Adam @adam@librem.one

An exchange here on Mastodon last month made me think about the fact that so many of us (including me) are walking around with stories inside our heads from the early days of networking. Some of it is early #InternetHistory ... some of it is from times before the #Internet.

I wrote a post about that today:

https://www.danyork.com/2023/01/capturing-memories-of-the-internets-history-and-pre-history.html

Some of it may be things we don't think are important.

I'm going to try to write down some of my memories.

What about you?

#100DaysToOffload #100DaysOfBlogging

Devs: We should add a kiosk mode to make the application safer.
Manager: No time for such nonsense, deploy it now.

The difference between a good designer and a great designer is in their ability to not only solve problems but also to articulate how their design solves it. In fact, I would go so far as to say that a designer’s ability to be thoughtful about a problem and articulate any solution is more important than their ability to design the perfect solution every time.

#UX #UXDesign

https://www.uxbooth.com/articles/great-designers-are-great-communicators/

Our email addresses & cell phone numbers are arguably better global identifiers than gov't issued IDs. Marketers know this & use these handles to track us. @simplelogin CEO Son NK will show us how to throw them off our trail using aliases. #privacy

https://podcast.firewallsdontstopdragons.com/2023/01/23/using-aliases-to-improve-privacy/

I emailed #IFTTT about adding #Fediverse apps like #Mastodon, #Pixelfed, #Misskey & #WriteFreely & they really liked the idea! They wanted to talk to the platform creators & will try to reach out to them about this (they are also asking fans of the platforms to reach out as well).

https://darnell.day/ifttt-to-fediverse-take-us-to-your-leaders

Having #ActivityPub apps on IFTTT could enable some interesting interactions, especially is someone lives in a smart home!

Don't trust any service on the internet you cannot host yourself, if needed. I am a very happy customer of https://masto.host for my instance, I am definitely not looking forward to run it on my own machine, but it makes me feel good to know I can, should the need arise.

RT @petersagal@twitter.com

This morning, the @washingtonpost@twitter.com published an exhaustive investigation of the Biden classified docs story by some of its best reporters showing that Biden's lawyers and aides did everything right, and nobody noticed.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/01/18/biden-strategy-classified-documents-backfired/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/petersagal/status/1616230176664297473

What's next: IG influencers, crowd-sourced and AI generated: https://www.thismodeldoesnotexist.co/

When I think of obvious missing tech products, I can’t do most of them, because as soon as the idea gained traction as a product it would be taken over by a big company, partly because users prefer that. So a lot of gaps never get filled.

That’s the lesson from twitter shutting down the clients again. It isn’t just twitter, you as an independent developer, can’t step into any platform vendor’s territory, they will eventually take away your business.

I just found Mapstodon : a very nice interactive map of #Mastodon instances and their public timeline, grouped by region and interest.

https://www.comeetie.fr/galerie/mapstodon/

I just gotta say, I don’t get on #Mastodon very often, but every time I do, I come away feeling happy and peaceful. Like I just spent some time hanging out with some interesting and laid back people who I hope to run into again.