Mastodawn

I can *actually* work in any programming language, and any framework. Try me.

@jneen that's a dangerous statement with all the esoteric and joke languages. If we are assuming only real languages used professionally... Hmm... Do you know pcdmis?

I'm not hiring, actually I'm unemployed at the moment, just having some fun with you. 😋

@vrek https://github.com/rouge-ruby/rouge/tree/main/lib/rouge/lexers idk the breadth of lexers i maintain is pretty big.

i *can* work with any framework, not necessarily that i *have*, but i've worked with enough of them i'm sure i could pick them up.

rouge/lib/rouge/lexers at main · rouge-ruby/rouge

A pure Ruby code highlighter that is compatible with Pygments - rouge-ruby/rouge

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@jneen makes sense, like I said I was just having some fun. You could probably learn pcdmis, it's basically if visual basic and g code had a baby, with some extra gotcha thrown in if you're not careful. It's used to automate inspection of physical features. I've had to use a bunch of proprietary pseudo-languages (languages designed for 1 type of machine or 1 manufacturer). Another one was "dance" which was used for controlling heated vacuum chambers.

@jneen I just looked at that repo and damn yeah that's a lot of languages...

@vrek eheh :]

languages are my thing, i love them all. sometimes i wish they had better docs though

@jneen yeah, I wish a lot of things had better docs. Out of curiosity, have you done any non-text based programming? Like fanuc ladder programming or old agilent vee programming?

@vrek visual languages are one thing i haven't gotten into much, mostly on account of i'm pretty bad at mousing and have shoulder issues ><. i've messed around with scratch a bit but that's the extent of it

@jneen well the other hard part to learn most of the ones I mentioned is cost. The hardware to run each, except agilent vee, is $100k+. The low end controller for fanuc last I checked (2021 I think) was 35k but that doesn't do anything by itself. It's like just buying a crate motor for a car. When I bought a system for pcdmis in 2019 it was $135k. Good thing the company was buying them and not me.

jneen collective May 21

@vrek Yeah I don't think I've ever worked at a company that paid for a proprietary programming language / system

vrek May 21

@jneen well like pcdmis did a bunch you can't do in most languages. For example one feature we measured was the diameter of a milled circle. To start you had to determine exact location and rotation of the part, then program the theoretical center, then offset that based off actual location. Now program how the probe should travel to the start location, how many points should you take to determine circle, how fast do you move, force threshold for edge detection etc. You can't do that easily in C

vrek May 21

@jneen one annoying thing though was you couldn't type any errors. Most compilers/editors warn you of errors, this literally you couldn't move off that line unless it was valid. Normally, atleast me, I write a function determine needed arguments then get/assign those arguments. You couldn't write the function if all arguments were not already defined and had to delete the whole line before you could get/assign them so you couldn't reference it to determine precisely what the arguments were.

Pomegranate_Stew May 20

@jneen
The real “nobody wants to work” apparently applies only to upper management and HR.

Cripes. Sorry you had to go through that and I hope you find something soon.

@pomegranate_stew haha yeah I guess so! Thank you, I hope so too.

k, cis iirc May 20

@jneen oh heck no

they were doing video interviews starting in 2018. one-sided video responses. those were the most dehumanizing things I’ve done for any job

@kouhai ffs i as early as 2018? i was blissfully unaware

k, cis iirc May 20

@jneen pre-recorded question asker, and record response. not quite *as* dehumanizing buuut

k, cis iirc May 20

@jneen i hear this is all the rage in the low end market these days

demize May 20

@kouhai @jneen yeah I think I saw this once or twice when I was looking in 2018/2019, and I think I managed to not do it, but… it’s been a thing for uncomfortably long

https://nextcloud.com/jobs/

Viktor Nagornyy May 20

@jneen Nextcloud is hiring for several engineering roles. Remote. See if anything interests you and apply. No AI interviews 🙂

Versatility matters, so if your skills/experience matches more than one role I would mention that you're open to other roles too.

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