Happy to say a piece of flash fiction I wrote " The climb" has been published in the Fairfield Scribes anthology.
https://www.fairfieldscribes.com/issue-40.html/

#flashfiction #amwriting #writing

People always complains about how artists NEED to be on places like youtube, instagram or twitter because of reach and discoverability but here I am, trying to find where the fashion doll customizers are hiding these days and finding almost nothing?? Have the hobby shrunk so much since I was more or less active in the early 10s or what's happening here? #fashiondoll

A friend and I started a #network #engineering consulting company, I’d be grateful if you helped spread the word!

https://calliopearchitects.com

#networking

I just turned in my #thesis for my MSc in #ComputerScience with #DataAnalytics at #UniversityofYork!

The title of my thesis is “Exploring the impact of data imbalance on ε-Differential Privacy” and I do just that using the open-source Python library developed by IBM, diffprivlib. I’d love to share the results of my experiments in a white paper of some kind. Does anyone I’m connected to have experience in converting a masters thesis into a white paper for a journal or conference?

#DifferentialPrivacy #MachineLearning

New Server; New #Introduction

I'm Daniel, I've been involved with activism for most of my life, and I have a life-long interest in the intersection of technology and class/privilege.

I live near the sea -- but not too near -- in Midleton, a small town in Ireland.

Parent to four kids, 75% of whom are now adults, and half of whom are attending University (which is *astonishing* as I'm still only 25...)

I love #reading, and try to post about books I love, which are usually Science Fiction and Fantasy. #amreading

I autodelete all my posts after 60 days.

I've been on fedi since 2011, have used #mastodon since April 2017.

Today, I submitted my 100th resume. I’m *excellent* at building advanced web applications and experiences. Over the years, I’ve developed an instinct for whether an interaction will “work” without having to actually write any code. I’m hungry to learn new things and tackle the next challenge.

Portfolio in bio. Thanks to everyone who’s supported me with a boost or a kind word so far!
#FediHire

Hello, new Mastadon server! I've migrated for the second time. It's been a while since I posted - off doing other projects, such as writing and publishing another scifi novel and teaching programming (circuits in Rec Room), but hopefully I will be around more. I used to do some AI-generated images for writing prompts. I've also been researching city planning and architecture for another book. I really like the clean, Japanese esthetic. I'm also a programmer, emphasizing databases, using whatever language best fits the task. I'm also currently teaching myself Rhino (3D software). My website has a lot of random and interesting things (linked in profile).

Hey #GetFediHired friends, I've got one for you!

Looking for an engineer (5+ years) with a focus on #containers and #Go / #GoLang to join the #opensource team at Dagger!

You will need to not only have used #Docker heavily, but been involved in building container internals.

You can find the full JD here: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/dagger/jobs/4004305005

I'm the #recruiter on the role, so feel free to shoot me an email jenna@dagger.io with your interest.

#Hiring #JobOpportunity #FediHire

@codemonkeymike Which Linux distro do you use?

My biggest issue is my dependence on a few apps. I've been slowly switching over my personal apps to Flutter so that they can run on any platform, but I haven't tested them on Linux and don't really know how well Flutter apps work generally in Linux. But once I have all my personal apps converted over, I will (hopefully) be free 🙂

The first OS I used was DOS (well, if you don't count the Sinclair ZX80) and then I moved on to Windows. Then in 2009 I switched to macOS.

I found the hardware and software as trouble-free as could be and so I've stuck with macOS till now. But now, given Apple's current direction, I have been thinking since WWDC that it is time to switch again. Question is, to what?

I see people online who talk about how they'll never switch away from Apple for whatever reason. Good for them. I have no such compunctions. I will switch if the OS (or the company) no longer aligns with what I want.

I have been running both Linux and Windows on secondary machines for a while because I knew this day was coming. From a purely software perspective, given that it has the most software and supports most things I currently run, Windows seems to be the choice. But I'm not absolutely certain.

But it looks very much as if my next computer will not be a Mac.

#Apple #macOS #Windows #Linux #OS #Switching

Being an #Apple user in 2024 is basically:

- I LOVE their hardware.
- I’m AFRAID of what they’ll do to their software and operating systems.
- I’m DISGUSTED by everything else they do to developers and users like myself.

Hey friends, I’m trying to keep my family afloat. Work is rather light on ATM.

