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

Gay partnered (for 16 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.

Musician, producer, Spring Data.

#Autist | #ADHD/#ADHS | #Neurodiversity 🧠🌈

Ostfriesland 🌊🌬️🌞🌧️

I'm a philomath (many interests; call it polymath-wanna-be) professional computer programmer in Silicon Valley.
#mathematics
#computer_science #unicode #unix #linux #bsd
#compilers
#operating_systems
#GOF_AI (#good_old_fashioned_ai pre-2014)
#cognitive_science
#linguistics
#physics

Ex-springboard diver; scuba diver; free diver

Ars longa, vita brevis.

👨‍👩‍👦‍👦👨🏻‍💻🚴🏻 – 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 tester/husband/trotse vader/nerd



Ik roei, speel met kleine zeilbootjes #df65 of mijn #SpringerTug (beiden #rc) en soms met taal.
#introduction

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

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

Senior Software Engineer ☕️ Java 🌱 Spring ☁️ AWS

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.

software engineer from #Berlin

#kotlin #java #quarkus #SpringBoot #fedi22 tfr

I teach #Java, write books, and speak on Open Source.
VP Data Privacy TheASF—sharing practical insights on #Java, #Spring, & #Log4j.

“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

Carbon-based Turing Test-compliant life-form DBA Professor of #Transportation #Geography at #McMaster University, where I teach and do research on #accessibility, #TravelBehavior, #SpatialAnalysis, #ActiveTravel, #TransportPolicy.

I am an #Rstats enthusiast and big believer in #Reproducible #Open #Science.

I have several hobbies, including #CreativeWriting, #CreativeCoding and #Rtistry.

#geogdon #mapstodon #Rspatial #HamOnt

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

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

Grill-King, Social-Media-Junkie, Software-Developer.

Currently available for freelance work (Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, Kafka, Vue.js)

Ehemals @dirksteins on Twitter.

forklift certified and 1'2, former owner of swimp's shrimp and dip

🟠living the dream 🟠prepensioen 🟠caravan 🟠genieten 🟠leukste "kinderen" (26 - 24) 🟠liefste man (al 40 jaar ❤️) 🟠einzelgänger 🟠oranje 🟠museum 🟠fijn boek 🟠SOXS 🟠boksen 🟠yin yoga 🟠skiën 🟠circuit-training 🟠NO to wappen en dom-rechts 🟠make this world a better place 🟠koken 🟠een jaar lang geen nieuwe kleren kopen ♻️ 🟠geen toots met: goedemorgen, koffie, wewv, welterusten.

Had ik al gezegd: allergisch voor wappen en dom-rechts?

Retired and disabled. Exploring myself.
Rowan is a nickname I have had for 40 years among my pagan friends. It feels better for now than Brian.

Intersectional ID: QPwB-ND(A)-LC/ME
Pronouns: For now, any pronouns you choose, or person/per. Stay tuned, I guess?

Born at 317 ppm atmospheric CO2

Header pic: a small meadow in spring, shrubs, young forest, and taller trees in front of a blue sky with puffy clouds.
Thumbnail pic: a smiling person wearing a paisley kerchief and flower-and-bird–print blouse, sitting on the porch in front of that same grass and trees.