Morgan Peyre @peyremorgan@librem.one

"If the train leaves every 5 minutes you don't care about a timetable. If it leaves every 2 days you want to know *exactly* when it leaves"

Great analogy from Marcus Hamrin reflecting on planning, estimating and software delivery.

Anyone absurdly competent in UE5, Unity or Pixel Game Maker MV and feeling incredibly generous for the holiday wanna volunteer to dev me a sandbox to build in? I keep having the worst time even with premade projects. #gamedev

take me down to parallax city where the back moves slow and the front moves quickly

Ukraine faces a winter of blackouts & a war due to Russia’s full-scale invasion.

This evening, at 8PM, we will switch off the lights of 🇪🇺 EU buildings in solidarity with the Ukrainian people.

You can do it at home too to #LightUpUkraine

#StandWithUkraine

Mary had a little Lambda
S3 its source of truth
And every time that Lambda ran
Her bill went through the roof

A small part of me is filled with self-loathing for how much pizza I can eat in one sitting. The rest of me is filled with pizza.

Can I commission an artist to make a hand lettered sign that says “Sorry About Your Website, Elon.”
I’m hungover and feeling petty.

When your fellow developers set the maximum digits for financial data in the database to 1000 and you have to gently point out that just 100 digits is more than enough to describe every atom in the observable universe.

Humans are just really bad at this whole "exponents" thing.

#Overkill #Mathematics

@Lockdownyourlife I've heard good things about Block Party but it's Twitter only. Would be great to convince them to port to Mastodon (and expose whatever APIs they'd need)

If you're like me, then you were really happy to learn about Mastodon's enthusiastic support for image descriptions, and you were really eager to join in.

Then you went to actually write something and realized you have no idea how to present visual information in a way that is helpful/enjoyable to those who are #VisuallyImpaired or #Blind.

I found this guide really informative: https://uxdesign.cc/how-to-write-an-image-description-2f30d3bf5546

Of course, I'd also love to hear any additional tips y'all might have!

#Accessibility

@josh Can I add alt text after posting an image? I don't see a button for that.

In one week I have gone from "ugh Mastodon looks complicated and too technical" to "I want to become a tech reporter so I can write about this, also I kind of want to found an instance?"

Say what you will about Elon, he's getting women into STEM

It's a deal! The new Global #Biodiversity Framework at #COP15 has been sealed!
What a historical day #ForOurPlanet

RT @EU_ENV@twitter.com

📣 WE. HAVE. A. DEAL!

We just sealed the deal on a new Global #Biodiversity Framework at #COP15 🌱

This is our Paris moment #ForNature – a historical day that will give us the chance to keep our 🌏 livable for generations to come

#EUatCOP15 #ForOurPlanet

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/EU_ENV/status/1604762950459600896

With even a rudimentary understanding of how science works as a social institution, it is obvious that Kennedy is lying yet again. But in the classroom, we don't teach how science works as a social institution. It's time to fix that.

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So @.joinmastodon got unbanned from Twitter.

This is the first tweet that they sent after the unbanning:

"As a company from eastern Germany, we know that building a wall to try and keep people from leaving isn't a good idea."

What a response!

So I guess tl;dr US real estate is a 400 year old Ponzi scheme, that includes farmland, & the real problem with w turbines is they're a bad fit for real estate Ponzi schemes.

Also, farmer talking points are a lot like pro wrestling plotlines. It's show business all the way down.

Want to work on Mastodon full time? I’d like to pay a Rails dev for the next 3+ months to implement some auth improvements that matter to me but also just burn down bugs, make perf improvements, whatever is needed as this place grows. Remote 100% ok but need 3-4 hrs of Pacific time zone overlap, fair pay, meaningful work. #fedihire #ruby #rails #job

I'm putting together a twitter thread of safe places for Blacktwitter to enter Mastodon over on the birdsite. If you're part of #BlackFedi and you are okay with me putting your mastodon user name in the thread could you reply to this? Boosts welcome.

Does anyone know what the current most common performance problems are for Mastodon servers? Looking through GitHub and trying to find issues, but I'm curious if anyone can comment what bottlenecks most instances are hitting.

If it's anything I have expertise to help improve...would like to do that. Can anyone point me to any central place people might be working on this by chance? I'm sure some very smart people are already on it - looking to chip in.