[conspire] I am the very model of a Scary Devil Monastery

[Elise Scher]

If I might ask please, how might I get a job in tech, after my teaching
contract is over in June? Way back when, I was a computer programmer
analyst on legacy systems. Mostly in cobol. For over 16 years.
I appreciate any info.
I am currently a moderate to severe special education teacher. Part of what
I do is change diapers.

Respectfully,
Elise Scher

On Wed, Nov 1, 2023 at 2:49 PM Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com> wrote:

> Nick Moffitt said on Wed, 1 Nov 2023 11:47:35 +0000
>
> >Well now, I just ended a good long run as a SysAdmin/GSA/SRE/whatever
> >they're calling it this week at a major Linux company.
> >
> >I've literally never held another job during the nearly 18 years I've
> >lived in the UK, and this is my very first P45 of my entire life.
> >
> >On advice of counsel, they have many fine qualities and I wish them
> >well.
> >
> >So what's good in the free software world these days?
>
> Everything! Free software is a wishing well. But first:
> What is a P45? The only P45 I've ever heard of is the Kahr P45 pistol,
> and I doubt you meant that.
>
> Here are some of my perennial free software favorites:
>
> * Vim
> * VimOutliner
> * Bluefish (for HTML creation)
> * Python
> * C (and NOT C++ !)
> * Runit (init system the djb way)
> * All the GNU utilities
> * Inkscape
> * Dovecot
> * Fetchmail
> * Procmail
> * Linux and BSD
> * The Void Linux distribution
> * dmenu
> * UMENU
> * LXDE, LXQt, and Openbox
> * ctwm
> * dash for scripts, bash for interactive
> * HTML5 plus CSS
> * Javascript (That's my story and I'm sticking to it!)
> *
>
> As you can see, a lot of my favorites were around before you went to the
> UK. As Rick can tell you, I'm a retro-grouch greybeard stuck in the
> past afraid of change curmudgeon and I like it that way :-)
>
> Here are some of the things that have impressed me lately:
>
> * Qutebrowser
> * Harbour language
> * Nginx
> * Unbound/NSD
>
> There are a lot of new computer languages such as Haskell, Go and Rust.
> These are extremely promising languages, but they don't match my
> skillset because I'm much better with smaller instruction sets, and
> also I'm currently not that good with functional programming. I've
> investigated them, and you should too, because a lot of people are
> having great success with them.
>
> There are zillions of new web frameworks. I tried Rails for awhile in
> 2004: Not a fan. Python has Django, Flask and Bottle. Bottle is the
> simplest, and it's pretty good, but I've had limited need to create web
> apps. Perl has one too, but in my opinion Python, Lua and even Ruby
> have surpassed Perl. Perl was great when it had no competition, but
> those days are gone.
>
> From what I hear, knowledge of the whole virtual
> machines/containers/mass-deployers (Ansible, Chef, Jenkins, etc) is
> necessary for jobs and contracts in today's software industry.
>
> Some relatively new softwares I think suck include systemd, pulseaudio,
> dbus, and Gnome3.
>
> SteveT
>
> Steve Litt
>
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