Derick Florian (he/him) @derickflorian@social.cleverlibre.org

Hi! Let me give an #introduction.

I'm a #software-devleoper working primarily with #clojure. My beautiful wife is an author (cindybaldwinbooks.com) and we have a nine year old girl.

I'm a #futurist and a #maker and always have something in progress. My current #wip is a rotating Christmas tree stand (the image is a 3D printed gear for it). I also play around with #raspberry-pi #pico #arduino #3d-printing.

I enjoy the outdoors go #backpacking. This week I'm going to hike the #narrows in Southern Utah.

I enjoy #linguistics and can speak #german pretty well, and a little bit of a lot of other languages.

I enjoy #philosophy, #photography, #building things, #investing and a lot of other things. I'm a #polypotentialite.

There is no reason to not use #ContentWarnings, or to not mark #media as #sensitive, wherever appropriate.

People who feel annoyed by having to click on #warnings before they can see the #content can have everything immediately displayed by changing their settings under Preferences > Appearance > Sensitive Content.

Just joined. Hello everyone. Something I've learnt today, if you connect a I2C device to a #QtPy using the StemmaQT connector make sure to use Wire1 not Wire if you program it using #Arduino

#Introduction Hi y'all! I'm not a newbie to tech in general, but I often feel like a newbie due to the breadth and depth of technology, especially software (and infrastructure)!
I sort of fell into IT through a random job that promoted me based on a "logic" test. :D
I have experience in #C, #COBOL, some #ruby, a tiny old crumb of #java, but most recently #go / #golang. *NIX wins, imho. PC for home, Mac for work. Spent some time in the #cloud. The team I'm on for work is in a decent-sized retailer, and our focus is Observability. #influx #elasticsearch #grafana #timeseries and some cool home-grown products. We support internal customers (other teams and platforms), and I love answering questions!
I'm married to my lovely wife, and our babies all have fur. I live in a brick house built in 1888. I love old houses, even though there's not a right angle or standard size left!
If it's horror, I love it - movies, books, objects. I'm a little #goth at heart (though I'm an Old Bat now).
GU #hoya (BSLA Russian Language). Breast cancer survivor. Sardonic and frequently inappropriate sense of humor. 😈

I'm new here and looking to follow some cool game development folks. I myself am making a retro fps called Hellscreen but I also do little game experiments including lots of blender stuff, all of which I like to share.

If you like what you see above, follow, and if you really like what you see, wishlist on Hellscreen!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1410090/Hellscreen/

#indiegame #gamedev #blender #vfx #gaming

What else can you expect on my feed? #Music especially #BlackMusic & #IndigenousMusic. #Books of all sorts, but especially #SmallPress & #IndiePress publications by #BIPOC writers. I’m a fan of #Zines & #Magazines. #Weather including #ExtremeWeather #Calgary #Chinooks #HailStorms #Thunderstorms & occasional #funnel. Some #abpoli #cdnpoli politics. I’m a #writing #instructor so will post #events & #workshops (maintained alongside publications in linktree). And I like to frig around, so jokes ❤️

People ask me why I spend so much time helping others with Linux when the ask me questions here on Twitter/Mastodon or on Discord and my answer is always the same:

Because I too have needed help at times. By helping when I can, I pass on that kindness.

Some advise for new peeps on Mastodon:

The people you're following would generally *love* to follow you back IF you:
* Post an #Introduction toot and pin it
* Fill out your profile's bio
* Put in a profile picture

Whenever I get a follow request and there's no profile pic, no bio, no intro, and no toots posted yet in general, I don't follow back, because I don't know anything about that person. It's like being introduced to a person wearing a bag over their head. ;)

#Boost please :D

I made a chiptune music visualizer world for #VRChat where all of the effects are driven by the raw data written to the sound chips. Some of you have seen my dev logs about this... It is finally released today with full PCVR, desktop, and Quest compatibility.

World link: https://vrchat.com/home/launch?worldId=wrld_36349389-4795-46ab-aded-71d73208d3fa

Python 3.11 introduces new features that make it possible to raise and handle multiple unrelated exceptions. My talk at PyConUK explains how these new features work and goes over some of the design decisions we made.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uARIj9eAZcQ

First real toot so I want to be really clear:
Black lives do matter
Human rights extend to Trans rights
Gender is not binary
White/Christian nationalism/supremacy has no place in society

"Ask a programming question on the Web" is sometimes as difficult as doing the actual programming. Reducing a problem in complex real-world systems to an clean, minimal, answerable, reproducible example can take serious efforts.

Boss: "What have you done today?"
Programmer: "I asked a programming question online."

Rural private network with TIP's OpenWifi

@derickflorian I guess this is as close to me being a greybeard. It was one of the first two #Unix/Unix-like books that I got. The other was for #Solaris administration. #BSD #FreeBSD

I create open source robots as a hobby to inspire kids into doing (rather than just studying) STEM. Here's where I've got to with my K9 robot dog: https://youtu.be/tn8NwvOmrxw