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golang Software Engineer at #couchbase from #manchester with views and hot takes that are very much my own ๐Ÿ”ฅ

Hey people in tech, recently ex-birdsite or otherwise: @bandcamp is currently for multiple positions, more than average for them: https://bandcamp.com/jobs

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Go Style | Google's styleguide for

https://google.github.io/styleguide/go/

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Ben Brooks ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป๐Ÿง™๐Ÿป

I moved to my own instance so another #introduction is in order

Based in the UK (near #Manchester ๐Ÿ), educated in #Aberystwyth #Wales, I'm a #software #engineer hacking on #distributed #systems and #databases in #golang golang since ~2015

I enjoy #photography (#digital and #film) ๐Ÿ“ธ, #diy (mostly house #rennovation) ๐Ÿ› ๏ธ, #greenenergy, #3dprinting ๐Ÿ–จ๏ธ, #drone flying, #gaming ๐ŸŽฎ, #f1, #flightsim, #simracing, oxford commas, and tinkering since my childhood starting with the #amiga 500

Interested in extending my presenece on the #fediverse in many more ways than just #microblogging, hence the fedi subdomain - I plan on using that for some more things in future.
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Ben Brooks ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป๐Ÿง™๐Ÿป

Customer service departments everywhere are breathing a heavy sigh of releif, after realising they won't have to deal with a highly visible and viral public complaint calling out their bullshit in a few months time.

#birdsite #customerservices #complaint
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mping (melody ping) will make an audible ping sound(remove headphones) pitched according to the latency. Ex: mping www.domains.au
mping(){ ping $1|awk -F[=\ ] '/me=/{t=$(NF-1);f=3000-14*log(t^20);c="play -V0 -q -n synth 1 pl " f " vol 1 reverb -w ";print $0;system(c)}';}

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Twitter users are all like โ€œI donโ€™t know if I can trust a bunch of career sysadmins and network engineers to run their own Mastodon instancesโ€ โ€” meanwhile Elon is just running around the Twitter data center going โ€œwhatโ€™s this button do?โ€

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Ben Brooks ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป๐Ÿง™๐Ÿป

Playing around with the akkoma fork of pleroma to get a single-user instance up and running without the bloat of Mastodon.

Bear with me until I work things out, then I'll fully switch accounts.
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