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NYC born art school drop out. 
Brooklyn, U.S.A. 
I've worked in crypto operations.

Software engineer, FOSS fan, and former NLP researcher.

My code is 100% hand crafted!

Fractal side projects. Sometimes I write stuff. He/him.

Fan of Rust, open source maintainer.

I'm a Jew and a parent. Child refugee from the USSR (1990) and Israeli expat (2006). US resident.

A nominally senior software engineer, working on a variety of backend systems at a multinational company in the entertainment and hospitality sector.

“Incredibly mediocre” dude. Programmer. Bad with words. Enthusiastic cat-botherer. Okay dad and husband.
:debian_logo: :git_logo: :iterm2_logo: :vim:
Banner picture: a dumpster fire plush sitting on a bestickered laptop.
Profile picture: an aluminum laptop with stickers for Debian, git, bash, Python, and vim. Additional stickers: DevOops, Not Today VSCode cats, Linux Inside covering the manufacturer logo, a fragile sticker for moving boxes, a couple warnings about insecure technology.

Software engineer, socialist. London, but from up north. Learning Finnish.

#nobot

Anti-AI, pro-human.

Containers, DevOps, Kubernetes, Music.

An open #sociotechnical systems and #DDDesign practitioner at Capra with a ghoulish sense of post-punk and a geeky interest in science and systems thinking. He/him.

Hi! I'm Nora! I'm a software engineer and author who primarily works with Rust, uses Linux, and does everything via KDE Plasma.

I'm also queer, a witch, a ham radio operator, a modular synthesist, a toki ponist, and a photographer.

I am not new to Mastodon or the Fediverse; I joined mastodon.social in 2017 and was on cybre.space for over five years.

"and once the last of those fires let fall / there was no lord in the world at all"

aws cloud developer, cosplaying a sysadmin, home assistant fan. love to travel. man-shaped human, neither man nor woman. My gender is "very silly person".

Engineer (robotics, embedded), contra dancer, nerd

Black lives matter | Trans rights are human rights | VOTE

I toot/boost stuff about robots, space, science{, fiction}, programming, US pol, etc. Also puns/memes. (Most deleted after 2 years.)

Follow to DM!

Toots w/o boosts: https://justmytoots.com/@aburka@hachyderm.io?public_only=true

:arch_linux: :rust: :cxx: :vim: :blobfoxcomputer: :blobfoxastronout: 😷💉
#NoAI #NoCrypto

Nivenly member

Avatar: lego robot
Banner: silhouetted human + robot

I'm was caregiver for my ill wife. She died in June of 2025.

I used to be a programmer. Hopefully I'll be doing that again sometime.

I like computer games. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, Dwarf Fortress, and Factorio are my favorites. My dog is Gidget and she is the best.

My avatar is a person who doesn't exist. I'm real though.

Toots delete after some period of time.

Executive Director @ 2i2c.org | Open Source Maintainer @ Project Jupyter and mybinder.org |
open communities 🙌 open infrastructure 💻 team science 🧪 education 🎓 communication 💬 | He/Him

Teacher, researcher, technologist

@sigcpp @nityakrishna

Tech, edu, society, humor, justice, health, finance, entertainment, languages, cultures,…

I strive to:
- Keep open mind
- Engage in good faith
- Follow whole person
- Be objective, respectful, social
- Share and seek diverse, new topics

Engagement is not endorsement. searchable

Bio: https://smurthys.github.io
Formerly: https://mastodon.social/@smurthys
https://justmytoots.com/@smurthys@hachyderm.io

#NoBots

Professor of Digital Humanities & Director of the HASS Digital Research Hub at The Australian National University.
Working at the intersection of digital, humanities, technology, and research software engineering. #digitalhumanities #RSEng #sociotechnical #sociotechnicalsystems

“somewhat prominent member of the OSS community” open source @github, @openjsf & @sustainoss Alum:@mozilla @MozOpenLeaders @OICR_news @UN 📸@facesopensource