misc

misc, 1 day ago to random

6 hours of sleep never was great for me but it truly feels like 4 used to

misc, 1 day ago to boston

Exciting news, the #FreshPond Beer Garden is coming back on Friday! Possibly the most charmingly uncool beer garden in the #Boston area, and therefore my favorite. #CambridgeMA

misc, 2 days ago to random

One thing Mastodon (or a fork) could do to win some users over from Bluesky, is support taking your account private. It's wild that X and Threads are the only big post-Twitter microblogging platforms that allow this.

misc, 2 days ago to random

Time to peel myself off the floor and build myself a couch

misc, 4 days ago to random

Is this tree a goner? 🥺

misc, 4 days ago to random

I think if Mastodon is gonna grow significantly, and win back potential converts who rejected it before, it's gonna need a rebrand.

misc, 5 days ago to random

We understand "clients" as a concept but what would a browser for the social web look like? Something that would let you dip into a convo on Mastodon, or Bluesky, or whatever, and help you track the throughlines

misc, 6 days ago to random

It seems like one way to avoid scraper protection would be to not automate the browsing part, but rather have distributed volunteers with browser extensions to download the target data as they access it.

(Trying to think of ways to get Instagram story data in a more useful form)

misc, 8 days ago to random

For a long time I was critical of any would be post-Twitter than didn't federate from the start, because that seemed like the obvious essential way to bootstrap a critical mass.

But now, I'm starting to feel like there is gonna be some strength in the fact that Mastodon + the broader microblogging fediverse, Bluesky, and Threads are going to come together after developing separately.

misc, 8 days ago to random

In a world where everything is kinda federated but it's through a patchwork suffused with blocks, bridges, and feature mismatches - does the inscrutability of all that become the new opaque algorithm?

misc, 9 days ago (edited 9 days ago) to random

EDIT: Think I'm good, thanks @nyquildotorg & @jonny for the pointers!

I'd like to find a way to automate it so that people on a social media team can fave tweets and those automatically get compiled into a google sheet. I see github has some Selenium X scrapers that could be useful, but none of them seem to have an option to load someone's faves. I guess I could try to figure them out and retrofit this myself.

misc, 10 days ago to random

What happened to this app, it was a really good concept https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/40868/daymap

misc, 11 days ago to random

Some days I'm like, hell yeah we're gonna save the world, and some days everything feels so fuckin insurmountable and entrenched

misc, 11 days ago to random

So, it's gonna be an anxiety day, I see. Nice, nice

misc, 12 days ago to random

I wonder how long it would take me to learn programming well enough to be able to make the things I want to work the way I want

misc, 12 days ago to random

Getting by without an optimal task management system: mildly stressful all the time
Finding an optimal task management system: intensely stressful until you succeed

This feels like a special case of a general problem https://mastodon.social/@misc/112400509278039901

misc, 12 days ago to random

Still think we should make a multi-platform microblogging app that scrapes X

misc, 12 days ago to random

I feel like every time I see something about "such and such celebrity is a zionist, let's cancel them" it links back to some comment of sympathy and support for Israelis they made on, like, October 10, but elides the timestamp.

misc, 14 days ago to random

We should make this their most immortal ad since 1984. https://xoxo.zone/@mathowie/112412171573722298

misc, 15 days ago to random

So, what's the deal with the word "rad" and bikes?

misc, 16 days ago to random

RFK Jr.'s brainworms are a good reminder to us all to be careful about the waters we swim in.

misc, 17 days ago to random

treating myself to a little get drunk and watch Columbo and boy did I need that.

misc, 17 days ago to random

Would Action Network be the best (i.e. cheapest acceptable) email list service for activist college students looking to reach out to alumni?

misc, 17 days ago to random

Trying to build a system to scaffold your brain is such a tricky business, because you have to balance the tools available, how you want things to work, and openness to ways that might work better.

misc, 17 days ago to random

I just want an Apple Pencil Mini.