retired software engineer, volunteer for environmental causes, wanna-be inventor.
grand opening policy: one free Follow for each journalist, scientist, engineer or doctor kicked off of Twitter when and as I learn of your refugee status.

opinionated lurker of the intarwebs.

Used to write code, still do. c/c++, java, php, js, c#, gdscript, gnawed on sql, sparql, unix/windows etc etc billions of years ago.

tech, graphics, anything STEM
anything anthropology, history, linguistics
anything blender, gimp (although i scream using it), audacity
prefers not to be run over by cars

I drink Philz.

I do a (non-monetized) video or so a week on yt.

Tyranny and poverty are everywhere a mainstream economics phenomenon.

Banner: F-105F Wild Weasel over North Vietnam 1968. Been there; done that. I took this picture

Avitar: Caricature of old, bald man looking askance. Me! I created it long ago

College @ MissStateUniv;
20 years USAF (320 combat missions);
Soccer (20 yr player, 15 yr coach, once retail store owner);
Past Dir of FL Adoption Reunion Registry;
Computer Professional (consultant, developer, Sr. Software Engineer - data storage/access);
Angler (bass tournaments, now just fishing)
Thoroughly RETIRED

backend services engineering • Twitter alum • movie nerd • machete order guy • remote work zealot • hall monitors get mocked & blocked • facts my own & disguised as opinions

#Technology: #Programming | #Java | #Twitter | #Mastodon | #RemoteWork

#Movies: #Horror | #SciFi | #StarWars

#Politics: #DigitalRights | #Climate | #PoliceReform | #Democracy

#Gaming: #RetroGaming | #SpeedRunning | #BoardGames | #DnD

Loves @NicoleAbuhakmeh. 🚀🧠 🥑 : #jetbrains #jetbrainsRider #Resharper devrel. #OSS supporter. #software developer. He/Him. Living the simulation lifestyle. #dotnet #java #javascript #html

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#CATMedia Boss, #Java #JCP Award Winner, Spec Lead of #JSR385 (#Units), #JSR354 (#Money), #Eclipse UOMo Lead, #W3C, #Agile, #DevOps, #IoT, #ITSecurity, #JakartaEE Ambassador, Spec Committee Member, Author, Speaker, Husband, Father

LANDSHUT GEGEN RECHTS

A solidarity-based, anti-conspiracy initiative from Lower Bavaria. We fight fake news & fascism!

#NieWiederIstJetzt #GegenJedenAntisemitismus
#StandWithUkraine/Rojava... #EchterKlimaschutz

Software Developer trying to not go mad
I try to play guitar. I like it, you won’t.
I write mostly Java but I’d rathe use Scala, Clojure or Rust.
Nazis fuck off.

Born at lunchtime.

Against all forms of #antisemitism 🇮🇱

Nerd - Linux, Elektronik, Java, PKI, Langzeitarchivierung, Fraktale, Chaos, nichtlineare DGLs, Open Source, Wohlfühlkrimis, Kreuzworträtsel, Sudoku, Origami, Comics, Bücher, Garten
metabolisiert O2 seit 329.68 ppm CO2 in der Atmosphäre waren...

The Truth is Out There! 👽

🔹 Been writing software for over 40 years
🔹 Born and raised in France
🔹 Moved to the US when offered a job at Apple in my early twenties
🔹 Started and sold a few companies
🔹 Did a lot of consulting
🔹 Ran one of the first daily Linkblog, mostly focused on Java
🔹 Wrote a weekly column for the Java Developer's Journal
🔹 Cancer survivor
🔹 Time's Person of the Year in 2006