Stephan Sokolow @ssokolow@qoto.org

When I joined Twitter in 2009, I was just mirroring my Identi.ca, where I'd coined #fic_rating for fanfiction micro-reviews with machine-friendly structure.

The reference I wrote is still up:

https://gist.github.com/ssokolow/3793644
https://hashtags.fandom.com/wiki/Ficrating

It wouldn't make sense to summarize those, and I stopped updating Identi.ca when I stopped the micro-reviews, so I'll just point at it for now.

https://identi.ca/ssokolow

Maybe later I'll use Mastodon's higher limit to revisit them for a "top 5" run-down.

I'm still not completely satisfied with sending people to look at my Twitter, so I decided to go back through it and write some themed highlights round-ups of tweets that are still relevant.

In order to gather the data for them, I've written a little Python script to chew through the tweets in my Twitter data dump, which I've put up on GitHub Gist in case anyone else wants to play with it.

https://gist.github.com/ssokolow/e3efc2300347a0b83f6b42b7860dac60

Oh, since I don't yet know whether the Mastodon APIs allow me to write an importer which would insert stuff earlier than existing content, here's a link to my old content:

https://twitter.com/deitarion

Hello, everyone.

For those who aren't the one or two people following me over from Twitter, I won't post very often but, when I do, it'll usually either be an especially good YouTube video or technical stuff, like announcing that I added some content to one of the lists on my blog or sharing something interesting I discovered while puttering around in old files.

I do have a bunch of programming projects, but, if you want to judge me based on my GitHub, bear in mind that I'm still trying to pick up the pieces after a long interval when I didn't have time to work on anything.

Once in a blue moon, maybe you'll see me post about my retro-hobby programming project to write an installer builder for DOS.