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My new interests - the Fediverse, Mastodon and the creative IndieWeb community keep me entertained. My days are filled with .NET and other Microsoft technologies.
Discussions and photos of my dog may slip into a post now and then.

Updating a Mastodon Instance

My objective here is to document the process of updating my Mastodon instance from 4.2.9 to 4.2.10, an urgent security release. I’ll then reference this when future upgrades are necessary. This is...

Installing the FediBuzz relay

Let’s take a look a fediverse relays, and in particular, FediBuzz. We’ll go over the basics of how relays work, and then dive into a fresh install on Ubuntu. Objective My objective for this projec...

Bonfire Setup Guide

Bonfire has some excellent ideas when it comes to access control and extensibility, two things lacking in current fediverse platforms. Initially, I was interested to see how I could utilize this to...

Sending Event RSVPs via Webmentions

I’ve seen a few events being posted on the Indieweb.org website, and have been attempting to make the monthly one in Pacific time, it just hasn’t clicked yet. I noticed that you can RSVP through w...

My Current Favorite Podcasts

Recently, I’ve been taking long car trips. Like, 10-12 hours long at a time. Music gets me pretty far, but I also have started enjoying good podcasts. I’ll actually SAVE podcasts for a trip so I ca...

Forkey Pages

Forkeys offers more than just your basic timelines and posting capabilities. Pages One of those extras is Pages, which is really your own playground for creating just about any type of content, lo...