<div dir="auto">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.</div><div dir="auto">I appreciate any info.</div><div dir="auto">I am currently a moderate to severe special education teacher. Part of what I do is change diapers.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Respectfully,</div><div dir="auto">Elise Scher</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Nov 1, 2023 at 2:49 PM Steve Litt <<a href="mailto:slitt@troubleshooters.com">slitt@troubleshooters.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Nick Moffitt said on Wed, 1 Nov 2023 11:47:35 +0000<br>
<br>
>Well now, I just ended a good long run as a SysAdmin/GSA/SRE/whatever<br>
>they're calling it this week at a major Linux company.<br>
><br>
>I've literally never held another job during the nearly 18 years I've<br>
>lived in the UK, and this is my very first P45 of my entire life.<br>
><br>
>On advice of counsel, they have many fine qualities and I wish them<br>
>well.<br>
><br>
>So what's good in the free software world these days?<br>
<br>
Everything! Free software is a wishing well. But first:<br>
What is a P45? The only P45 I've ever heard of is the Kahr P45 pistol,<br>
and I doubt you meant that.<br>
<br>
Here are some of my perennial free software favorites:<br>
<br>
* Vim<br>
* VimOutliner<br>
* Bluefish (for HTML creation)<br>
* Python<br>
* C (and NOT C++ !)<br>
* Runit (init system the djb way)<br>
* All the GNU utilities<br>
* Inkscape<br>
* Dovecot<br>
* Fetchmail<br>
* Procmail<br>
* Linux and BSD<br>
* The Void Linux distribution<br>
* dmenu<br>
* UMENU<br>
* LXDE, LXQt, and Openbox<br>
* ctwm<br>
* dash for scripts, bash for interactive<br>
* HTML5 plus CSS<br>
* Javascript (That's my story and I'm sticking to it!)<br>
* <br>
<br>
As you can see, a lot of my favorites were around before you went to the<br>
UK. As Rick can tell you, I'm a retro-grouch greybeard stuck in the<br>
past afraid of change curmudgeon and I like it that way :-)<br>
<br>
Here are some of the things that have impressed me lately:<br>
<br>
* Qutebrowser<br>
* Harbour language <br>
* Nginx<br>
* Unbound/NSD<br>
<br>
There are a lot of new computer languages such as Haskell, Go and Rust.<br>
These are extremely promising languages, but they don't match my<br>
skillset because I'm much better with smaller instruction sets, and<br>
also I'm currently not that good with functional programming. I've<br>
investigated them, and you should too, because a lot of people are<br>
having great success with them.<br>
<br>
There are zillions of new web frameworks. I tried Rails for awhile in<br>
2004: Not a fan. Python has Django, Flask and Bottle. Bottle is the<br>
simplest, and it's pretty good, but I've had limited need to create web<br>
apps. Perl has one too, but in my opinion Python, Lua and even Ruby<br>
have surpassed Perl. Perl was great when it had no competition, but<br>
those days are gone.<br>
<br>
>From what I hear, knowledge of the whole virtual<br>
machines/containers/mass-deployers (Ansible, Chef, Jenkins, etc) is<br>
necessary for jobs and contracts in today's software industry.<br>
<br>
Some relatively new softwares I think suck include systemd, pulseaudio,<br>
dbus, and Gnome3.<br>
<br>
SteveT<br>
<br>
Steve Litt <br>
<br>
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