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· 16 Iyyar 5783 (Sunday 7 May 2023) · 1 minute to read

I’ve been meaning to play around with Compass for tracking the location of my posts, I need to get that installed this week and, well, start experimenting!

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53 °F Overcast Clouds

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· 1 Iyyar 5783 (Saturday 22 April 2023) · 1 minute to read

Workout: Distance: 0.0km, Elevation Gain: 0m, Moving Time: 00:15:41, Average Speed: 0.0km/h, Calories burned: 100

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· 5 Nisan 5783 (Monday 27 March 2023) · 1 minute to read

Morning everybody, I guess we’re doing Monday. Right now I’m wishing for mid-April, because honestly I’m thoroughly over the cold and especially the added dampness that comes with the rain. I’m still trying to figure out what today’s work playlist is going to be, although it’s probably going to be something chilled out.

State College

38 °F Scattered Clouds

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· 4 Nisan 5783 (Sunday 26 March 2023) · 1 minute to read

Working on a second pot of coffee.

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54 °F Clear Sky

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· 29 Kislev 5783 (Friday 23 December 2022) · 1 minute to read

It’s fucking cold outside!

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-2 °F Overcast Clouds

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· 30 Kislev 5783 (Friday 23 December 2022) · 1 minute to read

Wow. It’s officially below 0 here.

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-1 °F Overcast Clouds

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· 29 Kislev 5783 (Friday 23 December 2022) · 1 minute to read

Shabbat shalom and happy sixth night of Hanukah.

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-0 °F Overcast Clouds

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· 29 Kislev 5783 (Friday 23 December 2022) · 1 minute to read

We’re waiting on it to warm up in here since we had a couple windows open while the temperature was in the 40’s last night. Then it started dropping and getting really windy.

State College

3 °F Scattered Clouds

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· 26 Kislev 5783 (Tuesday 20 December 2022) · 1 minute to read

UFW is a jerk.

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27 °F Overcast Clouds

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· 10 Kislev 5783 (Sunday 4 December 2022) · 1 minute to read

35 min Just Ride Went: 7401.9 miles in: 34 minutes, 55 seconds

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· 8 Kislev 5783 (Thursday 1 December 2022) · 1 minute to read

22 min Just Ride Went: 3272.5 miles in: 22 minutes, 42 seconds

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· 2 Kislev 5783 (Saturday 26 November 2022) · 1 minute to read

Next goal: Figuring out how to decouple my book addiction from Goodreads with as little clunkiness as possible.

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· 2 Kislev 5783 (Saturday 26 November 2022) · 1 minute to read

Excellent!

I have achieved my goal of controlling what gets crossposted/federated where and when and the formatting of same depending on where it’s going.

I’m very happy about this because Mastodon, Twitter, and Micro.blog have very different cultures, and while I’m not arrogant enough to say I’ve added anything to any of them, I do want to make sure that the technology I use has the affordances necessary to accommodate each community’s culture as long as I’m participating in each of these communities.

Twitter I’m pretty much leaving by the wayside, except maybe to check in once in a while with the people who for the time being seem to be very angry about Mastodon, and of course Micro.blog is a community I thoroughly enjoy participating in because of it’s more relaxed atmosphere. Mastodon, once again, has other things that make it worth participating in for me, so I’ll be participating there too.

I just don’t necessarily want the content I post to each of these to necessarily be the same content across all three communities all the time.

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· 2 Kislev 5783 (Saturday 26 November 2022) · 1 minute to read

Testing a thing with content warnings. They appear to be determined by the slug, but let’s see.

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· 2 Kislev 5783 (Saturday 26 November 2022) · 1 minute to read

And … It’s working! #IndieWeb #BridgyFed

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· 20 Heshvan 5783 (Monday 14 November 2022) · 1 minute to read

We appear to be getting a bonus dumpster fire inside the dumpster fire that is Twitter, because Mellon Tusk has reached the find-out stage of fucking around with microservices. And … It’s going as well as could be expected.

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· 20 Heshvan 5783 (Monday 14 November 2022) · 1 minute to read

Welp we know Mastodon’s hit the bigtime because "Mastodon Growth Curator" is now a bio that’s appeared in my notifications.

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· 19 Heshvan 5783 (Sunday 13 November 2022) · 1 minute to read

I’m not saying Mastodon wouldn’t benefit from some UI improvements, but I suspect that at least some of the people complaining about how complicated it is weren’t early adopters of Twitter. And by "early adopter", I mean anything before 2010 or so. Trust me, early Twitter was fairly complicated.

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· 19 Heshvan 5783 (Sunday 13 November 2022) · 1 minute to read

Regarding the Fedified project: I’m against its desire to be a centralized verifying authority, but I also recognize that for a lot of Twitter expats, they don’t have a website they control on which to place a link to their Mastodon profile with a rel attribute, and I think those of us who have been part of the fediverse/federation/indieweb for a while should probably grant some space on this.

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· 19 Heshvan 5783 (Sunday 13 November 2022) · 1 minute to read

OK, #introduction since I’ve migrated instances. My name is Amanda Carson, formerly Amanda Rush, and I’ve been using Mastodon and other federating things since 2018 or so. I’ve been doing #indieweb things since I stumbled on webmentions in 2015 and been stuck in that rabbit hole ever since. Spoke at an indiewebcamp, web developer by day and avid book reader.

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