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Justin Mason

jmason@mastodon.ie

<p>Dublin-based software engineer; linkblog at <a href="https://jmason.ie/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">jmason.ie/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> .<br />Also on BlueSky at <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/jmason.org" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">bsky.app/profile/jmason.org</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> . Been on the internet far too long.</p><p>Works at NewsWhip, used to work at Swrve, Amazon and on SpamAssassin, nowadays mostly just being a dad in Dublin.</p><p>Opinions my own; toots are searchable</p>

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  • Post #1855460

    Ads! in my syslog! &amp;quot;2026-05-01T09:53:34.048233+00:00 potato 50-motd-news[2376672]: * Strictly confined Kubernetes makes edge and IoT secure. Learn how MicroK8s 2026-05-01T09:53:34.048341+00:00 potato 50-motd-news[2376672]: just raised the bar for easy, resilient and secure K8s cluster deployment. 2026-05-01T09:53:34.048383+00:00 potato 50-motd-news[2376672]: https ://ubuntu.com/engage/secure-kubernetes-at-the-edge&amp;quot; I need to get off Ubuntu 🤮

  • Post #1598316

    Happy 25th birthday to SpamAssassin! The first commit was made to CVS back on this day, 25 years ago: https://github.com/apache/spamassassin/commit/ba0548fa2d1fce1051d6303e2d425340f8f4d2f7

  • Post #1425104

    simonw: &amp;quot;After many years in the microservice mines I came to the conclusion that I value SQL joins a whole lot more than I value independently scalable encapsulated data stores.&amp;quot; 100% this. I think the &amp;quot;independently scalable encapsulated data stores&amp;quot; might be the worst bit of the Microservices Dogma

  • Post #889873

    Hey folks, let me know if https://fediverse.jmason.ie/jmason_links , @jmason_links , works and can be followed and unfollowed successfully -- I&amp;#39;ve switched it over to https://gitlab.com/edent/activity-bot/ (thanks @Edent !)

  • Post #99834

    Oh crap. Gmail is deprecating support for picking up mail from a remote server using POP3 polling in January 😭 Given that I switched to this mode due to reliability problems with direct delivery via mail forwarding, this really sucks...

  • Post #99833

    @nelson@tech.lgbt I know! It had a very elderly no-js-just-html UI flow; I wouldn&#39;t be surprised if some kind of UI related dependency deprecation drove this