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Folks, if y'all know of any remote work for UI engineers, lemme know. I'm helping a friend out.

Please Retoot this. I'd appreciate it a lot.

I'm a computer science professor from #Oregon. Hobbies include #fire #dancing, #boardgames (including #go), #drawing, and #GameDesign.

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@jefframes Thanks for the detailed, and vivid, imagery 🙂I guess I'm going to go watch some Olympic swimmers now just so that I can have this image in my head ...

@JulietEMcKenna Same thing happened to me today 🙂Woke up, sat down to do something routine and suddenly had this thought which led to me revising a couple of notes in my current WIP and it kind of made the world in the story clearer/better.

Love it when that happens!

Last Friday, July 26th, around Tillamook or Cannon Beach, Oregon my son lost his favorite stuffie and best friend, Bulbasaur. If by some chance someone finds Bulby, please let me know, we'd dearly love to have him back! 💚

A few days ago I lost my job due to the company I have worked for filing for bankruptcy. Now I am looking for a new, preferably startup, to work for.

If you think a full stack developer with 15+ years of C++ experience, 12 years of C#/.NET experience, and with additional experience in kernel development, Windows internals, reverse engineering, Qt and LLVM sounds interesting - please hit me up!

I am located in Sweden and looking for remote positions.

#fedihire #getfedihired

@joforselldev I don't bother with DRM on the books I write because it's just such a hassle for me personally as a reader. Sure, if my books get popular maybe they'll get pirated more easily because of this, but it is it really worth it in the long run to add DRM for just that?

Personally, I don't believe DRM is worth the cost. But that might be just me 🙂

@sarajw Not a name I came up with though since I simply forked somebody else's project 🙂

I think the next one I did (again a fork) was Tusker. But the source code is not on GitHub since the original project was not on GitHub. But again, can't claim credit for the name.

@phanpy @elysegrasso

@sarajw Not all of them are public since I just simply write them for my own use most of the time and they are not fully tested for all environments 🙂 My server is an Akkoma server and so is non-standard in its own way ...

I think I have the source (and possibly a distro package) for the very first one here:
https://github.com/FahimF/Mastonaut

I don't believe I made the source publicly available for the rest. Most of them were macOS only or macOS + iOS only though.

@phanpy @elysegrasso

@jefframes Not that I've thought about it, no 🙂But now I feel as if I should have somebody do this in one of my books just because of the imagery 😛

Any particular reason that this thought was brought on?

@vegetarianzombie Thanks, Brian 🙂That's very kind of you to say so.

@sarajw @phanpy @elysegrasso I have written three or four different Fedi clients because this was a feature missing from most of the clients I used 😀

(Of cousre, I didn't write three or four clients for this particular feature. But I did add the feature to all of them. It's there in my current client too but due to how I implemented things, and because I'm paranoid about missing something, I don't totally hide the post but instead have it as a tiny sliver with just the booster and the boostee. If I want details, I can click on the sliver and see the full post/boost.)

I'm sure this is a wildly long shot but I don't suppose anyone here on the fediverse lives in the Northern Utah area or has contacts here who would be willing to replace a throttle position sensor on an 18 year old Kia for charity so that a middle-aged queer struggling with mental health issues doesn't have to deal with a 3 hr round trip commute to work when it's a 60 mile commute?

📚 New Project Update
Think I'm towards the final third of book two of the Far North series. Very exciting! Greenhouse Museum is collected, edited, formatted, and ready to be released at the end of next month too. As for our forays into spiritual research? Once I get through this series, it's going on a pause. Lastly, talking about the fear at Twitch and the future of what our streaming time might look like.
Hope you check it out!
https://byrdbrnz.me/project-update-july-2024/
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@Daojoan @vegetarianzombie This! I mean writing for yourself. The same thing happend to me. Once I just started writing for my own pleasure, the words come so much easier 🙂

Now crowdfunding for Space Dragons: Luxorian's Crew!

Dragons pull spaceships at faster-than-light speeds in my new space fantasy novella.

It's Pay-What-You-Want and the book is fully written and edited. Please help me fund it!

https://ko-fi.com/post/Crowdfunding-Space-Dragons-Luxorians-Crew-A-cos-Q5Q0YG3UU

#vkofi

Fediverse, due to my wife's thyroid cancer returning we are relocating to Seattle (from Illinois) -- where we can receive familial support and she can get treatment.

To that end, I'm looking for #infosec jobs in the area, but I'm looking to step back from what I've been doing so I have a bit more flexibility to help her and our son. So, hybrid or even full remote, but probably not a senior level position.

I've been consulting and that's been good, but it's too unsteady and too much work on unknown schedules to continue while she is undergoing treatment. I'll also be applying through standard channels, but I hope someone here can lend a hand.

#getfedihired

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