Esteban [🐘.technology] @esteban@mastodon.technology

Job titles of the near future:

* Software gardener (the intersection of devops & maintenance)

* Software archaeologist (maintenance of old but important systems)

* Software anthropologist (maintenance of old but important systems whose behavior is confusing)

* Software documentary editor (a software anthropologist that annotates old broken software & its documentation for software historians)

* Software historian (studies old versions of software to make it understandable to modern users)

The application I'm building to test MastodonKit has a simple Compose/Reply view now. And it supports group replying.

Developers, when using MastodonKit, Mastodon's API, or another library, remember to use the `acct` property instead of `account` when mentioning a user. The first carries the instance information; the latter doesn't.

#MastodonKit #MastodonDev #MastodonAPI

When writing a blog post or preparing a talk, the most important questions are: what do you want your audience to do as a result of your words, and what do they need to hear to inspire those actions?

I'm by no means perfect at this, but these two questions have guided my writing and speaking for four years, and they've never steered me wrong.

My talk on building open source communities is available online: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/102858222 #opensource

Long Wochenende for me, four days! Tomorrow morning I'll work on #MastodonKit.

Berlin authorities hired 64 people to hunt for people renting out apartments on a short-term basis: http://www.berliner-zeitung.de/berlin/airbnb-berlin-erhoeht-druck-auf-vermittler-von-ferienwohnungen-26772714

Imagine if they put those people to work on finding ways to increase supply of affordable housing!

You cannot contain the fluff

need a website that lets me stream free coffee into my mouth. what's the youtube of coffee

Mastodon #bot honeypot:
1. Create a new account that explicitly says not to follow it in the bio.
2. Watch as several marketing bots immediately follow it.
3. Block them all.

After doing more testing, I decided to go ahead and provide shared hosting for Mastodon instances.
This will be a trial but unless something goes horribly wrong, I believe that I can price it at €5/month for an instance of up to 100 users.
This can greatly diminish the cost of running small instances and remove the technical barrier from everyone who wishes to run their own Mastodon Instance.
Let me know what you think https://masto.host/#pricing-table

My own stickers just arrived, will post pics in a bit

Can I have weekends with three days? Two days is not enough.

I've always been skeptical of the JS community's mania for Babel plugins and compile-to-JS languages, and honestly, working with the Mastodon codebase and trying to shrink a 2.6MB JS bundle, I feel like my worst fears have been realized.

I've decomposed all of Mastodon's Babel presets into these plugins. If I remove a single one, I get some inscrutable error apparently caused by some other plugin in the pipeline. Feels like a big Jenga tower. 😞 #MastodonPerf

I've just updated #MastodonKit and pushed a new tag, 1.0.1. Several improvements.

https://github.com/ornithocoder/MastodonKit

#Swift #Mastodon #API

Huh I guess I should link them again. Yeah the Sticker Mule thing got resolved https://www.stickermule.com/marketplace/18010-mastodon-fluffy-elephant-friend