Notices by me (me@social.jlamothe.net)

I am officially an old person* now.

* I have a supply of Werther's on my person at all times.

Went to the emergency room today (everyone's fine) to discover that the two main hospitals in town have merged.

Me: Hmm... I wonder what the implications of this are going to be.

First words out of the doctor's mouth when he sees us: Are you okay with us using AI to record and transcribe this conversation?

Me: ಠ_ಠ

Got my hair cut for the first time in probably a year because I have an interview tomorrow for a job I really want to get (and think I have a pretty good shot at).

It looks decent, but has revealed a good deal more grey than I'm accustomed to seeing.

@pathfinder @hellomiakoda So, Scooby-Doo then?

Granted, that was really only Shaggy.

@silverwizard That said, I fully understand how the average person* could not be bothered to figure out how to do it. The technology industry has done a great job of reducing all their offerings into little magic black boxes that everyone's afraid to look inside of for fear that they'll break them.

* The average person will never read this post because the fedi is too complicated and scary.

@silverwizard Remember in the 90s when there was no internet at all because powerful enough computers hadn't been invented yet? 🙃

Seriously though, I ran my first "server" on a Pentium laptop over a dial-up connection.

This probably won't help me in my current job search, but is it worth learning COBOL? I've heard that there are still a bunch of critical systems out there that use it, and that it's hard to find COBOL devs these days.

Is this still the case? The only downside I can see is that I'd have to program in COBOL.

I am in urgent job search mode, so I'm gonna throw this out here and see if anything comes of it.

I am a #Canadian, fluent in both #English and #French. I have experience with several programming languages. My strongest proficiency is with #Haskell and #C. I also have a reasonable grasp of #HTML, #JavaScript, #SQL, #Python, #Lua, #Linux system administration, #bash scripting, #Perl, #AWK, some #Lisp (common, scheme, and emacs), and probably several others I've forgotten to mention.

I am not necessarily looking for something in tech. I just need something stable. I have done everything from software development, to customer support, to factory work, though my current circumstances make in-person work more difficult than remote work. I have been regarded as a hard worker in every job I have ever held.

#GetFediHired

@georgetakei On that last point, when I look at Pierre Poilievre's polling numbers, I'm not so sure...

Sadly, we're not immune to fascism in Canada.