Dan / Odd_Bloke @Odd_Bloke@wrestle.town

Hello!

I'm Dan. Originally from the UK, I've been living in Kingston, ON since March 2017.

I love listening to music (I have an eclectic taste, but metal and classical are my true loves), reading, coding, and watching wrestling!

I work from home as a software engineer on the Ubuntu Server team. My focus in that team is on cloud-init and curtin.

#introductions

Politics-wise, I'm a lefty, and inclusion is very important to me. I'm currently trying to work out what that means for me, both in my online life and my offline life. (I deal with a lot of anxiety, which makes working that out much trickier!)

Related to politics, this Mastodon/hometown instance is my first foray in to the world of the decentralised web, which I think is going to be very important over the coming years.

#introductions

Another very important part of my life is my ginormo-dog, Colt! We rescued him earlier this year. He's a ~4yo Great Dane and very friendly!

(The rescue named him Colt because he snorts like a horse when he is annoyed about something. They were not wrong to do so!)

#introductions #petroductions

Just finished One Piece episode 75 so I'm now less than 18 years behind!!

I'm a leftpadist. I don't write any of my code.

THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS

Gonna move to Quebec and introduce a bill that traffic in English has to have a lower QOS metric than traffic in French

Very cool that the WNBA are getting included in NBA2K20; it might be time for me to pick up another NBA title for the PS4.

(This article also features another episode in the WNBA's ongoing wife battles. Does the NBA have any husband battles? No?! INFERIOR LEAGUE)

https://theathletic.com/1140816/2019/08/16/its-cool-when-someone-says-they-played-you-chicago-sky-players-are-excited-about-inclusion-in-nba2k20/?source=rss

Lesson learned: https://github.com/CanonicalLtd/ubuntu-advantage-client/pull/717

Wait, I didn't even introduce these quotes!

LMAO we just introduced black to format this codebase, but to reduce the codebase churn we disabled the string normalisation (so it won't change single quotes to double quotes). The first, the _very_ first PR after we land that has someone bikeshedding the (double) quotes that I chose to use.

#tech #python