Historical romance author with a PhD, a piano, & a v. large library. Loves happy endings & her caravan Miss Hetty. Queer. She / her

Profile pic is a selfie: A white woman with dark hair and a smile.

Header: A collage of six of Sandy's books, namely: Passion of a Winter Night, The Gladiator's Passion, The Centurion's Choice, Eagle's Honor: Ravished, Castle of the Wolf, Springtime Pleasures

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.

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.

👨‍👧 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]

40-something former Event Zaddy™ turned producer at a digital agency, professional tall guy, big Leo energy. Toots about life, work, travel, tech gripes, gay shit. 🏳️‍🌈👬 🎉 Bouncing between Seattle, WA and Palm Springs, CA (he/him)

#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)

🇺🇸 Politics and Policy Reporter @VOANews PLACED on ADMINISTRATIVE LEAVE by USAGM. Award-nominated VJ. Multilingual. Lived 14 years in Egypt and Lebanon. Covered Arab Spring, War in Libya, Thailand ‘s 2004 tsunami on the ground for CNN en Español. Ex TV Azteca and United Nations Volunteers in Indonesia & Sri Lanka (among others.) Reblogs Not endorsement. 
Washington D.C. 
 #AFreePressMatters

I program #SpringBoot web services and have now managed to avoid managing people. I used to program dev tools & before that, program mobile phones.

Once ran the same early Windows 8 build instance on both a hypervisor and native boot.

Old enough to remember #Symbian #C++.

I really like painting miniature figures like those produced for #warhammer, but am not so keen on #GamesWorkshop.

#OnePageRules is my current #TableTop #Wargaming jam.

Involved in some kind of computer bullshit.

Das Einfangen von Momenten und das Spiel mit Licht und Farben faszinieren mich immer wieder aufs Neue.

Wichtig. No #altText = No boost. Inklusion statt Nixklusion.

Header: railway station black and white
Profile: small plastic Dragon

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“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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.
Pre-order book at
https://link.springer.com/book/9783031904578

If anybody wants to know a few things about me

#UK
#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.

Nebula and BSFA Award Finalist Author. Science writer. Artist. Explorer. 
THE VALE OF SEVEN DRAGONS (Apr. 2026) | GODFESTATION (Aug. 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

Mostly boosting things that make me think (or laugh, or -- these days -- angry). Occasionally sharing stuff I make

Profile image: cartoon of a smiling, gray-haired, pink-skinned man (me)

Banner photo: some white woodland wildflowers in spring

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

Democrat in Northern California. #Atheist. #Springsteen fan, Go #SJSharks, #SMCGaels, #SacKings, #SFGiants. Bookworm, tech geek. Get vaccinated and vote!