I'm a software developer and sysadmin who could really use being #fedihired.

What I'd really like to do is Rust, but once you ignore the dubious crypto and AI stuff, there seems to be nothing out there. Prove me wrong with a counterexample!

I've spent decades fixing Enterprise mudballs mostly written in #Perl. If you've got a crufty legacy system that everybody else is too scared to touch, I'm your man. I love fixing stuff like that.

I've also done commercial #Scala, #Python, #C/#C++, and although I don't usually admit it on my CV but these are now Trying Times when everything is on the table, even #PHP (the longest six months of my life).

Perl naturally leads into Unix system administration and infrastructure. I've built and maintained mail clusters, VoIP systems, network monitoring, DNS management platforms, that sort of thing. If it's non-sexy but something which needs to be done, I'm there.

Available immediately, for contract or permie, onsite in Amsterdam/Randstad or remote to anywhere.

Drop me a private mention or mail [email protected] if you have or know of something.

Story of loveliness for you all because you've been so well behaved recently.

I dated an Italian guy for about 3 months six years ago, and my mum decided it was time to start learning Italian.

The relationship didn't last but my mum never stopped learning Italian by herself in retirement. She's never had a teacher or been to a class; she's taught herself from apps and lots of books I've thrown at her.

She speaks Italian with the strongest English accent you've ever heard. There's no doubt to anyone that she is not a native speaker.

So last week she went to Turin for a couple of days, and she came back *buzzing*. She's been to Italy before and spoken Italian but this time was different.

She was having conversations in Italian with everyone about everything. Basic conversations but she was doing it and loving it.

In one restaurant the waiter couldn't possibly believe that she was an English person speaking this language. English?! English people only speak English! What the actual?! He was so overjoyed at her efforts that he kept bringing her all sorts of free food and limoncello until she asked him to stop.

When I spoke to her a couple of days ago she said it's so weird that you sit at home and learn this language but it doesn't mean anything. It's all nonsense. But then you go to a different country and say the nonsense words and people actually understand you!

I've always loved learning languages and this just warmed my cold, dead heart a wee bit.
#LanguageLearning #Italian #languages

Danmarks digitale apps bliver vogtet af amerikanske tech-giganter

Danskerne kan kun hente essentielle apps som kørekort, Rejsekort og MitID gennem Apples og Googles systemer. Men sådan bør det ikke være, siger eksperter.

https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/viden/teknologi/danmarks-digitale-apps-bliver-vogtet-af-amerikanske-tech-giganter

#dr #nyheder #viden #bot #nyhedsbot

Jeg oplever en del der føler sig overrasket, eller direkte provokeret, når jeg bruger udtrykket "Handikappet" om mig selv, fordi jeg har ADHD.

Så følger de tit op med "Ja, men jeg kan jo også have lidt svært ved at komme i gang med vasketøjet. Og du har jo klaret dig fint, og har et godt arbejde."

Gid det var så enkelt, men det er det ikke.

Jeg er handikappet, og ikke kun fordi samfundet ikke kan rumme mig, også i mit eget hjem og i mit eget hoved, og det hjælper utrolig meget at få medicin.

Jeg har fundet OKs API til benzinpriser, og i den sidste uges tid har jeg indsat alle blyfri 95 priser i en sqlite-database for hver time. Med undtagelse af et døgn har alle tankstationerne haft samme pris på blyfri 95. I det ene døgn var der en enkelt tankstation i Faaborg der havde benzin 20 ører billigere literen.

Deler gerne kildekode og/eller data hvis der er interesse.

https://www.ok.dk/globalassets/pdfer/diverse/offentlig-api-dokumentation.pdf