Scientist turned software engineer. Variously Java, Scala and Python over the years, some Big Data on Spark, some social media analysis, hype-busting tech writing, and a bunch of other stuff, now mostly trying to cram things reluctantly into k8s pods. Debunker of transphobes.

Field archery (trad. recurve).

Kung-fu (Shaolin 7 animals).

Keeper of rats.

https://twitter.com/doublehelix

https://medium.com/@davidallsopp

https://bsky.app/profile/doublehelix.bsky.social

- Doing Scala for 10+ years
- Fervent skier
- Saving as much energy as possible

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 and #racism

FOSS person. #Gamedev for the #ZXSpectrum, #Amstrad CPC, #Commodore64, #MSX and other shiny things (PC and #DOS!).

Also #Scala, #C, #Python and #haskell, and some (retro) gaming.

Not made of actual Lego.

Toots have TTL.

Moved from @reidrac

#nobot #nobots

Header: a photo of a Sony Trinitron TV displaying a scene from the game The Dawn of Kernel (Amstrad CPC) in all its CRT beauty.