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Name: Deidre

Age: Late 30s

I mostly post about: my day-to-day life. That may be interesting facts I’ve found going down rabbit holes and thoughts about media I consume. I am a backend engineer so work and programming musings may occur. I may post about projects and goal progress. I also will do language practice. Trying to focus on my hobbies because they make me happy.

My hobbies are: researching, learning (medical history, astronomy, science), reading (on a hard sci-fi kick), languages (I adore Old English and am learning Croatian), crafting, playing ukulele

My fandoms are: N/A

I'm looking to meet people who: post about their day-to-day lives or have similar hobbies.

My posting schedule tends to be: on the weekly/sporadic side. You don’t have to comment on every entry. Just comment and engage when it makes sense for you.

When I add people, my dealbreakers are: the normal list of bigotry, hated, and racism.

Before adding me, you should know: I have 2 dogs and 2 cats. I have chronic illnesses. I’m introverted. I kick ass.

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May I add you? I haven't had an ad on here in ages (if I ever did one; I'll have to look). My interests are easy to see on my profile. My posting is very sporadic, but I don't think I hit any of your dealbreakers.

Yes! Let’s add each other. Looked at your interests. You had me at democratic socialism.

Done. Thank you!

Hello! I have added you! I do software stuff, so am happy to read about work and programming musings, LOL.

I post about work stuff, day to day stuff, my hobbies and whatever else crosses my mind :)

What kinda software stuff? I’m all about the backend. Excited to add you.

I work for a small company that writes a single web application - it's a huge complicated tracking platform that is used for all kinds of things. The up side is every implementation is different, the down side is...every implementation is different :D

I mostly keep things running - we have a cloud-based hosting arm where we host the application for customers - so I keep that running up at AWS. I keep our development servers running for test sites and customer development.

We have oracle, sql server and mysql databases (our software runs on all 3) - and I have taken (back) the role of writing and testing the database scripts to support new feature development - so when an engineer says "I need a new table" or "I need a new column" - I figure out how to build that for all 3 database flavours.

And then I do our official builds and build out our qa sites, manage our source control system (ancient p4).

I also do most of our customer support, although I try to assign tickets to other people as much as I can, LOL. I do installations (some customers have the application hosted on their own servers), troubleshoot performance issues and anything else that comes up.

And then I am usually project manager/doing implementations for a few projects per year where we build out the application to spec for customers - this involves configuring the application using the tool, but also writing custom code (java, javascript) as needed, if they need something that the application does not do.

And also I work with my manager to design features as we find things customers need, that make sense and we don't want to do as custom code. I also work on a lot of "figure out how to integrate our tool with this other application"

So, yeah - honestly I don't know what my job title is - it's a small company, I do whatever is needed :D

I feel you on the what is my actual job title! I work for a small company that has been in start up mode for what feels like forever. It handles EHR clinical data exchange.

Healthcare interoperability is so janky. My job is writing code to account for how EHRs store clinical data differently, for the different and sometimes bewilderingly bespoke authentication processes with clinical data servers, and for generating multiple types of clinical data payloads for insurance companies.

It’s a mixture of adding new ways to retrieve the data, adding features to keep pace with how EHR product functionality changes in different versions, and dealing with healthcare interoperability standards. That’s accomplished by making scaleable micro services with orchestrated tasks that throttle traffic. Using eventing to kick off the right workflows based on configuration. Handling data exchange through request-response and subscription.

I manage the team that does all that. I communicate projects and break down development work into discrete tasks. Track progress, help unblock folks with issues. I do development alongside team members. Collaborate on processes with other departments. Help make processes with team members about how we work together. Contribute to design.

I feel like a bona fide cat herder.

Edited 2024-12-20 04:25 (UTC)

I feel like a bona fide cat herder.

LOL - I can totally appreciate that!

And it sounds like you guys are doing Agile development? I saw you mention something about sprints?

We haven't ever gotten into Agile as a methodology for our own stuff. Some of our customers make noises about wanting to do sprints for their projects - and we say, sure, if you want to, we can do that - but none of them have really fully embraced the Agile process.

My big project last year, they said "Oh we're supposed to be agile now, and we're supposed to have multiple deliveries" - basically push changes into production with every sprint. And I said, ok - we can do that? So we need to divide up your list of change control items into sprints, and you need to make sure your users are available to test every few weeks, and that you are able to commit the resources on your side, to push to production every few weeks?

I mean really - the additional work of delivering every few weeks vs all at once - is on their side, not so much on our side as developers?

I went through the effort to divide up the work into 3 sprints - and then they were like "well, actually, nobody is really monitoring us yet, so we think we can push agile out and not do it this year" LOL

And we ended up doing all the work in one phase, delivering it and they went live with new stuff, in November - one push to prod. Which is basically how we've been doing it for the last 10 years with them :D

Yes, “agile” development. We don’t always deploy things to Production every sprint. Especially the design heavy ones that focus on proofs of concept.

Sometimes we get to Production and get ghosted by customers. Other times, we have to keep pace with customers as we test out integrations like APIs, etc.

For the most part, I don’t have to deal very much with customers testing. It’s an internal system for data retrieval, data transformation, and payload delivery.

Hello! I have a public intro here: https://cassie-faith.dreamwidth.org/276.html
If you'd think we'd get on, feel free to add me.:)

Sure! Adding you. I can’t wait to read about what you’re up to in Sims. And reading about all the kitties.

Please tell me everything about your cattos

They are brothers from the same litter, named Pippin and Merry. They are super close, like covering up each other’s poops close. Pippin tends to be aloof. Merry is my shadow. Both of them sit on my desk while I’m leading work meetings. They shove their heads against my face and sit there. Rub their faces against the corner of my glasses frame. Sometimes they sit there crying, reaching out to tap my face and demands pets. Merry will attack my hair if I use mint shampoo. Yes, I’m still talking about what they do when I’m leading work meetings. A colleague reported they watched a cat drink out of glass, which I unknowingly drank from earlier.

Too much about cattos? You haz cattos?

LMFAO. Incredible, my one cat likes to keep her poop out in the open to assert her dominance and her brother always goes by like GIRL, COVER YOUR SHIT and covers it for her. That's so cute though that they are work buddies! Absolute gems. I do have cattos, two of them! Bonnie & Clyde. Also sister and brother.

You've had them all your life? :)

For 10 years. Wish I could have them for all my life.

How old are your kitties?

Edited 2025-01-03 04:58 (UTC)

omg thats so lovely. My last one passed away when she was 22. We were live partners. I hope you have many, many, many more years with them. Mine right now are four going on five. Still babes.

I would like to add you if that's OK! Would love to hear more about the pets, and I'm a fellow introvert and have been down a few interesting rabbit holes lately :)

Good day!
I`l be glad to read Your notes, also improve my English level.
It`s interisting to find new peoples all over the world.

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