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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.

I've been building a tiny lego set for a couple of years, I know that's weird, but I just finished it on Wednesday. This little fish tank: http://www.lego.com/en-gb/product/fish-tank-31122.

Finally I'm done! And then, this was announced: https://www.lego.com/en-gb/product/tropical-aquarium-10366

Hot off the press: my thesis corrections have been accepted!

Badge spotted at the bottom of https://tcounter.com/ - I am unreasonably amused by this

90s style webpage badge that says "Powered by Microsoft Github Pages" with the old logo for Microsoft Backoffice

Nancy Pelosi’s trades over the years have been so good that a startup was created to allow investors to directly mirror her portfolio.

https://www.404media.co/nancy-pelosi-one-of-the-greatest-wall-street-investors-of-all-time-announces-retirement/

@babe small gods was the one that tipped me over into convincing my dad to read them (and he’s very glad I did)

@aspragg I must pick that book back up :)

New blog post: inert media, or the explotation of attention https://jmtd.net/log/inert/ #computing #vinyl

Brb writing a business case justification to present in the plan9 dev room https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/track/plan9/

No Java/openjdk dev room at Fosdem (for the first time in 20 years or something?)

Let’s do something great today

(Maybe)

I'm out of touch with 3d printing developments. Looked at the price of printers now and truly shocked to see the Prusa Mini+ is more than twice the price of the Bambu equivalent, and ~30% more than I paid for it a few years ago. What's going on?

Czechs! How do you feel about the use of "Czechia" versus "the Czech Republic" in English?

(Boosts for reach appreciated)

I submitted my PhD thesis corrections yesterday afternoon. I am (probably) finally done!

Down to my last chapter for PhD corrections. Quite close to the wire to graduate this December. Pushing on...

footnote in research paper:

Equal contribution; author order settled via Mario Kart.

@pndc oof if the SoC was 2017 vintage that would be bad even for me (I can cope on relatively low powered environments). I hadn't thought to check Ali Express. I've just seen another one on there claiming Alder Lake (2021?) for ~$333 which doesn't seem quite as bad for a toy. Thanks for your input!

There’s a whole load of these tiny 7” Celeron laptops on Amazon and other places from random-name-generator vendors. Has anyone tried Linux on them?
Product photo of a tiny 7” laptop in black

New blog post: Franken-Keyboard! https://jmtd.net/log/franken_keyboard/
#hardware
photo of my DIY franken-keyboard with mismatched key caps

@lritter i'd like C if it was simpler. what i really like about C is that you write a list of things for the computer to do and it goes into this big grid of numbered boxes and changes what's in the boxes. you can remember the widths of the boxes easily by multiplying them by 8. thats all there is to it. if you mess up with the boxes its kind of your fault. for telling it to open the wrong box. you don't feel angry at it, because it's fair. good game design. i think they call it a souls-like

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