Where's a good place to go to find all the cool stuff being built by Bluesky / ATproto devs? I want to start covering this stuff more closely. Maybe @bmann.ca can steer me in the right direction?

Dogs, particularly beagles, have the uncanny habit of both being deep sleepers, and also discerning the slight crinkling sound of a bag of chips. By the time they hear it, you’re already too late, and they’re silently asking for some.

I unwrap a Babybel Cheese for the beagles to enjoy. The dogs watch intensely, their tails wagging faster and faster. I can feel their eyes on me. 👀

2000's Bush-Era Country Music, but the singer is bemoaning "workin with ugly funky code."

I procrastinated on this way too much, feel apprehensive about my ability to sum up all my thoughts and feelings on a page, but I finally wrote about #FediCon.

Just watched Coraline for the very first time. I’m blown away. The stop-motion animation is incredible, the horror aspects of the story are fucked up, the They Might Be Giants song was icing on the cake. Great story, fantastic direction, some absolutely inspired artistic decisions.

Adding Mastodon author attribution to Ghost How to add the Mastodon author attribution to your single author Ghost site. #author #federate #fediverse #ghost #mastodon

200+ users and 180GB of data migrated to the Blacksky server in ~48hrs and that’s with individually distributed invite codes via my DMs.

I put out a message asking about raising money for my news site, and some Anticapitalist on Mastodon started lecturing me about how the desire to make money and grow a following is somehow inherently bad. He literally said "We cannot defeat Capitalism with the Master's Tools."

If you like the work I put out there, and want to help support it, please check this out.

Ehh. Isn't atproto super opinionated about how you do things, whereas ActivityPub is sometimes too loosely defined to be useful in some places?

It was a huge honor to be able to host a panel and interview some really incredible people at FediCon. I got the privilege to interview some incredibly thoughtful people that I admire and look up to. If you like this, check out @wedistribute.org.

Hey @bmann.ca, it was great meeting you at #FediCon, and I really enjoyed your presentation! It was kind of mind-blowing to see all the different apps being built for the AT Protocol, quite a few of them looked very polished! Anyway, your talk has been uploaded, I think it's worth sharing!

@wordpress.org is continuing to iterate on their integration with the #Fediverse, adding new capabilities to subscribe to people right from your dashboard. Here's why this matters for the future of WordPress on the Social Web.

I'm thrilled to announce that I'll be taking a trip to Vancouver, Canada, at the end of the month, to hold a panel at FediCon! A lot of my friends in the community will be going, many of them have been on my podcast. This is a birthday gift to myself, and I'm super excited for the opportunity.

I wrote a response to @timothychambers.net's great article, "The Seven Deadly #Fediverse UX Sins". I analyzed his ideas, and surprisingly, we both came to similar conclusions about what needs to be done.

Hey, go give this a listen. @damonoutlaw.xyz and I are super excited to be working on this again!

God fucking damn it.

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For anyone interested in experimenting with importing their Pocket export data into their own apps, I did a quick analysis of the export data and what’s expected. Nothing too fancy, but it might help you get started.

I've been dusting off some of my old #GameDev projects and analyzing them. This latest post was pretty fun: I took a game engine designed for 2D point-and-click adventure games, and converted it into an InfoCom-style text adventure system.

I said I would publish this week, I guess it happened earlier than expected. This is a high-level overview of Postmodern, the #Fediverse platform I hope to someday build. It is the culmination of years of study as the network has continued to evolve.

Things have been a little slow for a while over at @wedistribute.org, mostly because of a really busy spring class semester. Now that I'm done with that, I want to start writing articles again. What's some interesting things happening in the ATmosphere we ought to cover?

My wife got me into listening to old radio shows from the 1930s to the early 2000s, all through Internet radio streams. I enjoyed it so much, I decided to write about it.

Trying to jerry-rig WordPress to do proper microblogging for Fediverse integration, and I want to cry. The backend is incredibly janky, is basically like 3 plugins in a trenchcoat, and just feels like a bad time. Highly considering a switch to Ghost, but that too will be painful.

