Posts by yvan@toot.ale.gd
(DIR) Post #AsLjTST5JkGSJ34H0C by yvan@toot.ale.gd
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Ah, sigh, rejection from the one job application where someone was even willing to interview me. I'd not had my hopes up, but one can't help but daydream in the uncertainty, regardless.I highly appreciate that they were even willing to give me the chance. And that they took the all too rare effort to get back to me with a few sentences to explain. At least I have closure on that one, a certainty.It has been suggested I'd be more suited for a devops/sysadmin role if they had one, which they don't.I am a coder. I want to write code. I enjoy writing code. I've full respect for devops and sysadmin work, but it I don't regard it to be my core skillset. I've only just learnt what devops is. It isn't what I most want to do. (I mean, I'd accept a job in any such field and could probably enjoy it, but all the same it really gets me down to be told this.)*siiigggh*
(DIR) Post #AsLjTT2XBwcY4zeaG0 by yvan@toot.ale.gd
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Oh my, it's in Italy, even better: https://www.obsidianurbexphotography.com/leisure/greenhouse-rosa-italy/I should be granted a visa to live there just to be caretaker for this site.
(DIR) Post #AsLjTTbd5Sh3pq4bxY by yvan@toot.ale.gd
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On the topic of the job hunt: I'm trying to craft a "foot in the door" Software Engineer CV for generalist C/C++/Python/PHP/anythingatall Linux developer:https://yvan.seth.id.au/CV/YvanSeth_CV.pdfIf anyone familiar with successful tech hiring or jobseeking would like to offer feedback it will be highly welcome. I am a job-seeking novice with an odd history. (I've applied for about 3 jobs in my tech life and I got all 3 of them, but the last of those was 16 years ago... and referrals/nepotism played a role, but I'm now somewhat estranged by time from my old contacts.)I've manage to cut the PDF version down to 2 pages now, with a nod to some of the feedback I got (thanks!)The PDF version is the key document, a HTML version that generates it is slightly longer: https://yvan.seth.id.au/CV/*[Edit 2025-02-13: Above text fettled, and finally put more time into the CV based on feedback received, thanks all, hopefully it is "tighter" now.]* #GetFedHired
(DIR) Post #AsLjTUoma2oDavEd6G by yvan@toot.ale.gd
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Additional to #introduction... a glossary:I live in the "Bogalow": https://toot.ale.gd/@yvan/110893356351705284I sometimes go to "The Farm": https://toot.ale.gd/@yvan/113476993527058369
(DIR) Post #AsLjTVTC9n8RcG8u5g by yvan@toot.ale.gd
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I validated the HTML and CSS of course lol... though stopped short of putting little badges on it to say so. 🤣
(DIR) Post #AsLjTW8Jgu1pfnNkBc by yvan@toot.ale.gd
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Dug up a sequence of #allotment drone photos that include the new plot:2021-07-18: not long after we first took on a plot (left of the centre), after it was strimmed and we had put up the front pallet-fence — neighbours to right a bit overgrown2022-05-08: a good year of progress, front three raised beds and back compost bays built, carcass of polytunnel going in — neighbours tidied up2023-02-05: we have a polytunnel! front raised bed garlic under fleece — neighbours looking a bit unkempt again2023-10-03: little change on our plot — neighbours more overgrown2024-07-07: little change on our plot except more plants growing — we're now the neighbours, lol, and have started clearing2024-10-26: polytunnel plot fully freshly chipped, looking nice, new plot (formerly neighbours) looking cleared, greenhouse frame up, shed shifted onto plot rear-right2025-01-04: polytunnel plot even more chipped, new bordered bed rear-back, new plot even more clear, woodchipping has commenced
(DIR) Post #AsLjTWn5FKddiESIjI by yvan@toot.ale.gd
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<insert meme of guy crumpled on sidewalk, with sign: will write good code for minimum wage>
(DIR) Post #AsLjTXh5t5RQVwf224 by yvan@toot.ale.gd
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Right, distraction aside, crushed self put on the shelf for later, I have a fence trench to dig whilst pondering how to convert a refrigerated van into a mobile home before we're out on the street.
(DIR) Post #AsLjTYCI16OY4hFwem by yvan@toot.ale.gd
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It's a pity I don't have any prior to any work beginning on the new plot, because it was a complete jungle only a month before that 5th photo, after a wet spring of luscious weed growth. Unfortunately that peior was ... rather fraught... we barely had any allotment time ourselves.
(DIR) Post #AsLjTYrlWtZW9Kf4Iy by yvan@toot.ale.gd
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On getting home I cannot help but feel a little offended for those in DevOps and Sysadmin roles at the suggestion someone with 10 years experience as a software engineer and zero years experience in DevOps od sysadmin is suited for such roles... simply because of not having been a full time software engineer for a subsequent 10 years? It seems to belittle the skillset and knowledge of those roles a bit! I know how to write software, I can code in any given language, design good software from the ground up, handle all the tooling around the process of writing and testing code... but admittedly I could write good code 10 years ago, with the tools of 10 years ago, and maybe now that's all just irrelevant.I probably just need to face the reality, I'm no use for anything really.
