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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.

New blog post: submitted https://jmtd.net/log/phd/submitted/ #phd

@david_chisnall @GoblinQuester @jenesuispasgoth @futurebird “the lathe of heaven” is fantastic. “The left hand of darkness” is good, too.

Randomly remembering wetrix, an underrated puzzle game from the n64 era. There was a sequel but I’ve never played that.

My toolbox is overflowing, not with tools, but with screws, nails, nuts, rawl plugs, etc.: where do you keep those things? How do you organise them?

Just git bisecting my thesis. Totally normal.

I can't wait to be done with LaTeX's glossaries package.

@hyperreal I’ve not played it but I was struck by how similar it looked to No Man’s Sky. I expect the similarity is mostly surface level but the optics of that (billion dollar studio ripping off beloved indie) put me off it at launch time.

@jwz not on your list, but “allow signal to [insert thing here]” -> No -> “we’ll ask you again later” is still a thing.

@stilgherrian web forms not accepting ‘+’ is still a problem even today. Worse, companies whose sites accept it one day and reject it later on (after you’ve signed up)

Is it time to buy the dip yet?

@algernon there is such a list, apparently. John Gruber blogged recently whinging about being on it

I continue to believe that Bitwarden's recent UI changes are objectively worse and I'm still grumpy about it.

@metacosm I should add that I was off sick for a long time last year, and my team-mates clubbed together and got me a voucher which paid for the Korg Minilogue XD. My team is awesome. IBM are lucky to be getting us.

@metacosm oh that's cool. The smaller one, the microfreak, was on my shortlist (https://jmtd.net/log/synths/microfreak/) — I might still pick it up one day, as it can be used portably with a powerbank

@revk Oh! I didn't notice (and I can't see the tag right now, in my client) — tagging is, I think, sufficient, so thank you.

@dneary @evan FWIW I don't personally believe WW2 started with Pearl Harbor, but I believe that many do.

@bencc @beasts that’s a good innings. I think mine is at about 12 years old. Still older than my flesh children!

@evan no option for Pearl Harbor?

@revk its convention to spoiler-tag toots like this “uspol”. Would you consider that in future please?

@metacosm Korg minilogue XD. Gathering dust atm :(

@zhenech @stdevel I've always wanted to explore that stuff. I have a ThinkPad Yoga 260 which I might play with once I submit

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