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.
Have you ever been driving at night and seen an oncoming car flash their headlights to warn you about something ahead? That simple gesture illustrates the power of the fediverse better than any tec...
When attending the inaugural Fediverse House at SXSW 2025 (hosted by Flipboard and Surf), you’re going to be based at the Speakeasy Austin (412 Congress Ave). Being just three blocks from the Austi...
Recently, I wanted to migrate my Pixelfed content over to a GoToSocial instance. Enter Slurp, a new CLI tool that’s making this process much easier. Here’s my experience, including some recent upda...
Installing SNAC Fediverse Server on Ubuntu I’ve taken on some larger, complex fediverse installs like Bonfire, and Mastodon. And some single user ones like GoToSocial. Heck, I even configured a B...
Installing Hollo with Docker: A Complete Guide This guide covers setting up Hollo, an ActivityPub server, using Docker in a homelab environment with S3 Storage and NGINX Proxy Manager. Hollo lean...
A First-Timer’s Guide to Navigating Dreamforce 2024 Attending Dreamforce for the first time felt a bit like visiting Disney World—there’s so much to see, do, and experience that it’s impossible to...
Eleventy Experiment: Salesforce User Directory This is a simple experiment to see if I can use Eleventy to generate a small user directory from a Salesforce SOQL query. Spoiler - it works! npm I’m...
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...
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 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...
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