I mostly really like Mastodon, especially as a tool for listening to and interacting with the developer community. But the federated bit still bites me, given that I joined at a time when there was a mass migration off of Tw*tter and some of the more popular instances were closed to new accounts. I’m finding that my instance does not support things like editing posts (a thing that other users seem to think is universal!), and I'll be darned if I can figure out how to follow a hashtag.
@ceoln Thanks, yeah, my instance's website has a “Favourite hashtags" under Preferences that I filled in a little bit ago, after my attempt to follow #wwdc24 in Ivory failed.
@76c71aae3a491f1d9eec47cba17e22@mostr.pub @clive That’s kind of the point, tho? The US tends to focus on electric car subsidies, and it’d be great to hear about an experience with eBikes here.
I have some questions for y’all! First, what watchOS apps can you not live without? (I have a lot of apps installed on my watch and use many regularly, either directly or via complications/widgets, but I’m curious what others depend on, so happy to hear about your faves in the 🧵.)
One of my directs gave me a card today with artwork done by his sister-in-law, based on his description of me to her. I 🩷 it! More of her work: https://catsandmaidens.art
Doh! The CA DMV got me again with the page refresh that deletes all the account numbers that I'd painstakingly typed and confirmed... all because "special characters are not allowed in the Last Name field." FFS, PEOPLE HAVE HYPHENS IN THEIR NAMES.
Watching The Diplomat for the third time, and 33:10 into Ep5 is still my favorite scene among many great ones. It’s a good reminder for me and for many of the managers I’ve managed and mentored. (Can’t post the snippet I recorded; just watch and note this scene.)
In the time it took my spouse to respond to my family Slack post about this opportunity (for which I would have had to rearrange my work schedule), it sold out. Go Handsome Pod!! I got a Livestream ticket instead. https://www.squadup.com/events/handsome-podcast
I'm excited to be attending the Computer History Museum's fellow awards celebration tonight, especially since one of the honorees is Tom Kurtz, the co-inventor of BASIC! https://computerhistory.org/2023-fellow-awards/
