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dimillian, 1 day ago to random

Let’s goooooo!

box464, 20 hours ago

@dimillian @IceCubesApp I appreciate this feature so much. Most of the time I can think through what I want to say and enjoy writing something creative. But when my brain worms start nibbling this comes in handy.

andycarolan, 1 day ago to random

I just posted something on LinkedIn and now I feel dirty.

How long until the marketers slide into my DMs there? 😅

#LinkedIn #Pointless

box464, 1 day ago

@andycarolan The sad thing is I have two opportunities I'd love to get out to my colleagues I've worked with in the past, but announcing it on LinkedIn means a flood of recruiters and marketers hitting me and it's just not worth it. So I'm just messaging them individually via text or whatever.

mergesort, 1 day ago to random

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, 1 day ago

@mergesort Congrats on the launch!

bw, 1 day ago to random

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, 1 day ago

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

vyr, 2 days ago to random

"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, 1 day ago

@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. 😅

anniegreens, 1 day ago to random

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, 1 day ago

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

andypiper, 4 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/

box464, 4 days ago

@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.

vasta, 8 days ago to random

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, 5 days ago

@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.

cheeaun, 6 days ago to internet

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.

#SocialMedia

box464, 6 days ago

@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, 6 days ago

@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=#fediverse

18+ box464, 6 days ago

@rolle I hear you. Sometimes you just gotta vent. Take care of yourself so you can take care of them. ✌️

jenniferplusplus, 9 days ago to random

Practical solutions to the "don't share this on mastodon" problem:

1. Include an image in the post, so mastodon doesn't fetch a link preview (you can do this yourself)
2. Serve static assets from static files, not your app server (sys admins can do this)
3. Mastodon adds some staggered delay to the open graph fetch (likely simple, but a dev needs to do it)
4. The origin embeds the link preview and peers just use that (the difficult but correct solution, but gargron needs to agree to it)

box464, 9 days ago

@jenniferplusplus This is still my top blog post by far. There’s obviously a lot of interest in how this works. I really just wanted to know why some music sites showed an embedded player and others didn’t. It got out of hand. 😅

https://box464.com/posts/mastodon-preview-cards/

box464, 10 days ago to random

Should I go for the Sinful Surfer look? It's 50% off! What could go wrong?!

box464, 10 days ago

It's rebellious.

molly0xfff, 10 days ago to web

If you've ever found yourself missing the "good old days" of the #web, what is it that you miss? (Interpret "it" broadly: specific websites? types of activities? feelings? etc.) And approximately when were those good old days?

No wrong answers — I'm working on an article and wanted to get some outside thoughts.

box464, 10 days ago

@molly0xfff A smaller web. It was fine if your post or website wasn't visible or even findable by masses of individuals - that wasn't the point. It was discovery and community once you found your spot. Enjoying the discussions in front of you. Today, we must consume everything all the time all at once and be infuriated if we can't.

box464, 12 days ago to GenX

My brain decided to bring up this memory for no reason today. Cereal box records. Back in the day, kid cereals would add cardboard records on the back of their boxes. You could cut them out and play them on any normal record player. The grooves were made with thin plastic and songs were pretty short.

Sound was horrible. But fun.

https://youtu.be/DCb9IfndLz8?t=52&si=ZdEciuWE1c2DFZ0d

#GenX #Records #Retro

box464, 12 days ago

@nicholashead This one? Now I absolutely do, had totally forgotten it!

https://youtu.be/e8EftEZE088?si=8QhY6KgHjGZUDF77&t=131