Alun Jones pengfold@social.ty-penguin.org.uk

Family man that likes the finer things in life, like #retrocomputing, tinkering and a decent ale.

Software engineer by day; asleep by night.

He/Him.

Dog person.

8 bit coder, retrogamer, drinker of beer, eater of food and streamer.

#ZXSpectrum #RetroGaming

Check out SubBlitz by
@daph2theb and myself https://jimblimey.itch.io/subblitz

#AlaskanByChoice #Liberal #LGBTQIAAlly #BlackLivesMatter #ProChoice #AllThingsAlaskan #AnimalLover #Cats #KarelianBearDogs #WFPB #ProScience & I share other people's #AlaskaPhotography Legislative Research Consultant

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Joined Mastodon.social in 2017.
In the 1980's, Z80 assembler, later DEC assembler (RT-11, RSX-11), Fortran, etc
Started Visions Under Construction podcast 2007-2019 with Asterisk and open source projects.
Worked in wine with Bordeaux châteaux 20+ years. #Food #fedi22 #music

Composer, musician for over 57 years.
Published a SF novella in 2022, StingerBots.

Original music tracks, at least 180 of them online at https://ffm.bio/randulo

American by choice, Scottish by birth. 
Left-handed. 
Fussy about the pens and pencils he writes with and the paper he writes on.
Trying to take better photos, read more books, and assemble words into stories;.

Biochemist, Computer Scientist, Systems Biologist, Professor, Photographer, EV driver, Programmer, SysAdmin, Enzymologist, Geek!

DevOps/SRE things by day. A little too concerned with automating my house by night 🏳️‍🌈

A work in progress.

A tiny shop in Wales that still runs retro machines and makes allsorts

• Married to the best man ever on the world (@paulfoerster). ❤️
• Owning a small 🏡, a beautiful oldtimer Yamaha Virago 750 🏍️ and a small 🚗 in a small, but beautiful country.
• Freelance artist.
• Hobbies: #Pottery #GlassBeads #Gardening #Nature #History #Fossiles #Music #Animals, #DVDs #Reading #Travel
• Pets: 4 🐈, 5 🐡, 3 🐓, 2 🦆

#NoBot

Profile banner image: sea of fog covering area Solothurn to Aarau, Alps in the background, sunrise red/orange, picture taken by me

New here, so quiet for now while I figure out all the new social conventions.

Interested in: tech stuff (2 yrs into nth career as a dev), climate crisis, neurodiversity.

Please don't add me to big "follow this person" lists.

Some things I like: #dogs #books #reading #information #history #privacy #outdoors #hiking #wildswimming #kettlebells #OpenStreetMap #learning #studying #science #coffee, #lowcarb food, #gardening, #FOSS, #RSS #fedi22.

I’m here because I want to learn things and connect with people.

Wondering about my username? In a story by Kipling, Kolokoko Bird advised Elephant’s Child to go find out for himself. I like that sentiment. I am always trying to find stuff out.

Self-taught artist of analog art (oils, acrylics, watercolor, ink, pastels, paper, all the things) I love color, veggie gardening, all animals, birding, cooking, baking, chocolate, cycling, butterflies, sunsets, nature, quilting, sewing, creating stuff, TheBeatles. Always learning. Really I have too many other hobbies/interests to mention. New mom to 7 chickens. 
All about preserving democracy, supporting Ukraine, human rights, BLM, LGBTQ. Democrat. Lesbian but not defined by it. Peace.