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Re:IRCd service (2024) on Thursday October 30, 2025 @11:53AM (#45761438)
https://libera.chat is what Freenode turned into after Freenode imploded. Really great communities there - F/OSS-centric, yes, but there are good unofficial channels for cloud services, and even some proprietary software and services, like vscode, AWS, Azure, Oracle, etc.

ZNC is an excellent way to keep history between your IRC sessions: https://github.com/znc/znc And WeeChat is an excellent companion to ZNC and libera.chat: https://github.com/weechat/weechat And IRC for Android is an excellent IRC client that also plays well with ZNC: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.countercul... Cheers!

Does caffeine intake nullify this effect?
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2024) on Monday June 03, 2024 @07:05PM (#40568728)

  Location: Philadelphia, PA
  Remote: 99% (1% in-person to glad hand!)
  Willing to relocate: No.
  Technologies: Web Infrastructure, GitOps, Python, CI/CD (the real kind), automation, Kubernetes ecosystem (including Cilium, Kyverno, Prometheus, Grafana, etc.), I'd love to work with Elixir or Julia shop. Worked in data centers and cloud-native environments. Tech career started in 1999. Like HashiCorp Vault a lot, but wish OpenBao was more supported. Terraform -> OpenTofu.
  Résumé/CV: https://resume.boldandbusted.com/
  Email: [email protected]
I've got a nice profile on LinkedIn, too: https://linkedin.com/in/boldandbusted

I pride myself on being a fan of low-level technologies (I can fix broken DNS setups, I read the Linux Kernel source for better understanding of the kernel, I actually love Gentoo Linux...), but also someone who advises big corporate and startup leaders on how to work better with their computing engineers, and who helps build empathy between silos (like actually bringing Dev and Ops together). Seeking contracts and full-time work, short term, mid-term and long-term.

Cheers, and thanks for this post, Hacker News! :)

Re:Weaveworks Is Shutting Down on Monday February 05, 2024 @02:34PM (#39265892)
Cilium wasn't sold to Cisco, Isovalent was. Cilium is F/OSS and a graduated CNCF project: https://landscape.cncf.io/?item=runtime--cloud-native-networ... Cheers.
If true, "engineer has some at home" means the home is about to blow up. :(

Ask HN: What's the Next Vagrant?

Howdy. I've been a happy user of Vagrant since I first saw it demo'd at DevOpsDays in 2011. Now, with the BSL license fork, I don't have a good replacement. Do you? I know I can work with a VM without it (which is my primary use case - Vagrant supports a lot more than that), but the elegance and codeability of Vagrant is what I seek.Or, is there a OpenTofu/OpenBao-like project going on for...

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Re:Ask HN: Forks of the rest of HashiCorp's products? on Monday September 25, 2023 @06:27PM (#37651583)
The Internet seems very quiet on this topic. It'll be pretty sad to say goodbye to these useful projects after HashiCorp's relicensing. :(
Re:What Is a Flop? on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @11:23AM (#37392918)
My last two startups.