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pleroma.debian.social

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.

my pleroma session somehow lost my preferences/style (classic mac) so I've taken the opportunity to "upgrade" to CDE → https://plthemes.vulpes.one/themes/cde-arizona/

https://86box.net/2025/02/25/riva128-part-1.html is absolutely the kind of thing that's my bag, baby

@pwaring yeesh I wouldn’t want to have been to that film club un-forewarned :)

I really don’t have a very high bar for Firefox, and they keep falling under it

Yesterday was my first skate in a month or so and I’m *tired*

@textfiles are you going to end up with some equivalent of the disintegration loops?

Oh no people are actually reading my Haskell streaming blog post

Oh hey I made Haskell Weekly News again https://haskellweekly.news/issue/461.html

@pndc wow this is more info than i anticipated with my idle toot :) thank you

19yo son who studies biomedical science shared this and titled it etheriophage. 💯

Image titled computer virus. It's an RJ45 connector with a short piece of UTP cable. The plastic sleeve has been cut back a little with the 8 strands of wire twisted in pairs, so the cable has 4 'legs'. The wire stands up on the legs, looking like the typical depiction of a bacteriophage.

@loren *inside* doom (itself running on something stupid)

@hyperreal burying the lede slightly is the “Hugo” project. Moving the website off WML must be a massive undertaking but such a good idea

Rust has an m68k backend which seems somehow related to the Linux m68k community. I wonder if it can build m68k binaries that would execute (even boot) on an Amiga? Sans Linux etc

@jess I’ve seen several hardcore Excel users rubbish Google Sheets but for the level of usage I have (which isn’t “live in the spreadsheet” but it’s still substantial) i actually prefer it. Accessing them on phone though is terrible. Is Excel’s mobile app actually usable?
I think Collabora’s thing is derived from libreoffice but I’ve never tried it

@elmiko @anticdent heh :) I don’t write much Java. I contain it, and sometimes hack on the VM, but that’s C++

I’ve used git daily for 15 years and there’s plenty I didn’t know in this excellent post https://blog.gitbutler.com/how-git-core-devs-configure-git/

Today’s coding was like waving a metaphorical machete through thickets of legacy. It felt good

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