I've been using this account as my primary for about a week now, and I'm think I'm settled on using it for the foreseeable future, so I guess it's time to do another #introduction post.
I'm a dad of four kids, and a web developer. I have a college degree in #Theater (or #Theatre) and had aspirations of being an actor. I kind of fell into web development as a career. It was a hobby back in high school, and I just needed to pay some bills after college, so I ended up doing this.
I always have aspirations to do other things, but for now, I'm pretty happy spending most of my time as a dad and husband.
Some day, I'd like to get back into #acting, or maybe do some #VoiceActing. I also enjoy #writing and will, from time to time, post some #MicroFiction, usually from somebody's #WritingPrompt.
I love #StarTrek, and usually watch at least one episode nearly every day. I like all #SciFi really, though, as well as #fantasy. I used to read a lot, but find I don't have as much time or mental capacity for it as I used to. I also enjoy watching #anime, and have really been enjoying the new episodes of #Bleach lately.
Feel free to follow me if you think we have similar interests, and I may follow you back, if I think likewise. 
#WebDev #PHP #BackEnd #Laravel #introductions #Parenting #DadLife 
Dan Jones 
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Presidents for trump: photos of putin and Kim Jong Un. Presidents against trump: photos of every living former US President.
Dan Jones shared 3 days ago
Want to keep tabs on all the bullcrap Matt Mullenwag is doing?
Check out bullenweg.com/, where you'll learn that Matt announced that he poached the creator of WPGraphQL from WP Engine.
Dan Jones shared 7 days ago
I’m looking for a software engineer to join my team at the Internet Archive. We work mostly Pacific hours but are fully and forever remote (we do have a lovely SF HQ if you're in the neighborhood). Our department uses Python, Django, Temporal.io, Postgres, and some in-house database technologies to build web archiving and other digital preservation services for over 1000 partner cultural heritage and memory institutions.
Remember four years ago, when the winner of the US Vice Presidential Debate was a fly that just landed on Mike Pence's head for like five minutes?
Dan Jones shared 9 days ago
Christie’s ‘Lady Computers’ – the astrographic pioneers of Greenwich.
The first women to be employed at the Royal Observatory in a professional capacity were Isabella Clemes, Alice Everett, Harriet Furniss, Edith Rix and Annie Russell. They were all employed as ‘Lady Computers’ between 1890 and 1895.
By Graham Dolan via @ROGAstronomers
http://www.royalobservatorygreenwich.org/articles.php?article=1280
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Isabella Clemes (left) with her brother Samuel, who is standing behind their grandfather William Clemes (seated). To his right are his grandnieces Harriet and Juliet Dunster. From a photograph taken in St Austell in the 1860s courtesy of Catherine Sheldon Lazier.
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Alice Everett. Print by Andre & Sleigh from a photograph by Morgan & Kidd, Greenwich. From the 22 November 1893 edition of The Sketch.
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Dorothea Klumpke. From a carte de visite by Photographie des Grands Magasins du Louvre à Paris.
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Anne Clough, Mistress of Newnham and President of the Association of Women Teachers. Albumen cabinet card by an unknown photographer, 1880–1892. © National Portrait Gallery, London. Reproduced under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) licence
Dan Jones shared 10 days ago
If you're reading this, please #boost so I can get back to being federated with the #fediverse. Unfortunately, the data center I've been hosting with for years and years encountered some serious issues. I had to move suddenly, losing almost everything. I took the chance to change the software I use. But I've still lost all of my followers, all of my federation, etc! It's also taken down rblind.com, my passion project to get more #blind folks off #reddit. I'll be bringing that back over the coming days. In the meantime, hi! I'm a blind guy who uses the #NVDA #screenreader, loves #accessibility and works in the field, and reads tons of #fanfic, #litrpg, and #sciencefiction and #fantasy in my spare time. Nice to meet you!
Dan Jones shared 10 days ago
2994. Númenor Margaritaville
2994. Númenor Margaritaville
title text: I see white shores, and beyond it, a far green country under a tequila sunrise.
(https://xkcd.com/2994)
(https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2994)
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6 panel comic. 1. No hair is walking next to a person wearing a circlet crown and a dress. Crown says "Aragorn was king of Gondor, but we elves remember when his line ruled Numenor." No hair replies "Oh, the place from the Jimmy Buffet songs?" 2. Zoom in to no hair. From off panel crown yells "What." No hair continues "The semi-mythical seafaring Atlantic paradise? He sang about it. With the fancy cocktails?" 3. Zoom back out. Crown replies "...you mean Margaritaville?" No hair says "Yeah, that must the modern name." 4. Zoom in to no hair. From off panel crown yells "Numenor is not Margaritaville." No hair replies " 'I'd rather die while I'm living than live while I'm dead.' Sang Tar-Pharazon king os island life." 5. Zoom back out. Crown says "Please stop." No hair continues " 'If there's a heaven for me, I'm sure it has a beach attached.' Is about the shores of Top Eressea." 6. Crown walks away while saying "See, this is why I'm leaving the world of men." No hair replies "You shall diminish, and do into Key West."
