Educator, instructional technologist, tinkerer, musicmaker, hauler of bootstraps

Tech coach with empathy | ex-Twitter, ex-@mozilla. Pronounced /ghee-yom/.
Life-long meditator, interested in languages, cultures, animation, and history. they/them/he/him. 🇬🇧🏳️‍🌈

Tech stack: , TypeScript, CSS, React, #Svelte, #Tailwind, #Deno, Bootstrap, #withAstro, #AFrame, #Capacitor, #OpenSource, #FOSS, #Technology, #fedi22.

Available for hire 🫱🏽‍🫲🏾 #FediHire #FediJobs #GetFediHired

⚡ Interested in bootstrapping, podcasting, calm companies, business ethics, better life 🎙️ Co-founder of Transistor.fm (podcast hosting)

Still retired, oldmeanroy on twit, my best friend is my dog, bigtime car guy.

Programmed my first computer in 1964, a CDC160A, in binary. Using the switches on the front panel.
Took one byte off the paper tape bootstrap routine.

My Channel
https://youtube.com/@oldmeanroy

Hello tooters! I'm an #embedded #SoftwareEngineer using #c #cplusplus #sh #GNUMake #Perl #Buildroot #Buildbot #Javascript #Thrift #Bootstrap #Eclipse CDT #KDE #Debian #Linux to make #microwave #radio network devices.

Also I build and #ride #bicycles outside in #Devon and inside on #Zwift, enjoy #cooking, #beer, red #wine and #coffee 😋

In a different life I might have been in #infosec #particlephysics #astrophysics #chemistry or #robotics !

Background picture of my #Assos Goomah by my son

I'm a senior editor at Tycoonstory, covering Small Businesses, Startup Stories, Celebrity Net Worth, and Technology for over three years.I explore everything from bootstrapped ventures to billion-dollar unicorns, analyzing trends, success stories, and industry shifts. Passionate about entrepreneurship and innovation, I dive deep into business, finance, and emerging tech. Follow me on Twitter, Instagram, and Threads for insights into startups, growth, and financial trends.

Autotelic. Autistic. Assonance-Holeⓒ (Proletariat, she/her & they/them)

Career I.T. Analyst, Product Owner, and Innovation Thinker.
Available for remote work. Seeking relocation to PNW (OR, WA)

Founder affonso.io| 12+ years in affiliate marketing. Saw what breaks and what scales.
✨ Bootstrapping a better affiliate software for SaaS growth.

Bootstrapped B2B Impact Founder, Ex-Economist (#antitrust #sustainability #humanrights)

I am a full-stack founder, solo bootstrap developer, self-taught indie maker, and digital craftsman over 50, building Hubstry — a deep-tech holding focused on computational ontology, symbolic intelligence, and semantic interoperability.

SF Bay Area. Techie stuff, mainly innovation and R&D. Empathy is the highest personal value. Fan of lost political causes.

Day job is bootstrapping a social gaming startup hidden inside a Public Benefit Corp. Motto: Turning Sinners into Saints.

Ex-Panasonic. Ex-AWS, ex-Lab126, ex-Taligent, with spates at Apple, IBM, and NASA. Side-gig/retirement goal: writing novels. He/him.

Founder & Software Architect @ Cerb for 23 years, building web-based team email and workflow automation. 100% source-available & customer-funded.

I've been obsessed with coding since the dial-up BBS days of the early 1990s. My daily stack is PHP/MySQL/AWS/Docker, with increasingly more Python for devops/ML.

Learning piano and German.

#php #mysql #aws #docker #python #programming #machinelearning #compilers #bootstrapping #german #music #piano

Agency owner. Bootstrapper. South African living in Europe. Follow me for slightly cynical takes on tech and marketing.

👨‍💻 Software Engineer | 🚀 Bootstrapped Indie Hacker in the Making
🌟 Crafting Code & Building Dreams
💡 Passionate about innovation and problem-solving

Developer Advocate at TYPO3. Creator of the TYPO3 Sitepackage Builder and Bootstrap Package.

Founder CEO @Flighty • ATX, iOS, SaaS, product, strategy, bootstrapped • Prev: Duke, Apple, Weather Line (acq’d)

Conrad Shaw - all things #UBI
Producer - Bootstraps #BasicIncome trial & docuseries
Creator - UBIcalculator.com
Co-founder - comingler.us
Vice Chair - ITSAfoundation.org

Founder of DatoCMS, a successful, fully bootstrapped headless CMS. Living in Florence, Italy.

Why follow me: I'm interested in sustainable business, fair society, design, programming, psychology, and keeping things simple.

My #indieweb blog: https://squeaki.sh

Bootstrapping @getkliento
📍 Karlsruhe, Germany
#computers since 1981
#dotnet since 2002
#vegan since 2008
#nodejs since 2011
#linux since 2011 (yes, I'm late)

Motivated by weird problems & sleek solutions
Working on, learning with and bootstrapping https://coders.fail #BuildInPublic