SirWumpus 🍁⚔️ 🛡️
sirwumpus@tilde.zone
<p>Programmer; poet; runner; cook; seeker of truth, love, and the arcane. IOCCC Winner, Go (the game), Elite Dangerous CMDR, Nuclear Option (the game, not RL). Developer of BarricadeMX (anti-spam) and Post4 (Forth 2019 interpreter). BSD aficionado 🤗</p>
Posts
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Post #3569421
Welcome to the on going saga of our Hero's quest to find employment as a (backend) Software Developer. At this moment our Hero contemplates navel lint his dire plight. He scans the online landscape and job boards for signs of employers. He can wield #C with extreme delicacy & finesse; compose functional code of #Erlang; use #Java, #Javascript, #NodeJS adeptly. Even understand the arcana of #Forth and has constructed a #RabbitMQ cluster with careful planning. Yet our intrepid Hero is...
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Post #2460875
Message in a barrel time (bottles clearly not working) #GetFediHired #jobsearch #needwork. Starting to really freak out - in search for software developer work in the #Ottawa #Montreal areas; preferably remote. #C #C# #Erlang #Java #NodeJS #Forth #Shell #SQL #BSD #Linux #English #French and more. Very versatile, adaptable, experienced. I cook too; every office should have someone who can make Neapolitan style #pizzas for team lunches &amp; parties.
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Post #1781808
Coming up on Beltane festival and still in search of software developer work. I speak the old tongues of #C, #Forth, #REXX, and #Shell, along with other foreign tongues of #Erlang, #NodeJS, #Go, #Java, #C# and more. I make utterances in #English and #French. I command in several BSD and Linux dialects. Even wrote successful anti-spam filtering software #BarricadeMX and several #milters. And can brag about winning the @IOCCC (but don't in polite company). I seek employment for a worthy...
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Post #1634766
Did anyone ask the #Artemis2 crew if the capsule had that new car smell?
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Post #1222784
@nixCraft More AI data centre crap... https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/15/us_states_gaap_datacenters/
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Post #1222783
@nixCraft Just brill... https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2026/apr/16/ben-jennings-us-iran-war-ai-slop-cartoon
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Post #454720
I really am tired of writing short essays that take an hour or so validating my existence to companies looking to hire, only to be rejected with boiler plate email that doesn't explain what was lacking. Makes me feel disrespected for the effort made to jump through their application hoops and get no feedback. This is so depressing. Time for a little food therapy sorbet break. #fedihire #getfedihired #jobseeker