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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.

Home Lab - Monitoring Setup

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 ...

One year in the fediverse

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...

Mastodon Featured Profiles

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...

Deep Dive - Firefish Groups

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 ...

Firefish Plugins - Final Thoughts

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...

Firefish Plugin - Snippets

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...

Lister for Firefish

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...

Firefish Plugin - Share to Mastodon

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...

Firefish Custom Css - Cursor Images

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...

The Highlighter Plugin for Firefish

This Firefish Plugin allows you to highlight a word or simple phrase in your feed to grab your attention. It adds a background an an optional sparkle effect to the phrase. A single word or short ph...