An Indian woman in Japan is blazing trails in the workplace and on the cricket field, pursuing her passions and finding her balance. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2025/10/09/our-lives/shrunali-ranade-cricket-engineering/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #community #ourlives #expats #indiancommunity #engineering #engineers #cricket #womenssports

I'm looking for work!
I'm a high-level infra and devops engineer and team lead.
I've previously run my own team, and previously worked at Mozilla and Facebook. I'm looking for infra/devops lead or senior infra/devops engineer positions.
I'm not looking for pure development positions, but writing scripts, glue, and things like CI - as demanded by infra/devops - are totally fine. I just don't want to be developing the product.
The one thing I can't budge on is that I am exclusively looking for 100% remote positions, due to physical disability. I am based in the UK but I'm happy working with companies anywhere in the world, and capable of shifting my circadian rhythm around to match yours.
My CV is available at cv.dave.io. I am available to start immediately. The CV is a Notion page and can be cloned directly into your workspace if you use Notion. I'm more than happy to answer any questions, and all leads are graciously appreciated. Drop me a public or private mention, or use the other contact details listed on my CV.
My email address is gated behind a humanity check (don't worry, it's automated) at https://dave.io.
You are very welcome to boost this post, with my thanks.
Obligatory hashtags: #GetFediHired #FediJobs #Kubernetes #DevOps #Infra #Infrastructure #Engineer #Engineering #TeamLead
Cat tax supplied.
I asked a friend to assist me with the setup of a work environment to prepare and test Linux and Windows builds of the stuff I make.
Maybe I could have done it myself, but as years pass, you need to choose your battles and sharpen your focus on the stuff where you can make a difference.
Maybe in the past I could have even been enthusiastic at the idea of building the whole thing myself, but I find myself being more worried about an entirely different kind of problem nowadays.
The engineering of keeping things running is important, but my services are better put to good use somewhere else.
It comes down to the element of time becoming scarcer all the time, and strategies to make the most of it:
Do only the things only you can do.
I'm looking for work!
I'm a high-level infra and devops engineer and team lead.
I've previously run my own team, and previously worked at Mozilla and Facebook. I'm looking for infra/devops lead or senior infra/devops engineer positions.
I'm not looking for pure development positions, but writing scripts, glue, and things like CI - as demanded by infra/devops - are totally fine. I just don't want to be developing the product.
The one thing I can't budge on is that I am exclusively looking for 100% remote positions, due to physical disability. I am based in the UK but I'm happy working with companies anywhere in the world, and capable of shifting my circadian rhythm around to match yours.
My CV is available at cv.dave.io. I am available to start immediately. The CV is a Notion page and can be cloned directly into your workspace if you use Notion. I'm more than happy to answer any questions, and all leads are graciously appreciated. Drop me a public or private mention, or use the other contact details listed on my CV.
My email address is gated behind a humanity check (don't worry, it's automated) at https://dave.io.
You are very welcome to boost this post, with my thanks.
Obligatory hashtags: #GetFediHired #FediJobs #Kubernetes #DevOps #Infra #Infrastructure #Engineer #Engineering #TeamLead
Cat tax supplied.

🫓 Ultra-flat optic pushes beyond what was previously thought possible
https://phys.org/news/2025-09-ultra-flat-optic-previously-thought.html
#optics #imaging #technology #engineering #research #physics
🫓 Ultra-flat optic pushes beyond what was previously thought possible
https://phys.org/news/2025-09-ultra-flat-optic-previously-thought.html
#optics #imaging #technology #engineering #research #physics

EU CRA: It's Later Than You Think, Time to Engineer Up! https://nxdomain.no/~peter/eu_cra_its_later_than_you_think_time_to_engineer_up.html (or tracked https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/09/eu-cra-its-later-than-you-think-time-to.html) for your weekend #sbom #development #software #engineering reading #cra #resilience

🔪 The bloat of edge-case first libraries
https://43081j.com/2025/09/bloat-of-edge-case-libraries
#software #programming #api #libraries #complexity #softwaredevelopment #computing #engineering

Students develop novel multi-metal 3D printing process
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-09-students-multi-metal-3d.html
#manufacturing #3dprinting #metal #materials #technology #engineering
EU CRA: It's Later Than You Think, Time to Engineer Up! https://nxdomain.no/~peter/eu_cra_its_later_than_you_think_time_to_engineer_up.html (or tracked https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/09/eu-cra-its-later-than-you-think-time-to.html) for your weekend #sbom #development #software #engineering reading #cra #resilience
🔪 The bloat of edge-case first libraries
https://43081j.com/2025/09/bloat-of-edge-case-libraries
#software #programming #api #libraries #complexity #softwaredevelopment #computing #engineering
Students develop novel multi-metal 3D printing process
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-09-students-multi-metal-3d.html
#manufacturing #3dprinting #metal #materials #technology #engineering
Gives new meaning to 'hosting in the cloud.'
https://bogdanthegeek.github.io/blog/projects/vapeserver/
#technology #tech #innovation #engineering #business #technews #gadgets #maker #handmade #makersgonnamake

I 💝 OpenZFS
Working on research for a HPC storage cluster, one of my architecture doc sections quote this information from the wonderful group at Klara:
> OpenZFS In the Wild
>
> .. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) undertook porting ZFS to Linux, to form the backbone of their Lustre distributed filesystem. They noted that OpenZFS facilitated building a storage system that could support 1 terabyte per second of data transfer at less than half the cost of any alternative filesystem.
>
> Based on the success seen at LLNL, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) started using ZFS as well.
>
> In the latest example, just a few months ago the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory announced it had built Frontier, the world’s first exascale supercomputing system and currently the fastest computer in the world, backed by Orion, the massive 700 Petabyte ZFS based file system that supports it. This impressive system contains nearly 48,000 hard drives and 5,400 NVMe devices for primary storage, and another 480 NVMe just for metadata.
#openzfs #zfs #freebsd #linux #engineering #supercomputing #hpc