jonathanmatthews

aronow, 4 months ago to random

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

#SitTogether

jonathanmatthews, 6 months ago to devops

Today marks the end of another year for JCM Systems - my 1-man-band #DevOps/#Sysadmin/etc company with the best website that money didn't buy: https://www.jcm-systems.co.uk/

After over a decade of independent, getting-shit-done #operations work, I'm /finally/ in a place where I'm comfortable with what I enjoy; why I'm doing this; and with saying no to the "wrong" kind of gigs.

I'm not actively looking for client work right now, but if you want to Make Opsy Things Better for folks, give me a kick 😀

jonathanmatthews, 9 months ago to Cat

I came,
I saw,
I conquered (the food bowl).

Charlie the #cat wishes all his subjects a fine and noble #caturday, and implores you to remember: felix cattus, beatam vitam.

jonathanmatthews, 1 month ago to AWS

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, 10 months ago to animals

Charlie is adorable. That is all.
#catsofmastodon #cat #cats #CatsOfFosstodon

A ginger and white cat sleeps on a white cushion on a dark cyan chair. His paws are adorable here as well.
A ginger and white cat sleeps, flopped on a white cushion on a dark cyan chair. He is adorable.

jonathanmatthews, 9 months ago to AWS

Does anyone know (or could point to) the theoretical or practical limit on the number of deployed #AWS #Lambda functions that an account can contain? I can't see the question answered anywhere.

Not concurrent executions; not provisioned capacity; not create-function-requests-per-second; not function versions ... but the number of uniquely named functions that can be deployed, possibly sitting unused, ready to be invoked, in an AWS account ... 🤔 #serverless

jonathanmatthews, 8 months ago to random

A question for any #sourcehut users who submit builds to the builds.sr.ht service via its git.sr.ht integration (https://man.sr.ht/builds.sr.ht/#gitsrht): are there any tricks to having a persistent main branch .build.yml file in place, whilst trying to minimise the load on the build service?

I know about git push -o skip-ci, but I'm definitely not going to remember to do that on every push to (or config of) each non-build-worthy branch.

Any ideas/tricks/etc?

jonathanmatthews, 3 months ago to Banking

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 #FSCS coverage limit (of 85k) ... but I can't remember its name 🙄 #UkBusiness #Banking #FinancialServicesCompensationScheme #Interest #BusinessBanking #UK #AskFedi #Business #Savings

jonathanmatthews, 5 months ago to Excel

Here's a #spreadsheet question: what #calculation-based "stuff" do you do with spreadsheets, outside the realm of grid-based tasks (eg a multiplication table) or texty lists (eg a todo list) or things producing graphs?

I'm interested in anything with a series of calculations that's /not/ a big grid!

Some of my ideas include calculating:

• salary/tax/take-home pay
• budgets
• expenses

... but I'm being very money-centric! What else can you suggest? #PleaseBoost! #LibreOffice #Excel #Sheets

jonathanmatthews, 5 months ago to random

THE MINCE PIES WILL CONTINUE UNTIL MORALE IMPROVES.

jonathanmatthews, 1 year ago to random

The few times I’ve used #Hugo the #StaticSiteGenerator I’ve rapidly become bogged down in off-putting low level detail. I just want to write words, select a theme, run a command, and push the resulting nice-looking site!
What #StaticSiteGenerators can I check out that would give me a closer-to-hosted-Wordpress level of “choose theme; type words; have website” initial effort (even if that absolutely implies a low degree of customisation/flexibility)? #SSG #Websites

jonathanmatthews, 3 months ago to running

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

jonathanmatthews, 3 months ago to animals

Won't SOMEONE turn the sun off, please? #CatsOfMastodon

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, 1 month ago to random

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 #CO2 I want to monitor, both for air quality and as a proxy for the fact that #COVIDisAirborne, right?? #AirQuality #AskFedi #lazyweb

jonathanmatthews, 6 months ago to Cat

Charlie the #cat found a sunbeam. #CatsOfMastodon

A ginger and white cat sits on a white cushion on an orange-backed chair, in the winter sunshine. His eyes are closed.

jonathanmatthews, 1 month ago to Cat

I love Charlie the #cat's little arm and tucked paws 😻 #Caturday #Cats #CatsOfMastodon

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.

jonathanmatthews, 7 days ago to random

The official #ukpol GE hashtag has got to be #ThingsCanOnlyGetWetter amirite?

jonathanmatthews, 1 year ago to random

Today I walked a round trip of 13km: up Shotover hill, down into Wheatley for a coffee, up past Wheatley windmill and down into Horspath. I peeked though the windows of the primary school that I last attended a third of a dang century ago, and went back up and over Shotover country park. It was a fantastic hike, made even better by the wood absolutely bursting with bluebells! #Headington #Oxford #Shotover #Wheatley #Horspath #hiking #walking #bluebells #woods #nature #forest

A woodland scene with bluebells all around.
A woodland scene with bluebells all around.
A woodland scene with bluebells all around.

jonathanmatthews, 8 months ago to animals

This little sod spent 2 hours away outside this evening, never once coming back to the shake of a Dreamies tin. Worried me something dreadful. He's lucky he's adorable, or we'd be having words. #CatsOfMastodon

jonathanmatthews, 9 months ago to Cat

Charlie the #cat found his happy place this afternoon … entirely coincidentally on the heated mat I turned back on for a few hours … #Caturday (almost!) #CatsOfMastodon

A white and ginger cat lies sprawled out on a red blanket, on some black plastic shelves.

parcifal, 5 months ago to random

Hello! 👋

What is the best way to clean up local git branches? 😵 I have a bad habit of not removing them after they are merged and now have tons of branches floating around I will never use again.

Is there some git wizardry I can use?

#code #git

coldclimate, 5 months ago to random

After five minutes browsing Just fans I really don't get the fuss https://www.justfans.co.uk/

jonathanmatthews, 2 days ago to email

Current status: cup of tea in the garden. Reading a 2007 book I bought in 2012, about some software first released in 1995 handling a 1981 protocol that I'm going to use as the cornerstone of my teeny tiny SaaS in 2024.

May we all have such a long-term effect on the world!

#Email #SMTP #SaaS #bootstrapping #softwaredevelopment #sysadmin

jonathanmatthews, 1 day ago to random

I just got served an (anti-Labour) UK political ad on YouTube - that's illegal, innit? Genuine question.

jonathanmatthews, 2 days ago to random

Well done, Siri. Top notch "AI"ing.