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.
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...
In this post we’re going to take a deep dive into Firefish Plugins. By the end, you’ll be able to make informed decisions about the safety of a plugin and know how to install them. What is Firefis...
What’s a style switcher? Well, you know all about light and dark mode, right? Or, you might be more familiar with the term “theme” or “skin” - it’s all the same thing. A style switcher allows you t...
Ever wondered why some links you post to Mastodon show a nicely formatted preview card, but others don’t? It can seem random, even showing differently from app to app. Rich interpretations of li...
Recently, my organization decided to switch our phone system to “soft phones”, meaning your work calls come in via a software app rather than having a physical phone at each desk. The pandemic obvi...
The official Mastodon API documentation has many endpoints that return collections of Status objects, but not all have the same parameters. An interesting one is the ability to request only posts ...
If you have an iOS device and an iCloud+ subscription, you can create random email addresses to use whenever you’re creating a new account, signing up for a newsletter or any field really that asks...
I have a new weekend coding project: Mastodon Starter Kits! This is very new, so I don’t have much public code to share just yet. The idea here is to provide a starting point for testing new ideas...
Let’s get right to it, shall we? Hard truth. No matter what you do now, Twitter owns all the data you’ve given them so far. Even when you deactivate your account, your previous likes, tweets,...
Let’s walk through the specifics of how to utilize the @eleventy/eleventy-fetch plugin to retrieve data from an API and use it in an Eleventy generated site. We’ll get the project running, then lo...
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