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.
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...
My music library was in Apple iTunes, but I have never been a big fan of how it forced me into certain file formats and seemed to make it difficult to export them to other formats like mp3 or ogg...
Featured hashtags are a powerful tool when searching for specific content. What are Featured Hashtags? Let’s get some official definitions out of the way first, then we’ll discuss in more detail. ...
The Mastodon app dev community keeps growing. The next generation is already on their way! 🎉🎉 Mastodon: The Next Generation This is a bit Apple heavy because I do not own any Android devices. Repl...
This post has been updated to include new information regarding the Bot Sentinel feature that was announced on March 1, 2023 via Twitter. Instead of pointing out all of the cracks we know exis...
Open source contributions aren’t always code. The creator of the Mastodon client Ice Cubes put out a call for a custom notification sound and just happened to see it on a rainy weekend morning, so ...
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