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box464

@box464@mastodon.social

Coder, manager, dog dad. Tech tinkering is my joy. Be kind.

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mergesort, to random
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I'm sorry for flooding your timelines all day but it's been so darn exciting! Tonight I'll go to bed not only having had a launch day that exceeded all of my wildest expectations, but I'll also have had Plinky cupcakes in my Plinky hat with a Plinky colored bouquet, courtesy of my perfect partner Colleen.

I would love it if you try the app, and if you think Plinky can make your life a bit better, please enjoy the 50% yearly discount. https://plinky.app/offer/REDPANDA
https://macaw.social/@mergesort/112412465363739000

box464,
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@mergesort Congrats on the launch!

box464, to accessibility
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I have been testing low visibility accessibility on websites I visit, just to see what the experience is like.

Voice over is very easy to enable on a Mac with a magic keyboard. Clicking your touch id button quickly 3 times turns voice over on, and 3 times again turns it back off. Excellent shortcut that makes it easy to include in your development process.

bw, to random
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After 5 years of WordPress, I have rebuilt my website using @eleventy! I've been using Eleventy for years now on other projects (including one for NASA) and I'm super stoked to be using it for my personal website.

I did a little writeup about it.

https://blakewatson.com/journal/rebuilding-my-website-with-eleventy/

box464,
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@bw Pretty nifty search trick for a static site! Thanks for the idea, I see uses for that at work already.

box464, to random
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These shirts! The cat and dog ones are soooo tempting. (All the crappy tracking tags removed from the url)

https://www.boozelele.com/collections/best-selling

anniegreens, to random
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Now that I've finished my WeblogPoMo post for today, I can eat and finish the 11ty Conf videos (my entertainment for the rest of the night!)

box464,
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@anniegreens You will be entertained! I’m doing the same, caught a few bits during lunch.

box464, to random
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Jumped over to today's @eleventy conference at lunch - they are on a break but this is the most fun I've seen people having on a conference break ever lol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLxJ6PtuF9M

box464, to random
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Loving this weeks wallaroo from @Iconfactory

box464, to random
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Is there an open source version of GIPHY / Tenor?

vyr, to random
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"just press 0 until they let you talk to a human" hasn't worked for large companies for 5–10 years and i wish people would stop with that advice. they will just drop your call.

phone menus are designed to deflect calls from actual customer service, and they get upgraded until they can reliably do that.

box464,
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@vyr As someone that configured a phone tree system…the best thing you can do is be absolute chaos. Mumble, press weird buttons, ask your questions in strange ways, the AI will give up and forward you to someone real…eventually. Just don’t be too weird because there may be real people listening to you. 😅

box464, (edited ) to random
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Well, the paperwork is done. It's a start.

https://llc.box464.com/

box464, to bluesky
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DMs, 90 second video (seriously you can’t upload video yet....), and OAUTH coming to Bluesky among other things.

https://bsky.social/about/blog/05-07-2024-product-roadmap

box464, to Eurovision
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It's happening now and this american idiot almost missed it again!

https://eurovision.tv/event/malmo-2024

box464, to random
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Tumblr will remove their tipping feature on June 1. It was a payment integration with Stripe introduced two years ago.

https://www.tumblr.com/changes/749295377342251008/tipping-is-going-away-on-june-1-2024

box464, to random
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Spoutible introduces "Accuracy Alerts".

"Accuracy Alerts stands as a robust solution against the challenge of misinformation, utilizing a sophisticated blend of verified sources and state-of-the-art algorithms to ensure the delivery of dependable summaries.

...we have developed advanced algorithms and processes tailored specifically to assist large language models (LLMs) in accurately debunking or verifying claims. This innovative approach enhances the reliability of AI outputs..."

box464, to random
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My takeaway from the ? Get ready for on device LLM in June.

andypiper, to random
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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! https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/05/trunk-tidbits-april-2024/

box464,
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@andypiper @MastodonEngineering @renchap Great update, very interested in the API changes. What amazing things will our community do with it?! A shout out for the design of these blog entries, easy to ingest all the information in there.

box464, to random
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Flipboard has created a newsletter on LinkedIn called “Fedicurious”. The fediverse has made it to LinkedIn.

Recently, they did a webinar on how federation works in Flipboard geared to content creators.

https://youtu.be/Skv7eKIDxqE

box464, to random
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Oh no. No no no. I listed all my fediverse accounts on a single page. It's time for some spring cleaning. 😱

box464, to random
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SpaceHost is out of beta. It’s a new hosting platform for LOTS of different fediverse platforms, not just Mastodon!

@spacehost

https://spacehost.one/create

box464, to wordpress
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Ok this is playing a bit of “six degrees” here but I’m wondering if the part about Wordpress taking off after the Clinton affair and tumblr rising as a competitor is true?

video/mp4

box464, to fediverse
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With big players like Flipboard, Wordpress, Ghost and Threads entering the fediverse, along with bridges to Bluesky and more….your choice of platform will be less about content (you’ll see it everywhere!) and more about the app experience and features you prefer. 🥳

cheeaun, to internet
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I think following specific hashtags of a profile would be useful. Technically it's like following a profile but the timeline posts filtered by specific hashtags. Perhaps similar logic on Mastodon, to hiding boosts from profile or filtering posts by subscribed languages.

Could probably solve the issue where folks create multiple accounts for different interests or circles.

box464,
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@cheeaun This exists on Forkeys as Antennas. Follow a set of users related to a specific hashtag or keyword that appears in their posts. It’s not retroactive tho, it starts collecting the posts written after the antenna gets setup.

box464,
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@cheeaun Agreed, too complicated. I like your idea of Follow Tags from the Profile, much easier. You could kinda implement this today with some API trickery but you'd have to store the user/tag combos somewhere. Kinda like you do with your hashtag combo timelines now, maybe?

https://mastodon.social/@box464/tagged/fediverse.json

or /api/v2/search?account_id={box464}&q=

box464, to random
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My brain is telling me "you failed at everything today". But I'm trying to flip that to:

  • I had fun coding on a new Mastodon API toy.
  • I got one step further on a new SAML configuration for work
  • I documented an attempt to get IceShrimp.NET installed
vasta, to random
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Working in an organization that has adopted Teams as its primary communication tool (though our department still uses Slack), this piece on “Why does Teams make us feel so disconnected?” by Martha Edwards is remarkably astute: https://www.marthaedwards.ca/why-ms-teams-is-not-a-good-alternative-to-slack/

box464,
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@vasta Spot on in regards to a focus on closed communications. The way notifications work even puts more prominence on closed chats between team members. Trying to start a conversation within a Team channel is kin to shouting into the void. Team members often miss them because the notification alerts are confusing to understand.

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