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Jonathan Dowland | @jmtd@pleroma.debian.social

Principal Software Engineer on #OpenJDK #RedHat. #Debian developer (dormant). Computer Science PhD student. Amateur Computing historian (Computer Science and H/W, esp. Commodore Amiga). Guerilla archivist.

@edward wise choice. If I go to fosdem next year I’ll be taking Eurostar too (as well as NCL->KGX). Not sure what class though

@lxo I’m just pointing out that by implying someone made a death threat when they didn’t, quite apart from it undermining whatever argument you are trying to make, it also says a lot about your credibility

@lxo @mjg59 “fatal consequences” is an invention here

Yikes that Mishal/Mick Lynch interview just now on the today programme 👀

@eriol thanks. The technical side was one part, but actually deciding on a set of colours I liked was harder than I thought.

"Dark Mode" support added on my blog-site finally

I watched all of Apple TV+'s "The Shining Girls" in one day, although my 'day' is a little loosely defined as it spanned ten timezones

@ajroach42 @kebokyo if the only delivery from the project was (or would have been) at the end, sure. For anything else, you can construct an impact story for a cancelled project.

TFW you remove a \todo from your thesis by writing a section and add another 4 \todos

Put this on my "huh" to-read list: "The Haskell School of Music" https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/haskell-school-of-music/6B377BCD40386E9D27EB93FC2F3B13FB

New Blog Post: Portland, Oregon and Beatdown Records, Newcastle

Whatever happened to Steve Lord’s Dork Web?

Yesterday was my first in Portland, OR so I visited Powell’s which was amazing. And I escaped without spending all my money. Just

@esselfortium kind of related, I’m in your fair county right now and I see that Ancient Aliens is a tv show

@timbray @anildash @inertiate I’ve never managed to have a useful local timeline and I’ve given up trying. It’s kind of contrary to the point of federation anyway

My poor brain is too ruined right now (awake 24h) but this is 🤯 https://ethw.org/Ancient_Computers

Prepping for Portland

@csepp @mjg59 I can only answer for why I sometimes do it: to make something more easily memorable or to make something fit onto a slide in a presentation

@jzb your blog post about blogging has inspired me to try and get some blog posts off the ground again. Thank you!

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