Kevin C. @kcoram@librem.one

RT @TheRaDR@twitter.activitypub.actor
Instead of focusing on what you want to accomplish this next year, maybe spend some time thinking about who you want to *be*.

What attributes might you choose to actively cultivate?

Kindness? Humility? Healthier boundaries? Patience? Gratitude? Equanimity? Generosity? Wonder?

If you're new to Mastodon: welcome!

Here are a couple guides I've put together:

An Increasingly Less-Brief Guide to Mastodon, which tries to explain what this place is all about: https://github.com/joyeusenoelle/GuideToMastodon/

So You're A Mastodon Moderator, which has some information on the tools at your disposal and some best practices for using them (it needs an update, but is still generally accurate): https://noelle.codes/so_youre_a_mastodon_moderator.pdf

So I have an announcement. I sent an email to my work saying that I wanted to be able to focus on my work on taking advancing the federated social web to the next level. Read: better security / abuse resistance, richer interactions, virtual worlds.

How will I be funded to do this? I don't know. I do know that the state of the political world scares me enough that I feel I have to do this. If you want to support me: https://www.patreon.com/cwebber

Wish me luck. More updates soon.

I'm a fan of both the Fediverse and IndieWeb—which I, a web designer, find a lot "easier." I mean, I already knew about semantic markup (and microformats, to some extent). Also, I actually like writing HTML.

I was interviewed by AIGA (the American Institute for Graphic Arts) design magazine about Friend Camp, federated social media, and my Run Your Own Social project! (It is for some reason published on an Adobe blog? idk how institutional partnerships work but here we are)

https://xd.adobe.com/ideas/perspectives/social-impact/private-social-media-small-social-networks/?scid=2ef9404e-a317-467c-853a-a14bbe6ec01b&mv=social&mv2=owned_social

I have put my article "Fed up with Big Tech" on my Small Tech blog: https://ghost.sndm.me/fed-up-with-big-tech/

An easy tutorial to help make sure your #Docker containers are secure with the latest #security #updates https://chriswiegman.com/2019/12/keeping-docker-containers-updated/

If you love working on the command-line as much as I do, you may like what I have been working on recently!

Meet glow - a stylish #markdown viewer for your shell:

https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow

#introductions Yet another Hello World from yet another new user 👌

Scientists find cheaper way to make hydrogen energy out of water

Hydrogen-powered cars may soon become more than just a novelty after a UNSW-led team of scientists demonstrated a much cheaper and sustainable way to create the hydrogen required to power them.

https://phys.org/news/2019-12-scientists-cheaper-hydrogen-energy.html

"One small way to get our independence and agency back from exploitative platforms is to build personal websites to share on instead. It’s a step to taking back control, and building a web that neither relies upon, nor feeds, the harms of Big Tech."

Great post by @laura

https://24ways.org/2019/its-time-to-get-personal/

Take a moment to consider the profound impact each of us has in the fediverse.

The fact we can communicate across the world using open source technology is pretty amazing.

We also have a responsibility, as developers, to ensure platform privacy and safety are legitimate priorities and not just buzzwords used in marketing.

We can do it better than Silicon Valley if we step outside our bubbles and listen to the people. The fediverse depends on it!

RT @jeffpaul
Facebook thinks you're worth $158, why not spend LESS than that and have your own website and #OwnYourContent? http://bit.ly/2ORBaD0 #IndieWeb #AntiSocialMedia

Step away, look at alternatives that respect you as a person (https://switching.software/ is a great place to start) and learn about the issues, https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/shoshana-zuboff/the-age-of-surveillance-capitalism/9781610395694/ by @shoshanazuboff@twitter.activitypub.actor is a great place to start on the latter.

RT @behind_thecode
“How did I become a good developer? The only answer is you have to build things.”

We had a chat with @SaraSoueidan, an award-winning front-end developer, author and speaker from Lebanon. https://www.welcometothejungle.com/fr/articles/interview-sara-soueidan