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                    JOURNAL FOR SUNDAY 19TH JANUARY, 2025
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SUBJECT: Unexpected downtime, redundancy and new beginnings…
   DATE: Sun 19 Jan 15:43:08 GMT 2025

A new year, a time for new beginnings. As I reflect on the previous few weeks
I can only hope they are not a portent of things to come. This first post of
2025 is bit delayed, but there has been lot going on recently.

This week began with a flurry of automated emails — the WolfMUD website had
gone offline. The initial failure occurred early Monday morning, there was
then a recurrence early Friday morning. After some investigation the cause was
determined to be a problematic power distribution unit. Planned outage on
Friday afternoon allowed for the unit to be replaced.

As of Friday, I have been made redundant and am looking for new employment :(

Redundancy came as a bit of a shock. I had thought things were going well. Not
long ago I gave a company wide presentation showing how everybody could have a
powerful, private, zero cost AI on their machines. Then for some time I’d been
working on AI integration, developing solutions to enable the AI’s full
capabilities to be utilised in client solutions. I even promoted the company
when, as a guest speaker of the Institution of Analysts and Programmers, I
gave a webinar on AI.

The reward for my efforts, redundancy. However, what the company sees as just
making a Go developer redundant has bigger implications. The company fails to
realise that they just let go their most competent, senior technical asset.

For me it means new beginnings and new opportunities for a new year. Ideally I
would like to continue with Go development and AI integration. If anyone is
interested in hiring me all of my details, skills and experience can be found
on my LinkedIn profile[1].

If anyone is interested in the webinar I presented, it is now available to
watch on YouTube[2].

In the meantime I’m continuing to focus on improving my AI skills and staying
up to date with with the latest Go developments. Which reminds me, the Go 1.24
release candidate 2 was made available on Thursday.

Work on Mote, the new Mere, continues. I really believe the time I’m investing
in my own programming language is worth it. I’m learning a lot and it’s fun.
Working on Mote at the moment is a good way to keep myself sane and coding.

Finally, with a little AI assistance from gemma2:2b, a short untitled ditty:


              A cracked mirror, a distorting heinous lie,
              Each shard a twisted truth, dreams broken die.
              Screams rise, raw and jagged like thorns on skin,
              Each word a shard, each breath, another sin.

              Howls of sorrow echo through the darkest night,
              Whispers of loss, of extinguished light.
              A tapestry of pain, woven with threads of fear,
              Drowning in despair, losing hope so dear.

              Are these echoes of a broken spirit’s cry?
              Voices begging for an answer; why?
              Screams and howls, a symphony of woes,
              Leaving only silence, once the madness goes.


--
Diddymus

  [1] LinkedIn profile: https://linkedin.com/in/andrew-rolfe-miap-40156a1b9

  [2] Institution of Analysts and Programmers webinar; ai4all — Demystifying
      AI for humans: https://youtu.be/CXngaetYmws?si=-_8NeNWivOzaFWJE


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