RE: https://fietkau.software/daily_rucks/ap/activity/2025-11-08 I have added Mastodon-style (FEP-044f) quote post compatibility to my @DailyRucks bot. You can now quote post the daily voice lines as much as you want! 🥳 This would be noteworthy on its own if there weren't already a bunch of […]

continuing my "what is the deal with art yarn" journey, my first coily beehives 🐝 this is a very silly technique. I can't imagine using it for a real project, but it is fun to spin. #handspun #artyarn

I haven't posted about my QR code generator in a while: https://fietkau.software/qr Check it out if you need QR codes, it has cool customization options and lots of fedi project logos. An exchange with @yaarur and @ai6yr reminded me of an idea I had a while back. I've added a function (under […]

Fediverse Report 141 - this week's #fediverse news Mastodon is working towards making one of the longstanding pain points of the fediverse a thing of the past, with the new ability to show all replies to a post. Bonfire is making strides with their Open Science Network platform, and Ghost is […]

Okay, so either Deno's OpenTelemetry metric “http.server.active_requests” (https://docs.deno.com/runtime/fundamentals/open_telemetry/#http.server.active_requests) is actually cumulative over the lifetime of the process, or I have found the explanation for why […] [Original post on fietkau.social]

Hey @bonfire @mayel and crew, if you ever feel like putting a spec down to attach academic citations to #activitypub objects for your Open Science Network, ping me. I have ideas for building something out of https://schema.org/ScholarlyArticle, https://schema.org/citation and dashes of […]

Just want to say out loud how much I enjoy @cscw posting tirelessly about their latest conference contributions this week. 🤩 I've never even been to CSCW myself, but if you care about the latest research on how people use technology to communicate and collaborate, check out their account. Here […]

@julian's @encyclia up on the screen!

Extremely pleased to announce the release of the ActivityPub Fuzzer! This is a tool that runs in a local development environment and (partially) emulates known ActivityPub software. It can even create a fake local "public fire hose" shaped like what you might see if you hooked your […]

Over the past few days I have finally gotten postgresql working with @encyclia. That was one of two remaining tasks to finish up before the alpha test, the remaining one now is logging and resource monitoring. Although I still gotta figure out why it's slow as molasses compared to sqlite. 🫠 I […]

This year's FediBookFair will be 1st/2nd November. FediBookFair is a chance for #authors and #publishers to post about their books using the #fedibookfair hashtag. #readers can watch or follow the hashtag to find #books to read and authors to follow. It's an excellent chance to find #christmas […]

I want to write a program to extract a list of clickable links from a PDF page. #pypdf can list the link positions/sizes and target URLs. But in a PDF document, links are annotations, which are separate data from the document text. To get the display text of a clickable link in a PDF, is the […]

This should have been big news! Ten funding agencies from eight European countries have pledged to support a public infrastructure that is poised to replace academic journals: FWF 🇦🇹 RCN 🇳🇴 Forte 🇸🇪 ARIS 🇸🇮 SRC 🇸🇪 FCT 🇵🇹 CSIC 🇪🇸 DFG 🇩🇪 Formas 🇸🇪 ANR 🇫🇷 Only two of them issued press releases in […]

That's a wrap on #MuC2025 for me. Thank you @mucConf! 👍 I got to meet @marmarta, @raka_a11y and @maxpascher for the first time 👋, and I reconvened with @jannis#muc2025after a year. 😃 I saw @kakoepferl and @GUPA_President from a distance a few times, but regrettably didn't say hi. 🥲 So @jannis, you […]

Starting the last day of #muc2025 by checking out of my hotel. 🙂 After that I'll be at the conference's last paper session. The only person I can spot in the list who has an account on here is @DBuschek, co-author of “Human-AI Interaction Patterns in Creative Domains and Their Time-Based […]

It got late at #muc2025 for me, which is expected enough for a conference dinner I suppose. I spent the afternoon with association organizers to talk about secret projects™, and from there I went to the conference dinner. Very funny crowd at my table and the food was nice. 🙂 The event was, too […]

Albrecht @AlbrechtKurze und Karola @kakoepferl haben auf der #muc2025 den Besteht Demo Award bekommen! Herzlichen Glückwunsch! #erika #digitaldiversity @tuchemnitz

Late #muc2025 start for me today, had to spend the morning prepping stuff for the GI FB MCI meeting at 2pm today. But joining up with an academic conference at lunchtime seems appropriate enough, no? 😁 I hope paper session 3 was fun!

