Hey. I'm Dan.
A 34 year old father of two who doesn't have nearly as much time as he needs to do half the things he wishes he had the time to do. I mainly toot about the following:
- Software Architect at Cadence Design Systems
- IT&T Sector vice president at Prospect Union
- Reluctant "C++ expert"
- Bicycle-riding tofu-munching foreign wokeratus.
- Liberal Luddite
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Married, software dev, geek, science fiction fan, Linux user. searchable.
My username is a reference to https://wiki.lspace.org/Ponder_Stibbons, a geek who thinks of himself as the Unseen University's "token sane person". In reality he's as mad as the rest of the faculty.
With hindsight, perhaps this joke is a bit too obscure.
Dad. Payments Engineer @ Monzo, running a 🏦. Proud GDS and GOV.UK alumnus. All opinions mine. Part of the ragwort conspiracy.
(he/him)
#Engineer, #Environmentalist, #Humanist, #IT & #DigitalTV architect (retired!), #Scout leader, #volunteer driver, sometime #musician, #Dad 🙂
Also identical #twin, ex-developer for #wireplay UK online #videogame service, #ham radio and general #electronics hacker and #DIY er. Recent #homeAutomation nerd and #EV owner. Have been known to #snowboard, #sail and #windsurf. Have a #Dax Rush racecar waiting for me to fix up... since 2007 😅
Also on Signal. HMU for details.
Home/timezone #uk
Generic humanoid carbon unit, self-hosting media node. ❤️ tech, democracy, environment, society. Instantiated @ 332ppm.
Currently building @manyfold and site admin @ https://mastodon.me.uk
Previously: https://dxw.com, https://somethingnew.org.uk, https://openpolitics.org.uk, https://apolitical.co, https://theodi.org, https://www.amee.com and more.
Alignment: Chaotic Whimsy.
Technologist @shedcode - Data Engineer @RewildingB - @jamesjefferies (he/him) - #IrisMurdoch, #TheWeddingPresent, #LFC, #Railways #TheArchers #Canals #IndustrialArchaelogy #Munros #TheMunros #MunroBagging #Rewilding
Libraries gave us power. Then work came and made us free. Boosts almost always mean profound agreement . If you see an ianbetteridge on Twitter, it's not me. Secure email: ian.betteridge@proton.me
Security MSc; PhD research student. Linux, networking, internet, offensive/defensive security, comedy, films, science, and space flight. And cynicism. Lots of cynicism. (@realcainmosni; AKA @ChocChipSec, @realcainmosni.bsky.social). If I know you, add me...
Why "*real* cain mosni"? Because there was a bogus Cain Mosni on Twitter who had taken the alias I had been using, uncopied, for a decade. And why Cain Mosni? Read it backward.
Things are:
* White or "political"
* Straight or "political"
* Male or "political"
* Cis or "political"
* Able-bodied or "political"
* Neurotypical or "political"
* Christian or "political"
* Capitalist or "political"
etc, etc
"I don't like to talk about politics" means "I voted Tory and I don't like to be made to feel uncomfortable"
Hip-Hop DJ, photographer, podcaster, Twitch streamer, beatmaker, book inhaler, NBA fan. Oh, and a software engineer by profession, though only expect so much of that here!
Made in Leeds. He/Him.
Monsters from the Id! Fish from the Wardrobe! Or something.
(TTRPG/Coding/Linux/Politics/Snark/Woo/ASD, in no particular order.)
Boosts are almost certainly an endorsement of *something*. Possibly not _literally_ the post in question, though.
Motto: Move Things And Breakfast.
Freelance software grandad -
software created, extended or repaired
Meta-#Parent (#Grandparent)
#Space nerd (#FUNcube team)
#Guitarist (bass/acoustic)
#Sailor
Identical #Twin
old skool #Hacker (intern -> developer -> consultant -> security guy -> architect)
BT #Wireplay lead designer
#Retired -> #RetroComputing, #MicroPython, #FlightGear, #FUNcube #HamRadio (M6IPX), #SDR
- ported #Doom to 2022 #EMFcamp badge
Avatar: My #emfcamp 2026 hat
Header: Auckland panorama from Mt Eden.
Pronouns: he/him/oi you!
Maxim: Love thy neighbour - all of you, no exceptions! ❤️
Retired Professor of Political Economy; now enjoying the fediverse.
Technologist designing software to address the climate change emergency and helping improve diversity in tech.
Some things I enjoy:
- travelling, by train or tall ship if possible;
- contributing to my community orchard;
- reading SF&F;
- baking cake;
- eating cheese;
- cat pictures.
Some things I believe in:
- Trans rights are human rights,
- Slava Ukraini
- Free Palestine
A stuffed simian. Posts auto-delete after 2 weeks.
Avatar alt-text: The head and upper torso of a stuffed gorilla. The gorilla is seated and its body is directed slightly towards the left. The head faces the same way but the gorilla is looking directly at the viewer.
Header alt-text: A 'Show Your Stripes' graph showing temperature anomalies for London since 1850, relative to a 1961 to 2010 baseline. The lines to the left are blue and become progressively redder to the right.
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bird fancier, music listener, tree hugger, dinosaur appreciator, computer whisperer, food consumer.
developer at the natural history museum
That's all folks...
