Derick Florian (he/him) @derickflorian@qoto.org
Just broke into software development. Currently struggling to grasp C!
Joined Oct 2022
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Hi! Here's my #introduction. I'm a Research Software Engineer (#RSE) at https://www.gi.alaska.edu/. I work on the #IceSheet model #PISM (https://www.pism.io/).
Interested in #HPC, #SoftwareDevelopment, #SoftwareMaintenance, #AppliedMath, elegant #algoriths and #code.
When not at work I enjoy #cycling (#FatBiking in the winter), #running, #photography, and baking #bread.
I'm likely to write about software development and (probably less often) whatever else I find interesting.
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@lucifargundam @derickflorian @gooseus I'm new here but I'm seeing qoto on some suspended server lists floating around. Do you know why that might be?
@freemo the local timeline has been expanding a lot even in the short time I’ve been here!
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#LifeHack - don't always be against. Find something you can be FOR and focus on that. Find peers, friends and do good. It's really that simple :)
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#introduction Hi there, I'm Pat Patterson: dad, husband, ultrarunner and Chief Technical Evangelist at Backblaze.
I've been a developer|technical evangelist since about 2004, first at Sun Microsystems, then Salesforce, StreamSets, Citrix, and now Backblaze.
I'm a polyglot programmer, data engineer, video editor, technical author and talking head, all rolled into one!
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Hello new followers, since a lot came here and maybe haven't seen my introduction.
I am Henrik Kramselund, and I mostly work with internet and security, teach, build and test infrastructure.
I love network packets, hacker camps, and especially BornHack.dk which is a yearly camp in Denmark, were I also live and windsurf.
Music wise I am definitely an old skool 80s kid (born in 71) with a fondness of funk, soul and throw in some regggae and ska makes me happy.
@kristinmbranson Oh, that’s really cool! I chose chalk based because of the smell of traditional markers. Good luck with your project!
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"#Mozilla Ventures will be a $35M+ Venture Capital fund for early stage startups whose products or technologies advance one or more of the values in the Mozilla Manifesto ... Privacy. Inclusion. Transparency. Accessibility. Human dignity"
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-ventures-investing-in-responsible-tech/
@dev_Paul it’s going well but ramping up in how complicated it is. I’m working on working on a C project now. Up until now I've just been using Python.
Python is a super useful language. From the job descriptions I have seen at my company for engineers Python is always at least in the preferred qualifications section.
I am getting the web development itch. I’ve been looking at making my dormant personal site/blog more fun and less complicated. I have been looking at #gridsome and possibly learning html, css and #vue enough to get something up and running.
@dev_Paul Either would be cool. I took a class on planing wood with a friend and then I preceded to do nothing with it. He then really got into woodworking and redid a lot of house.
How is your software dev journey going btw? Are you still primarily focusing on web dev?
@dev_Paul thanks :). It’s not where “I see myself in 5 years” yet.
Someone recently told me they don’t like to think of retirement because they are living for today. I get it, but I’m active somewhat in life. I like what I’m doing but it’s fun to think ahead
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Killer domains available for the taking thread (save me from myself):
acab.cafe
@dota 我想用Mastodon练习汉语。你学英语的话，我们可谈话英语！
@ColeOnRails No worries! I learned a lot from it and they do a great job going over practical thing and also higher level concepts like how you should organize the app code-wise.
@sigsegv Yeah, I go to a C++ user group and the concepts fly right over my head for now. My associates program has a mandatory C++ course that I hope will sort me out lol.
@neurobongo Ugh, then I hate it too. People should not have to do every job at once.
Calculated it just now. Only about 8950 days until I can retire.
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redditor hanging out in the mouthwash aisle… call that a scope creep
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Make the net weird again. Hand write sites like it’s the 90s. Pick interesting domain names and make fan sites or random knowledge known to everyone. Don’t monetize anything. Spearhead new protocols like Gemini. Make mods for games on your site. Make FAQs for obscure games no one knows about. Make public software services available to anyone. Make a news site about a really random subject. Create music in all kinds of different formats. Most of all, do it because you want to!
Just broke into software development. Currently struggling to grasp C!
Joined Oct 2022
