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I'm an oil painter (and a principal software developer) from the north west of England, and a serial collector of hobbies

Interested in art, sci-fi, {computer, tabletop, card} games, software and tech, neurodivergence, and more

Profile Image is a man with dark hair, glasses, and a beard. Hood up and snow on his beard, with a snowy woody background.

Header image is a detail of an oil painting. A red chair in a corner, with a bookshelf just behind it.

Bloghttps://studio.sjm.codes
I painted this view earlier today of the chalk stream in Hughenden Park, A view I've painted a couple of times in the past.
Oil on gesso panel, 30 x 23 cm.
#highwycombe #hughenden #OilPainting #landscapeoilpainting #oilonpanel

Yet more progress today after work. Some smaller details this time, and some corrections. I'm putting off some of the bigger changes I think until I can figure out exactly what I want for them.

#OilPainting #TraditionalArt #MastoArt #SunnyBankMill #Yorkshire

see the earlier image in the post I'm replying to for alt text

I'm a software developer and sysadmin who could really use being #fedihired.

What I'd really like to do is Rust, but once you ignore the dubious crypto and AI stuff, there seems to be nothing out there. Prove me wrong with a counterexample!

I've spent decades fixing Enterprise mudballs mostly written in #Perl. If you've got a crufty legacy system that everybody else is too scared to touch, I'm your man. I love fixing stuff like that.

I've also done commercial #Scala, #Python, #C/#C++, and although I don't usually admit it on my CV but these are now Trying Times when everything is on the table, even #PHP (the longest six months of my life).

Perl naturally leads into Unix system administration and infrastructure. I've built and maintained mail clusters, VoIP systems, network monitoring, DNS management platforms, that sort of thing. If it's non-sexy but something which needs to be done, I'm there.

Available immediately, for contract or permie, onsite in Amsterdam/Randstad or remote to anywhere.

Drop me a private mention or mail [email protected] if you have or know of something.

Today's progress on sunny bank mill - took the sky back a little, and brought some warmth into the chimney highlight. I also got some of the windows and the awning a little closer to what I wanted. Still not feeling it fully, though, more to go!

#OilPainting #TraditionalArt #MastoArt #SunnyBankMill #Yorkshire

I interviewed Alexia for Stop Gen AI's blog!

They maintain a thorough No-AI List of software that's untainted by Gen AI.

That and Stop Gen AI's own guide are both linked in the blog article.

Consider this to be your guide to completely avoiding Gen AI!

So please share this post, to help people avoid Gen AI.

Thank you.

https://stopgenai.com/anti-gen-ai-heroes-alexia-keeps-a-list-of-ai-free-software/

combating perfectionism by drawing today's #CardOfTheDay while walking on a treadmill

only the most innovative approaches here

#sketchbook #TraditionalArt #Tarot #sketch

a contribution to #MonochromeMarch - a sketch of an image in Humanise by Thomas Heatherwick, along with some notes from the same

#waxpastel #sketchbook #MastoArt