kainoa

kainoa, 1 year ago to random

Saw a cool light pattern under a bridge on my morning walk

kainoa, 1 year ago to random

Please boost ​:boost_requested:​

As part of a wave of layoffs, I got laid off from my backend development job last month as the company's financials I was working with have been steadily decreasing. I applied for another job shortly after, and after a month of interviews and an honestly great response from their team, at the last minute, they told me that they were focusing their hiring efforts away from the US and towards Singapore. With Calckey donations, I don't have enough money to pay for rent or groceries. So I'm asking to #GetFediHired, I'm the lead developer on the Calckey project, and I'm a fullstack, multi-language developer. I have 3+ years of enterprise experience, and I work great on teams as well as solo. Resume and references available upon request.

kainoa, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago) to random

#Calckey announcement ​:boost_requested:​

So, drumroll please...

🥁🥁🥁

Here's what's coming up!

Yes, Calckey is undergoing a full rebranding!! But it's more than that. We've worked for MONTHS on this, and there's going to be a lot of changes and exciting things coming up. This includes:

• Press releases?!?!
• A super sick trailer video
• A full roadmap for the next couple YEARS
• A new flagship server that will be AUTOMATICALLY MIGRATED TO from calckey.social (a Fediverse first!)
• A cute new mascot ​:calc_swear:​ <(I'm not cute?!)
• A new code hosting service with better CI/CD
• The stable release you've all been waiting for, but not as v14.0.0... as v1!!

And this is all coming on

July 19th.

Save the date.

kainoa, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago) to random

If y'all can get Calckey to 13,000 users in the next 48 hours, I'll show something VERY SPECIAL to everyone ​:neofox_wink:​

About: https://calckey.org/

Server list: https://calckey.org/join/ (doesn't matter what server you join) ​:boost_requested:​

kainoa, 11 months ago to random

If anyone wants to get me a job for my birthday I'd appreciate that more than anything because being able to pay rent and buy groceries would be great 🥺👉👈

RE: https://calckey.social/notes/9c84c0dct6

kainoa, 11 months ago to random

As many issues have now been sorted out with the deployment and things are going smoothly, https://calckey.social/ is temporarily REOPEN FOR SIGNUPS!!! Go tell your friends, family, dogs, cats, long-forgotten childhood crushes, neighbors, everyone!!! ​:cat_boost:​ ​:boost_requested:​

kainoa, 1 year ago to random

Yet another PSA: Please, please check a project's issue tracker before filing an issue. We don't need 10 duplicates of the same issue. There's a reason you're asked to check for duplicates before filing an issue. Pass it on. ​:boost_ok:​

kainoa, 11 months ago to random

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So, an update on things. #Calckey

1. I'm very sorry for all of the degraded performance lately on calckey.social. As you may or may not know, we've been testing changes with our codebase, database deployment, ims deployment, and a whole lot more. After a lot of testing and changes, I thought that we were good enough to start opening signups again. Turns out... we're not. As I continue to work on things and start team up with some very smart people who've worked in deployment and scaling systems, we're going to do our absolute best to make sure that we can handle things on all ends, and hopefully get extra hands on deck for day-to-day operations, so it's not all on my shoulders. I was sadly unable to attend to a lot of things yesterday due to being out of town for the holiday, and being in a no-service area for the majority of the day, so I didn't know that there were issues until it was too late. Thank you for your patience as we go through growing pains. A full write-up on what went wrong, the steps we took, and how it's fixed (once it's fixed!) will be made after all this is done. For real.

2. I did NOT expect this amount of support, interest, and coverage! Hitting 13k from 11k in a little over 2 days across all servers is still boggling my mind. And it's not just calckey.social -- so many other servers are getting new users, and even ~30 new servers cropped up! Thank you all, from the bottom of my heart. I'll make sure that I do my hardest to make sure you all have a great experience.

