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jonathanmatthews

@jonathanmatthews@fosstodon.org

🌍 A UK-based, fully-remote, multi-hyphenate #Linux #sysadmin|#DevOps|#SRE [he/him].

💰👨‍💼 #TechWriter of docs helping folks grok the awesomeness of #CUE|#cuelang, at https://cuelang.org 😃

🎉 Playing with #plaintextaccounting #i3wm #selfhosting and #degoogle’ing by moving from ChromeOS to something Linuxy.

💬 Very happy to talk about anything, so long as it includes #respect for people and #empathy for folks feelings :-) #nobot

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jonathanmatthews, to random
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I pushed two new (tiny!) today ... which is pretty good for me, being 100% not-an-HTML guy!

They both use @amin's because I absolutely don't understand that stuff but want to have, well, easily readable pages 😃

The first is a starting point that indexes things I have (and will have) written: https://writing.by.jonathanmatthews.com/

Then there's my company / Me site: https://www.jcm-systems.co.uk/

jonathanmatthews, to Cat
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I love Charlie the 's little arm and tucked paws 😻

A ginger and white cat sits on a grey garden chair, eyes closed, facing slightly away from the camera.
A ginger and white cat sits on a grey garden chair, eyes closed, facing mostly towards the camera.
A ginger and white cat sits on a grey garden chair, looking slightly away from the camera.

jamescooke, to random
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Registration for my personal .info domain now costs five times that of our family .uk domain.

I’ve had jamescooke.info since 2003 and mainly used it for hosting email. It seems like it would be annoying to move it to a cheaper .uk domain, but, maybe worth it in the long run 🤔

jonathanmatthews,
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@jamescooke If by any chance you're using Gandi for that domain, do shop around. They put their prices up horribly.

kev, to CASIO
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New watch added to the collection. The AE1500. This thing is HUGE, but super legible.

jonathanmatthews,
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@kev The spec page mentions a countdown timer which "can be set every second". Is it a recurring, count down N seconds and automatically restart timer; or something else?

mforester, to random
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Anybody else using for code reviews?
Most other servers have a repo browser and render markdown. That'd be really helpful for any non-developers, because we try to keep our documentation in Git, but it's a tough ask for any non-developer to learn how to check out a Git repo, just to read the docs.
Is there anything like that out there? I did a quick search for 3rd party tools and plugins, but couldn't find anything. Readonly mirror to e.g. Forgejo would be the last resort.

jonathanmatthews,
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@mforester gerrithub(.io) exclusively supports GitHub auth, so it's usual for a project to have a browsable remote there.
For self-hosted Gerrit (and Gerrithub, IME) I believe there's a repo browser called "Gitiles" which Gerrit integrates with.

jonathanmatthews, to AWS
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Just a brief reminder that every #AWS VM/container/etc you give a public #IPv4 #IP address to now costs you $3.65/month more than in 2023. AWS charges per IP-address per-hour.

jonathanmatthews, to random
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Would anyone care to recommend a CO2 monitor I can prop up next to my desk to remind me when to ventilate?

Bonus marks if it's both powered and portable, so I can occasionally take it to meetings and opt out when things get too muggy. I don't care about recording numbers over time. UK purchase.

Q: it is I want to monitor, both for air quality and as a proxy for the fact that , right??

coldclimate, to random
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Proving my dedication to , I'm throwing away this tin of foie gras, because I'm not longer interested in eating it, and it's over 12 years out of date. And the run is rusty.
Marie Kondo hasn't got shit on me.
I'm taking no questions at this time.

jonathanmatthews,
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@coldclimate Someone in my family just found (and discarded, thank god) a bottle of Calpol-esque medicine in the fridge which had recently expired. In 1982.

janeadams, (edited ) to UI
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My dad is having his first job interview in more than 30 years and hooh boy is there so much knowledge about video calling technology and etiquette that I just took for granted 😳 Like, I can't explain why, but calling into an interview in portrait mode feels so casual / unprofessional... but his computer is so old that the only usable webcam he has is an iPad, and landscape mode on the iPad means it's hard to look into the camera on the side while talking 🙃 Wish him luck!

jonathanmatthews,
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@janeadams Random idea: if he has access to a USB webcam and a USB-to-lightning adapter, he might well find that they Just Work together acceptably ...

jonathanmatthews, to hotsauce
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UK fiends: share your best sources of hot sauces, lime pickles, etc!
I don't know /anything/ about where to get good ones - please enlighten me 😀🥵

jonathanmatthews,
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@Faintdreams Ta! 😀 Is that brand, Dunns River, a good one? Or is it literally that brand that you're recommending?

jonathanmatthews, to animals
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Won't SOMEONE turn the sun off, please?