Dan Jones shared 10 days ago
It's the weekend, baby
#StarTrek
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Voyager scene. Seven of Nine (tertiary adjunct of unimatrix 01) is pictured. She has a dolphin shaped metal robotic implant around her left eye because she is a borgs. Closed caption reads, "Fun will now commence."
I'm now happily employed, but I went through a layoff that took three months before I finally found my current job.
During that time, I sent out 91 job applications. Of those 91, eleven of them sent me an automated response saying they'd received my application, and nothing after that. 22 of them didn't even send that automated response. I didn't keep track of those that I got an initial contact from, but then got ghosted, but there were a few of those as well.
Do better. Have some respect for the people who are spending time applying to the jobs that you posted. I know hiring managers and recruiters are hardworking and have a lot of applications to go through. But, you could at least have the respect to have a form rejection letter to send out when you drop a resume in the rejection stack.
I started a new job yesterday where I work as a contractor (I'm a full-time, salaried employee at my company, but they contract my work out) on a US military project (writing code for the Department of Defense).
Due to all of the requirements for working with the Department of Defense, I'm now realizing that this will be the slowest onboarding process for a job that I've ever gone through.
I was just told that sometime next week I'll get added to the daily stand-ups. An entire week just before I even start going to stand-ups is just crazy.
Dan Jones shared 15 days ago
I’m still processing things but I just got laid off at work and so I’ll be re-entering the workforce. I’m a seasoned #PHP veteran with about 12 years in #SoftwareEngineering. I’ve also been a manager and Director of Engineering. Gonna be looking soon but figure I may as well get cracking on #GetFediHired. I can pick up other languages pretty quickly too and have a bunch of #Symfony #Laravel #MySQL and #AWS experience.
Dan Jones shared 16 days ago
If you listen to drums and cymbals in an echo chamber, there will be repercussions.
Dan Jones shared 19 days ago
Help a #gamer out and drop some suggestions for an amazing game to play exclusively on the Steam Deck!
GO!
(not necessarily from Steam, I have Lutris and Heroic Games Launcher too)
- Boost appreciated
#Gaming #Videogames #LinuxGaming #Steam #GOG #EpicGamesStore #EGS
UPS says my new Steam Deck is going to arrive today between 11:45 and 3:45. It's already 11:52 and it still hasn't arrived, so, I'll just be pacing back and forth for the next couple hours. 
If Star Trek communications worked like real world audio/video communications:
Uhura: Captain, the Klingon vessel is hailing us.
Kirk: Lt. Uhura, have we installed the Klingon video and audio codecs?
Uhura: Yes, captain, but they've updated their protocol since our last hail.
Captain: Mr. Spock, install the software for their new protocol.
Spock: Unfortunately, Captain, the new protocol has not been ported to Federation OS.
Captain: Just fire phasers on the Klingon vessel!
Dan Jones shared 22 days ago
2988. Maslow's Pyramid
2988. Maslow's Pyramid
title text: The local police, building inspector, and fire marshal are all contesting my 'safety' assertion, or would be if they could reach me past all the traps.
(https://xkcd.com/2988)
(https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2988)
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Single panel comic. A pyramid with 5 tiers and some tiny people on the bottom for scale, one of which is gesturing at the pyramid. The tiers are labeled and have additional commentary on the side. From the bottom: 1. physiological needs (red X, provides basic shelter, but no food, water, heat, etc) 2. safety (green check, highly defensible) 3. belonging and love (red X, friends are worried about me) 4. esteem (red X, people seem less impressed by it than I hoped) 5. self-actualization (red X, honestly questioning my life choices here) Lower caption: I built Maslow's pyramid thing, but it's a total ripoff-- it's only providing 20% of my needs.
Dan Jones shared 22 days ago
Which Came First? A quiz from Google Arts & Culture in which you guess which historical event took place first. https://artsandculture.google.com/experiment/what-came-first/ZQGBUPErEE3bVg
Dan Jones shared 22 days agoThe FDA has approved a nasal flu vaccine that people can administer to themselves at home. (Prescription required, order it online, ages 2-49, available next year.) https://www.npr.org/2024/09/20/nx-s1-5121176/fda-flumist-flu-vaccine-at-home-approved
Dan Jones shared 23 days ago