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Rachel Barker

rachelplusplus@tech.lgbt

<p>Software witch, environmentalist, and amateur musician. This is my non-worksona side, where I like to do things from scratch to learn how they work then tell the world about it. Accidentally-on-purpose ended up doing a theoretical physics degree that way.</p><p>Professionally, interested in software engineering *as engineering*, caring about correctness, performance, and serving people&#39;s needs. Enjoys building tools to make those things easier to achieve.</p><p>Blogs at <a href="https://www.rachelplusplus.me.uk/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">rachelplusplus.me.uk/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>

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    Well I had plans for the weekend, but then I got nerd-sniped by the sequel to Sudokuvania coming out. So I&#39;ve been doing that most of the weekend instead :P It even has a snazzy website now: https://sudokuvania.com/

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    I did the thing I&#39;ve been meaning to do for years, finally got the right push to do it: https://www.rachelplusplus.me.uk/blog/2026/07/moving-off-github/

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    Today&#39;s fever-dream thought, brought to you by it being way the fuck too hot: You know what would be a great name for either a fuzzer or an iocaine-style scraper defence thing? &quot;random-bullshit-go&quot;

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    RE: https://digipres.club/@misty/116558924676616687 Things like this seem to be increasingly common, and I&#39;ve been thinking a lot about how to avoid getting pwned myself, without retreating into &quot;trust nobody, write everything from scratch&quot; because that isn&#39;t helpful either. I&#39;ve already split my dev work off into its own VM to minimize the escalation surface to my main user account. But I&#39;m considering splitting things further into two user accounts: One which gets e...

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    For bonus fun, you know how it&#39;s mandatory to include an unsubscribe link in marketing emails in many countries? Usually I expect those to be fake in the sense that they actually just confirm your email address is real, meaning you&#39;ll get more spam in future if you click it, not less. But the one in this spam email is even more fake than that! It&#39;s the bare minimum to display as a link, without actually going anywhere: Unsubscribe

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    Alright Mastodon, I&#39;m looking for work. Senior software developer, specializing in low-level, embedded, and systems programming. Previous work includes video compression (developer on AV1 and AV2), silicon verification, and scientific/numerical software. Full CV/resume available on request. Primarily looking for remote work, but would consider in-person in the UK if the circumstances are right. Available for either contract work through the company I run (easiest route if you&#39;re outsi...