Notices by Dave W (dave@basilisk.gallery)

If you can load https://ipv4.rip then you are officially a Cool Kid.

@ryanc @gsuberland One works really well for, uh, other purposes

ahem

@ryanc incredible isn't it. apparently JS creates 'completion records' relating to each return and picks one when the return happens, executing the code in the meantime because fuck me I guess

Today in JavaScript Are You High

I'm looking for work!

I'm a high-level infra and devops engineer and team lead.

I've previously run my own team, and previously worked at Mozilla and Facebook.

I'm looking for infra/devops lead or senior infra/devops engineer positions.

I'm not looking for pure development positions, but writing scripts, glue, and things like CI - as demanded by infra/devops - are totally fine. I just don't want to be developing the product.

The one thing I can't budge on is that I am exclusively looking for 100% remote positions, due to physical disability.

My CV is available at cv.dave.io. I am available to start immediately.

The CV is a Notion page and can be cloned directly into your workspace if you use Notion.

I'm more than happy to answer any questions, and all leads are graciously appreciated. Drop me a public or private mention, or use the other contact details listed on my CV.

That's about it. You are very welcome to boost this post, with my thanks.

Obligatory hashtags: #GetFediHired #FediJobs #Kubernetes #DevOps #Infra #Infrastructure #Engineer #Engineering #TeamLead

As a British citizen, yes, Apple, tell our government to go fuck themselves about putting a backdoor in your cryptography. You have the support of British cypherpunks and frankly the whole British population that isn't a mouth-foaming fascist piece of shit.

maybe it's just me but

context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device)

A reminder that I'm looking for work.

I'm a high-level devops engineer with experience of running my own team. I've previously worked at Facebook and Mozilla.

I'm based in the UK, but happy working remotely with a company based anywhere.

My CV is available at https://dave.io/go/cv if you want to check it out.

Feel free to share it with anyone who might be interested.

Thanks!

@ryanc Yes! I should have mentioned that, it's really smart (and doesn't bloat the memory requirement).

@ryanc no markdown didn't work. How did you monospace?

Zstandard is pretty amazing. It's not going to win any awards for compression ratios (lzip takes that prize ime) but it's FAST.

Really fast.

"Compressing a tar file of Web content from 5Gb to 3.6Gb in 6.9 sec" fast.

Even with a -9 parameter, it only takes 19.06 sec (and compresses to 3.5Gb).

The real-world performance of 5G connectivity never fails to amaze me.

@ryanc

I can't help but think that if you tried to explain IRC to Gen Z they'd probably look at you like grandad's having a senior moment again, fetch the nurse

yes, it was free
no, there weren't any ads
no, there was no 'premium version'
no, it wasn't made to harvest ad targeting data

@eevee yeah the energy argument never really landed for me, even if you focus on the thing itself the energy's burned already, whether you buy that bitstream or not doesn't change that.

of course, you should never buy a NFT, but all the reason you need is that they're fucking stupid