Jeff Sikes@box464@mastodon.socialmastodon.social

A refreshed #Introduction

Work for a #NonProfit leading a small team focused on #SQLServer, #DotNet, #CraftCMS, #ReactJS and now #Salesforce.

Love learning and posting about the #Fediverse - the people involved, the apps created.

I tinker with my #MastodonStarterKit, #HomeLab projects, and brush up on coding skills when I can.

Grew up closeted #LGBTQIA in the 80s rural south.
Married
#GenX, #Introvert, #Music lover.
Over-involved #DogDad.
#Kindness in all things.

We're incredibly honored to announce that #Ghost (@index) has become a formal sponsor of Fedify through Open Collective!

This is a significant milestone for our project, and we're deeply grateful to @johnonolan and the entire Ghost team for their support and recognition of our work in the #ActivityPub ecosystem.

Ghost's social web integration built on #Fedify is a perfect example of how open standards can connect different publishing platforms in the fediverse. Their backing over the past months has been invaluable, and this formal sponsorship will help ensure Fedify remains sustainable as we continue to develop and improve the framework.

If you're building with ActivityPub or interested in federated applications, please consider joining Ghost in supporting open source development through our Open Collective:

https://opencollective.com/fedify

Every contribution, no matter the size, helps us maintain and enhance the tools that make the fediverse more accessible to developers. Thank you for being part of this journey with us! :ghost:

Better Off Undead

#HashtagGames
#RuinAMovie

PeerTube is really impressive.

It's been a great place to post all our Dot Social videos because anyone can follow @dot_social and then comment and repost our episodes using any ActivityPub compatible app/platform. Rather than relying solely on the YouTube algo for discovery, these videos get discovered via a myriad of ways that are for more organic and sustainable.

Anyone who cares about getting their videos discovered and building an audience they actually own should also be posting their videos on PeerTube and getting folks to follow them there.

Next Saturday, April 5 protests will be happening en masse around the U.S.

I wish the motivator was the rights of trans and other minorities being lost, but any stance against this government is worthwhile.

Their social share cards largely promote Bluesky, but not the fediverse.

https://handsoff2025.com/social

At long last, the most-requested feature I’ve had over the last many years: you can now subscribe to get my blog posts by email. It’s totally free, there are never any ads or sponsored content, you can unsubscribe any time, I’ll never sell your email address, it’s 100% guaranteed there will never be any cross-promotion of fascists on the platform, and there are more than 25+ years of archives to explore. https://anildash.com/

We often have these YouTube sound channels on while we read. They have little partially animated scenes that repeat.

At the end of the night, we count how many candle fire hazards and/or ridiculous architectural choices have been made.

Old married life.

- New expanded Shelf View with Category Filters,
- Spoilers are now hidden on the timeline (removable with a tap),
- Progress Notes can now be edited (slide to the right),
- Bug fixes.

Testflight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/WmbnP9Vx

It's almost the end of the month and that means new bills for the servers! We have various expenses and moderation work unfortunately eats up a lot of time

LiberaPay
PayPal
Ko-Fi
Patreon

Our services will always remain free, but support for the costs, so that the whole thing can run in the long term and finance itself, I highly welcome

For a longer explanation of the costs and other donation options, see here!

Updated my home lab servers to the latest Ubuntu LTS (Numbat) and ran into an issue with my backup system.

Somehow, the installation of borgmatic got hosed, and backups stopped happening - luckily, BorgBase was set to alert me after 2 missed backups.

Then I found out there was an issue with my entire IceShrimp.NET DB backup - the dump wasn't dumping..for over a year now. Fixed! It's just a single user, test instance but still.

60 mph. gusts are forecast for our hill tomorrow.
Summer and I are feeling a little anxious about our tulips weathering the storm.
Hopefully, all will be well, but just in case, we took pictures of the newest blossoms.
#BloomScrolling #Tulips

Our dog Maddie, very concerned when my spouse leaves the room and we aren’t all on the couch together.

The Omg Lol Times: Countering cruelty with kindness: https://omglol.news/2025/03/29/countering-cruelty-with-kindness

TL;DR: Someone used a derogatory slur on social.lol, and it *really* bothered me, so now we’re running a sale and I’m donating a quarter of everything omg.lol earns over the next week to Best Buddies International.

Really gotta watch out for those tequila eagles.

#PublicArt #Mural #LakewayTX

Hi! It’s damian. I sent out a bunch of follows based on who I “think” I was following in my kitty social account (I’m sure I forgot some and added others I wasn’t following haha, sorry…I’m not really on top of this stuff)…but spun up this account in case kitty.social is a longer term outage.

I don’t have any backups (I need to get better at that), so I may have lost everything, but the important thing is the friends we made along the way! …but I may have lost all of those too
Anyway, just some context as to why you got a follow request from someone that appeared to (I think) be following you already.

Proceed to accept, disregard, or block as you see fit. Just know that I will continue to think the world of you regardless.

And the incident with the restraining order, and me wearing a dinosaur costume while playing the tuba in your backyard at 2 am? You were completely justified in your actions…and your stamina when it came to throwing things at me from a 2nd floor window was unparalleled!! And your accuracy? Breathtaking.

Anyway, stay tuned for more sketches, doodles, #fountainpen and #3goodthings related posts soon.

- damian

Big change coming in my home lab - keeping my work mule Synology DS718+ but upgrading from two 4 TB to two 20 TB drives. No more daisy chaining additional USB drives! (One of the drives died a few weeks ago)

This Synology is my "don't f it up" "family will scream if it's down" system, separate from my ProxMox "let's see what crazy thing I can blow up today" system.

If you want to share an account without sharing its email/password you can do it with #Fedilab
You just have to create a token with the Mastodon Web UI (you can customize access read/write).
In the login page of Fedilab there is an option to authenticate an account with a token.

“The gift”
(Drawn in Rebelle 7)
#robot #zilla #mastoart #sketchbook