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I remember it well - thank you!

We all know the Daniel Radcliffe story, right? (He performed The Elements from memory on a UK talk show, which was allegedly what got him hired to play Weird Al in his 'biopic' - h…

It's obviously a slightly different combination of technologies, but I've been using NFS over wireguard pretty happily for a while...

I still do. It still does...

Very sad news - been using vim for decades, still use it every day as pretty much all of my colleagues use VSCode... I met him briefly at FOSDEM 20+ years ago, will have to see if …

This article is a masterpiece of deadpan Nordic understatement! Also a good read...

Location: Leeds, UK Remote: Happily Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python, Django, Flask, Linux, shell, HTML/CSS/JS, SQL, PHP, etc. Resume: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vmlin…

That's exactly what happened to me during lockdown - hired at a bank on a fixed-term contract, purely by phone interview. When I started, they required me to work on-site because I…

And why exactly should we listen to a German when it comes to these things?

SEEKING WORK | HONG KONG (currently) | REMOTE LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vmlinuz/ Experienced engineer, originally from the UK, worked on a large variety of different pr…

I'm quite surprised to see that OpenServer is still on that list, and Solaris isn't ...

While technically my first Linux was a generic boot/root floppy pair in late 1995, my first distro was Slackware in 1996. I've used Red Hat, SuSE, OSX, Solaris, Unixware and (rarel…

Location: Hong Kong Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No (possibly yes, in the medium-to-long term) Technologies: Python (10+ years), Django/Flask, SQL, Linux (25+ years), bash, HTM…

Thanks for this - I've been using it for a while for my and my parents' personal domains and it's been pretty much flawless!

This kind of post is somewhere between depressing and surreal to me. I live a long way outside the US - UTC+8 - and these sort of numbers are utterly unreal for most of the world. …

Location: Hong Kong Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No (possibly yes, in the medium-to-long term) Technologies: Python (10+ years), Django/Flask, SQL, Linux (25+ years), bash, HTM…

I'm a Brit - got a grad job at SCO in 1998, then moved to Sun in 2000 when SCO imploded, then decided to emigrate when Sun started imploding in 2005. I was initially planning to mo…

I know it sounds like a broken MP3, but I don't see "support for Linux on non-servers" on that list of improvements - apparently because they still think only Linux users have larg…

Ok, so I'm going to hijack this slightly... I'm an elderly (mid-40s) non-USian techie, and I've never done Instagram. On Facebook I mostly follow people I've largely lost touch wit…

Of course there are specific niches, but it's pretty easy to answer in general: 'actual professionals' need some combination of two criteria - capacity and reliability/durability/u…

Many, many years ago, I used a custom build of Plucker to build an offline reader for the schedule of a large conference in the UK - to the point of rebuilding the schduule file da…

I started a 6 month contract at A Large Enterprise about 7 weeks ago and it's been intensely wierd. My team is split over two sites (same timezone, different countries) and every s…

To be clear, TikTok and WeChat are quite different 'threats', both real, but it's not clear how dangerous: TikTok is aimed at a wide market, and it's a content app - there are two …

D'oh! I did notice the typo after I'd posted it, but it was too late to do anything about it. Thanks tyrankh and dang :D

I can recommend everyone look at this jobs page, even if you're not interested in applying, for sheer style points!