Stahlbrandt

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#SoftwareEngineering with +30 years experience wearing many hats, from #startups to #international corporations. Building, #leading & retaining #nearshore & #offshore #teams in multiple countries.

Working #freelance as #TeamLead, #Developer and #Architect throughout #EU, mainly #Bratislava #Slovakia & #Stockholm #Sweden. Fluent in English, German & Swedish.

Professionally: #SoftwareDesign, #Architecture, #CICD, #TDD, #DDD, #Agile, #ScrumMaster, #ProjectManagement, #DevOps, #FullStack, #Java, #PHP, #CPP, #CLang, #Python, #GoLang, #RDBMS, #Database, #Jenkins, #Linux, #FreeBSD, #MacOS

Formerly professionally: #Electronics, #Firmware

Other interests: #Photography (co-founder Nikonians), #RetroComputing, #HamRadio, #Running, #Synthesizer

Avatar: On a smaller motorboat on Danube with Bratislava castle & Novy Most bridge visible in the sunset.

Header image: Three dogs waiting at a gas station for their owner. Colorado, USA.

Websitehttps://stahlbrandt.com
LinkedInhttps://linkedin.com/in/stahlbrandt
Public PGP keyhttps://keys.openpgp.org/vks/v1/by-fingerprint/CD6BBD3CFE33DDCA2CEE0343924D4FC61229E1FE
StahlbrandtMar 18
Nikonians CommunityMar 18
The #Nikonians 25th #Anniversary #Contest winners were announced March 17th, 2026 by our Photo Contests Director, David Summers (dm1dave) and now...

The 25th Anniversary Virtual #Exhibition has now opened its doors. We welcome you in to walk around and to discover the artworks produced by the finalists and the winners.
https://www.nikonians.org/about/nikonians-ann-2025
#photography #education #learning #nikon #user #community
StahlbrandtFeb 11
Nikonians CommunityFeb 11

#photography #book #reviews at Nikonians. Image "A story to tell" by jennimack

https://blog.nikonians.org/archives/2026/02/books_on_photog.html

#user #community #nikon

StahlbrandtFeb 11
Nikonians CommunityFeb 11

Nikonians top five #Nikon #lenses for 2026 including prices as of early 2026. Image by emi_fiend from the 2025 ANPAT in Maine.

https://www.nikonians.org/reviews/best-nikkor-2026

#nikkor #user #community #camera #gear #equipment #photography

StahlbrandtJan 24
Nikonians CommunityJan 24

Thanks to all members who've supported our #community throughout our first 26 years!

With +3.3 million forum posts and +600 000 registered members (+170 000 in good standing), we are not only the oldest #Nikon Community on the planet, but also the largest.

We are advertising free, without trackers and our great team of volunteers take care of us every day, 24/7/365.

Your support matters!
https://www.nikonians.org/membership

#Photography Kevin Macy (kmacy) "Small Art from Large Art" from his portfolio

StahlbrandtJan 24
Nikonians CommunityJan 24

Several #OpenPositions 100% remote #jobs available in the largest & oldest #community for #Nikon #photographers. Both #volunteer and #freelance positions available.

We are looking for #editor #podcaster #author #moderator #programmer #php #java

https://www.nikonians.org/about/jobs

Photography Jim Davie (jay_dee)

#fedihire #nikonians

StahlbrandtOct 18
Amadeus PaulussenOct 18

I finally published my first new #video in a series: Linux Audio Soliloquy: «My Linux Setup!» 🤓

You can watch it now on #peertube at https://spectra.video/w/vsghNhVisgy9fb1ot2GU4c or #youtube at https://youtu.be/dYZHVKyIslw.

Please let me know what you think about it. 😇

#linuxaudio #linuxdesktop #linux #musicproduction #archlinux #bitwigstudio #gnome #quodlibet

StahlbrandtOct 18
nixCraft 🐧Oct 18

AI bots and summaries are stealing Wikipedia's traffic. Wikipedia, one of the last places, started feeling the heat of Google and other search engines' AI summary recently. They have lost 8% of human traffic while AI bot activities increased which increased its bandwidth costs by 50%. The Wikipedia blog warns that the decline in human traffic poses an existential risk to the Wikipedia ecosystem especially creation of new wiki article or updating older ones.

https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/10/17/new-user-trends-on-wikipedia/

New User Trends on Wikipedia

An update on user trends from the Wikimedia Foundation.

Diff
StahlbrandtOct 17
Kevin RothrockOct 17
Has anyone found a web browser with agentic navigation that rivals Comet? I've used Comet to automate news-scraping tasks, and it's amazing. But I've started running into quota limits even with a Pro account.
StahlbrandtOct 17

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@stahlbrandt/115129212861681951

Probably an #Alpha #LSI 2 from 1974, one of the two that the #Uppsala #university once had. Maybe „Nanna“ at the Department of Physiology and Medical Physics.

#retrocomputing

https://wiki.dfupdate.se/_media/projekt:tre_ton_minidatorer:a3-3ton-alphalsi3.pdf

StahlbrandtOct 9
Martin BishopOct 9, 2025
Until 1977, #Unix primarily ran on the #DEC PDP-11. In 1977, Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) released the VAX-11/780—a significantly more powerful, 32-bit successor to the PDP-11. The VAX came with its own operating system, VMS. #PDP