I'm looking for someone who can provide #resume coaching or resume assistance -- my husband is still stuck in his job search after having to leave his last position due to long covid. He's been in #dataanalytics for over a decade but is getting nothing back on applications so I think we must be doing something wrong. Searching for resume help only gets AI stuff these days, so if any of you have worked with a real person on this and can recommend someone, I'd love to hear from you. #fedihired

I'm looking for someone *experienced* to lead the building of a cybersecurity-focused online learning platform for No Starch Press. I have some ideas but I'm open. Fresh, useful, relevant, and wow are some operative words. Suggestions? Please share!

just typoed "screaming services" instead of "streaming services", and on reflection sometimes the former seems more accurate 😂

Today's rec even though it's not December: having a transformative works permission statement! This will enable things like having your decade-old fics be podficced to happen. Fanbinders also love them!

A 2023 bookbinding retrospective! I actually made more this year than I realized #HydeMakesBooks

happy new year! may 2024 be less miserable than the years leading up to it 😅

UPDATE: Successfully rehomed! Thanks to everyone who boosted / favorited / shared off mastodon. I appreciate everyone’s help in finding a good new home for this beauty.

Does anyone local to #cambridgema or #somervillema have interest in a vintage treadle sewing machine? We don’t have space for it (long story) and I’d love to gift it to someone who would receive joy from it. There’s some water damage and veneer peeling on the surface and it needs a belt. Free but you need to arrange transport, SUV or truck, bring a friend to help lift it. DM me and we can chat logistics.

TIL that the US government runs an official dad joke database 👀

https://fatherhood.gov/for-dads/dad-jokes

infosec best practice in 2023: do not use or install any software

My house isn’t messy, it’s just sorted by Date Last Modified

In order to ward off evil and welcome in good fortune for the new year, since Edo times it has been a tradition to take a yuzu-yu on the Winter Solstice...possibly because the words for 'winter solstice' (冬至) and 'hot-spring cure' (湯治) can both be read as 'tōji'.

#Japan #京都 #Kyoto #冬至 #wintersolstice #capybara #yuzubath #yuzu #柚子

Make Janelle Monae Murderbot, cowards.

#InmanSquare Holiday Market, organized by our friends at #GatherHere, has 50+ vendors, runs sunday from 11-5pm https://gatherhereonline.com/products/inman-square-holiday-market-2023

#Boston #SomervilleMA #CambridgeMA #Crafts #Massachusetts #BostonWeekend (5/x)

There's a point early on in the novel where Xi Ping is profoundly insulted that someone thinks he wouldn't try to protect them if he wasn't in love with them, and I think that's a great picture of who he is. And the novel isn't a romance, but that doesn't stop Xi Ping from having deep, meaningful relationships with several characters, including Zhou Ying, villain-coded but hanging onto his humanity by a thread (and that thread is Xi Ping), who is SUCH a complex, confusing, and feelings-inducing character that I just--anyway.

Also, Tai Sui is about being drafted into the skeleton war.

I've fallen behind on #DecRecs but I really did want to rec Tai Sui so here goes:

Tai Sui, by Priest, is a xianxia novel set in a world on the brink of industrial revolution. It gets called steampunk which I guess isn't wrong, but it's not the "look we have gears on our airships" sort of steampunk, it's more about the societal impact when magic (and the society held up by a few elites) is impacted by a growing technology.

At the same time, the high fantasy pieces of the worldbuilding are really cool too. It will look familiar (if you read cultivation novels) but there are some surprises going on there.

Tai Sui addresses xianxia's class issues head on, and makes you really think about what it would mean to leave the mortal world behind as a cultivator, and what it would mean for the common people left behind, too.

The main character, Xi Ping, is a delight. He's *such* a troll and he never stops being a troll even when things get serious--but at the same time, he cares *so* much.

I may have a speaking opportunity for someone who does innovative work on library instruction: are you (or do you know someone who is): shaking up the world of library instruction? trying new things to involve students more *actively* in learning about information/research/using the library?

This is an event in western MA, but could also be remote. This will be a paid gig, but not high dollars. Still in planning stages, so just looking to recommend names. Please share! #HigherEd #library

Periodic reminder just leaving shit unplugged for hours does fix things. Fucking capacitors/resettable fuses are everywhere and you have to defeat them with waiting it out with ALL POWER REMOVED. Even your USB devices and screens with their own power. No power in contact with anything that’s connected.

Fixed a washing machine like this. Just fixed my motherboard despite me hitting the reset to defaults button AND removing the battery.

Sometimes you got to just give things a time-out in a corner to think about what they did.

There should be a thing where ADHD folks can trade projects once they hit that 80% done wall where it's mostly done, but no longer novel or interesting. It's plenty exciting helping a buddy out with their project, though. So you each get a project to 80%, then trade.

Computers are like onions. Everything is layers built on layers, and every layer makes you cry. #sysadmin