Richard Downer

@richard.downer.tech

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Hello. I'm new here. Interested in #AWS, #SoftwareEngineering, #RetroComputers especially #Commodore #Amiga, #TerryPratchett books, #Parenting, #UKPolitics, #Synthwave music. Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Shelves with vintage TV sets - most showing pictures - and other electrical items
A fragment of a comment at the top of a C source code file. The relevant parts are: QSORT.C Well, I actually implement a merge sort here, because I have no idea how much stack is available for a quick sort.
A fancy wine glass full of Irn Bru (a luminous orange fizzy drink) and a dish of also luminous orange jelly babies sweets
A terminal window fragment showing a crash dump. The opening words are "Guru Meditation", a reference to the system crash message of the Commodore Amiga computer in the 1980s
Me wearing a dark green t-shirt and holding a coral (orange-ish) jumper
Mike Oldfield's "Tubular Bells" vinyl record, showing some signs of wear because it was bought from a second-hand shop
Screenshot of a Spotify "daylist" playlist. The title is "chillsynth 80s synth tuesday afternoon" and the suggested genres include cyberpunk, futuristic, hacker and Dreamwave.
Image of the LP cover for "Room 412" by Yota, standing on top of a record player playing the vinyl disc
A Spotify playlist banner. The name of the playlist is "eerie witchcore thursday morning", and the list of genres in the playlist is "witchcore, eerie, fantasy, fairy tale, goblincore and fairycore"
Commodore Amiga 1200 computer in a dark grey case with monitor and mouse