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sijmen @sijmen@shrimp.vijf.life
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netherlands, embedded systems student (attempting to), he/him, 29 years old, programming, devops, rust, embedded development, retro computing, procrastinating

politics and gen ai are depressing, but i can't not talk about them. i do my best to cw them.

currently working on fedilite, a server-side rendered simple mastodon api client
git.sijman.nl/vijfhoek/fedilite

"you're not having an original hit bro, you're having a cache hit"
Location netherlands
Birthday 1997-01-18
Pronouns he/him (EN), hij/hem (NL)
Accept-Language en;q=1, nl;q=1, de;q=0.5
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sijmen @sijmen@shrimp.vijf.life
5mo
realised i never posted an on my new instance

Hi, i'm Sijmen, a.k.a. vijfhoek, am a 28yo dutchie, and I have been a Fosstodon user for some time. Because Fosstodon wasn't really for me I started off on Misskey, then Sharkey. After a while the itch started again, and I was getting annoyed with Sharkey's bloatedness and bad Mastodon API implementation, so I looked into a new server. GoToSocial was cool but too simple, people recommended me to skip Akkoma/Pleroma/etc and to try IceShrimp.NET too, and here we are.

I like programming, specifically creating new projects and never finishing them (latest one is an mastodon API client: git.sijman.nl/vijfhoek/fedilite), and the odd embedded stuff (I've been building a keyboard I really need to finish someday it's so close).

Other than programming I like coffee, D&D, and self-hosting things. I have got a job in devops (mostly Kubernetes stuff nowadays) and am an (honestly non-practicing) embedded systems master student.

If you read this, send me cat pictures and cool things to self-host.

so yeah that's it i guess doei
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vivivijfvivijfhovijfvivijfvivijfhovivivivivijfvivijfhoekvijfvijfhovijfvijfhovivijfhoekvivijfhovivivivivi
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@ShadowJonathan i'd like to see a plot of the average dutch heart rate over time at 12AM twice a year
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sijmen @sijmen@shrimp.vijf.life
2w
@novenary (also i am lowkey looking for an instance to join so i have a bit more interaction - sometimes it feels like i'm talking to a wall when i post non-replies)
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sijmen @sijmen@shrimp.vijf.life
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@novenary yeah it does. sometimes i wish you could configure something of a give-a-shit level to adjust for the more spammy people you care for but don't need to see every post of
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even macOS users aren't spared
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1mo
@jwildeboer Nice to see you did it!

Loving my iPod 4th gen (the monochrome display) too. Dead easy to open up, can actually pry it open with just my fingernails :D

Flashmodded it to 256GB recently (over the stock 20GB HDD). For the next mod I'm looking for a battery size upgrade with the newly gained space.
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1mo
@dianea "{current_year - 1} was shit, I'm sure {current_year} will be better!"

{current_year}:
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sijmen @sijmen@shrimp.vijf.life
1mo
oh no my bread is moldy

absolutely devastated
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1mo
4am tosti
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1mo
@davidgerard "you're not having an original hit bro, you're having a cache hit" that's going on my profile
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sijmen @sijmen@shrimp.vijf.life
1mo
vibe coding decided to give vibe coding a shot, just so i know what i'm dealing with. i mean the proper deal: chatgpt codex, integrated in the editor, giving it access to edit files. just to see what happened

It did reach first results very quickly, satisfyingly so. Then i started iterating on the project, which kept getting slower and slower. Even caught myself getting in an argument with the computer. Then my codex credits ran out

While I did review all the patches it made, I still have no idea how the fuck this project works. All the productivity gains I got from having the autocomplete robot build my software I've now lost in trying to decipher what the hell is going on.

It's like university projects all over again
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sijmen @sijmen@shrimp.vijf.life
1mo
@jeder finally

build build build build
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1mo
@algernon reminds me of an article I read about "how to make Claude a better programmer than you" and the gist was to do that you just had to be a better programmer than Claude
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1mo
@Ronflaix @tuxic this could've been an april fool's joke
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1mo
@tuxic @Ronflaix hm, maybe just because it looks cool and different, and then everyone started doing it

just like these dang lightbar taillights on cars
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1mo
@nash they should just have done -march=native didn't need all these gpus wtf
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1mo
got my japanese new 3ds ll (japanese xl) and the microsd isn't wiped, there's still photos on it
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1mo
@aetios dat is de moderne uitleg inderdaad
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@eloy selfhost dns, now you own all the domains :D
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1mo
@aetios it's also only called "good" in dutch and english