Jons Mostovojs @jonn@social.doma.dev

I still remember my first day on my first job very vividly.

I had just complted a test task where I had to add tag functionality to an anti-anonymous image-board clone the company made (it was called rep dot ly, pretty badass domain name, sad that it folded), whereas the guys, Paul and Danko, implemented a webcam integration, so that people could add cute photos to imageboard-esque threads.

And so, my first day was at a conference where they were presenting the project. I remember being very ashamed that I went to another job interview after I went to theirs, and how interesting was everything in the conference hall. I felt a huge imposter syndrome, heh.

Then, when I started working it was kind of back and forth. Of course, I was slower than the other guys and less well-versed in industrial practices, but ultimately what got me into trouble is my back-then passion for overengineering and not being able to deterime when a design of a feature is good enough. I was with the guys till the very end of that iteration of very.lv though.

Afterwards I made an appearance in banking software, only to make a glorious, but short-lived return to very, where my desire for overengineering, augmented by banking experience, essentially got me fired, because I got too defensive about some program that I made to interact with postgresql, which wasn't doing the thing I was requested to do. But I'm very glad that my second stint with #verypositive gave me production experience with #erlang, that I managed to leverage by writing #foss. It eventually landed me my first well-paid job.

These days, very.lv is more or less a one-person show, but if you need some software, drop them a line, they're really cool.

I seriously should set up #borg everywhere:

https://www.romanzolotarev.com/borg.html

Let's try #zola!

I'm blown away with the fact that #plausible actually provides docs for setting the system up: https://plausible.io/docs/self-hosting

I thought it's #foss pretty much on "you're on your own" basis.

Docs are stellar, @markosaric and all! New version of our 0$ startup will have it integrated.

#plausibleanalytics

@edwinb absolutely! I encourage myself (and my employees) to talk and blog about things we feel "aren't a big deal".

Some youtubers make careers out of UNIX command cheatsheets.

@TFG I have something like a month-long outage in the lab in my home country because I didn't bother with Windows firewall and an anti-virus. So yeah, if you aren't ready to redo your whole set-up and check for exploitation impact, I'd say that having an antivirus and a firewall on a windows host itself is a good idea.

I've tooted a while ago that Windows machines are still more or less attack vectors and it was stupid of me to think otherwise.

@willdaly@fosstodon.org I feel that I'm a mature person now that I don't get agitated when I see 100% Go or 100% PHP. 🙇

And my experience patching a TLS client in #golang was OK. Not something I'd ever do myself, but working with a Go codebase was actually pleasant.

@jb55 (also, teh simracing value!)

@jb55 it was a struggle for me to move countries and part with my superultrawide monitor. I really got used to three column setup :(

Holy shit, turns out JDG kept going on after the LambdaConf debacle.

He even hired a lawyer to bully some person with a C&D. How do I know?

I'm setting up #hakyll and to find a more up-to-date config, I did this search: https://github.com/search?q=hakyll

And got some popcorn-worthy stuff:

- https://meta.plasm.us/posts/2019/09/01/jdg-and-the-fp-community/
- https://meta.plasm.us/posts/2020/07/24/fantasyland-code-of-professionalism/

Santa confirmed.

Tanak being behind Ogier all the way till the last split, just as Seb mentioned, it was his worst, which allowed Ott to catch up.

Wait WHAT? Kalle recovered 1.1s in one split!

Even on the penultimate split. GO KALLE!

What a turn of events, Kalle is second in #Finland and leading #WRC.

It was a zerbra after all, Thierry drops by 1 tenth to Craig, but it's all about the fight with the new flying Finn, who's 1.1s down, which probably means that Thierry is alright.

Tanak is the last to run, not going for a full haul, driving conservatively to not mess it up.

Craig tops Ogier, Thierry Neuville still "wheel to wheel" with both. Bits of i20s are flying every which way... What a zebra of a split times!

Rovanperra is contesting top times on this road.

Honestly, even without any intrigue about the winner, the points distribution and a huge gap in road order between Ogier and tops are the two things that keep us on the edge of our seats.

- Ogier's time still stands after Evans finishes, Breen and Neuvile contest by a fractions of a second on a significantly better road.

Sunday #WRC power stage:

- So nice to see privateers, especially televised!
- I don't think there's any intrigue left as of yesterday, Ott just optmisies for maximum power stage points.
- Can't complain, the championship becomes interesting after a winter rally and it's fairly expected for the leader after Monte to not haul too much. Still, hauling that little must be annoying for Seb.
- Punting the last corner seems to be the theme of the event.