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This was meant to be a welcome reply to @jdegoes. Oops. Anyway, welcome, John! Follow him if you’re interested in functional programming and Scala.

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In the renovated airport terminal 1 for the first time.

It now smartly routes people deplaning away from people queuing to board. And there are fun interwoven hamster tunnels with bouncy moving sidewalks.

However, it still did not add enough seating and standing room for a full plane to queue at the gate. Packed in like sardines coughing on each other. 😷

Welcome back to the fediverse! While you were away…
• The branded Mastodon mobile apps got much better.
• Do a hashtag introduction post to help people find you here.
is A Thing again.
• If/when Elon allows posting your Mastodon profile again, put it in your Twitter bio.
• Use tools like twitodon.com/ and fedifinder.glitch.me/ to find people you followed on Twitter in the fediverse.

Christmas trees in #Kyiv throughout the years.
2019, 2020, 2021 vs. 2022.
As Ukrainians usually put it: “Better in darkness and with no heating or internet than together with Russians.”
#Ukraine #UkraineWar

One of the best hashtags on this platform you can follow is #Mosstodon. You will just see calming amounts of green-covered surfaces in nature.

My latest for WIRED: The Mastodon features Elon Musk should steal but won't because he hates you

wired.com/story/mastodon-featu

Posting this here tonight for you all. Will post on Twitter tomorrow. We'll see if I have a Twitter account still on Tuesday. #TwitterMigration #MastodonMigration

Mr. Rogers gave me unrealistic expectations for the relationships I’d have with my neighbors

The reason Mastodon and the Fediverse is spread out on so many servers is it protects it from being taken over by anyone. Not even the richest can buy this place.

Centralised services like Twitter are incredibly easy to buy out. If you move from Twitter to another centralised service, sooner or later that will get bought out too.

The point of the Fediverse is to break this buyout cycle, to let people be permanently in control of their accounts. More info here:

➡️ fedi.tips/mastodon-and-the-fed

Andy, Matty, Denis, and Cody kept me moving and safely working out at home in 2022. My Peloton year in review.

This is also an interesting generational thing. Until the advent of the internet, relatively few people lived in high-information environments. *Most* lived in high-relationship environments, and social mores were built around that. Millennials (and younger GenX) and every subsequent generation have grown up in an era where high-information mediates relationships, rather than the other way around.

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I really appreciate that the @auschwitzmuseum reminds me daily about the extermination camps. It’s not intrusive, and not unduly upsetting. But it gives me a daily moment to reflect on the human losses of the Holocaust and the bigger crises of humanity before and since. Thank you.

If any of you post this photo doxing me im gonna buy your mastodon server

“But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time.” —Patrick Geddes

I remember the night I visited San Francisco months before I lived there and left a voicemail for Arthur: “I feel like I’ve reached a magical intersection of time and space where I can resonate.”

I love that I get to legitimately say, “Of course I’m precisely on time. I’m a Swede,” now.

“APIs are as much about hiding complexity as they are about exposing capability.” —Mehdi Medjaoui

“The public doesn’t understand their city’s complexity and they don’t care about it. Similarly, users don’t care about your system’s complexity. They’re not internal to your organization. It’s not their job.” —@civicunrest

@seldo one of the best tweeters (and friend) ever

@civicunrest for civic tech stuff

@Techmeme my favorite tech news curator

@hn500 orange site tech news curation without having to visit the orange site

If anybody is curious…

Me and @agiletortoise started a Mastodon Instance for indie apps 🙂

It’s for apps and not people 😇

👉 indieapps.space

I didn't know the UK has regulation requiring banks to show they are not locked in to a single cloud provider, and that their critical services are portable. I wonder if they have similar regs for government services...

(Slide from Matt Roberts at IBM)
#apidays #apidaysparis #govtech #apis

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