My day job is in IT. This is my personal account.

Interested in digital sovereignty and related topics.

I'm almost there in my quest to de-google, de-meta, de-apple my online life.

Having a nice time with #opentofu. Automating a lot with #powershell and more and more with #ansible. I really like #openstack.

Hosting stuff at #safespring, #binero. #glesys and in my basement.

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.

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.

Blatantly, unabashedly pro-democracy. Ex-Michigan farmboy makin' it work since 1958 (born in 1953, but coasted for a few years). Proud and concerned father, grandfather, dog dad, and atheist. Emigrated from New Mexico high desert to New Jersey lake, spring 2022. Used to be a whitewater canoeist, now happy paddling a quiet lake. ClassicPress/WordPress developer; websites for real estate agents. I smoke a pipe, therefore I'm a philosopher. Oxford comma because I'm civilized.

Recovered republican; voted republican from '72 until '00. Never again. Profile pic and Springtime in Trumpistan by Hieronymus Bosch. Both are details from the Hell panel of The Garden of Earthly Delights.

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.

Writer curator performer dramaturg professor based in Brussels. Currently curating #TroubleFestival and (Pas si) Fragile! springboard at #StudioThor and teaching at #LaCambre. #PerformanceArt #LiveArt

gecos/CN: Janis Joan König
SAN: ElleJay (lj), Leo(nard) Robert König

Nyanbinary femby 🐈‍⬛

Bragging Rights: Made a former German conservative minister greet me in full cat girl outfit.

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"my cutie (it/its)" ~ @BernadetteKessler

"computer toucher in the street, girl kisser in the sheet" ~ @somsnosa

"aaaaaaaaaaah" ~ @drakulix

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See pinned post for more #intro, what to expect here, as well as alt-texts for pfp & banner <3

#MusicTherapist (MT-BC) 🎹 🎶 ☕️ 🌼 Zone 6a gardener
#MusicTherapy #gardening #gardeningMastodon #springBulbs #knitting

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.

Nebula and BSFA Award Finalist Author. Science writer. Artist. Explorer. 
DUNGEON CRAWL AT THE HAUNTED MALL (Apr. 2026) | GODFESTATION (Aug. 2026). Head of Stars and Sabers Publishing. CEO of Roaring Spring Productions, LLC.
Also wrote as J. Dianne Dotson.

Critical thinker | always seeking the truth | hate (🇷🇺)aggression and lies | despising misinformation and anti-science rhetoric | democracy must be protected in any possible way | retired as a dentist-academic teacher (restorative dentistry, implantology, oral radiology) | (re)married, a lot of children, step- & grandchildren 💕 | sailor Westerly Medway | Scandinavian countries and Baltic states | humor, self-mockery | science | nature | dog: Welsh Springer Spaniël-Ivy 💉🇺🇦⛵️🛥️⚓️🐾🇳🇱🇺🇦🔵

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

Just trying to figure this thing out (in multiple dimensions). Palm Springs, California

LIBERTÉ, ÉGALITÉ, FCKAfDÉ !!!

#linksgrünversifft #audiophil #Teilzeit-#Rasta-#Punk-#TechnoDJ, on #FunkyEarth-#AbschiedsTournee

#Menschenrechte #Antifaschist #VorletzteGeneration #weedmob #wirsindmehr #wirsindbunt #HaltDieFresseSpringerPresse

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

👨‍👩‍👦‍👦👨🏻‍💻🚴🏻 – 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

325 ppm. Unternehmer. #Hacking, #c++, #rust, #java, #spring; #sailing, #climbing (nowadays badly), #piano (badly), #cycling, #renewableenergy, #emobility, #Energiewende.

#NieWiederIstJetzt.

Architect, Cloud, OpenSource, Gardening, Travel

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

👋 Available for work

🖤 Design Systems Consultant
🛠 Front-End Engineer
⚙️ Previous Clients: Monotype, EMBL, UCL, Springer Nature

He/Him/They/Them