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15 years at one desk. I thought I was part of the infrastructure. Turns out, I was just a line item in a spreadsheet.

I’m not bitter, I’m just... recalibrating.
To my fellow grey-beards on Mastodon: How do you keep your edge when your daily job is maintaining 10-year-old monoliths?
I'm currently practicing with a System Design simulator just to see if my brain still works. It's humbling.

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Hello Fediverse! 👋

I'm an Ex-Architect currently diving deep into the world of Distributed Systems. I have a passion for understanding how complex systems work and fail.

In my spare time, I build simulators for fun. Looking forward to connecting with others interested in system design and simulation!

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Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types (CRDTs): Convergence Without Coordination

https://read.thecoder.cafe/p/crdt

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Why We're Building Stategraph: Terraform State as a Distributed Systems Problem

https://stategraph.dev/blog/why-stategraph/

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Hi y'all, this has become a bit more important now. I learned this week that my current contract will not be renewed for funding reasons. Please see the quoted post for more info! ​:boost:​

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RE: https://transfem.social/notes/a4imho4jra5v01up

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هلا بكم
? Umm I'm a middle aged cis gay man. I am very boring. Occasionally I play with old tech. My garage has multiple rs232 drops. I wear fierce eyeshadow for c-level meetings. Sometimes I build things and sometimes they summon long slumbering eldritch horrors (especially true on 32-bit sparc).

Some more info: I'm in an open relationship. I live with my partner, our boyfriend and our dog, who is named beefy, which is short for Beef Wellington. He's a velvet hippo (American bully) and the bestest boy. My favorite computer is a Sparc LX because it got me into but my microVAX II is a close second. I am in many places and have quite a bit of ink. My are all themed to the convergence of nature and technology.

I didn't realize how useful hashtags are for interests / about so here are things that tickle my brainstuff: