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#ScribesAndMakers 2025.12.17 — Reveal the answer to yesterday's poll. (https://eldritch.cafe/@sfwrtr/115731275197784432)

About My Projects Poll

Yeah, the first one is a deep background element for my current stories. I love taking stereogram photographs (stereographs?) of trees; see image. I absolutely did design and build a house, when I was far younger. I live in it now. I used "built" in the sense of managing of and contracting for the construction of my house.

All of the above things I consider creative.

I also wrote a command line interface for #IBM #software. I don't really consider that very creative. Pretty much by the numbers work, after deciphering convoluted poorly documented open source software. I used #ZOWE, if you are interested in searching for more about it. I even gave a number of presentations about it at IBM conferences. I am pretty sure nobody other than me ever used what I wrote, but management wanted it, so I did it. It sucked all the creativity out of me, thus number 3 was the correct answer.

PS: The image is a #wigglegram #stereograph. If you look, it also moves back and forth subtly, helping your mind see the tree in three dimensions.

[Author retains copyright (c)2025, 2026 R.S.]

#BoostingIsSharing

#gender #fiction #writer #author #programmer #photographer #photo chef cooking
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion

"Modern" Web development on #IBM MVS 3.8j via #zOWE in #VSCode thanks to the amazing work of Mike Rayborn and Mike Grossman

#vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #mainframecomputing #hercules

https://github.com/mvslovers/mvsmf
https://youtu.be/UMmgKBkPLqM

Is cobbling together #vim and #zowe my only option for avoiding #VSCode? I'm willing to try evil mode in emacs if that's my other option.

#mainframe #cobol

@sfwrtr @taur10 @alan @stevendbrewer at my shop we’ve been given plenty of presentations and demos on #zowe but we’re mostly 3270 sysprogs (not devs) and for those of us that even love dabbling with vs code and side projects, it’s a hard sell to retool people that are already comfortable and set in their ways.

This endeavour to bring Zowe and CICD stack has been named “Next Generation Mainframe Modernization”, the next crowd after us.

@paulywill @taur10 @alan @stevendbrewer I want to be nice, because the people I met were. And dedicated. I worked to build Zowe applications for the CLI and an iframe app for the Zowe Desktop, which I think they've renamed to zlux. The idea that having the devs leave comments in the code would generate documentation IMHO was wrong headed and caused me endless headache. Weeks, months, for what should have taken days—with the code base changing and depricating for a conservative industry needed stable APIs and simple straightforward doc, like Zowe for Dummies or an O'Reilly. I believe adoption has suffered outside the niche community as a result. The devs know what they were doing, but the application programmers were left in the cold or to read the code. Nice kit, once I got it, which is why I did some presentations at the Open Mainframe Summit detailing what I learned, and shortcuts I made by disassembling the Typescript so I could code in pure nodejs. I built some large CLI systems that emulate our mainframe product through REST, (E)JES. That's it in a nutshell.

I now write #fiction. Still logic, in a different form.

#retired #programmer #zowe #openmainframeproject #nodejs now an #author in the #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon

On Tuesday, March 19th I'm excited to join Steve Perva, Niall Ashley, Ipek Dedekoy & Joe Winchester to talk about the benefits of open source on the #mainframe (for your org AND you!) on the New to #IBMZ Technical Series https://ibm.biz/AnsibleZowe #LinuxONE #Ansible #Zowe

@alan @taur10 @stevendbrewer

"ok, can you create a branch? I'm gonna need to port this to Visual Basic first"

😅​ Seriously, I do git it. There are many nations out there: #Windows, #Linux, #Mac, #zos and languages like #BASIC and #APL.

"I get that "you fix it" attitude rarely... "

I'm glad to hear it. But even asking me to branch is beyond my pay grade, and of most of the user base's comprehension. Neither the spouse or grannie are going to get this.

I was working with open source #Zowe stuff for three years, but then the Open #Mainframe Project fielded a mandatory conformance project I had to contribute to. The .md instructions were so bad, I had to rewrite them (RS is an #Author). In any case, they required me to do a #GitHub "pull request" to check-in my contribution (a json file) and for the .md file.

/RS.exe crashed at that point./

I pawned the project off on one of my Linuxy coworkers. Open source #programming is likely something people get really used to, but if you are a mainframer, Javascript and C programmer, or a Windows programmer, that's simply is Greek and is just one more thing to learn when I have no time because I have a dozen things to get done first.

Shoot. Ranted again. #ADHD Please forgive me!

@zarchasmpgmr @feoh I'm new to the mainframe, working for Rocket Software. Did a bunch of other things for them involving windows and linux, but for the past 3 yrs have been doing "mainframe modernization". Mainframe accessed via the web browser! #zowe

If you're a student looking for a project in the June-August timeframe, Arsh Pratap and I are mentors for the Linux Foundation this time around for the Open Mainframe Project Software Discovery Tool!

And yes, Arsh was the *mentee* last summer. The student has become the master! 👏

Details about the work proposed are outlined here: https://mentorship.lfx.linuxfoundation.org/project/9aaaa048-baae-4ec7-aedd-5d3594dd95d8 #mainframe #zSystems #LinuxONE

The #Zowe and #COBOL from the are also participating, learn more in this blog post: https://www.openmainframeproject.org/blog/2023/05/08/omp-launches-applications-for-2023-summer-mentorships

Nice blog post from Joe Winchester about some of the ways the Open Mainframe Project #Zowe has been modernizing interaction with the #mainframe

For instance, yes, you still need #JCL, but what if you could automate a syntax check before you submit it? No problem! 🤖

https://community.ibm.com/community/user/ibmz-and-linuxone/blogs/joe-winchester1/2023/04/14/finish-the-job-with-ibm-and-zowe

Terminal emulator Rocket BlueZone Web for Zowe released by #RocketSoftware https://buff.ly/35kLD2J #IBMZ #Zowe #mainframe #openmainframeproject #OMP #LinuxFoundation