A close up of a white and ginger cat curled up, covering his eyes with his paw. His mouth and nose are just visible.
A white and ginger cat curled up on an embroidered cushion, covering his eyes with his paw.

jonathanmatthews, to hiking
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Today I went along the 😀 I managed to go 13 miles, though it was a really hard slog at the end!
I went past Wayland's Smithy, Castle, and a LOT of hedgerows ... here's a little thread of photos I took:

  1. Wayland's Smithy

Wayland's Smithy: a large green raised patch of earth (a barrow) under blue skies and white clouds. There is much exposed earth in the foreground, and some standing stones at the left edge of the barrow. Trees surround the structure.
Wayland's Smithy: a large green raised patch of earth (a barrow) under blue skies and white clouds, with a bright sun. There are lots of fallen leaves in the foreground. Trees surround the structure.
Wayland's Smithy: a handful of large standing stones at the entrance to a barrow, under blue skies and white clouds.

jonathanmatthews,
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Some random rolling hills on the way.

A green field under blue skies and white clouds.

jonathanmatthews,
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The view out from, and across, Uffington Castle. White horse not visible!

A panoramic view out from atop a green hill, under blue and white skies.
A large grassy ditch.
A view across countryside, out from a high hill.

jonathanmatthews,
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@coldclimate 13 miles. My feet hurt!!!

jonathanmatthews, to running
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Took my first non-trivial tumble whilst today. Nothing serious - a few scrapes on my forearms and knuckles. Definitely surprised me, though!

jonathanmatthews, to Banking
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If you were a (UK) business with more than 85,000 GBP to stick into savings accounts, how would you handle it?
Related but separate: I vaguely recall a service which keeps an eye on different banks' accounts' rates, and does periodic sweeps to make sure that no single account is outside the coverage limit (of 85k) ... but I can't remember its name 🙄

jonty, to random
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Absolutely losing it after discovering what3words took control of the whatfreewords domain by arguing that "three" and "free" are indistinguishable when spoken.

https://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/search/text.jsp?case=D2019-2439

jonathanmatthews,
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@SamJSharpe @coldclimate @jonty Clearly the site replicating their service should be whatfourwords.tld, with the fourth word being the invariant "bullshit".

jonathanmatthews, to til
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that a "notary public" in the UK (at least) can only notarise documents for use aboard ... they can't notarise docs for one to use in the UK. If, for instance, you want to make a certified copy of a document then you have to use someone else's services, such as a solicitor. (A notary can /also/ be a solicitor, of course).

janeadams, to random
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Eek just FYI because the trailer did not make it at all apparent... The new Mean Girls movie is a musical. A very, very bad one 😣

jonathanmatthews,
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@janeadams Oooh, is that the "twist" the ad mentions?

aronow, to random
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Kind of lonely today, can you show me a picture of your fur babies and tell me their story? :QueerCat:

jonathanmatthews,
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@aronow This is Charlie! He lived most of his 16 years up in Ripon, North Yorkshire, with a friend of our family, Audrey, and his sister, Lola. Audrey passed away in 2022, and our family had promised to look after both Charlie & Lola. Sadly, Lola had to be put down before she reached us, but Charlie came through & has been a friendly and very vocal ray of sunshine in our lives ever since! I'm gently memorialising all 3 in the docs I write for my day job :-) https://alpha.cuelang.org/docs/howto/transform-yaml-with-cue/

A ginger and white cat shows off his tummy, sleeping on a beige mat.
A ginger and white cat sits up straight in a sunbeam.
A ginger and white cat sleeps on a red blanket.

PurpleBooth, to random
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Forgot how much I like this track
https://listen.plex.tv/track/5d07cfa3403c64029020fcea?source=bf045b52de4630b8920d1e81cf58203912154212&key=%2Flibrary%2Fmetadata%2F115780&parentGuid=5d07c17f403c64029084c64b&grandparentGuid=5d07bc0b403c6402904b0e1c&accountID=27174444&username=Billie

jonathanmatthews,
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@PurpleBooth A great track 😀 From their /next/ album, the track "Omen" contains my mandatory walk-on music (if it were ever to happen) for any keynote I deliver:

> Now, the writing's on the wall
> It won't go away
> It's an omen
> You just run on automation

jonathanmatthews,
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@PurpleBooth 💯💯💯

matthewskelton, to devops
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"At the end of the day, only software that works well in Live/Production delivers any user benefit, so attention to operability becomes the foundation for a viable business."

From the upcoming 2024 edition of Team Guide to Software Operability. 📙

https://operabilitybook.com/

jonathanmatthews,
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@matthewskelton So ... I shouldn't buy the 2019 edition?

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