My #muc2025 day is slowly coming to an end. I ended up skipping the second paper session ("AI & Robotics" is fairly unlikely to have anything for me). I was going to go to the student #HCI research event in the afternoon, but then I remembered how overcrowded the room was last year, so I went to […]

Fedi people I have spotted in the author list of #muc2025 paper session 1: "A Systematic and Validated Translation of the Perceived Empathy of Technology Scale from English to German" co-authored (and currently bein presented) by @svenmayer - https://doi.org/10.1145/3743049.3743082 "Pop-Up […]

About to start my #muc2025 day with a keynote by Luigina Ciolfi @luiciolfi, should be good. 😃 Paper sessions after that, gonna be a long day ending with the poster session that I don't want to miss. (My second presentation yesterday went well, but then I got tired and went to the hotel to sleep.)

First presentation of the day is done (and so is lunch), lots of cool conversations among workshop participants. I talked about my 2016-2020 project almost as much as the 2021-2024 one I was there to present. 😄 #muc2025

First #muc2025 workshop started with a keynote by Ceenu George (TU Berlin @tuberlin), someone I had never come across before, talking about field research methods. Prof. George seems, academically speaking, cool AF? It often feels like the German-speaking #HCI community is small and close-knit […]

Chemnitz leaving a very nice first impression on my walk to the #muc2025 venue. 🌞 Workshop day, let's go! #chemnitz #academicchatter @stadt_chemnitz @tuchemnitz @chemnitz

I will be at the #muc2025 conference on human-computer interaction this week! 🙂 I'll be a bit quieter with the live-posting than last year, but still, I might post more than average and will probably have little time to read my feed. Feel free to temp-mute me or the hashtag if that sounds […]

Excited to share some great news from the creative community! Oeee Cafe, a fantastic oekaki drawing platform, just added ActivityPub support today. This means all the amazing artwork being created there can now be shared and discovered across the fediverse, which is such a wonderful step toward […]

10 months ago, a company across the world put my neighbor's access to medical care at risk, giving us 2wks notice that software behind our 40 electric car chargers would be shut down. This is the story of how my neighborhood broke free from this potential disaster […]

Someone asked today what website to use for synchronized video watching – as in, not streaming any video, but letting a bunch of people with copies of the same video file get together and synchronize play/pause/seek events. I don't know any such tools, but the idea looks easy enough to build […]

Been watching the #github posts scroll by all day, and it only occurs to me now to re-up this 2022 blog post about how I started self-hosting my #git repositories as part of my website using GitWeb: https://fietkau.blog/2022/moving_from_github It's a pretty eccentric solution that's definitely […]

I have recently been helping @anze3db with the backend code for starter packs curated on fedidevs.com, specifically with splash images. In the future, you should be seeing the new splash images in the link preview if you share a starter pack on here. Example: https://fedidevs.com/s/NDYw/ (by […]

So last year I organized a small fediverse meetup during break time at @mucConf and we ended up with a handful of people exchanging tips, hopes, ideas, and contact details. Should we try that again this year in #chemnitz? Who here is going to @mucConf? 🙂 #muc2025 #mci #HCI

As we integrate #OpenAlex data into the #Bonfire #OpenScience flavor, we're displaying familiar metrics: works count, citations, h-index, research topics, institutional affiliations... These might be exactly what you need, or perhaps just a starting point […] [Original post on indieweb.social]

Pleased to announce that my book, Move Slowly and Build Bridges: Mastodon, the Fediverse, and the Struggle for Democratic Social Media, is now available online, and will be out in print in a couple weeks! https://moveslowlybuildbridges.com That site has more stuff, too -- links to related […]

