Kevin Wallace @kevinja@octodon.social
Software engineer by day, sporadic spewer of words by evening. Author groupie. Proponent of living beings. May do something awesome one day.
he/him/doofus
#introduction
Hello, Octodon!
I am also @kevinja. I created an account here because the Shop is very writer-y and I wish to spare them from my more obscure geekery.
I'm a #software #dev by day (#java [i know, eww...], #angular, #python, just enough #infosec knowledge to be dangerous). I do some #scifi and #fantasy #writing when I can. I even make #music some, but I'm better at consuming and mimicking it.
Gray- #asexual / #aro, but I don't generally define myself by what's not important to me.
#PasswordBooks are a bad idea right? RIGHT?! Well...I'm not so sure.
If there's one lesson I've learned from working on this demon-haunted codebase, it's *don't* modernize your tooling unless you're actually prepared to commit to hunting down and completely decommissioning whatever you're replacing.
Also, really genuinely consider whether you need a tool to generate a config file from your codebase, or whether maaaaaybe it will actually be easier in the longrun to just maintain a config file.
We have a problem Houston.
"In a country where public education is cruelly underfunded, there’s no mystery as to why teachers and districts are drawn to #Google's cheap, often free, #education technology and curriculum, but there needs to be an honest reckoning of its real price tag and robust public discussion about whether that is a cost worth paying."
https://theoutline.com/post/4436/google-classroom-education-free-software-children-school-tech
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Can someone explain to me *why* we can perceive emotion in music? It's all kind of magical to me how music really is a universal language. (Erm, it is, right?) We can all recognise a happy tune, a tense tune, an aggressive one, and perhaps a contemplative or serene tune.
Why is that?
vi vi vi
the editor of the beast
vi vi vi
the one for you and me
When your fancy PC doesn’t have the right slot...
Reading an article on your phone in 2018 …
http://www.commitstrip.com/en/2018/04/30/reading-an-article-on-your-phone-in-2018/
Tax wealth, not wages.
So... what are they trying to say? Do they know something I don't know?
I wrote a small thing on Janelle Monáe's #dirtycomputer and concept art:
https://www.kevinja.com/dirty-computer.html
I'm a sucker for this sort of thing, especially dystopians. If you have an hour to watch it, it's worth your time.
Our shop was mandated to go SSL-only for our web traffic by upper management. So, our ops guys just shut off port 80 with no redirect when they implemented it.
Now, it takes a timeout to realize that our already slow web traffic isn't coming because I forgot the https:// in front.
When it does load, we get warnings because all the certs are self-signed, and don't match the wildcards.
I feel more secure now. :)
I'm sure this is fine, and that this startup out of the UAE will only do responsible and philanthropic things with these zero-days that they're paying seven figures for.
#introduction
Hello, Octodon!
I am also @kevinja. I created an account here because the Shop is very writer-y and I wish to spare them from my more obscure geekery.
I'm a #software #dev by day (#java [i know, eww...], #angular, #python, just enough #infosec knowledge to be dangerous). I do some #scifi and #fantasy #writing when I can. I even make #music some, but I'm better at consuming and mimicking it.
Gray- #asexual / #aro, but I don't generally define myself by what's not important to me.