Things i can do for you:
* design and build custom one off machinery/tools/electronics/toys/cosplay
* research recommend and deploy iot solutions
* build hardware firmware and software
* manage teams/projects
* tech writing
* commissions for flash fiction (see bio)

Accepting work anywhere in the range 30min to full time. #Fedihired

Trip Tunes v1.2 is now live on the App Store! It has greatly improved variety and uniqueness in playlists due to some updates to the prompt and some client-side magic.

If you give it a try, let me know how the playlists are!

@stroughtonsmith Every time I hear about Phil Schiller, or have an interaction which is somehow connected to him — like an App Store rejection — I always think that he's Apple's Ballmer. Seems to have the same kind of attitudes, and the same overall net effect for his company.

@orionkidder It lets you figure out overused words at the moment, possibly 🙂It shows you lists of unique words in your text as well as repeated words and their count.

It also does some other text analysis about words which appear together but that's not quite ready yet.

The idea is that I'll add additional functionality which allows you to add a list of words or phrases that you want to watch out for and the app will highlight the occurencce of these in the document too. But that parts not done yet.

I've been working on my Scrivener text analyzer over the weekend and while I initially thought that it might take about 3 - 4 days at least to see progress, I've been able to get to a fairly functional level in just two days 🙂

At this point, I have a working app which can load a Scrivener document, extract just the manuscript text, parse it and provide information and identify components of text — like unique words, or repeated words and the word count.

If you select one of the words from the list, the viewer highlights every occurence of the word in the document. So I'm very pleased with where things are now 🙂

All that remains is to do the following:
1. Add the ability to detect specific types of words like nouns, verbs, adjectives etc.
2. Add the ability to detect/hightlight specific words or phrases added by the user.

At that point, I believe it does everything that I want it to do. This should work on any platform but I have only tested under macOS. If anybody is interested in testing it out, let me know and I'll see about setting up a download.

#WritingTools #Coding #Scrivener #Flutter #macOS #SideProjects #Writing
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I watched three Indian movies this weekend in a mix of languages: one Tamil and two Malayalam. I liked all of them to one degree or another, but they all had one frustrating feature — they all ended with a hook for a sequel.

Two were blatant in the story wasn't really even complete. One was a little bit more unobtrusive. But it's really annoying that this happens more and more often.

One of the things I hated about TV shows was that the season would end in a cliffhanger and you don't know if the story would continue or not. Now it feels as if more and more movies are doing that too. I want a complete story, darn it! 😛

#Movies #Indian #Contemplations

I first became aware of Mammootty in 1991 when he did a Tamil movie. He's better known in Malayalam cinema and I hadn't started watching Malayalam movies back then. But I watch Malayalam movies now and "Turbo" (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt29608104) proves that Mammootty hasn't lost his touch. He's so great in it from the very first frame he's in 🙂

The movie itself is a fun ride which just keeps accelerating as it moves forward. From a small incident involving a personal matter, it gradually builds up to a financial scam which affects the whole state of Tamil Nadu. I loved how the story built up and except for a few missteps towards the end, I think it was great writing!

#Movies #Malayalam #Mammootty #Turbo

I've been working with Flutter again for less than three months now. And in that time span, I've created three apps which are at least semi-functional, not to mention several others that I've started but not finished.

The three apps are:
1. A FediClient which is mostly complete. It works for my needs but doens't have content warnings and shortening of long posts.

2. An EPUB viewer. This one needs work because the viewer works but doens't have searching or ability to highlight words in a book and take actions with the highlighted content.

3. A Scrivener file analyzer. This ones my latest and was started yesterday but already pretty close to what I want.

Given that a Flutter app can be multiplatform and I've gotten so much done within such a short time, I think I'm definitely sold on switching over to Flutter for all my personal projects 🙂

#Coding #Flutter #Swift #Decisions

Okay, so it's now been over a _year_ since my last contract ended, and this is now officially my longest stint of unemployment ever in my life.

@moira and I are still getting by on our extremely tight budget, but it sure would be nice to have a bit more pocket change.

So Mastodon, if anybody out there would like to hire me for any of the following for freelance work, I'd love to hear from you:

- Proofreading or beta reading for any authors
- One-shot test pass of your website
- Consulting with you about how to set up a Wordpress website, or helping you with questions about the one you have

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#Proofreading #BetaReading #WebTesting #Freelance #GetFediHired #Writing #Authors