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idontneedcoffee

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About idontneedcoffee

Corporate critter by day(sec-compliance, devops/sre and everything in-between), entrepreneur/foss enthusiast/rainbow-colored-hat hacker by night

- Built a xen based community VM/VPS hosting back-in-the-day(vpslab.org, defunct) - "Free speech" platform - well, prototype(phalcon-php, then nodejs + haraka mailing list meets merkle trees, defunct) - Custom, atomic ro-root + roaming-profile with containerized-everything linux distro(before it was a thing, built with buildroot, iolinux.org, defunct) - Web office space frankenstein built on groupoffice, jitsy, in the past rocketchat + a few other goodies - I use it till this day .. for better or worse)

Some corporate street-creds across several industries (my first burn-out came shortly after automating my sec-compliance job for a large multinational IT corp ..)

Currently hacking on https://github.com/canvas-ui/canvas-server for which I had to write https://github.com/canvas-ui/canvas-synapsd and everything else you see in the repo

Project I started years ago out of necessity working on multiple projects/consulting gigs + uni while working my *ss off at a corporate job

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    Comment #49240465

    replied to another comment - if you are curious go over it, thx!

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    Comment #49240461

    I divide my unstructured universe into workspaces, each workspace is a self-contained shareable/moveable soon-to-be-containerized runtime running an in-process LMDB with roaring bi…

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    Comment #49236295

    I am building my "dream tool" too, a cross-device roaming profile-experience context-focused UI. Many, many iterations that go back maybe 15y, even built a custom linux distro (iol…

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    Comment #48996234

    I want to believe I work on something creative in this space (even though, the current UI was never "meant to be" and (d?)evolved from a substrate of cheaply available UI component…