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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.

bad news: we've updated pricing on lots of domains
good news: downwards

https://www.mythic-beasts.com/blog/2026/04/13/domain-price-reductions-2/

It's 16:34 and Outlook finally let me log in

A year or two ago I saw a video of a Japanese family who make the best brushes for calligraphy. Painstakingly, by hand, a hair or a few hairs at a time. That's what I want to do when I grow up, but for code.

and now they're bouncing around to Rob Zombie. That one is not my influence at least

Eldest asked me to identify some music she was humming (ronda alla turca and william tell overture). Wife remarked I was "very knowledgeable"

Shall I admit it's my fondness for the Amiga Lemmings soundtrack to thank?

@rjek this is the kind of corp subterfuge I get up for in the morning

@rjek I love it. Is that their uptime or because you spin around and end up right where you started

O365 is so unbelievably poor. I'm trying to picture the aggregate lost efficiency of a massive corp using it versus e.g. Gsuite , and I cannot comprehend such a large number

@castaway it messed up too :( however I realised later that all my old gcode was sliced for a 0.4 nozzle and I’ve fitted a 0.6 now

New blog post: nvim-µwiki
https://jmtd.net/log/nvim-µwiki/
I blog about nvim-µwiki, a neovim plugin I wrote over a year ago but forgot about. #software #lua

@castaway found some old gcode, the printer actually warns that it is not using input shaping! let's see what happens

@castaway not certain. I’ve been suspicious of it ever since Input shaping was turned on in the slicer. I’m going to try and find the pre-input-shaping profiles; or dig out so really old gcode if I still have some. Thanks

This "curling" looks wrong to me. What could be causing it? This was recorded post filament load (during the "purge and check colour" phase)

disassembled extruder, cleaned out detritus, cleaned gears, re-assembled, printer still broken. GAH #3dprinting

OK. Plan for 3d printer is to look at the extruder now, start with cleaning the gears.
#3dprinting

Happy Mon^W Tuesday, Tuesday!

My German has gotten rustier and rustier since my mom died nearly 10 years ago. At that point, she was my last living German-speaking relative. It is getting harder for me to read and forget hearing it at this point.

Anybody out there have interesting and not too heavy German language first Fedi folks they follow? Bonus points if they don’t mind interacting with someone whose German language skill sucks?

this is me but not just for shampoo, for everything

the shower is the alternate dimension where I realize I'm low on shampoo but as soon as I step through the curtain I'm transported back to this dimension where all my memories are wiped like in severance and I won’t remember i’m out of shampoo until im back in the shower

Happy ninth Mastodon Won't Survive Day to all who celebrate!
https://mashable.com/article/mastodon-wont-survive

I can't overstate this. NASA's use of pounds and cubic feet in its outreach efforts does not come across to science-literate people, inside or outside the US, as a sign that the country is a badass superpower that can do what it likes and ignore everyone else.

Instead it suggests that the US is a provincial nation of dungaree-wearing banjo players.

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