Every time I know somebody is in the market, I get them a copy of What Color is Your Parachute. It gets updated every year. It’ll help with finding a targeted position that wants your skills.

I hate working for big corporations. Recruiters will only find you the worst contract jobs. Finding where the small businesses are looking is something that shook out of the book for me. The methods you’re using are all the methods that the large companies want you to use and you’ll almost always get filtered out. Find places where small companies are looking for your specific skills. They don’t want to be awash in dozens of resumes anymore that you want to be blasting your resume out there to dozens of systems that are only there to filter you out. The places might be a niche job posting website, might mean an industry event, etc.

As somebody that uses valkey, I’m happy there’s drama.

AM?

That’s legacy code from the 80s. Please update it when you get the chance.

Use perl exec to run a bash script. Now you’re confused, too. And not just about why you’re using perl.

Sure, that’s how it starts but then all of a sudden you’re a Jesus allegory.

Hyper or meh keys would be a good use.

Just keep coding. Feel free to use as many guardrails and tools as necessary in your IDE (linters, auto completes, mouse over definitions, etc) to make it easier. To use a language metaphor, you want to be focusing on how to communicate, not on things like who vs whom, the subjunctive case, or adjective order. If you need projects, there are plenty of lists out there, but doing something you actually care about and breaking it down into chunks small enough to do is probably more sustainable than a bunch of random tasks someone else recommends.

As for learning new languages: when you have to. If there’s something specific you want to do and it’s only done in a specific language, then go for it, but there’s nothing inherently good about knowing multiple languages, especially if spreading yourself thin prevents you from improving in your main language (or is detrimental because it muddles the patterns you’ve learned in each).

I tried to parse the first one but got all confused because there’s no closing single quote.

Even over the mini disc? Blasphemy!

$ while true; do echo "$(date '+%D %T' | toilet -f term -F border --gay)"; sleep 1; done

Ok, that got a chuckle out of me.

Seems like they use that to circumvent other parts of the gpl, in spirit and possibly in the letter of the law. Others have more and better things to say about it than I:

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2023/jun/23/rhel-gpl-analysis/

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/dear-red-hat-are-you-dumb

I’m against

I’m not. I don’t think we’re going to change each other’s mind, so have a good one.

I guess you consider the parts of open source that are contributed to be owned by the contributors? I don’t think that’s how open source works nor how it should work.

IBM doesn’t bankroll Red Hat? Buddy, IBM owns Red Hat https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/ibm-closes-landmark-acquisition-red-hat-34-billion-defines-open-hybrid-cloud-future

I don’t see the problem with that. Red Hat is bankrolled by IBM. I don’t have any qualms about them facing competition, even underhanded competition which I don’t think this is. Contributing to open source doesn’t and shouldn’t guarantee financial compensation, customers, whatever.

Ok, but why is there even an agreement required to access to source to something, uh, open source?

IBM sucks. They have bought up a bunch of small data centers and made them worse.

I’m still pissed about CentOS as well. Long live Rocky.

Turtrucken

I thought this was the new CentOS logo.

As an admin, I prefer no swap on prod machines because I’d rather have the oom killer kill a process that will automatically be brought back up or replaced than grind everything to a crawl swapping. A dead process can be restarted. A swapped to death server can be challenging to even get into.