right”, the peace of mind is worth it
* get into whatever post-layoff gossip you can. People often set up Slacks or Discords. Text everybody. People help each other.
Since I don't wanna be left out, #introduction
I'm an #aerospaceengineer currently working as a #softwareengineer at #unitedlaunchalliance on modelling and simulation for the #vulcan #rocket - hoping to increase the worlds access to #space
Free time is a lot of #opensource working in #python #julialang #rust and the occasional #3dprinting model. Most up to date info at https://ansonbiggs.com
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I was thinking this would be one of the more painful features to lose when switching to mastodon
Software Engineer working on space stuff at Blue Origin he/him
Joined Jan 2021
