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

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

Ehemals @dirksteins on Twitter.

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

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

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

👨‍👩‍👦‍👦👨🏻‍💻🚴🏻 – 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

👋 Available for work

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

He/Him/They/Them

Scot, Canadian settler and zoologist

Freelance Software Engineer und Methodenberater. Bassist und Musiker vom linken Niederrhein.

Versuche regelmäßig die Welt mit Software besser zu machen.

DevOp at https://feedbeat.io
Committer at https://daseventhub.org
Tech: java, spring, typescript, angular, python

#engineer #developer #bassplayer #enthusiast #krefeld

I would like to tell you about myself
1. I go by many names Elliot Washington, Retro-Rock, Red-Elliot, MrElliotDoggyMeaty, Rocket-Mon and Elliot The Fury
2. I dump Rare and Obscure Japanese 8-Bit Pc Games
3. My favorite food is Pizza, Burger, French Fries, Turkey Sandwiches, Chicken Nuggets, and Strawberries with Peanut Butter
4. My favorite season is Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall
5. I like talking about Retro Games a lot
6. I like Cats, Dogs, Raccoons, Pufferfish, Octopus, Parrots and Foxes

Software tester/husband/trotse vader/nerd



Ik roei, speel met kleine zeilbootjes #df65 of mijn #SpringerTug (beiden #rc) en soms met taal.
Fan van #linux (al ben ik er nu wat minder actief mee bezig). En als trouw luisteraar van #damnhoney zou ik me bijna #feminist kunnen noemen.
Sinds kort speel ik weer met een fototoestel. Resultaten zijn te zien op https://fotograaf.van.petrafenijn.nl/
#fotografie #photography
#introduction

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

tootfinder

Indie app developer & maker of @forscore (no support questions here, please). I love music, photography, and coding. Seattle/Palm Springs

🥾 Spring Boot 🚂 Rails 🤖 AI 🐧 Linux

Frameworks & Architecture in the Spring open source engineering team, all things Spring, Java, data, DDD, REST, software architecture, drums & music. He/him.

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

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.

Realized #actuallyautistic at 63, which has been a prime factor in mitigating ME/CFS. Linux, java, flutter. Etymology, weird word facts. Wicked Jeopardy player (except in People, see above). Springer spaniels 🇨🇦

AMS Certified Broadcast Meteorologist with nearly 40 years experience (30 years in Chicago market) who is concerned how climate change is impacting us now and how it will impact future generations, including my six grandchildren.

SW-Developer, Father, Musician
#DEVCommunity #Berlin #Java #csharp #SpringBoot #TypeScript #Angular #coffee

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'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.