EDI as well

Such a strange world. These kind of stories makes it funny to read the headlines from time to time.

I have a system76 machine. It’s been really good with steam. Or a steam deck, it’s just a PC.

Their laptops are not worth it if I’m honest. They have issues with the hinges. I had two of them give out. They use a very cheap plastic. But you are guaranteed no driver issues if you use PoPOS on their own machines.

Local bands are fun. That’s about all I can afford.

0. Mail in ballot for every single election.

Ive heard some people locally take at most 30 mins.

I literally got my current job by meeting an old co-worker at a book store and letting him know I was looking after our previous company got shut down. I did happen to have the right skills, but my local area was flooded with software developers in an area that really didnt need that many. But I got the job.

Networking (AKA meeting people) is a good way to get jobs.

While skill and experience matter, networking is often the catalyst that connects you with the right opportunities. In a way, it’s like investing in your social capital—often as valuable as any degree or certification.

College actually helps with both skill and networking at the same time.

I set it up for a few days and it just keeps piling up. I’ve kinda given up on self hosting. It’s just not worth the hassle at least not now.

I’ve tried misskey and for some reason posts don’t come through. Closest I got was bookwyrm which seems to workish, but it doesn’t have lists /hashtags like Mastodon does.

I learned terraform and that helped. But I started in on and ansable/chef.

Heh yeah the AWS ones are just product placement and a tiny bit of configuration soup later on.

In my area:

1. My area is a relatively Low cost of living area surrounded by people that have money. When they want to work remote but still stay in the same state, some % come east for cheap housing. They can pay cash for houses.
2. Corporations are buying houses, then renting. Less houses on the market. They also pay cash for houses.
3. People with multiple houses can use the aforementioned houses to buy up more housing to rent, creating a investment loop. Its in their best interest to keep the houses as small businesses/revenue streams.
4. There are apps that hook into MLS (example: https://www.mlslistings.com/more/mobile-app/) which means investors can make an offer faster than the general public or set up alerts (think stock market) that hook into the API. Ever wonder why some houses get multiple offers before or right after they are listed? This only works if the company/entity selling the property decides to add in the info into MLS and not just go with the defaults.
5. More people are alive today than yesterday. They need housing. There are less houses getting built, or being built for owning. For renting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrxZqPVFTag

Source: Used to work for a company that did this sort of buy/selling of properties.

Its interesting, theres a lot of links she references that I was not aware of in the fediverse (and otherwise).

• https://calckey.world/ looks like a microblogging platform.
• https://www.deepl.com/en/translator translation service.
• https://loops.video - still not sure 100%. Ticktock fedi? Is it any good?
• https://clubb.cymru/2024/04/25/linux-mobile-safer-phone-for-childern/ - I want this really bad. A linux phone that doesn’t suck would be nice.

I once played around with a fair phone. It felt like the best phone I ever played with.

I had an old Motorola that had Android, replaceable battery, and audio connection. It does after 4-5 years when the power button stopped working and they stopped updating the phone after the first couple of months.

I once did a coding interview. They had me write a MVC. It was on bitbucket so private repo. They merged my code then didn’t get back to me. They forgot that I had access so I got to see the company using interviews code for a real project. They didn’t last long so bullet dodged. But it was very silly. I eventually let them know I had access and within the hour they took me off the project despite never giving me an email in response.

I really need to add ci/cd and docs but here you go: https://github.com/michaelachrisco/accelapy

There’s probably only around a hundred Accela developers in total haha. So this is as niche as it comes.

It’s a client to a very closed source system called Accela. Huge system with hundreds of API endpoints. I mapped most of the relationships and added in validation where I could. It’s still rough in some places but tremendously helps.

Open Sourced a library in development for a year. Off and on really. Should help with a very specialized field.

My wife and I are going to try out some new games to see whats worth playing. Board/video games :)

Nice! I want to get into rust. At work we use python for everything is actually really nice. Im so used to using older languages, its refreshing to use something made in this decade.

Love that channel. If anyone wants to contribute: https://radiofreefedi.net/#contribute

They always need more music/voice/etc…content! Ive found and followed quite a few artists from Radio Free Fedi.

I pay monthly to a local makerspace. Its worth every cent.