Maikel 🇪🇺 | Hire Me!EDIT 5: Since this toot seems to be everywhere can I ask you guys to please do your magic and boost this? 👇🏽
https://firefish.maikel.dev/notes/9hnf0gw9o56zhrgo
EDIT 4: BEWARE before updating that Firefish comes with donation-asking ads.
EDIT 3: Guys, there's no more need anymore to boost this.
Right, so you're seeing this and wondering what happened and why are you seeing a new account.
I bricked my fedi.maikel.dev instance of Calckey trying to migrate to Firefish using the obsolete and broken ubuntu.sh script on their repo.
After getting annoyed, I went to sleep, woke up today and tried again but with a fresh install. The script is still pretty much broken even for that so I'm taking charge of my online presence by forking Firefish and ensuring this never happens again, there's plenty in the repo I had already changed on my instance like what comes out when I use a search box.
I've lost ALL of my social graph so lots of people won't even figure out where the F did I go unless you boost this and might think I died 😇. So please, for their sake, do boost: I was before @[email protected] now I am here in @[email protected]
Thanks you all for helping.
#PleaseBoost
EDIT: Note that I'm adding some changes to the code so expect my instance today to fall a few times before it runs stable.
EDIT2: Since this is getting interesting as other people have had the same issue I'll add a few extra thoughts:
- Remember it is just thoughts. You think everyday.
- As far as you have your follows list backed up (the people YOU follow) that's all that matters, fortunately for me I did have that in my account in blahaj.zone.
- This isn't commercial social media, losing the people who follow YOU doesn't matter, they'll find you again. Let alone the figure of people following you means absolutely nothing here.
- If you want to avoid my situation, back up everything before trying the migration. I tried to fix it for an hour, I realised the low value of the effort and that my priority wasn't to preserve but to communicate, destroyed the instance and launched a new one. Your priorities might differ, you might think your cat pics are indispensable.
- Learn the lesson: never trust "stable" releases to be actually as stable as development branches. 🤣
- If you're stuck with the ubuntu.sh installer because of the "with encoding" issue that was 'fixed' (I guess fixed is a new word for introduced) here run manually
sudo -iu postgres psql -c "CREATE ROLE the-user-you-chose LOGIN CREATEDB PASSWORD 'the-pass-you-chose';" -c "CREATE DATABASE the-database-name-you-chose OWNER the-user-you-chose;"And on the next run of ubuntu.sh chose that you already have a PostgreSQL setup and pick the users/password/db that you tried to make work on the first attempt. That's how I manage to get it to run on my final attempt.
Maikel 🇪🇺 (@maikel)
#pleaseboost #getfedihired #mutualaid Sometime ago in May I run out of funds, I asked you all to help me kick the can down the road and you delivered in time to survive until my second ever client's first invoice to be paid. Then all the way from May until now, almost August, I've lived of what I made with that client, used those funds to also fix stuff long overdue while I had an income and I'm a much better position to get client number 3. My goal is offering my services as a cloud systems administrator and software engineer to get at max 5 **permanent** clients, and go back to what I was doing for 4 years happily ever after. To get there I've been doing courses about marketing, sales, getting clients, web development business since those are my setbacks, the bits of running my own company that I never learnt because I started the company already having a first permanent client who used my 40 weekly hours. My expertise is wide but if I had to summarize it in one sentence it is: > I can learn anything, inside out, **blazingly fast** e.g.: @[email protected] wanted to automate something on OCI, which I never used before and within a week I was proficient to figure all the moving parts and whistles of OCI's cloud to create a testing development cloud for him. I'm a 37 years old guy who has maintained the neuroplasticity of an infant, toped up with the discipline of an adult. **The best way you could help is simply figuring if YOU could be a client**. I cannot stress that enough. The fediverse is filled of tech-oriented people. I am **convinced** those lifelong relationships are going to be built here. How could you check that? Well imagine you have THING. > THING = any of [idea, site, mobile app, desktop app, Spectrum ZX +2A tape] or all of them. Thing might need: - A cloud of computers. - A frontend - A backend. - An automation in Ansible, Python or Terraform. - Some embellishment in Tailwind, Bootstrap, or some NextJs/React/Angular. - A database in Mongo, PostgreSQL or MariaDB/MySQL. or even just might be an idea looking for its viability. What I'm offering is my brain per set amounts of hours per week: - 5h/week @ 150€ - 10h/week @ 250€ - 20h/week @ 400€ As you see, the more hours I work, the less you'd have to pay per hour. [Hire me!](https://maikel.dev/hire) But then you might not need my services at all (yet), and that's OK, you can instead help me by directly donating [here](https://maikel.dev/donations). It won't be a definitive solution but it'll surely **buy me time** to avoid living under-a-bridge by the 3rd of September if not earlier & buy groceries. Right now my biggest worry, to be very blatantly honest is food because it is 26th, we're close to all the utility bills and stuff coming in and it'll directly EAT from my food budget. All my remaining savings are, quite literally 550€ plus 50€ that someone donated yesterday and might show up in my account according to Stripe on the 2nd of August.
Kainoa 
