A couple of months into self-hosting my Akkoma instance, I find myself doing a couple of operational tasks at a recurring basis. So might as well write them down here for future reference. Again, this is on my ARM-based machine with Ubuntu 22.04, where Akkoma is installed from source.
Backing Up (Periodically) The doc’s backup instructions essentially says we should back up the database, plus a couple of configs and static files/directories.
I’ve decided to self-host my own Akkoma (a hard fork of Pleroma) instance, after actively and happily using Mastodon for 2.5 years. Inspired by The Teabag Ninja’s awesome and detailed writeup on Akkoma’s OTP install, I’m also sharing my source installation notes along the way for all the folks on the internet, including my future self – since I did have a few surprises during the process.
Unless otherwise noted, all commands below are tested on an ARM-based machine with Ubuntu 22.
Having recently spent a couple of months looking for my next career opportunity, I think it’d be great to write down my interviewing experience, and my personal comments to them. Throughout the process I’ve learned some things about companies, some things about tech careers, and some things about myself. I’m hoping this will shed some light on how we’re currently interviewing software engineers as an industry. The particular experience varies a lot by the individual, but I’m sure my experience covers at least some of the common cases.
Just went through the excitement of publishing my first Chrome Extension, Douban Dousay filter (Chrome Web Store) (github). The code and feature itself is dead simple (~60 lines of javascript), but I just want to make a point for those who thinks making a Chrome Extension is a huge commitment or something. No, it’s actually pretty easy to get started.
What I built was a filter for a social network site.
My Expectations I decided to pick up this book for a couple of reasons. I’ve always been looking for a description of what a manager does, or should do, at tech companies. I’ve personally worked with a couple of managers so far, and each of them manage with distinctive styles, that I find myself agree/disagree with. I’d like to have a set of basic expectations for managers, and learn to understand things from the management’s side.
After going through the Tour of Go I started my first toy program – the game of Minesweeper (on github). To exercise what I have gotten down with Go I had a couple of things in mind about this program before I started:
It should be feature complete – just all things you can do with the game. It should only depend on the standard library, so that I can focus on the basics.