Michael McCune @elmiko@mastodon.technology
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- https://gitlab.com/elmiko
- for work
- https://github.com/elmiko
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open source roustabout and world music lover
"Savor the fruit of life, my young friends. It has a sweet taste when it is fresh from the vine, but don't live too long. The taste turns bitter ... after a time." --Kor, The Dahar Master
Joined Jul 2018
Michael McCune
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I wrote: Printing to an ESC/POS Receipt Printer from Linux - https://famicoman.com/2021/06/07/2021-06-07-printing-to-an-esc-pos-receipt-printer-from-linux/
Michael McCune
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Your important reminder of the day:
"The purpose of the web software industry is to extract value out of Open-Source Software (OSS). [...] Most people in the industry don’t realise that the web dev economy is primarily extractive."
https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2021/the-oss-bubble-and-the-blogging-bubble/
a friend and colleague has been on a #haskell journey for several years now. recently he's had a chance to put some of that experience into his work at $JOB. he wrote a really nice article summarizing some of the practical use cases they've encountered.
https://www.softwarefactory-project.io/practical-haskell-use-cases.html
i feel like there needs to be a gathering named "Hack the Gibson", i would attend XD
Michael McCune
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Howdy Mastodon!
Engineer working for Axiom.co. Previously I worked on Ubuntu Phone and doing multimedia/TV, almost all consumer electronics.
An Open Source advocate and Ubuntu member. Was a co-founder for Inkscape and now serve on its board.
I think that one mistake I made with my Twitter account was making it all technical, expect this to have more politics and other stuff.
@ruivieira after your introduction to https://github.com/facundoolano/rpg-cli , i made a thing https://gitlab.com/elmiko/container-dungeon
XP
"On a personal level, Freaking Out is a process whereby an individual casts off outmoded and restricting standards of thinking, dress, and social etiquette in order to express creatively his relationship to his immediate environment and the social structure as a whole."
Frank Zappa
Michael McCune
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Just so that we all agree: eating two cans of Ben & Jerry's ice cream is a perfectly reasonable reaction to a long and stressful day, right?
QotD:
It's called "bugzilla" not "supportzilla"
Michael McCune
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Such is the life of a hobby project...
Almost 5 years to the day: a 0.1.0 release 😁
RMS / FSF
Red Hat's response to RMS being reinstated on the FSF Board.
if you are looking for something tech related to watch this saturday, the OKD community is hosting a free installation and testing workshop. OKD is the community edition of OpenShift, built on top of Fedora CoreOS. i will have a very small part to play in the day, but it should be fun for all (for a value of fun that includes an interest in distributed systems XD).
more info
https://www.okd.io/blog/2021/03/16/save-the-date-okd-testing-deployment-workshop.html
Michael McCune
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#TIL The Art of Digital Design by David Winkel and Franklin Prosser. If you read and follow the book to the end, you'll have a PDP-8 computer. #retrocomputing #electronics
something that has fascinated me recently is the notion of software development as a lens into absurdist art. i'm still condensing my thoughts, but i've created my first project in my new absurdism phase XD
i present, Camelot, a pure Yaml document server.
Michael McCune
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I'm really surprised no one in the late 20th century made a DOS distribution called ZarDOS, with Sean Connery's Zed as the logo.
Michael McCune
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Every $1 of Bitcoin value responsible for $0.49 in health and climate damages in US - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2214629619302701
Michael McCune
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KawaiiPunk 
Ok not to toot my own horn here but I'm not half decent at music at this point.
i attended the Chaos Carnival last week, here are my thoughts on the conference and some talks:
https://notes.elmiko.dev/2021/02/15/chaos-carnival-2021-debrief.html
i don't care what anyone says, giraffes are pure magic!
- for fun
- https://gitlab.com/elmiko
- for work
- https://github.com/elmiko
- PGP
- 9C1B 3E70 70C7 F900 387C 7C12 A602 DE3D A777 0E9E
open source roustabout and world music lover
"Savor the fruit of life, my young friends. It has a sweet taste when it is fresh from the vine, but don't live too long. The taste turns bitter ... after a time." --Kor, The Dahar Master
Joined Jul 2018
