Notices by andyc (andyc@mastodon.me.uk)

@evan Still working for the evil borg (Oracle) working on DB cloud migrations and studiously avoiding AI/LLM's.

Still clinging to the distant, forlorn hope of becoming a billionaire 🙂

@katyswain @evan

Err. I think Evan was looking for other revenue streams to keep the identi.ca service going for enthusiastic and loyal users (like me and you). He was undoubtedly subsiding the costs of providing that service for a long time (probably out of his own pocket).

Not harbouring dreams of becoming a 'billionaire'.

I don't quite get the hype. It's yet another Teriminal app. You enter commands and look at the output. You can configure tabs and profiles.

Just when you thought terminal emulators couldn't get any better, Ghostty ships

https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/08/ghostty_1/

Inspired by @jwildeboer I am re-visiting #podman I'm a casual user (idiot) so really need a management GUI

I didn't really warm to podman-desktop but pleased to see I can use Portainer (although it needs some root privs). Will look at 'pods' too.

@jwildeboer pods looks cool and appears to be a native Gnome application. Unlike podman-desktop, it doesn't use the bloatware known as Electron.

One of my favourite things about FOSS is choice. You don't like A. Fair enough. Feel free to choose to try B or C. Or even choose to write D.

#podman

https://github.com/marhkb/pods

I use emacs and org but sometimes I just want to make one or more quick notes. Sometimes it's genuinely a disposable, transient thought so I viewed org-capture as overkill. Sometimes, I might want to remember what I jotted down and extend it the next day.

I tended to use the scratch buffer and then save (if necessary) to '~/tmp/xxx.txt'. This was clearly sub-optimal.

The built-in #Emacs remember package is much better. Can't believe I've only just discovered it.

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/remember.html

Starting to enjoy my own music collection again (Jellyfin) and watching my Listens accumulate in ListenBrainz.

https://listenbrainz.org

Daughter's partner turned up unannounced on our doorstep at 09.30 Sunday morning to ask for our blessing to get married. Wasn't expecting that!

@evan That's so true. I work for Oracle and see these new features like JSON duality and AI vector search announced and think I'll never need that but normally I do. Eventually. Never think you know everything.

@evan The DB developer VirtualBox image is useful if you just want to play with the functionality (rather than have to install XE). Plus it's the latest version (23AI) with vector search and improved JSON support.

https://www.oracle.com/database/technologies/databaseappdev-vm.html

@kevie @methoddan

A pub that stopped serving at 10pm and a restaurant that ran out of food at 6.30pm.

Still, I'm glad you enjoyed OggCamp which sounded interesting.

Screenshot of Web page showing a set of APEX reports (HR, Finance, Projects etc) accessing an Oracle EBS database. Pastel colours, pretty icons. Some of my best work 😉

Bad news - work is migrating to OneDrive/Sharepoint.

Good news - it's not till Autumn 2025 (at best).

@morph Funnily enough, we visited my daughter on the Saturday and took her 'Courgette Cake'. With lime icing, that is actually delicious.

That allotment menu in full...

Monday - roast courgette, accompanied by courgette, served on a bed of courgette
Tuesday - courgette fritters
Wednesday - courgette pasta
Thursday - more courgette fritters (just 37 left in the freezer).
Friday - courgette surprise

Working with a client project manager.

1. Has has a lovely mane of black hair either in a man bun or ponytail. Fine.

However, yesterday if was free flowing and Jesus H Christ, when I saw him on Teams I though 'Aargh - Russell Brand'.

2. He has this incredibly irritating habit of appending an exclamation mark to every single, fecking sentence !

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So tempted to reciprocate and see how he likes it!