Sailor, software engineer, musician, terminally online.

I miss the pre-adtech internet.

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Cake day: June 1st, 2023

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  • I’m a professional, I went to uni where I learned some theoretical computer science as well as to code properly (although I’d been a casual hobbyist a year or so before) and have been in the industry ever since as a software engineer. I’ve always been primarily focussed on the backend but I could keep a postgres database ticking over if push came to shove and I’m currently cross-training to do some operations stuff too as I don’t think I’ve ever worked on a team with enough staff let alone a reasonable bus factor in my life. I’m definitely a startups person too at least for the time being, job security’s been pretty dreadful lately but I’ll take insecure but interesting work over safe and boring for now while I don’t have a house or kids to worry about.

    At the moment I’m working for a medtech company using AI to speed up cancer diagnoses, really cool stuff that I’d probably have palmed off as the press sensationalising things if I hadn’t seen it work first hand.


  • We all have to draw our own lines in the sand on issues like this and I respect yours, I’d argue on the other hand the open-source nature of Lemmy means the author’s politics shouldn’t make a difference to groups like BeeHaw which use it. A good example of this would be TOR which was developed by American naval intelligence of all organisations yet many drug dealers routinely gamble their freedom that it will protect them.

    Also I’d argue as loathesome as your average tankie is (I really can’t stand them at all) they’re still a step up from the literal nonces that inhabited early Reddit.