Jaster Mereel appreciation post, seen here in "#JangoFett: Open Seasons #1" (2002)

Fun fact: before the clones retcon in "Attack of the Clones," the name was originally an alias for #BobaFett, first coined by Daniel Keys Moran for "A Barve Like That" in the "Tales from Jabba’s Palace" book and then in "The Last One Standing: The Tale of Boba Fett" in the "Tales from the Bounty Hunters" book

#StarWars #DailyFett

Today we're waiting for an IKEA delivery that, according to their email, will be a 10x10x10 cm box weighing 14 kg.

So density-wise that has to contain berkelium, californium, protactinium, tantalum, uranium, gold, tungsten, plutonium, neptunium, rhenium, platinum, iridium, or osmium.

We're of course hoping for platinum, and really not for plutonium, because the critical mass is 11 kg...

🎉 We are honoured to announce that PKP's community-driven Open Journal Systems (OJS) is shortlisted for the Global Impact Award by The Association Of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) in recognition of more than 44,000 journals using OJS in 148 countries to publish more than 12m articles. OJS is free and open source software for scholarly publishing that is now translated into 68 languages for the global public good!

Learn more: https://alpsp.org/News/alpsp-impact-innovation-awards-2024-finalists-june2024

My conference is wrapped up, which means that I have to turn my attention to the serious job-hunting.

I'm a software dev -- generalist, but I've spent a lot of time working on scripting languages, VMs, UIs for VMs, that sort of thing. The past few years I've been in games (Unity/Unreal) but after two big studio layoffs/shutdowns in fourteen months that's not looking rosy. So it's back to general tech for me.

Looking for remote, as that's how I'm most productive.

#GetFediHired

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