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Richard Downer

@richard.downer.tech

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Hello. I'm new here. Interested in #AWS, #SoftwareEngineering, #RetroComputers especially #Commodore #Amiga, #TerryPratchett books, #Parenting, #UKPolitics, #Synthwave music. Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

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Richard Downer @richard.downer.tech · 19/08/2026

WTF are you talking about, app that I use to turn the lights on or off?

A phone notification. It says:
Keep exuding your captivating charm.
Can't meet up during the holidays? Check out this great new idea.

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Richard Downer @richard.downer.tech · 06/04/2026

Love the things you can find in continental European airport departure shops! Cubi-doo, anyone?

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Richard Downer @richard.downer.tech · 05/04/2026

Fascinated by the arty odds in this hotel - was surprised to see so many CRT TVs in working condition, with very good quality pictures. At first I thought they were fake - modern panels behind a lump of glass - but on closer inspection they are the genuine article!

Shelves with vintage TV sets - most showing pictures - and other electrical items

A vintage TV set, showing a picture with an events calendar for this venue

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Richard Downer @richard.downer.tech · 17/02/2026

My whole life has been a lie! Well, the couple of years between learning C and the end of the Amiga, and only the bit of my life that is programming-related. From the source code of the DICE C Compiler, at the top of the file that implements qsort(), the Quick Sort routine in the C standard library:

A fragment of a comment at the top of a C source code file. The relevant parts are:

QSORT.C

Well, I actually implement a merge sort here, because I have no idea how much stack is available for a quick sort.

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Richard Downer @richard.downer.tech · 24/01/2026

Celebrating Scotland's greatest poet Rabbie Burns' birthday with... Irn Bru jelly babies 🤣 (haggis in the oven for later!)

A fancy wine glass full of Irn Bru (a luminous orange fizzy drink) and a dish of also luminous orange jelly babies sweets

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Richard Downer @richard.downer.tech · 11/11/2025

I'm trying out ESP32 programming for the first time (early impressions: pretty impressive). I accidentally caused a crash bug and was very surprised to see the below appear on the serial console - Amiga is clearly still influential in modern computer systems! #Amiga #Commodore #GuruMediation #ESP32

A terminal window fragment showing a crash dump. The opening words are "Guru Meditation", a reference to the system crash message of the Commodore Amiga computer in the 1980s

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Richard Downer @richard.downer.tech · 03/10/2025

Family have just pointed out that I'm wearing orange and green just like the new album theme colours 😂

Me wearing a dark green t-shirt and holding a coral (orange-ish) jumper

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Richard Downer @richard.downer.tech · 06/07/2025

As a bearded middle-aged man who recently got a record player, there's a whole new genre of #AchievementUnlocked moments ahead of me

Mike Oldfield's "Tubular Bells" vinyl record, showing some signs of wear because it was bought from a second-hand shop

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Richard Downer @richard.downer.tech · 25/02/2025

#NowPlaying yes, that's a good concise description of my current musical taste!

Screenshot of a Spotify "daylist" playlist. The title is "chillsynth 80s synth tuesday afternoon" and the suggested genres include cyberpunk, futuristic, hacker and Dreamwave.

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Richard Downer @richard.downer.tech · 07/02/2025

#NowPlaying "Room 412" by Yota on @newretrowave.bsky.social open.spotify.com/album/664C4h... #synthwave

Image of the LP cover for "Room 412" by Yota, standing on top of a record player playing the vinyl disc

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Richard Downer @richard.downer.tech · 12/12/2024

I enjoy the #Spotify made-up genre names 😄

A Spotify playlist banner. The name of the playlist is "eerie witchcore thursday morning", and the list of genres in the playlist is "witchcore, eerie, fantasy, fairy tale, goblincore and fairycore"

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Richard Downer @richard.downer.tech · 06/12/2024

That's a nice looking 1200! Welcome to Bluesky!

Commodore Amiga 1200 computer in a dark grey case with monitor and mouse

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Richard Downer @richard.downer.tech · 19/10/2024

I'm getting very puzzled by this error message I'm getting on a WinUAE-emulated Amiga 1200, on every boot. It's coming from the MenuTool item in WBStartup (AutoArrangeItems generates a similar error). Anybody any idea what's going on? #Amiga #CommodoreAmiga #Retrocomputing

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