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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
Freshrss feature idea: periodic aggregated report on broken feeds, *as* a feed

Jonathan Dowland jmtd
I wrote a work blog post about using OpenJDK's jlink/jdeps modules tooling to build really small java application containers for OpenShift: https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/04/17/jlink-integration-openshift-tech-preview-release

#openjdk #containers #openshift

Jonathan Dowland jmtd
@JoshuaACNewman @mcc I have a PO-33, a Korg Monotron Delay and a Kastle v1 doing nothing. I have/had fantasies of designing and 3d-printing an itty-bitty eurorack-style enclosure/stand to house them, and to aid in hacking on them: common power input, expose more controls off the PCBs, etc.; in my head this started to resemble something from Ghost in the Shell

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New blog post: Hledger UI themes https://jmtd.net/log/hledger/ui/ #personalfinance #software

Jonathan Dowland jmtd
@mcc periodic reminder (to me) to dig out my Kastle (v1) and have some fun

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

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

Michael McCune elmiko@fosstodon.org

the autoscaling team i'm on at red hat is hiring a new quality engineer. we are starting our search in the Brno area, but if you are passionate about kubernetes and software quality, please check it out.

https://redhat.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/Jobs/job/Brno---Tech-Park-Brno---B/Software-Quality-Engineer---OpenShift-Team--Brno-Office-_R-047353-1

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

Jonathan Dowland jmtd
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?

Russ Garrett russss@chaos.social

Home automation was a mistake. I bought a smart watering valve and now I'm 25 tabs deep in Zigbee code.

I do not want to sysadmin my house.

Jonathan Dowland jmtd

Just git bisecting my thesis. Totally normal.

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

Stefanie Kogler stefko@mastodon.social

Mastodon 🚀

Ever wondered what keeps federated platforms like Mastodon thriving?
My thesis is now officially available: Sustaining Decentralised Social Platforms – Analysing User Activity and Governance Structures on Mastodon. If you're curious, give it a read!
🔗 https://phaidra.univie.ac.at/detail/o:2118817

Huge thanks to everyone who participated in the survey – your voices truly shaped this work.
Special thanks as well to my supervisor @cypherhippie for the guidance throughout.

I hope it inspires you!

Jonathan Dowland jmtd
@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.

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

Jonathan Dowland jmtd
@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)

Preston von Gabbleduck backupbear@aus.social

Laptop sticker installed.

A laptop palm rest area showing keys above. There is a sticker on the palm rest showing a cute cartoon duck holding a knife, with the caption, “This meeting could have been a knife fight.”

Jonathan Dowland jmtd
Is it time to buy the dip yet?

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

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

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