My how I've overlooked poetry as entertaining and essential. Discovered Ted Hughes and listened to him read many poems during yesterday's run. I'd expected them to work like prose which is mostly one-and-done but I see poems now more like music. Easier to appreciate after 5-10 impressions. Had fun copy-pasting the ones he read into a doc to make this process easier over time.
#farside does not get enough attention and publicity
https://farside.link/
https://github.com/benbusby/farside#readme
Replace the narratives of tech-could-do-ism with narratives of how to act today. How to fix today.
Because we all deserve a good world now. Not if we can pay for a new tech gadget in 5 years.
THIS. IS. BRILLIANT. 🤯 😍
#Github is in the heart of Software Development. Countless vendors see 'Github support' as essential. GH has cemented its position as dominant player.
#Fediverse can change all that. With @forgefed working on specs and #Gitea #ForgeFriends and #ForgeFlux projects coding federation support.
The entire ecosystem can be opened and democratized!
But are #ForgeFed "code forge" specs sliced right? Or should we crowdsource specs for the "Free Software Development Lifecycle"?
A sincere tip for longtime fediverse people who would like their friends to stick around here longer than a week:
If you're on Mastodon or Hometown, you can click the "bell" icon in the profile of someone you follow. This will make it so that every time they post, it will appear in your notifications like an "@". I am enabling this temporarily for friends so that I remember to interact with them. This is important for making this place feel more lively and helps people stick around!
Created an intro page and a few issues for the social network moderation backend. https://github.com/weex/wot-server/wiki
The idea is to leverage emergent social structure to shun bad actors without needing to explicitly ban anyone or create collateral shunning of folks who seem to have joined the wrong server.
My favorite book about writing is Writing Down The Bones. https://nataliegoldberg.com/books/writing-down-the-bones/
It motivated me to write a lot more and with less purpose. Very freeing.
Hey #Fediverse the results of the #poll are in and the majority guessed in the right direction.
August last year @weex did a count of the 'Social Media Apps' section of https://delightful.club/delightful-fediverse-apps/ and counted 76 active developers.
What does this mean?
If you're interested in learning how writers write, check out The Paris Review Interviews series. For decades they've been talking with some of the best: https://store.theparisreview.org/products/the-paris-review-interviews-i
For someone like me who's can get a bit obsessed with process, these interviews read themselves.
Thank you @PaulaToThePeople for including me in your #followrecommendations. I just reached 100 followers which doesn't sound like a lot but feels like 10-50k bird site equivalent. One of my motivations for coming to the fedi was to have an impact and it's been heartwarming to see the response from so many real people from the work I care about.
This whole episode is confirming for me that the migration to the fediverse is inevitable and that every action taken in cweb is good for us.
What's particularly exciting about this is that nobody can know the result of thousands of communities molding the software to suit their needs.
Remember Twitter's super uber-secret project Bluesky? They finally explained what they're up to, and it's spicy 🌶️
So spicy that I had to write a 1,200 blog post one what exactly it entails. Key learning: Twitter doesn't like Mastodon. 🧵 https://blog.peerverse.space/lets-talk-about-project/
Software developer, IT consultant, FOSS proponent, editor on Fediverse Enhancement Proposals.
Founded: Magic Stone