TIL that Wafrn, which is kind of like a Tumblr app for the #Fediverse (and Bluesky!) has a full copy of Doom running in DOSbox in the browser.

It feels deeply weird to do a Google search for how to deal with a specific PeerTube issue, only for Gemini to spit back tips from the in-depth article I wrote right back at me.

We tested out the new #Fediverse beta in Ghost, and wrote about our initial thoughts. There's a huge amount of potential, and it's already taking great shape.

So, it took longer than expected to get around to this, but I finally wrote about my experience attending #FediverseHouse last week. It was really amazing, and I’m glad I went.

The only reason I’m sad to be leaving Texas is that Austin has such good food. I had a waffle with a side of fried duck that might be the best thing I’ve eaten in years, and I can’t stop thinking about it. Why does Phoenix have such mid food? 😭

HOLY MOLY – Weird is fully public! Our v0.3 mvp is finally done after a year of development and many more spent pondering cozy community design. Today it's a minimalistic personal site generator. Before long it'll be a social network made of people's personal websites. Nerdy web weirdos unite ✊❤️‍🔥

Me surrounded by people I know, with many overlapping interests: "I'm a social butterfly!" Me when it's just a bunch of people I don't know: "Shit, I'm a weirdo at a party full of strangers."

Recent statistics report: people who ride in Waymo’s autonomous cabs are 82% more likely to survive in a traffic collision, compared to pedestrians hit by the same vehicle.

For our Saturday adventure, wifey and I are riding the Phoenix light rail from one end to the other and back. It's a fun way to explore the city, and see where things go.

My dog waited patiently all night while I did homework, just so that he could jump up and down and demand a treat for waiting.

For Valentine’s Day, my wife and I went to see a touring Broadway production of Some Like It Hot! It's an absolutely incredible update to the 1959 film of the same name, infusing the original story with diversity, heart, and trans discovery. The music and choreography was also incredible.

The Fediverse is funny, because sometimes you’ll check notifications and see “20,000 lbs of cheese” and “hot squirting mama” both liked one of my “serious account” posts announcing my choice in forum technology.

I’ve been bedridden in pain on and off all weekend. 😞 Still struggling with a kidney stone, that sometimes will randomly flare up and basically rob me of the ability to do anything for most of the day. Failed to get much done, feels super frustrating.

One term I picked up from one of my algebra classes is “The Mother Function”, which is a another term for "parent function". I'm left imagining an Ursula K. Le Guin post-apocalyptic feminist society. A bunch of scientist women standing around with clipboards saying “ALL PRAISE THE MOTHER FUNCTION!”

I made a "This is Me" video as a homework assignment for my COMM 100 class. I like how it turned out, and thought I would share it with you.

Up late, coughing up a lung again. 😞

This was mostly a joke graphic for my article, but fuck me if picking an initial instance doesn’t feel like this for new users. #Mastodon

“We can be TikTok, too! All you need is a custom Bluesky feed and our proprietary frontend.” No, sorry, I tried your thing and it sucks.

I’ve been bedridden for the past few days trying to work through a medical issue. No resolution as of yet, loads of wild dreams though. My ability to get things done is pretty much zero right now. It’s really frustrating.

Annoyed that the stupid Apple Pencil Pro I bought for class doesn't even work with my iPad. The future sucks.

As part of a motivation to get myself back into writing and maybe doing #gamedev work again, I wanted to showcase some of my unfinished projects. This one is a retro Job Search Simulator from Hell, called Linked Out.

Do you ever switch between microblogging apps and briefly forget which network you're on? They all kind of start looking the same, after a while.

Cozy Beagles in our new home!

Decentralized Fetlife when? And can it federate with LinkedIn?

I'm overjoyed to report that we've finally moved into our new house! The last few days have been crazy, and we still have lots of boxes to unpack, but it feels so good to be at this point.