Brian Beach has moved @bwbeach@qoto.org
- GitHub
- https://github.com/bwbeach
- Lame website
- https://www.beachfamily.net
Now at: @haiku_brian
Proud papa/dad/husband. Choral singer. Aspiring linguist. CTO at Backblaze. Usually in Indiana, sometimes on Maui. He/him.
Joined Nov 2022
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Hey, if you want to be "verified" on the fediverse as being _actually you_, you don't need some third party to verify you or to check some list.
Got a domain you own, that's obvs you?
Paste `<a rel="me" href="https://your.server/@your_username">Mastodon</a>`into the html on that domain, add that domain to your profile links, bam, verified at least as comprehensively as a lot of folks on birdsite.
If this seems hard, I will help you! You can verify yourself, promise!
(boosts for reach a-ok)
@cwebber@octodon.social @mray Very nice! Making things easy to follow is a lot of work. Thanks.
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Did you know that if you capitalize each word in a multi-word hashtag, #ScreenReaders can read them as words, but if you leave them lowercase, they can't? Well, now you know! So, for #accessibility, please capitalize words when there's more than one in a hashtag.
@dumdumjobes For me, getting a degree in CS, then having programming be my full-time job made "programmer" a reasonable moniker.
I do have an issue with calling myself a singer. I've been an amateur choral singer for 20 years. I've sung with the Columbus Indiana Philharmonic Chorus and with Maui Choral Arts. But "singer" is not comfortable.
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Hi, this is Greta. You are welcome to follow me here, if you prefer planet earth to planet mars.
I'm a #choral #singer -- baritone.
I've decided to #sing with #BerkshireChoral again next summer. This will be my third time: a week of Haydn and Dillworth at UW in Seattle in June.
You're expected to know the music when you show up. There's a week of rehearsal and classes, then a performance with an orchestra.
It's a little expensive, but I really enjoy spending a solid week doing intensive music.
@LizCarolan Agree. I've only been here a few days. I keep finding people writing interesting thoughts. It's so much better than streams of clickbait.
@metadaddy Yikes! I can't believe it was nearly a decade ago I did the first drive stats analysis at #Backblaze.
@codo_sapien I really enjoyed learning #rust. I like the language design and the community is friendly. It took me some time to understand borrowing. And I didn't get as far as multi-threading.
If i had to pick a new language for work, it might be #rust.
@ghost_bird Thanks. Still learning how things work here. And I keep being pleasantly surprised by how helpful and kind people are here.
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I’m quite impressed by (a) how helpful existing users of Mastodon have been for all of us noobs trying to learn a new system, and (b) by the deep and widely-held sense of a Fediverse culture (the fact that there’s a “we” that uses content warnings more liberally, alt text more frequently, etc) - it’s complete with a sense of place, ethics, identity. It’s fascinating, and makes me glad to have had the good fortune to stumble into it.
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During the lead-up to the presidential election of 1800, Aaron Burr's followers fretted because unlike other NYC political sects, they had no newspaper dedicated to their cause.
As they put it, without a place to network & communicate, they were "uninfluential atoms."
I think about that all the time these days, when I ponder the savaging of Twitter, & what it's seemingly supposed to accomplish...
Last year, I did [#AdventOfCode](https://adventofcode.com) as an exercise to learn #rust. It's a sequence of daily programming puzzles in December. I'm thinking of doing it again this year and learning #haskell.
I don't try for speed, and I don't try to be the first to solve a problem. I take my time and solve each day's problem a day or two later. It would be nice to have people to chat with about solutions if anybody else is interested.
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Just kicked off a canvas in Beaverton with elected officials and local Oregon #MomsDemandAction volunteers who are getting out the vote for #TinaKotek, gun sense candidates up and down the ballot, and #Measure114. #orleg #momsareeverywhere
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📣 For fellow Mastodon rookies - I understand that ‘favouriting’ things doesn’t amplify them to your followers in the way that ‘liking’ would have on Twitter
So if you want to share something, you need to ‘boost’ it
Trying to get my head round a different threshold for sharing things on here!
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Science weights in on the twitter migration by scientists.
https://www.science.org/content/article/musk-reshapes-twitter-academics-ponder-taking-flight
@arinbasu Thanks for the welcome. I'm looking forward to exploring the Fediverse.
One of the things that caught my eye about qoto.org is the ability to embed LaTex. That will be great for my occasional mathematical post.
I'm taking the leap today and joining Mastodon. Hoping for the wide variety of (sometimes) interesting commentary and links I used to find on Twitter. I picked qoto.org because the about page sounded like me, and the feed on the main page were pretty interesting.
- GitHub
- https://github.com/bwbeach
- Lame website
- https://www.beachfamily.net
Now at: @haiku_brian
Proud papa/dad/husband. Choral singer. Aspiring linguist. CTO at Backblaze. Usually in Indiana, sometimes on Maui. He/him.
Joined Nov 2022