(DIR) Post #AvForFbwl3qprzCHoG by yvan@toot.ale.gd
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@gcluley in villages/ruralish parts like where I am a Co-Op may be the only reasonably useful local grocery store so spending £40 isn't too difficult... especially at their prices! With the £10 discount then it'll almost make it like normal supermarket prices. 😅 (TBH I appreciate that they exist despite the inflated pricing, it's about a 3 minute walk away, which is better than a 30+ minute round trip car journey to the nearest big town for Tesco or Morrisons.)Typically we wouldn't spend that much given it is so close and tends to be small frequent shops... but a couple of their pizzas, a couple of bottles of red... not an unusual "can't be arsed" weekend dinner here... throw in a handful of extras and I think we can do it.Sure, I'd certainly rather not have had my data lost... but I'll take the tenner all the same, "free" bottle of wine with a quick pizza dinner! I'm certain there are millions of co-op members for whom this scenario does not apply of course.
(DIR) Post #AvForHFKg6wywQdFq4 by yvan@toot.ale.gd
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The bogalow fartichoke* patch is going gangbusters. It keeps losing outer stems as in the foreground of the photo, so I have tried corralling it with some string - not sure this string will hold the strain from such a large windsail of plant material but we shall see.These are somewhere around three metres tall at their highest.I did lowered the heights around the periphery to create a more mounded effect, it has worked, it's just a very high mound!* Jerusalem artichokes.
(DIR) Post #AvForHeVAX5ECUPM4O by yvan@toot.ale.gd
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I've not posted a bogalow greenhouse photo for a while either, it's a bit of a jungle right now. The hedge behind limits it's light but it's going OK. We have harvested padrons, basil, coriander and some long eggplants from here this season. Black cherry tomatoes are ripening, so are some san marzano* on a plant that is not fruiting so well, plenty of medium (currently) green capsicums forming too. Soil in here needs more improving really, more sunlight would help too (eyes the hedge...)
(DIR) Post #AvForI7ZQSKree0ZNY by yvan@toot.ale.gd
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* second year with these Chiltern Seeds san marzanos and think we have to try something different next year, the passata holy grail is failing us! Small plants, weak yields.We have some different paste varieties in the #allotment polytunnel that seem to be doing better than the 6 SM plants we also have in the polytunnel. So the outcome of this (to be judged in the tasting mainly) may inform our attempted tomato "main crop" next year.Maybe source SM seeds elsewhere.
(DIR) Post #AvForIWjusT6uhmfbs by yvan@toot.ale.gd
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What are your English (#Norfolk) #allotment paste tomato recommendations Mastodon? Reliable yields, flavour most important, good yields a nice to have.
(DIR) Post #AvForIykEks0JYt2GG by yvan@toot.ale.gd
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📌 It may be worth explaining "bogalow" … we rent a small bungalow (red) in a strip of 3 behind a house in a region known as "the fens" (thus "bog") on the Norfolk/Cambridgeshire border in England.Bog + Bungalow = Bogalow.The bungalow has a small patch of "garden" of its own where we have a raised bed (blue) plus an ornamental strip facing the road (white). In the shared grounds we have commandeered the rear garden bed (magenta), the small greenhouse (yellow), and a front bed for some herbs (green).
(DIR) Post #AvForT6YaZ3pigcPpI by yvan@toot.ale.gd
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📌 In extension to the above: I'll sometimes mention "the farm". Which maybe needs some context! I don't own a farm 😅 but I rent space on one where I used to rent a warehouse for my former business. It's about 5 doors up the road from the Bogalow. These days I only rent a bit of yard space, in this space I have two 20 foot shipping containers which are mainly storage and roughly split as persona/workshop. The workshop container has a power feed, a workbench area, and various tools including some larger items like a pillar drill, and mobile/worksite table saw, chopsaw, welder, etc.
(DIR) Post #AxZQRKWnhqd65CkQrI by yvan@toot.ale.gd
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@ObsidianUrbex @gme butting in on the general vibe of this reply... 😅As a Mastodon self-hoster since circa 2.5 years... IMO: don't self-host Mastodon if you're not already pretty familiar with hosting grotty modern framework based server type software. It is a nightmare, and better suited to folk setting up to be dedicated to spending much of their time hosting at scale rather than host just for themselves.Most smart folks I know seem to be running GoToSocial for small Fedi instances I reckon. I don't personally have experience running it, but would suggest it seems the obvious first port of call.There are also questions you'd probably want to resolve wrt whether you want to be able to import your full account history. (It is the main thing blocking me now from shifting to something else, though I have not recently researched where the options are at on that, and my situation is a tad different wrt already being a self-hoster.)
(DIR) Post #AxZUDkdOFLkUoRbuxE by yvan@toot.ale.gd
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@ObsidianUrbex ah, I see masto.host mentioned in the OP… they do all of the actual hosting for you… upgrades, backups(?*), etc. In which case my problems are not relevant as you're not doing the painful stuff yourself :)* I assume they do backups… but even if they do, also make you own archives/backups regularly. (This goes for any masto/fedi host really.)
(DIR) Post #AxZVYfNB6UTOWuZ3w0 by yvan@toot.ale.gd
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@ObsidianUrbex ah, yeah, data volume is a problem with Mastodon hosting... :(I'm surprised your follower count matters so much, usually I'd have thought the number you're following matters more... but that may be something to do with how federated timelines/etc work I guess. This is part of why, IMO, a Fediverse software solution other than Mastodon makes more sense for small/single-user self-host instances. Mastodon's design parameters are for the sort of scale where worrying about 100GB of disc space isn't how the world works (using "cloud" storage, auto-scaling, etc.)Even the masto instance for my small account uses 48GB of disc space, that's with tuning to reduce cache size, but most of that usage is under "cache". (My server does have 3 other semi-active users but they do very little, just family.)