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Comment · 1 month ago

  Location: Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: C#, .NET, F#, Odin, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Redis, QEMU, Node.JS, Deno, Podman, jails (FreeBSD), NGINX, Caddy, WebAssembly, Azure infra
  Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rick-s-6103b8136
  Email: [email protected]

My last position was "Software Analyst", which roughly translates to Sofware Engineer II. I took part of many inceptions of applications, ranging from front-end (React, Native React, Flutter) to backend (.NET, Nest.JS, Fastify), working until their very delivery in production. Dealt with on-premise servers based on Windows Server 2008 to deliver a middleware for Point of Sale products (based on SAP, and Oracle's MySQL). I also helped migrating a large amount of data (peta bytes) from Oracle to Azure Cosmos (with PostgreSQL as backend), while keeping backwards compatibility with existing systems -- my biggest, demanding and fun challenge to date, next to working as a consultant (while in Tivit, formerly Lambda3) to implement Bacen's PIX payment method, in 2021, for ABC Bank.

I'm an anonymous person by default, and a bit paranoid about security and privacy; I don't mind giving away public data, such as the above.

I left my previous work to finally read through my backlog of books (which is going great so far, currently reading "Crime and Punishment" and Xenophon's "Anabasis" in German), and to work on my game (I enrolled in a Distance Learning institution, with Digital Games competence); but I think the time has come to look for new challenges.

- https://codeberg.org/RickStanley;

- https://github.com/RickStanley (I erased ~8 years of history when Copilot went live, so this account is just a place holder for future endeavours);

Comment · 2 months ago
So many choices! Emacs-plus from brew, Macports and https://emacsformacosx.com, I wonder how they differ from one another.

As someone who wants vanilla experience, should I get from emacsformacosx.com?

Comment · 2 months ago
Wellp, not for me... Shame, reddit has/had really good answers to a variety of problems that I've had over the years. Not sure if there's a replacement for it, or if there will ever be another.
Comment · 3 months ago
When I go to https://leaks.psylo.app on "Possible IP leaks" side I see only "WebAuthn" with my real IP and, occasionally, WebTransport with an incorrect IP. For "HTTPS Traffic" it always show some other relay. Using Safari 26.5

I'm not sure what would I use WebAuthn for, if ever, maybe I could disable it through "Feature Flags" menu?; regardless, I never treat Apple's services as "premium", since the email fingerprinting thing. I pay mainly for Hide My Email, just to organise things per domain, and it's cheap.

Comment · 3 months ago
On top of that, the seemingly endless remakes... Some are praise worthy others not so much. I got tired of Resident Evil Remakes, they are just recycling the same formula over, and over, and over again... Innovation has left a long time a go. Other example is the recent Assassin's Creed Black Flag "Resync" (which is a remaster with some things on top of it), I was planing on buying it, but Jesus, Ubisoft couldn't let it pass: their launcher is still there, all DLC's together cost more than the base game (and why have DLC in the first place?), the menu is has an ad for Assassin's Creed Shadows which, etc.

I'm currently doing a course (I think it's equivalent to an "Associate degree" in USA) in Game Development. I feel demotivated to take part in this industry, and I think that, at least for me, it should be just on and off gig to do in my spare time, perhaps with other enthusiasts too, but I don't plan to pursue it.

Comment · 4 months ago
Why not both? A small button with "Copy link" text to, well, copy the current URL and another that calls "native" share, if available. I don't find it to be too many options, but I would guess that perhaps "Copy link" would have more clicks than `navigator.share`.
Comment · 4 months ago
I'd also recommend LibreWolf, for those who want a "strict by default" experience and tweak from there.
Comment · 4 months ago
I was wondering if it's possible to have the container volume change to, say, an external drive. I currently use QMEU with qcow2 images to achieve this, works well enough.
Comment · 5 months ago
I've used this a good amount of times, when I coded in front end projects. The first time gave me that satisfying feeling of using the right tool for the job, like completing a puzzle of HTML semantics. I remember JAWS not announcing it correctly in 2018, not sure if it's better now.
Comment · 7 months ago
Put a useless keyboard down there and pretend you are typing with your toes.
Comment · 8 months ago
I have this view as well. After years of Notepad++, the last security problem made me want to switch, not because of just that, but that, overall, since the author has an active voice expressing his political views (which is totally fine), I have this unease feeling that it makes him, and his products, a notorious target.

Searching for alternatives, Textadept seemed to fill the gap between features, speed and simplicity.

The plugin mentioned by the parent is really easy to grasp and tailor to my needs, which would not be the case with Notepad++, well, not for me at least.

Comment · 8 months ago
That is exactly it. Much appreciated.
Comment · 8 months ago
I downloaded it recently and found it to be quite useful for quick notes. And I can attest to its "fast" claim, using it on a heavily monitored corporate computer, with CrowStrike and what-not; curiously, and I may being hyperbolic here, but, I got the feeling that it was opening faster than MS Notepad, even with Copilot disabled.

The only thing missing is for me is the "save temporary file" behavior, as I have this habit of making a quick note, close to save up space, both in RAM and view, then later on, fire it up again. Will see if there's a Lua api for this later.

Comment · 8 months ago
I wonder how Stoat will fare, and how it is currently maintained, in terms of "making money"; my fear is that it would steer into the direction of Discord itself.

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