I'm back from #ECSCW 2025! 🙂 Well, I have been for a few days, but I've also remained super busy in the aftermath. The poster presentation for https://fietkau.science/orcid_fediverse_public_information went well, I had some nice discussions and introductions […] [Original post on fietkau.social]

Took me a while to take a nice photo, but two weeks ago I got my stuff from @MoonloreDraws's last Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/moonloredraws/30-little-guys-part-2 When it came to picking my supporter rewards I kinda just did “one of […] [Original post on fietkau.social]

I have published another academic article. This one is titled: “An Integrated Methodological Framework to Investigate Hybrid Work Technologies” :fietkau_science: https://fietkau.science/methodological_framework_hybrid_work_technologies This is a workshop contribution (for […]

We're pleased to share that Encyclia has joined our success stories. @encyclia bridges academic research to the #fediverse by making #orcid researcher profiles and publications discoverable through #ActivityPub—built with #fedify#fediversefor seamless interoperability across Mastodon and other fediverse […]

My interest in indie games has always extended through the filter of spreading awareness of how incredibly important and beautiful/strange/wonderous art can be. There are so many profoundly moving works that get lost under a narrative that games are somehow different from art.

Why is art so important? Art is freedom. It's one of the best ways we have of overcoming differences and seeing the world and lived experience from many perspectives. Your ability to express yourself actively pushes back against fascism and creates common ground.

I have written down my privacy-first design process for @encyclia and how it relates to Fediverse standards and social norms, and turned the result into a poster presentation for the upcoming ECSCW 2025 conference. 🙂 […] [Original post on fietkau.social]

This is your yearly reminder that anyone who publishes CS papers should have a personal website that lists their current position, research interests, publications, and email address. If you don't, it's basically impossible for me to invite you to a PC […] [Original post on discuss.systems]

If you're interested in building your own #ActivityPub server but don't know where to start, I recommend checking out #fedify's #tutorial#activitypub_Creating your own federated microblog_. It provides a comprehensive, step-by-step guide that walks you through building a fully functional federated […]

I've started publishing my “Introduction to human-computer interaction” slides as CC-licensed reusable teaching material. (My #OER debut!) https://fietkau.science/teaching/intro_hci I've been wanting to share these for more than a year. Doing that all at […] [Original post on fietkau.social]

Hey 👋 I'm kinda back from a sorta social media hiatus. 🙂 Nothing bad going on, April–June is just my busiest part of 2025 from a “day job” perspective. I've been reading and replying sporadically, but if there's anything from the past two months that you think I absolutely need to see, feel […]

We’re looking for a Senior Product Designer to work alongside our frontend and mobile devs. Ideally: 1. You’re highly skilled in UX design, having led product strategy & design process 2. Proficient in Figma/Penpot, with interaction & usability design skills 3. Experienced in accessibility & […]

In spite of current SSD prices, I did a little surgery on the trusty old desktop PC today, taking it from 11 TB to 16 TB and moving all system partitions between drives in the process. Had some scary moments but all is now back in working order. 🙂

New: Fediverse Report 107 This week's news: - @pixelfed finishes their Kickstarter campaign, raising 138k CAD. The project has expanded significantly in scope, and the team has grown with it as well. - @encyclia is an upcoming way to connect ORCID (a unique ID for researchers) to the fediverse […]

It's really tricky to spread the word about events these days! I don't support corporate social media and you don't get read attention there anyway, mailing lists aren't what they once were, and this event wants to reach people across many patterny disciplines.. Any help spreading the word […]

I'm finally unveiling the #activitypub project that has been consuming my weekends: Encyclia, an #orcid bridge that will make ORCID records followable and interactable on the fediverse. 🙂 It's early-stage and the ORCID following function is not publicly available yet. We're seeking community […]

First term CS: Build a calculator app. Third term CS: Build a client-server system. Sixth term CS: build a high performance distributed computing system. PhD in CS: Build a calculator app. https://chadnauseam.com/coding/random/calculator-app 🤯