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EOD

Fri, 03 Feb 2023 16:44:51 -0400

Today’s News

So, another day reaches its end. While I started at a new company on Wednesday, it wasn’t until this morning that I finally could talk with someone of relevance (in this case, the actual mobile tech lead). It seems that the onboarding time for new devs it’s a bit longer, more so around this time of the year, mainly because projects are being delivered and new clients are getting onboard. Also, it’s holiday season down in the Southern Hemisphere, so I guess it’ll kinda chill, at least for a while.

Coding and wotnot

I wish I had a setup like that…

Yesterday I finally managed to set up a bot for my Misskey instance, and today I spent pretty much all day fine tuning it and setting up yet another one. It was an interesting experience, since the script is written in Python, but is far simpler than the one I used for my Pleroma bots, which gave me an opportunity to get more used to the language.

Now, my interest in Python isn’t limited to image bots for fedi instances. I’ve been toying with the idea of developing ~~yet another~~ my own ActivityPub compatible backend, and for the longest time I was considering Kotlin as my main programming language, with Ktor as deelopment framework. The reason? Well, I’m a native Android dev, and I mainly use Kotlin, so I thought it’d be a good idea.

The Five Stages of Whachamacallit

Yeah, right.

Thing is, after reading forums and comments and wotnot, Ktor started to lose that appeal. And while I really like it, and Kotlin too, they don’t quite fulfill my criteria for this endeavor. Things like the ability to execute user-written scripts during runtime or ease of deployment are non-negotiable for me, and neither Kotlin nor Ktor are able to deliver that.

So, my options for programming languages were basically killed because, other than Kotlin, I’ve only worked with Java, C# and PHP. The first two are automatically discarded because they’re inherently similar to Kotlin regarding my criteria, which leaves me only with PHP… which I don’t hate, but I most definitely don’t like.

The List

Ngl, this would be me if I were a teacher…

Thus, my search for another programming language started. I initially considered going the soydev way with TypeScript or some shit like that, but that’d be really masochistic on my side. I know JavaScript but I hate webdev shit (which is one of the reasons I moved to Android). Then I started checking other projects to see what they languages they’re written in.

Elixir? Too esoteric for me, everything looks like a clusterfuck.
Go? It’s nice and fast, but too C-ish for me (can’t undo the OOP damage).
Rust? Too “political” and the learning curve is way too steep.
Ruby? I’m not a manchild with diaper fetish, so, no.
Python? I think it’d be a good option.

tl;dr

Did you know that Kobayashi is actually a developer and uses Python?

So, yeah, short answer to the question no one asked: I’ll use Python for this project. I know jackshit about it besides the little tinkering I’ve done to my bots' code, but out of all the options I’ve considered, is the sanest one, in my opinion. Time will tell if it was a good option or if I should just walk the plank in the end.

Anyways, that’s all.

Adieu!

Last Day of Freedom

Tue, 31 Jan 2023 16:52:19 -0400

Back to being “employed”.

I’ll start working (again) tomorrow. To be quite honest, I took the job out of desperation (again, it was the one with the lowest salary expectation), but given that the process was quite smooth I cannot complain too much (which surprised me, because it’s a freelance/contractor position). My only concern so far is whether I’ll be able to lurk/shitpost on fedi, since I have to use a private VPN to connect to the company’s git instance and Jenkins and wotnot. Like, I know most sysadmins don’t read logs, but browsing on 3 different fedi instances at the time can use a bit of bandwith.

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.

I fucking love this movie.

Like most life events, getting hired again comes with good, bad and ugly things.

The Good is that, while the contract renews on a yearly basis, I can quit at any time without penalties. Aaaaand it has a non-exclusivity clause, so I can take a side-gig to make more munnies (if I have time, that is).

The Bad is that now I have to deal with a lot of unfinished/ongoing recruiting processes, so that’ll be quite uncomfortable (joke’s on them, they’re too damn slow, it’s almost as if they don’t want to hire people or want to hire a cheaper pajeet or nigger).

The Ugly is that I’ll probably have to quit sooner than expected (I initially gave it like 4 months), but since my migration process is speeding up (luckily), it could be 2-3 months tops before crossing the pond (I’m moving to Europe, btw, will write about that later)… Which will suck in my résumé. Not that I should care, it’s a reloc process, I’ll end up working almost immediately after arriving.

rant()

So, here’s today’s rant: a few days ago I listed my PS3 for sale (like, I’m in dire need of money, only a couple of hundred bucks left in my account and almost 3 grand in debts), and some random guy on the page I published the ad tried to buy it, but he looked iffy as fuck. Anyways, I agreed to sell and then he send me his address to send him the PS3 and told me he paid through the page… which is bullshit, that site deactivated the integrated payment years ago. I immediately blocked him on WhatsApp, and reported his account to the site’s personnel, who ended up banning him.

Good thing I didn’t fall for that shit. Guess I better keep my console for when I move out.

That’s all!

Here, some cunny to end this post ;)

Hello World!

Mon, 30 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Yeah, I made a blog. Guess I’ll start writing more frequently and wotnot, mainly about personal projects and random stuff. And… that’s it!