Hi, new followers! For those who don’t know me, I’m a friendly, 43-year-old, dirty-joke-making, gay-married man. I work as a software engineer for Sketch and I’m a general laborer and house boy for 5 cats. I’m also an amateur radio enthusiast (well, enthusiast is a strong word) with an Extra-class license (W4JLN) for extra experimental RF funness.
Hi, new followers! For those who don’t know me, I’m a friendly, 43-year-old, dirty-joke-making, gay-married man. I work as a software engineer for Sketch and I’m a general laborer and house boy for 5 cats. I’m also an amateur radio enthusiast (well, enthusiast is a strong word) with an Extra-class license (W4JLN) for extra experimental RF funness.
Some have asked me if I take donations to cover the cost of this Mastodon instance. I don’t. However, if you’re feeling generous, I guess now’s a good time to ask folks to take a look at my nephew’s call for help and consider donating if you can.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-westley-and-katie-pay-for-expenses
Hi, all - please welcome @keir, a former ADN lurker like me, and current coworker. He’ll fit in with the likes of Steve. 😒
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Many thanks to Hugo ( @mastohost ) for his patience and especially for his swift and masterful handling of our migration, free of charge.
Follow that account for service announcements that affect our community, and keep him in mind if you ever encounter the question, “where to host an instance?” 😋
Hello, all! We're (finally) ready to move to Masto.host!
Tomorrow (Wednesday, January 22nd) starting at 4PM GMT (11AM EST; 8AM PST), Hugo from Masto.host will begin. He anticipates up to an hour of downtime.
Once his part is complete, I need only change a DNS record to point the appdot.net domain to the new instance. The TTL value was set very low more than a week ago, so that change should propagate very quickly.
// @emery
Hi, all! I've started the process of changing the authoritative name servers for the appdot.net domain so it'll have a chance to propagate and have a low time-to-live so when the instance is migrated to Masto.host I can minimize downtime. I don't anticipate a service interruption, but @emery and I will watch it during our waking hours to make sure I haven't screwed up a zone record entry. 😋
We're hiring still at Mozilla!
https://careers.mozilla.org/listings/
This feels squickily like self-promotion (which I hate), but some folks round here might find something interesting there.
I will also mention that we have ongoing efforts to recruit folks who are *not* like me - i.e. straight old cis white guys.
So, if you are *not* like me along any of those axes, I especially encourage you to give it a looksee.
Hey, so, anyone want to work with me? We're hiring a senior software engineer on my team!
👮♂️INSTANCE CURATOR👮♂️ ObjC/Swift appmaker, tech author, cat lover. Gay-married (not to a cat). Northern-aggressing into the South. The power of Swift compiles you! Also, dirty jokes.