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.
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 ...
I inherited a SharePoint site that needed some TLC. While we have utilized SharePoint and I was familiar with the basic concepts, I never delved too deep into the specifics. This site was already ...
Have you ever taken the long way home? This is one of those journeys. It was a fun journey. But an unnecessarily long one. This shortcut solves a simple problem - a lazy person’s desire to do less...
I’m continuing my quest to pass all the Webmention Rocks! tests and receive my badge of IndieWeb honor. In a nutshell, the IndieWeb is about owning your content. Making your site the central reposi...
Sometimes weekend plans aren’t quite what you expect. I thought I would be settling into some 80s tunes on my walkman while working on my IndieWeb hobby projects. Instead, I spent much of my weeke...
I have loved watching the experimentation and creativity coming from Mastodon app creators. Native apps, web apps. Experimental concepts presented to the community to discuss. I ended up being qu...
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