March is going to be a depressing month for me. First weekend of the month is a con that I have not gone to since 2019 (the 2020 one was back to back with a local con that I chose to do instead, the pandemic hit a week later). End of the month is the final PenguiCon which starts on my birthday. Looks like my monthly bowling meet-up has crashed and burned and won't be held again. And still no job and no hits. Maybe I can early retire, but I doubt that I have enough money for that.
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@vanellopemint I am not seeing any joke here.
@vanellopemint Now hang on! Lady Gygax was given a recipe, not actual baked goods. I make my great aunt's date-walnut bread recipe, she passed on over 30 years ago, so I am technically using a recipe from the dead. Doubly so since I got the recipe from my mother who also passed on a decade ago.
@internetarchive @annierau The website SpeedRacer.com ran a free email server for years that you accessed via their website. Eventually the site got sold and the new owners shut down the email server (they gave a lot of notice so people could move off of it before it was gone). I still miss having that as a back-up email address.
@arisia I was there for that blizzard. I had already booked to stay over Sunday night so did not have to worry about having a room. Police had to tell the hotel that the roads and airport was closed so no one could leave the hotel, and let people check back in for the night, there would be no pilots and stewardesses arriving for their reservations that night. We did gorilla programming that Sunday and Monday morning until the roads and airport re-opened.
@MicroSFF This entire fight could have been avoided if the Princess came out when the knight arrived and said "I am not a prisoner here".
Phantom Kitty (Tech)I have to face the fact that I probably will not have another tech based job. It has been 13 months since I last had a job. I got very few hits last year, with less hits as the year went on. I tried for the last 3 months of the year to do a refresher on Python and could barely get through half of it. I just have no desire to do programming or testing anymore.
I need to find a new job soon before I run out of savings. I have no idea how to find a non-tech job anymore, what I could do, what to ask for for pay rate since all my experience is from tech jobs that paid a lot more than what non-tech pays.
I am trying to pull out of the depression this has re-ignited. I have a local con in two weeks that I am hoping will help, but may be last con for a long time at the rate things are going.
Not a good start to the new year.
@davidrevoy Time to re-gift to your favorite enemy.
Martin SeegerDear OSS community on Mastodon,
Every day I scroll through my feed and I see proud announcements like:
“First Alpha Relase of HyperTurboWidget available"
or
“Version 2.7.1 now with improved glorb handlers!”
or
“Flux Capacitor version 4.5 is out”
… and I sit there wondering if I should be excited, terrified, or calling a licensed electrician.
Don’t get me wrong, I love open source. I just have no idea what three quarters of these projects actually do. Are we talking about a web server? A file system? A middleware thingy that keeps the flux from overflowing into the space–time continuum?
So, dear OSS developers of the world: When you announce a new release, please give us (your adoring but slightly confused audience) just a tiny bit of context.
- Tell us what your software does.
- Tell us why this release is cool.
- Tell us what it requires to work.
Example:
We are proud to announce Flux Capacitor version 4.5 is now avalaible. While it creates a nice wormhole to 1955, it requires an underlying gigawatt stack 1.21 to work reliably.
Because nobody wants to cheer enthusiastically for “v2.7.1” while secretly Googling “what is a glorb and why does it need handling”.
Yours truly,
Someone who wants to celebrate your achievements