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.
Growing up, my parents were what I would call quiet forces of nature. Never garnering for public attention, but always participating and leading where they saw a need. But busy. Sweeping school caf...
I’m setting up a full stack of platforms for logging my home lab servers. These are my cleaned up notes from setting up Grafana and Prometheus. I’m very new at all this, and thought this might ...
I joined Mastodon one year ago today, October 29th. Finding the fediverse has really expanded my understanding of social media and introduced me to the open source community. It allowed me to expan...
Once upon a time, Mastodon had a design element on profile pages that displayed a user’s selection of “Featured Profiles”. It was configured very similarly to “Featured Hashtags”, allowing you to c...
Groups are private conversations between multiple individuals on a Firefish instance. They are a separate feature from notes (posts) and do not appear in any timeline. Direct Chats (1-1) can occur ...
I’ve had a blast learning about Firefish Plugins over the past few weeks. The community has been wonderful and helping out when I get stuck. It’s time to give back a little and share what I’ve lear...
Introducing - Snippets! A Firefish Plugin generator for easily sharing your favorite MFM and plain text snippets in your posts, right from the action items menu. Yes, you heard that right - a plug...
Listen, do you have lists of lists? Listless for efficiency? The Lister Firefish plugin is made for you. Quickly add users to a list right from a note in just two clicks and improve your efficiency...
I’m having a lot of fun building these plugins. Ever wanted to share a Firefish post to your Mastodon account? I’ve got something for you. And, if you’re interested in how the Plugin works, check t...
Taking a step away from Plugins for a moment to discuss another option the Firefish community is provided - Custom CSS. CSS is just a way to apply styles, colors, affect placement, etc. to the HTM...
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