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jmarneweckon Ask HN: Is there hope for Microsoft 365 support?

It has been a few years since I have dealt with Microsoft's postmasters team for email delivery issues but the link to to use to submit an email delivery issues is: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=614866

jmarneweckon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2025)

Location: Cape Town, South Africa (UTC+2)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: PHP, Ruby on Rails, HTML/CSS, MySQL, Bootstrap CSS, Tailwind CSS, Javascript, Shell Scripting

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bsdguru/

GitHub: https://github.com/jacques/

Email: jmarneweck at gmail dot com

Senior software engineer (20+ years) specializing in PHP (Slim Framework) and full-stack development. I thrive on building efficient and scalable solutions.

I have worked all over the stack, backend, frontend, DevOps, CloudOps.

Experience:

* Designed, developed, and deployed diverse projects: from static websites to backend services for terminals integrated with third-party terminal management software.

* Extensive API experience: Building REST APIs, integrating with third-party APIs (Smartcall, Clickatell, Webfleet).

* Prepaid debit card management system integrations including tooling for reconciliation between systems.

* Strong database skills: MySQL optimization and management.

* Payment gateway integrations: Pay@, Payfast, Mygate, Ozow.

* File processing from various third-party systems.

* Working with third-party vendors developing software interfacing with systems which I am building (i.e. terminal management software talking via REST API's for vending Airtime, Electricity, etc.)

jmarneweckon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2025)

Location: Cape Town, South Africa (UTC+2)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: PHP, Ruby on Rails, HTML/CSS, MySQL, Bootstrap CSS, Tailwind CSS, Javascript, Shell Scripting

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bsdguru/

GitHub: https://github.com/jacques/

Email: jmarneweck at gmail dot com

Senior software engineer (20+ years) specializing in PHP (Slim Framework) and full-stack development. I thrive on building efficient and scalable solutions.

I have worked all over the stack, backend, frontend, DevOps, CloudOps.

Experience:

* Designed, developed, and deployed diverse projects: from static websites to backend services for terminals integrated with third-party terminal management software.

* Extensive API experience: Building REST APIs, integrating with third-party APIs (Smartcall, Clickatell, Panacea Mobile, Webfleet).

* Strong database skills: MySQL optimization and management.

* Payment gateway integrations: Pay@, Payfast, Mygate, Ozow.

* Prepaid debit card management system integrations including tooling for reconciliation between systems.

* File processing from various third-party systems.

* Working with third-party vendors developing software interfacing with systems which I am building (i.e. terminal management software talking via REST API's for vending Airtime, Electricity, etc.)

jmarneweckon Deloitte admits misuse of government information as scandal engulfing PwC widens

https://archive.vn/5o6zJ

jmarneweckon Submarine expert tried to dissuade OceanGate CEO, from taking customers in Titan

https://archive.vn/yW6jl

jmarneweckon Flying the F-35 stealth fighter can leave pilots looking aged

https://archive.vn/BiHIF

jmarneweckon Deno 1.27

https://archive.vn/wxmIG

jmarneweckon Shouting in the Datacenter (2008) [video]

Janet Jackson's song Rhythm Nation caused certain 5400 rpm HDD's in laptops to crash:

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20220816-00/?p=10...

jmarneweckon Shouting in the Datacenter (2008) [video]

I keep picturing Larry pushing a lawn mower.

jmarneweckon Ask HN: What are some good “goto” React codebases?

Does anyone keep a list of "goto" Vue codebases?

jmarneweckon Deno’s July 13th incident update

They mentioned that their automated monitoring did not pick up the issue and that they are working on improving the tooling around this.

jmarneweckon Blackmail attempt left a Houston restaurant bombarded with 1-star reviews

https://archive.vn/2Bpk0

jmarneweckon Rare ‘triple’ La Niña climate event looks likely

There are some towns and cities which are currently running out of water in the dams and are heading towards day zero (no water in taps). Cities like Gqeberha (formerly Port Elizabeth) are near day zero and a large portion of the Eastern Cape has been experiencing a drought from 2015 to 2020 and then from 2021 to current.

Water tankers are delivering water to various areas in Port Elizabeth as well as numerous smaller towns which have run out of water.

During Cape Town's water crisis we were queuing to collect water from the mountain spring that the local brewery graciously allowed us to collect water from.

