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.

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.

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.

Earth Scientist, partly retired, Quaternary Geology and thawing #permafrost, still active in #peatland conservation research. 
Former Vrije Universiteit, now at VOF Kytalyk Carbon Cycle Research
. 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

Call me Cider 🍎☕️ ✓
transsexual lesboy queer • 26 • 🇲🇽🇺🇸 🗣< Eng ) • plural (D.I.D) 🎉 • horror lover 🔪 • strung out on yaoi cocaine 🌈🍧 • toons toons toons!!! 📺 • draw trans shotas NOW! 🍼🏳️‍⚧️🩷

I dabble. Mostly in trains - H0 scale and live steam. Sometimes in games. Professionally in tech. German living on Yuggera land in Australia. I post and repost in English and German. Trans rights are human rights.

(Previously @rainynight65)

Profile pic is a close-up of a model locomotive (Victorian Railways B Class B65)

Header is a picture of The Ghan, a tourist train, taken in Alice Springs, Australia, with locomotive NR75 prominently in the lead

#nobots #noindex

A container of multitudes & an ebullient wally. Constantly curious. Tina Belcher in her 40s. I'm OK.

#slaithwaite #Huddersfield #yorkshire
#cats #dogs #springerspaniels
#hiking #cycling (touring) #swimming
#nature #gardening #GrowYourOwn
#fiberart #textiles #crochet #embroidery
#history #SocialHistory #heritage
#books #SpeculativeFiction #HistoricalFiction
#gaming #oxygennotincluded #factorio #openttd

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.

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.

👨‍👩‍👦‍👦👨🏻‍💻🚴🏻 – 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

“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

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

Indie app developer; maker of @forscore (no support questions here, please). I love music, photography, travel, hiking and coding. Based in Las Vegas & Palm Springs.

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

I post my bad music taste regularly 🎶

Enjoying life in a small, temperate seaside town in Portugal 🇵🇹 🌴🌴

Life is never fair. But it can be better.

I swear I found the key to the universe. Ask me where.

#LiverpoolFC #AlohaLife #NotAISlop

Enterprise Software Architect, Cloud, OpenSource, Gardening, Travel

#Java #Rust #Python #SpringIO #Microservices #3dprinting #FckAfd #NazisRaus #Leipzig #nobot
#Threema via W7AAXD5V

Alt-Text Header: Shows a lokal lake in Winter with a lot of trees around and a pathway. Blue sky with the sun in the center.

Alt-Text Avatar: shows me, sitting on stairs in Leipzig, wearing goggles, short hair and a black t-shirt with the text: Kein Bock auf Rassist*innen!

#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)

Nebula and 3X BSFA Award Finalist Author. Science writer. Artist. Explorer. 
DUNGEON CRAWL AT THE HAUNTED MALL (Out now!)
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

#Colorado based guitar picker and song maker. Somewhere between Springsteen and Son Volt. #americana #altcountry Find me at http://JayStottMusic.com All my other socials are @jaystottmusic #Streaming all the places one does that sort of thing.

Speckgürtel Speckflagge (aber vegan).
Moderator auf dieser Instanz.

#Bremen #Fahrrad #Hunde #Fischerhude

Profilbild ist eine Pixelgrafik: ein Toaster mit Augen. Aus dem Toaster springt ein getoastetes Herz.
Headerbild: Temperaturänderungen zum Mittelwert seit 1850 für Bremen, Deutschland. Rote und blaue Streifen, wobei von links nach rechts die Streifen deutlich röter werden. Die letzten Streifen rechts sind dunkelrot.