Roger Verhoeven @RogerVerhoeven@mastodon.social

Let's not all live only on social networks, especially not centralised & walled-in networks. Create your own personal corner on the web as it was designed for! Visit my good old-fashioned #homepage at https://proycon.anaproy.nl for information about me.

On my mastodon feed, I'll try to toot about various topics, mainly related to languages, natural language processing, open-source technology, privacy & security, and of course the occasional dog picture!

I've setup a new Mastodon server on mastodon.online. The idea is to provide another space for people who would've landed on mastodon.social but can't because it's closed.

Even though I am currently in charge of both there are still logical and infrastructural separations between the two that give this move meaning in the context of decentralization.

Not to mention I've already scaled to mastodon.social's size once, so it would be easier for me to do again than to scale mastodon.social further.

Hi Fediverse 👋

let me sum up the situation around #switchingsocial

Around September 20th, the original (anonymous) author of switching.social shut down its website and all related Social Media accounts, including mastodon 🤔

This info reached me (@tobias ) the next day via my German version @swisode .

As there hasn't been any sign of life since then, I restored the website and created this new account. Right now I'm out of spare time to work on it, but that'll change in a few weeks 🙂

I want to be able to tell my friends why #mastodon is better than the birdsite, so I wrote a thing: "Mastodon Is Better than Twitter: Elevator Pitch"
https://www.codesections.com/blog/mastodon-elevator-pitch/

I want this to be as persuasive as possible to outsiders, so I'd appreciate as much feedback as possible from Mastodon users

mastodon is short for mastodonald

Switching over to my new instance @bnys, so feel free to follow me there!!

Okay I'm finally gonna do it. I'm finally going to start my own instance. Anyone have a solid block list for me to start from?

What is your preferred option to donate to an open source project?

#blogged about #feedbin as #rss aggregator at https://zerokspot.com/weblog/2020/03/26/feedbin/

@soapdog
@aral
it is doing quite well on HN too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22683535

Apple just killed Offline Web Apps while purporting to protect your privacy: why that’s A Bad Thing and why you should care

https://ar.al/2020/03/25/apple-just-killed-offline-web-apps-while-purporting-to-protect-your-privacy-why-thats-a-bad-thing-and-why-you-should-care/

Probably going to stream some more Magic The Gathering pen plotting in 10 min or so.

https://www.twitch.tv/andy_makes

🥰🍄⚡ #crossplatform #development with #LiveCode ⚡🍄🥰

I wrote a lengthy post about developing my own #blogging client again using LiveCode:

https://andregarzia.com/2020/04/cross-platform-development-with-livecode.html

🤩 🕸️ 🦊

I've just made a blog post and video about playing with #Firefox and #P2P Protocols:

http://andregarzia.com/2018/12/playing-with-p2p-protocols-and-firefox.html

In it I show our favorite user agent working with #SSB #IPFS and #DAT, linking from one platform to another, as if we're all one #web.

Hope you folks enjoy it and please send me feedback.

mstdn.social upgraded Mastodon from 3.1.2 to 3.1.3: - https://fediverse.network/mstdn.social

"Online learning is planned, deliberate and thoughtful in the sense that online courses often take months or even years to develop, not days or weeks."

No. No no no.

People who think like this are the ones who are *breaking* online learning.

https://www.downes.ca/post/70681

Are MOOCs Open Educational Resources? A literature review on history, definitions and typologies of OER and MOOCs #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/70718 This article discusses whether MOOCs should be considered as OER. Open Education and OER can be treated as two strands with different historical roots even though, in theory, OER are an aspect of Open Education. Different OER definitions and typologies are analyzed in relation to their dimensions and categorizations.
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