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Full Stack Clojure web app engineer
Joined Jul 2021
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I don’t understand why people think Mastodon is difficult. It seems pretty straightforward, and the separate servers are no biggie. I’m enjoying this fresh start here, like moving to a new apartment!
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Read the inspiring story of how Eyüpsultan, Turkey switched to free software, gained independence from proprietary software, and saved money ($$$) in the process! If they did it in their city, your city can do it too! | Read more at: https://u.fsf.org/3m9
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Twitter was special. But it's time to leave
https://www.pwnallthethings.com/p/twitter-was-special-but-its-time
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People don't realize that Reddit *used* to be open source. https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit
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My favorite hashtag is #HugOps and I'm glad it's made the transition to Mastodon.
It's used by engineers to express empathy and support for production engineers battling a system problem.
Engineers often give #HugOps to engineers in other companies, often competitors. It's the exact opposite of schadenfreude.
Right now, #HugOps to the mastohost folks keeping that ship afloat in the face of a huge influx of new usage.
But also #HugOps to the remaining production engineers at Twitter.
I've been looking for certain #clojure swag. I finally found some! https://www.teepublic.com/mask/8637677-clojure-programming-language #FaceMask #ClojureMerchandise
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Seeing people with coding ability commenting on features they want in Mastodon, many of them framing their insights as if there is a bug.
Almost all ideas I have seen so far could be implemented in a client or a relay. For ones that can't, there are pull requests. For ones that are declined, downstream forking is feasible.
It's #OpenSource & based on a truly open standard, #ActivityPub. How about we frame ideas positively & look for places to contribute? This is not a walled garden run by VCs.
@kenSwinson oi! shouldn't delete your Twitter, thought. Someone else could take it and masquerade as you
@trinsec I use a super-portable Planck 40% most of the time. I even use it on the train, and bring it everywhere. But this time I was going to the office straight from a vacation and forgot to bring it to the vacation with me
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I just connected to a #vsjoyride REPL on @pappapez's computer via @Tailscale with "lein repl :connect <ip>:<nrepl-port> 😅 and controlled his slides for the upcoming presentation at London Clojurians #clojure
@RandyTemplar33 @davew I love RSS. But for people interested in being part of the conversation, do you still have to leave RSS and go to the platform?
Accidentally left my Dvorak keyboard at home, am using my old one. Going back to QWERTY is slow going, especially with my emacs muscle-memory.
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A really nice talk relating data to radioactive material. A bit of a spook show, but with some really good points. https://idlewords.com/talks/haunted_by_data.htm
RT @fndriven
In the past weeks I had fun with biff. It taught me a ton abt backend programming. I upgraded my project several times with no problems. Only problem was me trying to fight the framework bc I'm only used to do SPAs. Time to remove the printlns. #Clojure https://biffweb.com/
Sick day after sick (and computer-sick) weekend. Yep; 317 new emails, split between the categories.
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@bethanyklein playing of Musk's recent denunciations of Mastodon? But I find self-boosting on important tactic for getting my toots or tweets to be visible elsewhere, especially with comments and replies and cross posting.
As a gnus user and an rss aficionado, this is cool. However, is my experience, elfeed is understandable champion of RSS reading it emacs.
RSS is wonderful if you are a "stalker" (aka "lurker") on social media, but what if you are a Browser or like to join conversation?
Having been pointed to the Mastodontic #RSS facility by @Tupp_ed I've discovered that you can read RSS as a group in #Emacs #Gnus (yes, the zombie ...
RT @pappapez
To me the learning curve is not as steep as it is slow. There's something profound to many learnings. They have multiple facets, each taking their good time to drive home. I love it. Coding with others is my best way of learning. It gives me quick access to their facets. https://twitter.com/paulschun/status/1591616824768344064
Full Stack Clojure web app engineer
Joined Jul 2021
