Gargath @gargath@canislupus.im
Cloud herder by day, friendly part-time wolf by night
Admin of canislupus.im
Bi, gay married
🏳️🌈 and trans ally
Into sci-fi like nobody's business.
Christmas tree madness Show more
Guess since I never got around to it before, here's some proper #introductions
I'm a friendly part-time wolf who runs canislupus.im
Cloud herder and devoperator as a day job
Bi, gay married
Trying to be as good an ally to my trans friends as I possibly can be
I'm into sci-fi like nobody's business and still feel bitter about all the stuff they promised us in the 80s that we never got
Expect random musings, mostly
Airways happy to chat, feel free to say hi.
#nowplaying Falconer on repeat.
It's that kind of morning.
Second day of #LeadDevLondon today.
It really feels like there's a sea change going on in the industry right now.
Lots of focus on self-examination, mental health, compassion and how to make the people you work with feel valued.
We could do with some of that.
Really chuffed that I got to talk to Nickolas Means at #LeadDevLondon.
I love his stuff.
Plus, is talk on imposter syndrome from way back really had a huge impact on my life.
Anyone who's struggling with this at times should watch it.
At LeadDev London today.
Kinda excited, even though I hate crowds.
Hope it'll be a good one.
It is way too hot this morning. ><
☀️🔥
Hi Mastodon, I killed my Twitter account a few weeks ago, and 15 minutes ago I pulled the plug on Facebook.
I wanna be your friend! We could talk about #bicycling or #Cheesemaking or #Baking or maybe #Writing? Maybe we could play frisbee and get a water-ice later?
How do I get into this scene?
So... cluster-proportional-autoscaler release history goes 1.1.0 > 1.1.1 > 1.1.2 > 1.1.2-rc2
I'm not sure which disturbs me more, the RC release after the GA or the question of what happened to rc1...
Hmm... This upgrade could have gone smoother...
First an odd Active record error, then an emoji breaking web UI... *grumbles*
Nothing ever rocks and nothing ever rolls and nothing's every worth the cost...
I've fallen way out of touch with trends in web development.
Which technologies would you use nowadays to start a mid-size webapp scaling up to tens of thousands (not millions) of users and gigabytes (not terabytes) of database-like storage?
I'm looking fora coherent answer covering the entire stack: cloud hosting, storage backend, IPC, programming languages, web frameworks, client-side frameworks... plus anything related to testing and deployment.
A friend of mine is raising money for https://www.thecalmzone.net/ by way of a 24h World of Tanks marathon this Friday.
Join in if you wanna laugh along and donate if you can.
https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/depressiontankoff
(Boosts welcome)
alcohol Show more
It's just as well, though. After the incident we had at work this weekend, any delay before having to write the post-mortem is welcome.
Today is starting out fun...
Train to work delayed, short-formed AND on the wrong platform.
It's a railway fuckup value pack!
Kid asks, "Dad, can I borrow a Bitcoin?"
Dad replies, "Son, $10000 is a lot of money? I'm not sure I even have $9300 on me! What do you need $8700 for?"
Saw Hidden Figures last night.
Really good film, I thought.
Totally a must-see if you're a space nut like me.
Feels, violence, being queer Show more
My Grandad's advice for safe driving was: "Always remember you're controlling a potentially lethal weapon". I think it helped me to take driving even more seriously.
Perhaps it's good advice for us technologists too...
"Always remember you're programming a potential platform for bullying and harassment".
"Always remember you're designing a potential system for mass surveillance".
"Always remember you're deploying a potential tool for mass social unrest".
politics / bigotry Show more
