Anthony Martinez @ajmartinez@librem.one

@kyle fortunately we’ve been on the web since it was but a wee series of tubes. I’m sure we can find whatever exists as prior art, and I also think it would be super fun to make a mechanical cipher machine even if it has to be designed first.

@kyle looks cool, I’ll give it a go and let you know what I think.

@kyle let’s make one then!

@Gina I was expecting Good Morning *in* Dutch 😂

Need to reboot my brain after my vacation I think 🤔

Honeymoon complete. Back to NL now for a few more weeks before we move back home to TX.

@Gina Pulau Sibu comes to mind from the ancient depths of my memory. While you’re over there maybe go climb Kinabalu, I never got to but if I ever go back it’s on my to-do list for sure!

@Gina there’s some lovely smaller islands in Malaysia between Bangkok and Bali you might enjoy on the SE Asian branch of your travels. Enjoy the break!

I heard FB was down for a long time from friends on IRC and Matrix. Even my wife didn’t really notice because we were busy hiking around the Scottish highlands all day. Perhaps if the outage resulted in an increase in quality of life it’s wise to just stay off those platforms entirely…

Always perplexed by “director of security” folks who shoot off emails that this request was blocked by me personally for its dependencies on Open Source tooling, only to follow up with a list of Enterprise Solutions that are Open Source Inside through and through.

@Gina and brown people and public health and infrastructure maintenance and the environment!

But petrol is dead cheap and much of the country is uninhabited so you can keep far away from people. Eventually we will move to somewhere less outwardly reprehensible, but having lived all over the world I can promise you codified idiocy exists wherever there humans.

@Gina ps we leave late Nov so if you wish to join us in a warm place for the winter 😂😂😂

@Gina loads to be made consulting. You mentioned product owner roles before. I can promise you there are billions of wasted dollars being paid to utterly incompetent product owners and managers. Large companies then find a need to hire an external consultant to figure out where the product has gone wrong. Hundreds of hours then able to be billed for a report that boils down to fire the whole management team! Get in on that!

@doenietzomoeilijk thanks mate!

Done did the deed. The weather was typical Scottish fall weather though the rains cleared for a few minutes just in time. Had a lovely wedding with a few of my closest friends and family. Now for a honeymoon in the Highlands.

Off to Scotland to get hitched.

@Gina lmk if there’s anything I can do to help, and good luck!

About six months ago I reserved a crate name for a job execution framework in Rust. Over the last three weeks I've managed to cut away a little time and actually get an initial release cut. There is undoubtedly work yet to be done, and there's plenty of room to grow but this project has given me a lot of opportunities to learn Rust even better.

https://crates.io/crates/rtj

@kyle probably the easiest path indeed, but given the common thread through which we met I would wager few who have met either of us ever expect the easiest path to be the chosen one!

@kyle when I’m back stateside let’s sync on this. See if I can use my actual degree to get this machine running again. It’d be nice to a) help you out, and b) exercise the machine design parts of my brain.