Josh Taylor joshuataylor

Hi all, putting the feelers out -- I'm currently looking for remote full time employment as a Senior Data Engineer, I'm based in Perth, Australia (GMT+8) but happy to work around timezones.

My data experience includes moving Sendle onto Snowflake, dbt, Tableau, etc, starting from Jun 2020.. and never finishing :).

I've plenty of experience in the usual - Python, SQL, etc - and also some more fun ones - Rust, Elixir (I love it), etc, and the more corporate ones (.NET Core, Java etc), I've dissected the Snowflake login process, have created drivers in Elixir & Rust, and also have created an implementation of dbt that static compiles >500 models in 5ms.

I've been working since 2008 as a Software Engineer/developer/etc, and transitioned in 2020 with the promise of this will only take 3 months, which got me suckered into Data :).

If your team needs someone with a broad range of experience across a lot of different technologies, I would be incredibly interested.

How to Defang macOS System Protections

If you want to change things on the root drive of a Mac you will need to take some steps to disable the built in security of the system. Most of these steps are the same regardless if you are on Intel or Apple Silicon. If there is a difference it is noted.

Note that all of these things put a Mac into an unsupported and less secure state.

Make sure you either perform these steps in a VM or that you reset the protections after you are done poking around

Protections and Terms

(This list is not exahustive on the details of each. Check the links at the end for more info.)

	# MacOS Right Click Issues
	tl;dr: MacOS right click sometimes doesn't seem to work

	[This reddit thread](https://old.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/16tgy8e/intermittent_mouse_click_issues_after_sonoma/) confirmed others are having the same issue.

	I started having this issue 2023-03-22, somehow out of the blue, with nothing changed, I downgraded from 14.4 to 14.3.1, still the same issue.

	It HAS to be a software bug, and I'm slightly insane enough to prove it, as right click sometimes just doesn't work, which is absolutely infurating.

	## My Configuration

	-ea
	-server
	-Xss256k
	-Xms4G
	-Xmx4G
	-XX:+IgnoreUnrecognizedVMOptions
	-XX:+UnlockExperimentalVMOptions
	-XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError
	-XX:-OmitStackTraceInFastThrow
	-XX:-UseSerialGC

	I have 3 smallish repositories:

	```
	Repository Size 943 KiB
	Repository Size 857 KiB
	Repository Size 6.0 MiB
	```


	Gitea backup speed for each of the commands:

	From 5d04dc68d7a952c2b98cab7af60bba93bee2dec7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
	From: lilydjwg <[email protected]>
	Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2021 19:34:58 +0800
	Subject: [PATCH 1/2] xwayland: support HiDPI scale

	This supports the xorg-xwayland patch at https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests/733
	---
	include/xwayland/xwm.h \| 2 ++
	xwayland/xwm.c \| 51 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
	2 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

	# Dumps using zstd, with up to 32 threads.
	# To silence zstd, add -q

	# xfsdump -L mybackup -J - / \| zstd -3 --threads=0 -o /backups/mybackup.zstd

	xfsdump options (https://man.archlinux.org/man/xfsdump.8.en):
	# -L session_label: Specifies a label for the dump session. It can be any arbitrary string up to 255 characters long.
	# -J Inhibits the normal update of the inventory. This is useful when the media being dumped to will be discarded or overwritten.
	# - sends output to stdout, for zstd to read
	# / the partition directory

	import json
	import re

	# Open the run_results.json, which contains results from the run or test run.
	input_file = open('target/run_results.json')
	json_array = json.load(input_file)
	# If there is no errors, by default we just print a new line.
	errors = "\n"
	for item in json_array["results"]:
	# Run and test have different syntaxes, this should cover them both.