Boston Perl Mongers monthly tech&social virtual meeting, Tuesday 11/11 7.30ish EST 🇺🇸
#perl #Perl5
https://mobilizon.us/events/6fa436f6-c53a-4a5d-a6bc-d8a753ff9815
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> Unfortunately, after careful consideration, we've decided to move
forward with other candidates who more closely match our requirements for
this role
How I resent this idiotic piece of text, which is put into every damn rejection mail I receive since a year. More than 100 job applications sent out and no damn job afterwards. For fucks sake I was a senior #developer, a master of #ruby who did the last two years at the job #elixir and guess what did all the other #web backend related bullshit. Like administering #postgresql doing the schema, designing the whole architecture of a legacy backend system written in ruby, writing backends, frontends with #javascript and guess what nothing.
I maintained so called #microservices on #linux with fucking #docker which ran on #openshift or in the pedestrian terms "#kubernetes". Nothing!
I started into being a #software #developer through the damn #hacker scene and was a "founding member" (whatever that means) of a #hackerspace out of which I was kicked out and still suffering the emotional scars. But yeah, fuck that I see. And probably I'm at fault 100% because that's what this shitty #shame based society wants to tell everybody.
In my free-time I dabbled with #lisp #smalltalk and #cpp and #clang and #perl and I wrote #python a little for money too and for extending a little #django app at a hackerspace. Yeah, sure this is also worth nothing.
I tried to do #freelancing for 6 months, but guess what the current project market in #europe is shit and therefore nothing on the table for me either. While I find thousands of dimwits on reddits and everywhere, who are telling me that "I'm not an entrepreneur" or that "I deserve X", because they simply don't like what I write or my face.
Yeah sure, I'm 39 and I have no idea to go to, no damn #community and for fucks sake seem to be now going to join team long-term unemployed... because... yeah absolutely no damn fucking idea why I'm in this mess. What I'm supposed to do and obviously nobody fucking cares anyway.
I once dreamed of being "my own man", being that independent developer, coding happy #foss projects and contributing to #opensource and getting paid for that. But no. World says no to that. World says "go and die".
To generate background color (for "xterm(1)"), I use the #Perl (was 5.3[68]; is 5.40) program on #FreeBSD (was 13; is 14) …
use strict; use warnings;
my @red = qw[ 05 15 20 25 30 ];
my @green = qw[ 00 05 10 15 ];
my @blue = qw[ 00 10 15 16 ];
print join( q[/],
$red[ rand @red ],
$green[ rand @green ],
$blue[ rand @blue ]
);
Rarely the FIRST time is the color other than same shade of brown. Because "@red" is longer? Some initial state?
Edited 231d ago
I’m looking for work as a senior software #developer. I have a full-stack #WebDev cert, 16+ years #Perl back-end experience, proficiency in multiple other #programming languages.
Databases? Sure, relational *and* NoSQL. CI/CD? Have done, want to do more. I like working with others, either here in #Houston or remotely across the US.
I’ve been hacking code since the #Commodore PET days. I can certainly delight your customers, whatever your stack.
More here: https://LinkedIn.com/in/mjgardner
Edited 355d ago
Just a reminder, all you have to do to get your Perl #programming posts to appear on the @surf custom feed I created is hashtag them with #Perl
https://surf.social/feed/surf%2Fcustom%2F01jh1482ss1117pgvtx8y4np10
/ @perl
Edited 353d ago
Boston Perl Mongers monthly tech&social virtual meeting, Tuesday 7.30ish EDT 🇺🇸
#perl #Perl5
https://mobilizon.us/events/af38f653-a726-47a9-a300-ea0e3966c0da
#Perl: older than some #programming careers, younger at heart than you think.
It’s evolved a lot since 1999 — modern features, cleaner syntax — yet it still runs code you wrote decades ago.
(And if you’re wondering: #Perl6 was renamed Raku in 2019 — it’s a sister language, not a successor.)
Curious? Returning after a long break? @shiar’s cheat sheet is a perfect quick‑scan: https://sheet.shiar.nl/perl
#coding #SoftwareDevelopment #SoftwareEngineering #RakuLang #Perl5
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👋 Hi, I’m Mark — welcome! This is my #introduction.
I share a mix of #philosophy (#Objectivism), #Perl coding, and the occasional nonsense. You might also see #ballroom #dance, #cosplay, and #music on #BassGuitar — sometimes all in the same week.
For a great starting point on Rand, try _The #AynRand Reader_: https://aynrand.org/novels/the-ayn-rand-reader/
You’ll find me every year at at #DragonCon in #Atlanta, plus #DeltaHCon and #Comicpalooza here in #Houston.
Glad you’re here — pull up a chair.
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