Dave Aronson

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!

@kenjennings.bsky.social Re tonight's show, I'm in the "Die Hard is NOT a Christmas move" camp. It's . . . a CHANUKAH movie! Think about it -- foreign invaders take over a building, and a small poorly armed force sneaks in and gets rid of them. That's exactly Chanukah!

Um galão, dois galões, três galoshes. :-)

The Bitcher? Seems like many people could do that. Gary Bernhardt might already qualify as Watman.

Public Notice: If you tag-spam me, I block you, and you create new accounts that again like all my posts, I’ll assume it’s a bot and the likes are spam, and again report and block you. Yes YOU, “Mahmoud”! Spammers deserve only a little more mercy than terrorists; even if you’re not B you’re still A.

An easily affordable level of lower play is okay IMHO. I play a little bit when the jackpots are big enough that the expected outcome is positive. (Yes I know the chances are still very slim, but I view it as a small entertainment expense.)

Em dashes? Must be AI! 🙄

That’s why they had to pretend that Die Hard is a Christmas movie, when it’s quite clearly actually a Chanukkah movie. :-)

Will you just FUCK OFF AND DIE IN A FIRE already you goddamn spammer! I am going to report and block your latest sock puppet account!

And quantity.

Public Notice:

If I don’t know you, and you tag me in a post asking for money, I will ass-u-me it’s spam, report it as such, and block you.

Okay. I wish you enough success that you can commit to speaker airfare and lodging in the future! :-)