Mike Burns @mikeburns@mastodon.technology

Accessibility isn't just for "disabled" people.

Accessibility benefits EVERYONE, from the people who are severely impacted to those who find the extra options convenient, and everyone in between.

THERE IS NO DOWNSIDE to making your stuff more accessible.

A Survey of $RANDOM: https://nullprogram.com/blog/2018/12/25/ #OpenBSD

If you ever have to work with HTTP cookies, here's a rundown of how they work: https://robots.thoughtbot.com/lucky-cookies

If you're in NYC and want to learn the command line, come take my class! It's beginner/intro-level, no experience is a plus. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/intro-to-command-line-tickets-52911028310

So @AFresh1 did the great bots on birbsite that tweet each commit*. I hacked his perl and glued it with some python and here we are, it toots!
@openbsd_ports @openbsd_xenocara @openbsd_src @openbsd_www @openbsd_stable

*it also tweets about newer sets but I haven't written this feature yet so
@openbsd_sets is silent for now #OpenBSD

The first week of our #openbsd manpage-reading starts on Monday, in two days - join us!

The manpages for this week are:

* Monday: afterboot(8)
* Tuesday: syspatch(8)
* Wednesday: intro(8)
* Thursday: security(8)

Grab your favorite medium (you can even print them out, it's fun!), read through it, tell us what you learned by using #manpagedaily afterwards!

New Flashbulb release: 20180915.001.

- Bugfix: only hide sensitive images if they are still in memory.
- Hide keyboard after reporting a status.

That bugfix fixes a crash so we strongly recommend upgrading!

https://flashbulb.app/

The first beta of Flashbulb - an Android media app for Mastodon - is now public. Boost selfies, fav doggos, and post birbs with ease and convenience.

Let us know about all bugs, from "uh it doesn't work" to "wow it's impressive how much this doesn't work"!

Try it now: https://flashbulb.app/

it’s not enough to produce free alternatives to scabware if we can’t support the labor and materials to steward the ‘ware through every cycle of its development and usage. linux is a spectacular failure in this regard: a vital technology and thriving community eclipsed by corpers who can just buy lifetimes, who can turn our works into rent-generators with impunity. to make better software, we must enmesh our obligations to the craft with our communal survival and wellbeing.

Mastalab crashed and gave me the option of emailing a report. Even though it was a trivial problem I sent the email.

I just got a reply, half an hour later, saying it's fixed. 💛

My delight and surprise made me realize Google/birdsite/whatever had trained me out of reporting problems, by never responding or fixing anything.

The fediverse is different. You're much closer to humans who care about these things and are able to actually do stuff. It's worth reporting users, bugs, crashes.

This isn't at anyone in-particular but I've been seeing this a lot

Why are you beta testing something if you're going to complain about it being buggy, that kinda defeats the point of beta testing. Report the bugs rather than going around complaining about them.

I keep seeing a lot of discussions framed in terms of “ugh this is why I left twitter”, which is a totally valid perspective. But,,, a lot of us didn’t come to Mastodon to flee twitter, we came here to build something new and awesome. Mastodon is gonna face some of the same problems as twitter, but I wish we would frame those discussions in terms of Mastodon and not “the thing that isn’t twitter.”

Welcome again everyone who joined us at https://ruby.social over the weekend!

Please do introduce yourself and tag it with #introductions -- I'll boost it and help other Rubyists find you.

#ruby #community #matztodon