Jonathan Heard

Professional IT Jack-of-all-trades - DevOps, TLS Encrytion, Low-level diagnostics, Java/PHP. Trumpeter/Pianist/Singer. Currently learning Portuguese.

[Jonathan Heard @jonathanhUK]

@jaydrogers I'm just in the process of moving to Hetzner from Digital Ocean as it works out a lot cheaper. There were even cheaper options but Hetzner has 1st class support for using Terraform which means I can manage my infrastructure as code and stop paying $39/mo to Laravel Forge🤔

[Jonathan Heard @jonathanhUK]

Bloody hell @Pixar How do you pull off making an awesome 5th film and make a grown man cry (lots, again)‽
Brilliant #toystory5 ! Such an accurate narrative on modern life with great humour and emotion ❤️

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@ImLitWoL @LundukeJournal How much complexity and technical debt are these changes creating though? Wayland went too far with security and now has to keep bolting on afterthoughts. It will end up as messy and complex as Xorg, just with different problems 🤔

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@sneedmcnig42902 @AristoSamos @LundukeJournal They'd be better investing their time in switching to XLibre 😂

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@Steel_Lynx_ @LundukeJournal The more they do that the more it will motivate people like me to stop using their software and move to distros or even another OS which truly embraces freedom of choice.

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@XParameters @LundukeJournal I'm resisting Wayland because of the way it's being forced on us by huge corporate backers. It also has major flaws and tech debt afterthoughts to make it work. Major fragmentation between compositors.. It solves some graphics stuff at the expense of just about everything else.

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@XParameters @VPrium @LundukeJournal What's hard to understand about it? I've been using multiple clipboards for decades and it's so powerful that I hate using systems without it. Standard ctrl+C/V copies/pastes as normal for beginners. So what's confusing? 🤔

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@exolon @LundukeJournal I think it's a bit unfair to dismiss everything from Claude as slop code. Driven correctly it can produce very good quality output and is a major enabler for engineers who understand the code they're working on.

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@e_womer @LundukeJournal What did Xorg do to you?
I don't think XLibre is going away any time soon really but do you really find that Wayland actually fixes whatever you deem to be broken AND doesn't introduce new problems?

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@frankjonen @LundukeJournal That's not even the half of it. I'm working on an interposer library to try and map GNOME GTK "Hamburger" menus back to classic File/Edit/View etc and the deeper I dig, the more unhinged it gets. Pure arrogant lunacy 😔🙄

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@WalkOffTheEarth A little song called: Loads of London kids will miss WOTE 2026 because the venue is strictly 14+ 😭😭😭

[Jonathan Heard @jonathanhUK]

@StansaidAirport @gotravelyourway Okay, okay, you win the internet today 😂😂😂

[Jonathan Heard @jonathanhUK]

@snb19692 @KayBurley Says Kay Who? I've never heard of her but I've certainly heard of you Mr Bray. I even saw you in London a few years back but missed an opportunity to come and shake your hand and say Thank You!
Keep it up, Sir! 😄

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@LundukeJournal Oh what I'd give to go back to the pure simplicity of GNOME 2! I use MATE now, which is amazing but it's a constant battle against 'modern' UI nonsense.

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@IntCyberDigest That might be interesting for @qustodio if they do, given that it sets up a MITM certificate and VPN in order to be able to monitor what my kids do on their devices 🤔

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@paulmichaeldev Is almost as if you wrote this for me: I literally just on my soapbox about the way that RedHat/IBM is enshittifying the Linux desktop ecosystem by forcing Wayland and GNOME desktop nonsense down everyone's throats. I'm seriously considering turning my 10% into action 😂

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@paulmichaeldev Indeed, just as people get dragged out of retirement to support legacy COBOL and such like, our generation may increasingly find that we're rare and desirable due to actually knowing how to read and understand the languages of today.

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@WhichPure You mean their delightful Revenue Protection Officers? Everyone is a fare dodger unless they can prove they're not, apparently. Gone are the days of treating paying customers with respect.

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@Lord_Arse Dark chocolate bounty! They no longer make them 😭

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@paulmichaeldev @BoringO11y Biggest wins for me have been getting Claude to write tests for me first before modifying legacy code. Then it uses its own tests to check if it broke stuff. These days I'm amazed at how good it is at being 'proactive' e.g. highlighting gaps or pausing on something risky.