andypiper

andypiper, 11 months ago to random

In case you’re not aware - I’m working with the Mastodon team on #DevRel and community 🚀

If you’re building a client on the #MastodonAPI I would love to get connected and help you stay up-to-date. Drop me a line andy@joinmastodon.org and let me know what you’re working on! 🙏🏻

(pls boost for reach / tell the devs of your fave apps)

andypiper, 4 months ago to random

A phrase I heard and loved when I was in a committee room in the UK Parliament this evening, for an Open Source event - “Open Source is the Right to Repair, for software.” 👏🏻 such a perfect way of describing it, I wish I'd been the one to say it!

andypiper, 6 months ago to random

Does anyone in my network have technical or product contacts at SquareSpace they could connect me with? (boost for viz please!)

andypiper, 7 months ago to random

This is great - @stefan uses science 🧪 to analyze the usage of alt text for images on Mastodon. 👏🏻 https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/alttexthealthcheck-image-accessibility-report-1/

andypiper, 5 months ago to random

I like this approach, and hope more organisations adopt it. https://www.xlast.org/

andypiper, 10 months ago to mastodon

Just finished a batch update to the third-party apps page on the #Mastodon website with ~9 additions, and also clarified the contribution guidelines in the associated GitHub repo.

Thank you to everyone building with the #MastodonAPI to create cool experiences for users on the platform! 💞

https://joinmastodon.org/apps

andypiper, 5 months ago to random

What I worked on with Mastodon in 2023.

http://andypiper.co.uk/2023/12/27/six-and-a-bit-months-on-team-mastodon/

andypiper, 1 year ago to random

👋🏻 so you may have read (and I’m excited to share!) that I’ll be helping @Gargron and the team with the developer community and #MastodonAPI space.

Finishing up a busy weekend showing completely-unrelated things at #WimbledonArtFair - but I’ll have more to post about this soon… 😊

andypiper, 6 months ago to random

Excited to announce that the @Mastodon project will have a stand at #FOSDEM2024 ... February this year was my first time at #FOSDEM, and this time I'll be there with a project I support! Looking forward to it. https://fosdem.org/2024/news/2023-11-20-accepted-stands-fosdem-2024/

andypiper, 21 days ago to random

Co-authored an update from the @MastodonEngineering team with my friend @renchap - a sneak peek at what is coming in 4.3 (and looking ahead from there). We'll aim to make these updates a regular feature for the blog. Let us know what you think! #MastodonAPI #SpreadMastodon https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/05/trunk-tidbits-april-2024/

andypiper, 9 months ago to random

A new #MastodonAPI client in PHP 🎉 I love things like this, and want to ensure that community-contributed libraries are publicised for everyone to benefit. Thank you @lhengstmengel 🙏🏻 https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/discussions/26451

andypiper, 8 months ago to mastodon

Do you have a Share to #Mastodon button on your website? You need one! @codepo8 has a post to help you -> https://dev.to/codepo8/adding-a-share-to-mastodon-link-to-any-web-site-485m

andypiper, 10 months ago to opensource

Potentially disastrous outcome for #OpenSource developers in the EU (and, very likely, beyond those borders) - this is a well-intentioned, but very poorly-worded regulation likely to have a chilling effect on the software sector from developers who write code as a hobby or for education and fun, through to OSS foundations - and, "upwards", to businesses, enterprise and government https://fossforce.com/2023/07/bad-news-for-open-source-eu-committee-approves-the-cyber-resilience-act/

andypiper, 5 days ago to fediverse

An excellent #fediverse and #activitypub explainer! (and it doesn’t even refer to any specific platform) https://youtu.be/VmSWPj0T9IQ

andypiper, 9 months ago to random

I just deleted 15 Twitter accounts. Time to move on.

http://andypiper.co.uk/2023/07/31/goodbye-to-my-life-on-twitter-2007-2023/

andypiper, 9 months ago to fediverse

Nice to see some of the Reddit app developers switch over to the #Fediverse https://www.androidpolice.com/sync-back-not-a-reddit-app-anymore/

andypiper, 1 year ago to random

Thinking about the #MastodonAPI specifically… what are some of the more interesting projects you’ve seen that use it? Looking to discover - and amplify - more cool stuff 👀

(boosts for reach appreciated!)

andypiper, 5 months ago to fediverse

This is a really good post about the potential of the #Fediverse and sums up why I feel good about spending a lot of my time working on Mastodon this year.

https://www.theverge.com/23990974/social-media-2023-fediverse-mastodon-threads-activitypub

andypiper, 10 months ago to retrocomputing

I love the whimsy of these apps, and the fact that Mastodon’s API and openness supports the ability to create them. Looking at a community-contributed patch to get them added to the website, too. #retrocomputing #mastodonAPI https://wedistribute.org/2023/07/mastodon-retro-clients/

andypiper, 4 months ago to fediverse

With the news that Meetup.com has been swallowed up by Bending Spoons (with a track record of strip mining good tools to their doom), a #fediverse alternative to explore is Mobilizon @mobilizon https://joinmobilizon.org/en/

andypiper, 1 year ago to random

Sad that my friends building apps on Twitter got cut off from the API - I spent a lot of time working to keep that API alive - but, happy to see folks like Tapbots here building on #mastodonapi https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/texas-tweetbot-developers-fighting-twitter/

andypiper, 3 months ago to random

That was fun! I think the @Mastodon table at #FOSDEM was the busiest I’ve experienced at an event for a long time - so great to hear from people that use the platform every day! The team enjoyed the chance to meet you - thanks for coming by! More #Merchtodon tomorrow… #WhoIsJohnMastodon

A Mastodon mascot sits in front of a large touchscreen display showing the “Mapstodon” data visualisation. A Pimoroni Stellar Unicorn LED grid is showing the Mastodon mascot in pixel art in the bottom right of the image.

andypiper, 8 months ago to fediverse

Social bookmarking is back! with a #Fediverse flavour.

http://andypiper.co.uk/2023/09/11/bookmarks-in-the-fediverse/

andypiper, 7 months ago to mastodon

This is exciting - a Mastodon-based pilot project is up for an award. Let's help them get some attention! #SpreadMastodon #Mastodon https://www.surf.nl/en/news/mastodon-pilot-has-a-chance-to-win-open-source-award

andypiper, 3 months ago to random

The final #Merchtodon mug has been sold! #FOSDEM @Mastodon