Photographer (botanicals, landscapes, people), surface design, gardener. Living in Vancouver, BC, Canada (Coast Salish terr). I mostly avoid posting or reading about politics on social media.

header: newly germinated Salvia patens 'Blue Angel', spring 2025
avatar: me against a white backdrop with a red maple leaf splodged on

Software engineer with a lot of #Java #Spring #SpringBoot #Gradle #linux #nix and #nixos

Admin of @darktablefr and https://darktable.fr

Toots retention = 1 year
#fedi22

Earth Scientist, retired, Quaternary Geology and thawing #permafrost, still active in science communication. 
Former Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. Fan of forests, wetlands, Wadden sea, the Highlands & Hebrides.
Author of 'Thawing Permafrost (Springer Natuture Verlag) and 'Permafrost nu, in het ijstijd-verleden en de toekomst' (KNNV Uitgeverij, Netherlands)
 Dutch, English, German, French, some Scots Gaelic and Russian

I'm a philomath (many interests; call it polymath-wanna-be) professional computer programmer in Silicon Valley, specializing in operating systems, languages/compilers, sometimes AI, usually non-traditional parallel software and hardware architectures.
Also:
#computer_science #unicode #unix #linux #bsd #unix_old_fart
#compilers
#operating_systems
#GOF_AI
#cognitive_science
#linguistics
#physics
#mathematics

Ex-springboard diver; scuba diver; free diver

Ars longa, vita brevis.

Gay partnered (for 17 yrs)Boomer in California (Palm Springs area). Napa wine tour concierge 2019-23. Pre-retirement I was a tech analyst studying emerging technology. Step-Papy to 2 amazing 20-something daughters. Big time cat dad.

👨‍👧 Dad
📚 The Making of Tomb Raider: 1997-2000 - out later this year!
✍️ Freelance writer & author
🚐 Running Springboard — a newsletter and a copywriting business with no AI
📬 [email protected]

bisexual demiboy (he/they), mistakenly considered cute by various critters here Known to switch from soft boy to radical anti-capitalist and anti-autoritarian at random intervals without notice "They should make a side scroller where I find you and squeeze you" ~@[email protected] "cute boy on Fedi" ~@[email protected] "If you were a worm I would SO still like you" ~@[email protected] "witix is a kind soul in a world that wants to hurt people" ~@[email protected] "You're just naturally sweet." ~@[email protected] "why would someone not like you" ~@[email protected] #noindex #nogods #nomasters Image alts: Profile picture is a digital grawing drawing of a puppyboy in a black hoodie, looking up with a neutral, almost hollow expression, brown hair covering half of his face For more information visit https://witix777.github.io/ants Legal disclaimer: This user is a work of fiction. Any similarity to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.

“When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him." Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)

#dogs, #atheist, grandpa, and a #geocacher.
 Add #introvert to the list, too.
#Wisconsin native. I love #flyfishing the spring creeks of the driftless area (always catch and release).
Pour-over #coffee with fresh roasted beans. The only way to go!

 I always follow back and boost often!
https://justmytoots.com/@loughrn@mastodon.world

#Biochemist, #ComputerScientist, #SystemsBiology, #Professor, #Photographer, #EVdriver, #Programmer, #SysAdmin, #Enzymologist

Header photo is the Palette Spring in Yellowstone. The beautiful colors come from microbial biofilms growing in the spring (mostly archea and bacteria)

Computer nerd. Avid collector of retro computing gear. Ham radio operator. Gear head. Wannabe pastry chef. Amateur runner.

Actually autistic and ADHD.

Living in the Palm Springs area.

Software Engineer 📚 Author of “Cloud Native Spring in Action” and "Developer Experience on Kubernetes" 🛳️ CNCF Ambassador ☕️ Java Champion 🍃 Creator of Arconia 🎙️ International Speaker 👨‍💻 OSS. Work with Java and Cloud Native.

Australian retired archaeologist, Emeritus Professor at University of New England, Armidale. Book on (mostly the evolution of) art--Art or Scribbles was published on 8 August 2025. Published on bones, stones, language origins, art etc. Worked with Gamilaraay, Wangkamadla, Yulluna, Kalkadoon and Mitakoodi people.
We must have a politics which encourages equality and fights climate change.

https://link.springer.com/book/9783031904578

Digital Humanist with focus on culture and literature, gender diversity, public humanities, narratology and podcasting. Host of RaDiHum20 Podcast.

Micrometer and Spring maintainer, Spring Observability Team member, Open Sourcerer, Speaker, @seattlejug co-organizer, Java Champion

Software Engineer, Dad, Geek, Co-founder and Lead of Spring Cloud Core @ Broadcom

Nebula and 3X BSFA Award Finalist Author. Science writer. Artist. Explorer.
GODFESTATION (Aug. 2026)
THE DAWN OF DUSK AND TWILIGHT (Oct. 2026)
Head of Stars and Sabers Publishing. CEO of Roaring Spring Productions, LLC.
Also wrote as J. Dianne Dotson.
#books #author #writer #fantasy #horror #scifi #thriller #artist #sciencewriter

If anybody wants to know a few things about me

#UK - born in the NHS at 312ppm.
#Hedgehogs
#LiberalDemocrat
#WalterPresents
#CognitiveTrailTheory
#CovidIsNotOver
#Nightwish
#Springsteen
#ActuallyImReallyQuiteBoring

Profile pic is me with my fluffy sheep Ruffles. Header is about a hundred sheep who decided to form a ring on the downs one day. I'm not that interested in sheep, really.

Husband, father of four, volunteer, athlete, continuous learner. Deliberately practicing to build, run, and manage, better software, faster. #Spring Developer Advocate.

Staff Software Engineer #SpringCloudDataFlow at #VMwareTanzu, speaker (only diverse panels), organizer #JoziJUG, scientific skeptic, BLM. Opinions are my own. #nocrypto

🥾 Spring Boot 🚂 Rails 🤖 AI 🐧 Linux

software engineer from #Berlin

#kotlin #java #quarkus #SpringBoot #fedi22 tfr