Spooky Ash Furrow 🎃 @ashfurrow@mastodon.technology

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good morning

it’s plant-watering day here’s all my plants

Good morning!

I have complicated feelings about corporate OSS (since that's basically my job) but TSLint highlights what is probably the biggest gap between my beliefs and my actions. Frustrating.

"Wow, TSLint is such a good tool, I wonder who mak—"

good morning!

I apologize a lot, out of habit I think, and I've always laughed it off as "haha yeah well Canadians, you know", but it kind of bothers me that I feel compelled to say "sorry" so much. It's compulsive, nearly.

So I heard this trick, to replace apologies with thank-you's. "Sorry I broke the staging server" -> "thanks for being patient while I figure out how to deploy stuff", for example. It's really helped me with that compulsion, and makes me feel better too 🤗

I was a store the other day and the cashier was ringing me up. They said "and your total is... sixty nine sixty [long pause] eight." And I was disappointed/relieved because I'll be damned if I'm going to out myself IRL as know what the sex number is, but no way I'd be able to not say it...

Nice.

Good morning, the KiNG is dead (long live the KiNG).

Being nice is nice, and I’m glad the environment here on Mastodon encourages that. Being nice on Masto is the default, but on Twitter it was like, the exception. No thanks 🤗

It has shocked me how little I miss it, after a decade of daily use. Weirdly, it wasn’t the awful people on Twitter that drove me off: it was their restrictions on third-party APIs. Tweetbot got a lot less useful, and I wasn’t gonna use the official app. It was only after I left because of APIs (lol) that I saw how awful the place had become.

So, thanks Jack. Without your restrictions to push me towards the official app I might not have left at all.

Reflecting on the last two months (!) being almost entirely off the birdsite:

- I miss some friends who are there still.
- I spend less time on social media, generally.
- I don’t miss being “ironically” distant and sad.
- I don’t follow the news as closely.
- Related to that, I’m sure, I’m a lot happier.
- I basically only log in to Twitter to retweet announcements about conferences, my own blog posts, etc.
- I still miss da share z0ne.