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Jonathan Dowland | @jmtd@pleroma.debian.social

Principal Software Engineer on #OpenJDK #IBM. #Debian developer. PhD in Computing Science. Amateur historian (Computing Science and H/W, esp. Commodore Amiga). Guerilla archivist.

I'm a software developer and sysadmin who could really use being .

What I'd really like to do is Rust, but once you ignore the dubious scammy stuff, there seems to be nothing out there. Prove me wrong with a counterexample!

I've spent decades fixing Enterprise mudballs mostly written in . If you've got a crufty legacy system that everybody else is too scared to touch, I'm your man. I love fixing stuff like that.

I've also done commercial , , /#C++, and although I don't usually admit it on my CV but these are now Trying Times when everything is on the table, even (the longest six months of my life).

Perl naturally leads into Unix system administration and infrastructure. I've built and maintained mail clusters, VoIP systems, network monitoring, DNS management platforms, that sort of thing. If it's non-sexy but something which needs to be done, I'm there.

Available immediately, for contract or permie, onsite in Amsterdam/Randstad or remote to anywhere.

Drop me a private mention or mail peter@mooli.net if you have or know of something.

Meanwhile trying different profiles. Wtf is this?
My 3d castle mid print, unintentionally looking Gaudi

My next line of enquiry is to see if I can find an older printer profile, from before they enabled input shaping #3dprinting

Nope :( #3dprinting
Photo of globbed up nozzle from a failing print

Is YouTube’s “clip” feature entirely non-functional for anyone else?

Artemis is currently cruising at ~3535 km per h - which is the fastest humans have ever gone outside of a gravity well.

It is 0.0003273% of c - so, the astronauts watches will be ticking slow due to relativity at only 99.99999999946432% of normal, which is roughly 1.689 milliseconds in 10 years (if they were to hold current speed).

Provided I've done the sums right, which I think I have.

I finally settled on some new ice skates and placed an order. Now I’m impatient for them to arrive! And I’m not sure they’ll fit, it might take a few iterations

Prusa Mini+ re-assembled with a new heatblock (and nozzle); first layer calibration looks ok, mostly; Prusa Connect agrees on the nozzle size; all that remains is a test print and hopefully we’re back in business #3dprinting

aha, you have to set it on the printer itself.

Is there any way to tell Prusa Connect that your printer nozzle size has changed?#3dprinting

Have you ever...

Can you air fry ice skates?

@fraggle procmail is another scary one

I’m obviously being facetious but the kernel of truth is that software quality can often have little to do with the “feel” of using it

If you like a piece of software, don’t look at the source. Never ask how the sausage is made. This seems to doubly apply to C programs

Fixed two bugs in a C program. First time I’ve written C in ages

@mjr this happened in March, https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/02/libreoffice_online_deatticized/, which seems to have been a precursor to https://www.collaboraonline.com/blog/tdf-ejects-its-core-developers/. Also the EU just blessed a fork of an entirely different suite, I think

trying to catch up on the latest open source office news but I don't have anywhere NEAR enough popcorn

@metacosm I’ve been looking at the Microfreak but yeah same

@metacosm yep! Don’t use it as much as I’d like to. Korg minilogue xd

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