pleia2

pleia2, 2 hours ago to random

The boys and I picked up my BART number plate at Lake Merritt yesterday. These were taken from the old BART cars that were recently retired from service.

I'm glad @foo warned me it would be dirty. The back still needs a couple passes with a wire brush, but it's still glorious 😍

pleia2, 2 days ago to random

"What did you do for mother's day?"

"We went to a train museum!"

"The boys must have LOVED that! But what did you do for you?"

Tell me you don't know me, without telling me you don't know me 😅 😍 🚂

pleia2, 8 days ago to random

Most of my work is so detatched from hands-on development these days I kinda feel like I'm goofing off at work when I spend all morning reviewing PRs on GitHub 😂

But this IS part of my job. No goofing! It just happens to be fun and particularly satisfying!

pleia2, 13 days ago to random

Our oldest (5 yo) is now interested in putting together big Lego kits with me.

I've been waiting for this moment forever 🥹💕

pleia2, 15 days ago to Trains

Legacy BART Train Number Plates are back in stock 😍

So I finally ordered one!

https://www.railgoods.com/bart-legacy-train-number-plate.html

Along with the new BRIO-compatible legacy fleet trio of trains, to go with the rest of our collection #trains #bart

pleia2, 15 days ago to random

Regular reminder that Apple makes interacting with their products hell if you don't own an Apple device (we got a free Apple TV subscription through a promotion, but mostly it's just been infuriating to try to use).

pleia2, 26 days ago to random

Our Open #Mainframe Project the Software Discovery Tool is part of the @linuxfoundation Mentorship Program from June-August again this year.

We're lucky to have two past students now part of our Technical Steering Committee (TSC), and another who will be helping out with the mentorship this summer 🎉

Application: https://mentorship.lfx.linuxfoundation.org/project/ea44ab21-8b14-4d17-91de-d7a8724483f8

Eligibility requirements: https://docs.linuxfoundation.org/lfx/mentorship/mentees

pleia2, 1 month ago to random

It makes total sense (securing data is critical) but it's still funny to me that several of the key players in the Quantum Safe space are also the ones building the #quantum computers 😁 #OSSummit

pleia2, 1 month ago to debian

Some have rolled their eyes at the "paranoid" requirement from the #Debian community of in-person gpg key signing as a step to become a Debian developer, and it's often been a real barrier.

But I'm reminded of it at the #OSSummit keynote today as the #Linux Foundation's Jim Zemlin talks about the xz vulnerability and identity verification of developers.

It was never paranoia. It doesn't solve everything, and people can still be dishonest, but it was never excessive paranoia.

pleia2, 1 month ago to random

The @chaoss project is one that I've loosely followed, but haven't been able to carve out time for (yet!) so I'm really glad I could spend the afternoon with them here at #OSSummit

Lots of good discussions and project updates, along with seeing several folks who I've enjoyed catching up with 🤗

And if you're curious: https://chaoss.community/ #chaoss

pleia2, 1 month ago to random

Attending #CPOSC and why you should go to small, regional conferences: "CPOSC 2024" https://princessleia.com/journal/2024/04/cposc-2024/

pleia2, 1 month ago to random

On April 7, 1964 the IBM System/360 was launched, 60 years ago today!

On Thursday I was able to head up to the Poughkeepsie, NY site where much of the work and ultimately the launch actually happened.

The IBM Corporate Archives put together some great displays for the internal event, including pulling out the scale models, and then I got to finally meet several folks in person as we celebrated the to the next 60 years of this legendary architecture 🤩

pleia2 standing next to the internals of an IBM System/360 while wearing an IBM System/360 t-shirt.
IBM System/360 miniature models.

pleia2, 1 month ago to random

Just gave my talk at #CPOSC ! 🐧🎉

Slides (PDF): https://princessleia.com/presentations/2024/Will_your_open_source_project_run_on_a_mainframe_Or_on_a_smartwatch_-_CPOSC_2024.pdf #IBMZ #ARM #RISCV #OpenPower #IBMPower

pleia2, 1 month ago to Matrix

If I install a text-based #Matrix client to run under screen, am I doing it wrong? 😅

Truthfully, I'm still clinging to IRC.

The fragmentation between all the graphical clients on Slack, Mattermost, and Discord means I don't regularly log into any of them, and I don't know what do do about this.

What are you doing, dear :mastodon: pals?

pleia2, 2 months ago to random

I got to have a lovely chat about mainframes with one of my heroes this afternoon, the great Jon "maddog" Hall 🤩 #scale21x

pleia2, 2 months ago to random

I joke about having a #mainframe at home, but Tommy Chang actually has one! Well, actually, he has an IBM z9 and S/390 Multiprise 3000.

We got to meet and have a great chat this afternoon! #scale21x

pleia2, 2 months ago to random

Mainframe Skills Council!

https://newsroom.ibm.com/IBM-Mainframe-Skills

This is kind of a big deal, and the idea has been floating around for a while.

As much as we joke, #mainframes are still all over the place, and though we're doing everything we can to make using them easier to use (and succeeding!) they operate quite a bit differently than how many folks are used to working with a server. Making sure the opportunity to skill up is made easy and discoverable is incredibly important.

pleia2, 2 months ago to random

"I didn't even know I could see BART trains going by from the family room when we bought the house!"

"Sure, Lyz."

😂😂😂

But honestly, I knew the BART station was just a couple blocks away and that was plenty. If I had known about the view I would have been a total wreck during negotiations 😅

(well, more than I was, buying houses sucks)

pleia2, 2 months ago to random

Spent 2 days mindlessly adjusting the wire on my mouse because I thought being tangled up somewhere was the reason it was being weird and jumpy, because that usually helps.

It finally dawned on me that it might just be dying.

Another mouse works fine.

But I liked my old mouse, it was just a basic Microsoft X802382 but it was perfect, I don't want to go mouse shopping 😭 🖱️

eBay 🤔

pleia2, 2 months ago to random

I love libraries.

But I also love hoarding books that are mine, precious.

And I have the disposable income that I want to funnel towards supporting human authors.

So sometimes I test drive books at the library by checking them out, and then buy them from my local bookshop halfway through.

pleia2, 2 months ago to random

One of my favorite things about working in the #mainframe community is the wealth of experience and different perspectives to things that us Linux distributed folks have taken for granted for...ever.

Want using man pages to be made easier? Lionel Dyck used Charm's gum tooling to do just that. Behold, Mantastic! ✨📚

His examples are on a shell on z/OS, but I played with it on Debian too.

https://openmainframeproject.org/blog/mantastic-improved-access-to-man-pages/