Jons Mostovojs @jonn@social.doma.dev

The #PapersInSystems (remote) discussion series is a great opportunity to engage in focused conversation and share insights as we explore a paper of interest, and make connections (among ourselves, and to our and other work).

Next: "Improving Our Ability to Improve: A Call for Investment in a New Future" by Douglas C. Engelbart

Discussion will be led by @art3starr

When: Wed., September 13th, 1-2pm Eastern Time

Info/sign up (free):
https://ti.to/bredemeyer/engelbartabilitytoimprove

Paper: http://worrydream.com/refs/Engelbart%20-%20Improving%20Our%20Ability%20to%20Improve.pdf

Heya, I've been doing grant work for the past few months but that doesn't pay the bills very well.

So I'm looking for some contract opportunities, preferably places that uses Rust, since that's what I'm most proficient with.

I've worked on a lot of networking projects and I'm comfortable with distributed systems, and concurrent state problems.
My favourite thing to do is greenfield development and building incremental prototypes with a lot of feedback on an evolving specification :)

I'm looking for projects between 1-6 months in length, up to 30h a week. I can be part of your company structure and processes during that time, but for legal reasons I prefer to be independent/ a contractor. If your company is looking for some implementingexternal help, or is generally hiring at the moment, feel free to get in touch here, or e-mail me: kookie@spacekookie.de.

Some more resources about what I do below. Thanks! And as the CW says, boosts highly appreciated!

Cheers ✌️

Some of my recent talks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-2siR9Ki84
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqy7a6IS5yU
https://diode.zone/w/koSvUCmBL11VA2PTVZuRG9 (more of a video essay)

You can find a current CV here: https://spacekookie.de/downloads/resume-03-2023.pdf

Another reminder to say "fuck you" to all the people who say COVID is no big deal:

During the first two years of the pandemic, from March 2020 to March 2022, there were approximately 90,000 more deaths in the United States attributed to cardiovascular disease than were expected for that span of time.

A study found that the sharpest rise in deaths from heart attack during that period occurred in 25- to 44-year-olds.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/07/well/live/covids-heart-health.html

#programming What is your preferred way of following log files:

Once you go NixOS, you cannot go back.

Every other way of maintaining a computer looks like something from the age of dinosaurs. Yesterday, a server of mine wouldn't boot, primarily because of my own mistakes. So I decided on a whim it should be good to finally convert it to NixOS and get it into the fold. That took less than one-hour, and it's now happily churning along.

I'm sure there's going to small problems which needs fixing down the road, but the general ability to just solve a lot of your configuration by writing a (declarative) program simplifies so much stuff.