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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.

Jonathan Dowland jmtd
@fraggle some of my absolute favourite movies in the recent decades buck the trend (inception. Might rewatch “the creator”). Also I’m thinking of the atrocious rebel moon and how it’s both an “original IP” but also has all the problems of a Star Wars sequel

Joe Groff joe@f.duriansoftware.com

“The sky was the color of television tuned to a dead channel”

80s meaning: grey
90s meaning: blue
Today: full of ads from the smart tv vendor

Jonathan Dowland jmtd
Total functions and beyond https://ericnormand.substack.com/p/total-functions-and-beyond

Ian Jackson Diziet@tech.lgbt

Rust is indeed woke. It's woke technology that embodies a woke understanding of what it means to be a programming language.

Blog post, by me.

Jon Baker JonBaker@mastodon.social

Adjusted for inflation, Jay-Z currently has 168 problems

CPI inflation calculator showing an increase of 99 in April 2004 to be worth 168.03 in February 2025

Jonathan Dowland jmtd
What's the story about "Nicole" then, I'm out of the loop

Jonathan Dowland jmtd
Now I’ve settled on a font, today I absolutely won’t be tweaking the glossary-link styling. No, I’ll be writing instead.

Jonathan Dowland jmtd
@pwaring palatino worked out very nice. Thanks!

Jonathan Dowland jmtd
@pwaring I think I'll give Palatino a try (in my next yak shave interval. I need to get back to writing :))

Jonathan Dowland jmtd
@Conan_Kudo @neil Argh it's clearly quite a personal thing. Also whether it's going to be printed or not. (This will, but nobody will be reading it printed). I might try some different serif fonts. I prefer *that* sans font, but I think serif might be a better choice for the final document.

Thanks both for your feedback!

Jonathan Dowland jmtd
@pwaring entertaining, thank you :) we have a couple of similar classes that circulate amongst students in NCL.

Jonathan Dowland jmtd
@pwaring that shouldn't be times new roman… it should be "latin modern roman" https://tug.org/FontCatalogue/latinmodernroman/

Jonathan Dowland jmtd
Exhibits A & B
sample thesis page in serif sample thesis page in sans-serif

Jonathan Dowland jmtd
Real talk: serif or sans-serif font for a thesis?

Jonathan Dowland jmtd
@metacosm distributed stream processing with purely functional programming

Jonathan Dowland jmtd
About 3 weeks to my thesis deadline. Head down, but light at the end of the tunnel

Jonathan McDowell noodles@social.earth.li

I wrote a thing about who pays the cost of progress in software?

Miroslav Suchý mirek@rodina-sucha.cz

This object was just passing over Brno (21:00-21:03 CET) from NWW to SEE. It started as a small butterfly from light - I thought about some kind of halo around a bright star. But it was moving in satellite speed, and the halo was rotating and growing. Photos are bad because it is from phone.

Jonathan Dowland jmtd
@mirek I just saw something really similar! 55°N, UK. my photos much worse. I’ve been told it’s jettisoned rocket fuel

Markus Eisele myfear@mastodon.online

Red Hat Middleware moving to IBM http://markclittle.blogspot.com/2025/03/red-hat-middleware-moving-to-ibm.html by @nmcl

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