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Tue Oct 19 01:45:37 PM EDT 2021
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Another round of telephone interviews that left me with a
positive feeling. If I recall correctly, there's still
another technical round to go before the company might make
a decision. For the first time in a while I'm "letting
myself" enjoy that sensation of hope -- the feeling that
maybe things are going right. At the same time, I'm
reminding myself not to rest with the early results, to keep
hunting until everything is resolved.

Early "lessons learned (or reiterated)?" I'll likely
interview well if I can manage to "convert" my resume into
an interview. Interviews suggested that readers might
pre-judge me as overqualified for any task with smaller
scope than my experience. Having built and maintained a
network of well-positioned friends would certainly have
helped, but it's also important to not dwell on that
failing. It's a definite asset to have enough life
experience to really know who you are -- allowing you to
be yourself without reservation and to answer plainly,
trusting that if that shows you are not a fit, then that is
for the better.

In other news, I spent another day working to get two
inspIRCd servers to stay in sync with one another. My last
real conflict? Assuming that two anope servers would stay in
sync with one another on that network. In retrospect, I
really didn't see anything suggesting there should be an
anope server on each IRC node -- just an assumption -- and
in the end I still don't know if they can be made to sync
for failover or redundancy. For now, it's enough just to
turn off one set of services -- now one anope server is
managing both inspIRCd servers. I'm confident that if I
switched to using a database backend instead of flat files
for the anope service, I could work out reduncancy. For now,
though, just having the inside and outside IRC services in
sync is satisfying. Besides, there's still plenty to figure
out about all of the services and management -- as well as
going over my configuration again to see what's what. When I
feel it's "secure enough," I'll probably open it up and make
it publicly available -- TBD.