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

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FOSS enthusiast, a fan of democratic and credible social networks. Scientist in Cinvestav Mexico and outdoor fan (hiking, MTB, road, and gravel biking).

#interactivefiction #gemini #tokipona #selfhost #freesoftware #agile

part of @wir
i am also more work related @derralf at @haufegroup

You can find me. #fedi22

Granadino de nacimiento, Malagueño de adopción

Fediverso completo: https://pinkary.com/@calvobarbablanca

🎮 #gaming #xbox #gamepass
🖥️ #linux #PopOs #privacidad
🧑‍🧑‍🧒 #paternidad #SaludMental #Aprendizaje
🏛️ #HistoriaAntigua #musica #libros

free and open source software advocate

writing essays to persuade and guides to educate

resisting tech giants

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keyboard shortcut mage

spaces, not tabs

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"AI" is bullshit; cryptocurrency is a scam

bigots don't deserve your respect

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Digital freedom isn't just for computer nerds. It's for everyone.

This stuff is serious, but it can be fun at the same time.

#foss #linux

product designer who codes.
I design and build software.
both how it looks, and how it works.

🌱 laid off in 2026 and looking for $1/month sponsors to help #FOSS projects with design: https://github.com/sponsors/hbons 🌱

been doing design in #OpenSource like #GNOME, #Pidgin, #Intel, #RedHat, #Xamarin, #VSCode and more for 2 decades.

enjoy creating #PixelArt #RetroGames for #GameBoy / #NES.

🍵 green tea lover
📷 lazy film photographer
🌌 #aurora chaser

#NoAI in my work.

I use Linux PCs have a Light Phone 3. I am into #retrotech #bicycling #photography #reading and #linux

Doing Product Management at #Hetzner Cloud. This is my personal account, opinions are my own.

Previously leading and supporting engineering teams at #EnterpriseDB, #Percona and #SUSE. Working #remote from #Hamburg since 2002.

I've been working in the #Linux and #opensource infrastructure field since 1995. #EV and #ebike driver interested in #RenewableEnergy, #Mobility and concerned about #ClimateChange

I post in English and German. Posts get deleted automatically after 30 days.

🕹️ Retro games #gamescwt
🔎 TKKG Retro #tkkgcwt
⁉️ This and that #tatcwt
📍 Location #wtcwt

Toots 📣 in 🇩🇪 and 🇬🇧 • Linux user 🐧 • Retro gamer 🕹️ • stand with 🇺🇦 • fckafd 🚫 • 🏳️‍🌈 🇪🇺

CEO-Vision President and Founder, publishing GoFAST, the best of #opensource software in one platform to compete with O365/#Sharepoint/#Teams Personal interests : #aviation #economics #entrepreneurship #StandWithUkraine #geopolitics #opensource

Professional classical singer. Many hobbies including #linux #android #diy #sewing #visiblemending #sashiko #fashion #bicycles #brompton #bikerepair #graphicdesign #violin #viola #opensource #tabletoprpg #gaming #bouldering #swimming #coding #webdesign #buyitforlife …tfr

Professional/academic interests: #classicalmusic #classicalsinging #singing #choir #contemporaryclassical #musicology #arthistory #journalism #linguistics

I am a #progressive, #atheist, #teetotaller, #feminist and LGBTQ+ #ally

#FreeSoftware #Privacy #SelfHosting #P2P

privileged cis white abled hetero male

#Innsbruck #Austria

Search, text mining, machine learning aka statistics; Open Source governance; Director InnerSource Commons Foundation; The ASF member

🧪 Research scientist and engineer fed up with the status quo (electrochemical engineering: batteries and electrocatalysis).

⚙️ Into appropriate technology, open-source hardware, co-ops (of all kinds), solidarity economy, and that sort of thing.

🐣 Grew up across the Mississippi River from Cahokia Mounds (St. Louis, Missouri)

📍 Drôme, FR

🏕️ Distance running, bikelife, getting off-grid

🏴 In the lower left of the political compass

he/him

EN/FR

I program #SpringBoot web services and have now managed to avoid managing people. I used to program dev tools & before that, program mobile phones.

Once ran the same early Windows 8 build instance on both a hypervisor and native boot.

Old enough to remember #Symbian #C++.

I really like painting miniature figures like those produced for #warhammer, but am not so keen on #GamesWorkshop.

#OnePageRules is my current #TableTop #Wargaming jam.

Involved in some kind of computer bullshit.

L’arte è una palingenetica obliterazione dell’io cosciente, che si infutura in un archetipo prototipo del polimorfismo umano. 😊

Cycling, designing,
coding, over-thinking.
Bit sweary.
Portsmouth, UK.

Luddite trying not to be po-faced
in the face of so much po💩

A JS trying to make his JS, CSS and HTML lean and kind.

“The times are urgent.
Let’s slow down.”
—Bayo Akomolafe

Header image is a panoramic view of Southsea seafront from the groyne built from imported Norwegian granite to protect the beach from longshore drift.

Profile image is a 50-something me behind a card box that says “Fragile, this way up”.

Describe myself? Why? Who I believe I am is irrelevant to who you're going to believe me to be.

私は投稿を日本語・英語・韓国語で書きます。しかし、投稿の多くは英語になるかもしれません。もし私の多言語投稿が気になるようでしたら、どうぞ私をミュートしてください。気を悪くしたりはしませんので

Emily (🇬🇧 she/her; 🇳🇱 zij/haar)

🏳️‍🌈 Queer
♾️ Autistic
🐈 mouse-cat-puppy thing creature
🇮🇩 Chinese-Indonesian
🏴 Anarchist
👩🏻‍💻 C# .NET and web developer
🎨 Graphic designer
✊ Agitprop maker

Member of too many orgs

IT & administration @BIJ1
Board member @DenHaagBIJ1
⚒️ Union organiser @techwerkers
Designer @vrijebonddelfland
Designer @Active_For_Justice
🦖 Sysadmin & organiser @trrex
🦕 Designer TUB
⚧️ Designer TZN
🏳️‍🌈 Co-founder & Organiser GHOS

🫱🏻‍🫲🏿 Member @PSRF
🏠 Member BPW
🛠️ Member @fnv
🏷️ Member SSHG

🚩 Designed something for De Rode Lap once

I toot in Dutch, Puppy and English

🌟Geek por instinto | 🐧Linux por certeza | 🖥Fedora por su pollo!!!