CrowderSoup @CrowderSoup@mastodon.technology
Feminist AF. Software dev @ InsideSales.com. Lover of technology. Husband of one and father of two. Building cool things with NodeJS.
#basketball #utahjazz Show more
Who wants to play!? Oh, wait, I'm already playing.
Really not looking forward to going to work tomorrow... Feel like I need just ONE more day in the weekend this week. #MondayBlues
More proud of this than I should be tbh
JavaScript is Good, Actually https://ashfurrow.com/blog/javascript-is-good-actually/
Got my #hugo site building with pre-commit git hooks: https://crowdersoup.com/post/site-updates/husky/
I love static site generators, particularly Hugo. This certainly makes publishing a bit more streamlined.
If you're using bash or zsh and you don't know the ^X^E shortcut, learn it now.
First, ensure you have a valid `EDITOR` environment variable set to your favourite editor (like vim or emacs).
Second, enter some command, but don't hit enter.
Third, use Ctrl+X Ctrl+E and learn that you can use your editor to modify the command before running it in the shell.
This is pretty helpful if you're trying to edit a long command line.
Anyone else here using #Habitica ? I've used it before but fell off the wagon on some habits and need a decent "Todo" list as well, which it seems to do in a gamified way.
Remember folks, use CamelCase on your hashtags, so screen readers speak it as two words
#accessibility
Doing a ton of reading today about open and social web. Really interesting in doing some playing with https://indieweb.org stuff, particularly WebMentions.
It all seems very geared for geeks now, but I'd love to put some thought / work into making it accessible for everyone.
"I tried leaving Facebook. I couldn’t" by Sarah Jeong https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/28/17293056/facebook-deletefacebook-social-network-monopoly
Great read, and this comment in a thread by her also hits home for me: https://twitter.com/sarahjeong/status/990974005162094599
Those weeks when you spend all your time in the #AWS console :cry: :middle_finger:
Guys. Don't block the follow bots.
I know on bird site we block the follow bots, but on Mastodon, follow bots are our friends.
They come to your instance and follow you, and by doing so, they bring your posts into the federated timeline on their instance.
This is how federation works; the follow bots are to help us connect.
Reminder that according to Mastodon Socials ToS the only thing anyone "HAS TO" cw or mark as sensitive is overtly sexual content.
Just because you can't handle something doesn't mean it's "simple" or "common courtesy" for someone else to recognize.
Example: someone who follows politics is not going to see it as something to hide.
It is not other people's job to curate to your brain.
The Ruby library for interacting with the Mastodon client API is in dire need of completion. If you're looking for ways to contribute code, I think that's a good starting point https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon-api
Here's a thing that makes Mastodon instances work less well than they could...
when you visit an instance, all the front pages look the same.
"About this instance" is a TINY little link under the sign-up form. This is crazy.
Instances should LEAD with a community description, not bury it.
That's like a newsgroup leading with the OS it used to run the newsgroup rather than saying: "This is a Kenny G community"
You know what's gonna fail? IRC. *shakes head* I hate to be the bearer of bad news. I just don't see a way to generate revenue
Ultimately Mastodon's killer feature is that it's a public good that someone built because they thought it needed to exist and not a startup someone built because they wanted to get rich quick selling other people's data.
