Dave Aronson

“Someone told me that his name was Tenderlove, Ayayronronron Ayayronron!”

It's at:

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BUT BEWARE, Github (including Pages), where this is hosted, has become VPN-hostile! So if you have trouble getting to it, try turning off your VPN. Sorry!

CfPs (Calls for Papers) closing in 30 days include:

- Python confs in Austr[al]ia and Switzerland
- A JS conf in the Netherlands
- Ruby confs in Kenya and USA
- An FP conf in Spain
- Tech-agnostic confs all over Europe and the USA
- And more

Details in 1st comment (blame algorithm). Pls spread.

Unless you count the makers, especially those who share. I even shared some of mine with Zach and Kelly!

What about mead?! ;-)

Another interesting Wordle pattern today, starting with a lucky guess:

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Today’s #Mead Adventure: Finally racked the acerglyn from primary to cold-crashing, stabilized, back-sweetened with half a cup more syrup, and made up racking losses with another half cup of water. Anticipated SG 1.013, ABV 15.5%. Didn’t start another batch since we’re moving soonish.

Yeah, but generally you want to turn it only in the lat/lon plane (close enough to a plane, locally), not decrease the elevation to below the local surface. ;-)

We broke the monolith into microservices to improve reliability.

Now, instead of one thing failing…

we have twelve things failing in parallel with better metrics.
#GeekHumor #RockYourCode

Sounds like a description of an ignoranus — an ignorant @$$hole

It's at:

www.codosaur.us/speaking/cfp...

CfPs (Calls for Papers) closing in 30 days include:

- Python confs in Austria, Estonia, and Poland
- Ruby in Bulgaria and the UK
- An Erlang/Elixir/BEAM in Sweden
- Tech-agnostic all over Europe and the USA, plus Australia and Mauritius

Details in 1st comment (cuz algorithm). Pls spread.

I stopped posting about my Wordles a while back, but thought I'd share this one for its interesting pattern:

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Always remember to bring flares, jumper cables, and Kleenex!

Looking for FT or contract. LDN based.

I'm a web engineer, front end specialist & tech lead. React focused for a good while but tech agnostic, regularly picking up new frameworks, even languages on the job.

Design background, experienced in backend, DBs, SysAdmin/DevOps. Love TS & TDD.

Hit me up!

PyCon Lithuania (pycon.lt), happening April 8-10 in Vilnius, is looking for more speakers, so they have extended their CfP to Jan 31, at pycon.lt/call-for-pro.... I spoke there in 2024 and had a blast. Tell them I sent you!

By maybe 200%, 300%, who knows, maybe even 500%! ;-)

I would say Pelican but I suspect there would be a snake hiding in it.

Reasonable conclusion, though not well supported by the premise (even though it is largely correct).

Great news, though I might be unable to travel at that time. Are some of those days devoted to Nerves, or workshops, or whatever else, or are those all general conference-talk days?

It's at:

www.codosaur.us/speaking/cfp...

CfPs (Calls for Papers) closing in 30 days include:

- An Elixir conf in Spain
- Ruby/Rails confs in Japan, US, Poland
- Python confs in Italy and India
- Stack-agnostic confs in Chile, all over Europe, US, and New Zealand
- and lots more!

Details in 1st comment (blame algorithm). Pls spread.

In that it’s another chapter in an ongoing novel.

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As of this morning, I am RETIRED! At least, from coding and advice. I will still speak at conferences -- next is Software-Quality-Days.com, but I'll be going light on the speaking and other travel until at least October — due to the other big news, which is MOVING TO PORTO, PORTUGAL, around July!

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

Die Hard is not a Christmas movie — it’s a Chanukah movie! The plot is exactly Chanukah: heavily armed foreign invaders take over a building, and a small under-supplied force sneaks in to get them out. If you need a miracle, surely there are scenes where 1 second's worth of ammo lasts for 8. ;-)

Even if it’s a fancy-shmancy ceramic knife that will shatter when it drops, that’s still cheaper to replace than YOUR FINGERS!

Today's #Mead Adventures:

Blended plain mead with two too-grapey ones, plus some leftover plain. Came out pretty good; might take it to parties tonight. :-)

Also started my first acerglyn: 2.5 cups honey, 2.5 cups maple syrup, 11 cups water, D47. Will let it run dry, and sweeten w/ ~6oz syrup.

On a related note, do you know what a WERE CLAUS is? No that’s not a typo — it’s a fat man in a fur-trimmed red suit, who gives out presents when the moon is full!