🎃 Season's greetings, friends. I'm seeking full-time or part-time work in software engineering or technical writing.

I have decades of experience in both documentation and engineering. I've also co-founded two nonprofits, co-authored two books, and launched a bunch of other stuff: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonmcintosh/

I'd prefer to work with stable, established organizations, rather than tech startups, but I’d be happy to discuss any interesting opportunity.

I'm based in NYC, and remote-friendly. DMs open!

#pleaseBoost

I need help with Google Drive. My team has a service account to create some files via the API. The files wind up being "owned" by the service account. Suddenly all those files are no accessible by anyone. (See first screenshot).

Google help docs say that when a file has a violation on it, the owner of the files should still be able to see them in the web interface of Google Drive with a flag on it and request a violation review. (See second screenshot). However, the owner of the service account does not see them, and we cannot log into a web interface as a service account.

Attempts to transfer ownership from the service account to a human account through the API return the error, “Consent is required to transfer ownership of a file to another user.” Help docs seem to indicate that ownership transfers are not allowed from service accounts to gmail.com accounts or across domains.

It would appear that the service account in its entirety has been flagged as being in violation of ToS. How do I request a violation review *of a service account*?

My team is a not a paying enterprise customer.
#techSupport #googleDrive

Inspired by One Million Checkboxes, I created a collaborative, realtime nonogram web game where you can help solve all 24,976,511 possible 5x5 nonogram puzzles. When you solve a puzzle, it solves it for everyone in realtime.

So far 289 puzzles have been solved.

Help out at:
https://pixelogic.app/every-5x5-nonogram

#nonogram #picross #webgame

I'm learning to use "Toon Squid" to do animation on my iPad. It's a paid program for $10, no adds, very clean and intuitive. I'm enjoying it, but before I get too deep in I thought I'd ask what ya'll like for drawing on a tablet and doing simple amateur animations.

Toon Squid is very drawing focused, not as good for making sprites and using them like puppets. Which is something I'd like to try for some of my ideas.

I cannot tolerate an app that requires a subscription or that has ads.