National Geographic has an article about South Africa running out of water: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/partner-c...

jmarneweckon MailGun Is Down

MailJet is down as well (also owned by Sinch).

https://mailjet.statuspage.io/

https://status.mailgun.com/

jmarneweckon Heroku Security Notification

I would have expected that they would have used a known human rather than look like someone with unauthorised access was doing so.

I see he now has access to three travis-ci organisations on GitHub.

jmarneweckon Solaris 11.4 free for non-production personal use

Joyent SmartOS is now being maintained by MNX and the GitHub repositories have moved to https://github.com/TritonDataCenter

jmarneweckon Basecamp Didn't Want to Run This Ad

https://twitter.com/jasonfried/status/1168986962704982016

Basecamp.com | We don't want to run this ad.

We're the #1 result, but this site lets companies advertise against us using our brand. So here we are. A small, independent co. forced to pay ransom to a giant tech company.

jmarneweckon Joyent Public Cloud EOL

Used it for the backing store for the npm's registry when tarballs were moved out of CouchDB. Managed to cope with us flushing the CDN cache (Fastly) and not fall over with users downloading packages.

jmarneweckon Joyent Public Cloud EOL

It used to amaze Joyent's clients how small Joyent's Cloud Operations team was.

jmarneweckon Joyent Public Cloud EOL

Evan was a lifetimer. Twitter's mail was routed via one.textdrive.com if memory serves me correctly using a truck load of aliases to redirect to offsite email accounts.

It was a pleasure dealing with the Virtualmin team on issues we had on Virtualmin on Joyent and TextDrive's shared hosting services.

Replying to the "Wins over GCE/AWS above that I can't reply to":

They had various:

* The ability to run workloads at near bare metal speeds (their using Solaris Containers).

* Manta (ability to perform compute operations on their storage service without having to download files and reupload files).

* Their work on getting a better user experience in zones with pkgsrc (thanks to all the hard work of Filip and Jonathan).

* Better performance and having the ability to spend less money on resources and reducing the instance count for folks moving off AWS to Joyent. I was involved in a number of these migrations.

jmarneweckon Joyent Public Cloud EOL

ex-cloud ops from Joyent here. I've done the literal migration of TextDrive and Joyent's shared hosting off them (300+ Solaris Zones and loads of legacy FreeBSD Servers) so ping me if you need help migrating. jmarneweck at gmail dot com.

I also have experience running SmartOS on Leaseweb (they purchased Uniquity Hosting where I setup SmartOS instances on numerous servers in numerous datacentres.

jmarneweckon Joyent Public Cloud EOL

Hey David! Good memories. David glad to hear you've sorted your demons out! If you are ever in Cape Town, drop by to say hi.

jmarneweckon GitHub Is Down?

Down in South Africa.

jmarneweckon GitLab 11.7 Shipped with Releases, Multi-Level Child Epics, and NPM Registry

When I first used Gitlab on SmartOS it was a pain to upgrade manually.

I more recently used Gitlab on Ubuntu using their omnibus package for Ubuntu and the upgraded over multiple versions to get onto a later version of Gitlab. The upgrade process was a lot smoother (no fighting to build gems on SmartOS and patching all over the show to get gems and other dependencies to compile).

I also did a MySQL to Postgresql migration. You have a bit of downtime with the process which chef sorts things out post upgrade of the omnibus package. I did turn the unicorns and disabled ssh logins while I was upgrading the omnibus package just incase something went wrong during the upgrade.

jmarneweckon The Future of ZFS in FreeBSD

I doubt that Joyent/Samsung will abandon their work on-top of Illumos. They contribute work upstream to Illumos.

They continue to port code to Illumos (i.e. KVM, continued work on Pluribus port of bhyve, etc.).

SmartOS is what their data centre orchestration solution gets built on-top of.

You can see their changelog for SmartOS they are quite active: https://us-east.manta.joyent.com/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/s...

Development of SmartOS and Triton Datacentre occur under their joyent organisation on GitHub.

jmarneweckon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2018)

SEEKING WORK | PHP Developer / DevOps | Cape Town | REMOTE

I am an experienced PHP developer and DevOps/CloudOps guy. Spent the last four and half years in the FinTech space building and maintaining Online Banking / Cash Management software. Worked for TAP, ITS, Joyent, NPM, TextDrive, ViaMedia, Imvelaphi Mobile.

Technologies: PHP, MySQL, Redis, SmartOS, FreeBSD, Ubuntu Linux.

Email: jmarneweck@gmail.com