3. As promised, you all deserve a peak into what we've been working on in secret for months. More details to come tonight/tomorrow. Stay tuned. 😉

Sincerely,
Kainoa

kainoa, 1 year ago to random

​:boost_requested:​ Please boost! ​:boost_requested:​

Thank you all so much for the recent donations! If you go to https://calckey.social/about-calckey and don't see yourself featured on the patrons list (and want to be), please send me a ping/DM with a screenshot of your receipt and you'll be added! A lot of the donations coming in are from guest accounts/accounts not linked to a Fediverse handle, so it's hard to find everyone. ❤️

kainoa, 11 months ago to random

Rate limits are NOT a bad thing. In fact, they're pretty much necessary for anything that has a user interacting with a service. What Musk did a couple days ago wasn't adding rate limits for the first time (Twitter has had rate limits since 2006), what he did was (have his software devs) increase the rate limits to extreme amounts without properly testing the consequences, and at the same time, mess up the Twitter client code to the point where it spammed the website far more than what was needed, leading to increased usage of said services which need to be rate limited. A rate limit, at its core, is simply a way to stop a user from doing a repeated action on a server too many times in a short period of time. For example, you wouldn't want to let a user post 100,000 times in 2 seconds. So please, take into account that every service you use has rate limits in one way or another, and in the extremely vast majority of cases, they're entirely a good thing and a necessary thing. What Elon allowed was simply a misuse of rate limits.

kainoa, 11 months ago to random

I find it kinda crazy that 48% of all Calckey users are active monthly 🥹

kainoa, 1 year ago to random

​:boost_ok:​ Introducing a new Fediverse server: https://fedi.software !

If you make server software, clients, browser extensions, or anything else that enriches the Fediverse, we welcome you to make your home here!

kainoa, 1 year ago to random

Calckey is not going to be called "Calckey" for much longer, that's all I'll say... 😉

kainoa, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago) to random

It's been 48 hours, but I'll give y'all a couple hours extra, cuz... 😳😳😳

https://calckey.org/join

RE: https://calckey.social/notes/9gps2ggxbdz43u8c

kainoa, 1 year ago to random

Shhh 🤫 https://calckey.org/

kainoa, 1 year ago to random

As much as I really enjoy pouring my heart and soul into working on Calckey, it sadly doesn't pay the bills, yet.

RE: https://calckey.social/notes/9c84c0dct6

kainoa, 11 months ago to random

Do you like Calckey? Do you like getting a shiny badge next to your name? Do you want to help keep the lights on? Well, we have a donation page! https://opencollective.com/calckey ​:boost_requested:​

kainoa, 1 year ago to random

After talking with @wild1145 , it seems that the reports of transphobia were back from an old post/posts which never federated the delete action properly, leading to a false sense of a lack of admin/moderation action. They're committed to moderating against transphobia, so we are re-federating with mastodonapp.uk! My sincerest apologies for jumping to conclusions over something which clearly required more investigation and outreach.

kainoa, 1 year ago to random

Do you run a #Calckey server? Want it listed on calckey.org? Well you're in luck! There's a new "Submit your server" button on https://calckey.org/join/ which will lead you to a form to submit your server! ​:boost_requested:​

kainoa, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago) to random

​:boost_requested:​ Currently testing nmkj's new poll federation code -- please vote on and boost this post!!!

kainoa, 11 months ago to random

I don't care how much you disagree with someone's federation/moderation policies, don't fucking threaten animal cruelty/torture and tell someone to off themselves over choosing to federate with a server.

kainoa, 11 months ago to fediverse

As of today, #Calckey makes up 0.13% of the #Fediverse by user count, and 1.9% of the Fediverse by server count. We're tiny but mighty, growing each day. (Stats by @FediDB )

kainoa, 11 months ago to random

Oh, and... here's another teaser for what's coming up 😉

RE: https://i.calckey.cloud/notes/9ge5p526kjoe64je

kainoa, 1 year ago to random

Coming soon... 🤫

kainoa, 1 year ago to random

Genuinely the best MFM Art I've ever seen.

RE: https://calckey.social/notes/9f3orsscr6