“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

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.

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
#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.

A Wandering Teacher uses #watercolor, #ink, & #Krita, to make flora, fauna, & #fanart.
It is super effective!
Self-taught & still #learning;

she/her

Reviews are my own unpaid & unsolicited opinions.

Avatar is a watercolor woman in a green shirt, resting her chin on 1 hand while looking at the viewer. Her head is on fire.
Banner is Moon Girl studying.

#Art #Painting #KidLit #KidLitArt #DigitalArt #Creative #Cooking #Sewing #Education #Inclusion #Accessibility #ArtABCs

I'm a writer and gardener living in the remnant of a forest on the coast of Maine USA. My novels include Rumors of Spring, Tex and Molly in the Afterlife, and Another Green World. I'm a gay father and granddaddy. He/him

#gardening #wald #woods #trees #Wandervogel #Romantik #ChoralMusic #EarlyMusic #anglican #neopagan #Episcopagan #LGBT #TMSidhi #fantasy #science #SF #PlantScience #botany #labyrinths #impossible #paranormal #folklore #magic #UAP #NAFO #Ukraine #Maine #photography #liminal

#Genre researcher and #Grundtvig-scholar. Cheerleader, content accumulator, climate worrier (and sometimes warrior). Father of four. Recovering mansplainer; wannabe feminist. Dane; whatever that is. #Wikipedia admirer.

Not giving the bastard my despair!

Banner picture is a group of mammoths walking through a winter landscape with forests and mountains.

LGBTQ+ ally. #BLM
 #dkmastodon #WokeAF #RandomActsOfKindness #YIMBY #FBPE #FBR

Unabashed lefty married to a terrific woman. Animal lover, especially cats but also dogs, birds—heck all of 'em. Audiophile, vinyl collector. Retired urban planner. Failed novelist.USAF Vietnam vet. Currently a big John Fahey fan. Born in Chicago, lived in Denver, Colorado Springs, St Louis, DC; in San Diego since 1999 and not about to depart until climate change demands it.

Front-end dev dilettante. ½ Japanese. Hawaii born. I have been doing web stuff since late last century. Nowadays, UX & JS. I build the legacy apps of tomorrow.

– MDiv degree. MA interaction design. In progress: MS digital comm analytics.

– Principal software engineer.

– 😍😠 relationship with TypeScript.

– Contributed to O'Reilly book on jQuery years ago. Tech edited a few others.

– Fan of Eleventy. Also into SolidJS & Svelte. Forever chasing an optimal workflow.

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

#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)

Estadística, datos, gráficos, cuentas, cuentas y más cuentas 📊⛏

Aquí se habla de: #estadística #statistics #datos #CienciaDeDatos #DataScience #Rstats #dataviz #muestreo #sampling #encuestas #surveys #sesgo #bias

Writing Software for Swisscom during the day, everything else at night | Father of two kids | 🇨🇭

Topics that I find interesting:
#fedi22 #Java #Kotlin #Spring #SpringBoot #Programming #CyberSecurity #InfoSec #Tech #BigBone #Mastodon4J #BugBounty #Mastodon #DIY #Hacking #Making

🥾 Spring Boot 🚂 Rails 🤖 AI 🐧 Linux

👨‍👩‍👦‍👦👨🏻‍💻🚴🏻 – Father, Husband, Developer, Athlete. Author of @springbootbuch and #DuckDB in Action, founder of @euregjug. Java champion working on various integrations of @neo4j in the broader Java ecosystem.

You can expect a mixture of tech (Java, GraalVM, databases), some politics, cycling and food pictures.

Published in 2024: https://www.manning.com/books/duckdb-in-action

Software engineer with a lot of #Java #Spring #SpringBoot #Gradle
I play #game on #xbox game pass
Admin of @darktablefr and https://darktable.fr

Toots retention = 1 year
#fedi22

Dev JS React
Sinon ça cause surtout parentalité queer, antifascisme et petite poésie/réflexion.

Je relaie certaines infos et certains visuels artistique (ou non) en relation avec les luttes antifascistes quand j'ai le temps.

antifascism
Queer
Esprit critique & zététique
💖 Sequins & love
Iel/them

I do native iOS 📱, macOS 🖥️, and Android 🤖 accessibility ♿️ and native iOS development 🛠️.

I post my bad music taste regularly 🎶

Public policy professor researching #energy & #climate politics, and, well, #IR & political stuff generally. Book in banner coming soon: link.springer.com/9783032245755 . Former #trade diplomat, future curmudgeon.

Bearded, mohawked, unapologetically queer, kinky, trio'd, body- and sex- positive, political, irreverent, Veteran, rugger, leatherman, fantastic cook/cock, lover of animals (human and bio), sci-fi fan, equal parts teacher/delinquent, daddy/brat, stallion/mare… I can lead you to temptation. What you do there is up to you! #NSFW #Rugby #Pagan #Satyr #LegalizeIt #SanDiego #PalmSprings

Associate Professor of Political Science, Brock University.
#IPE, #techgovernance #platformgovernance #copyright #datagovernance #SydneySwans tragic.

Co-author, with Natasha Tusikov, The New Knowledge: Information, Data and the Remaking of Global Power (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023).