Mike English 💾 @englishm@mastodon.social

We really need a #nixos install image with default configs for #peertube #mastodon #ipfs and others where a user simply picks a hosted, installs NixOS from said image and boots the machine and then automatically provides services for the #fediverse

Maybe that would be an idea for some sprint this summer?

april fool's RFC: an extension to SASL allowing jousting as a challenge-response mechanism

I teach a class at NYU called Reading and Writing Electronic Text that is half introduction to Python, half introduction to computational poetry. the syllabus is here: http://rwet.decontextualize.com/ and the tutorial/lecture notes are here: https://github.com/aparrish/rwet I've taught the class many times before, but this year I'm revising all the notes and porting everything to Python 3/Jupyter Notebook. I've also made entirely new tutorials on dictionaries, RNNs and keyword extraction. just wanted to share!

Please direct your friends to joinmastodon.org or another instance of your choice like octodon.social, toot.cat or toot.cafe, etc. mastodon.social is "default" choice for a lot of people and it's getting kinda hammered right now.

Question for the room: would transporter technology revitalize small towns? Why or why not?

this is something that happens when we have huge influxes like this, because we want new users to feel comfortable and have all the information about how to use the site

there's normally more interesting content! it's just getting swallowed up in the intros/how-to's because of the sheer number of people joining right now

stick around and/or come back in a few days and the timelines will look very different, i promise

re: how to choose an instance, tbh I chose mastodon.social because (since it's the "flagship" instance) it seemed like it had the best chance of being around for a long time. is there a way for instances to signal their permanence? (given that there still aren't robust tools for migrating accounts, this seems important. and even then. migrating anything sucks)

or is permanence just not a feature of mastodon? (I'm okay if the answer to this is "yes")

I got so excited by all the new people that I forgot to say that I wrote a #knitting blog post! About how the knitting design process works for my quirky brain and my stitch patterns (some of which involve secret code, which is kind of quirky in its own right).

https://gannetdesigns.com/2017/11/13/knitting-design-and-me-how-i-think-about-upcoming-designs/

replace all instances of the word 'post' in your life with 'toot'. for example. tootpunk. tootmodern. lamptoot. washington toot. first past the toot. la toote. deutsche toot. united states tootal service.

I'm glad it's called a "toot" because it's a good hack to ensure that Mastodon never becomes cool

#MASTODON POST PRIVACY - who can see your post?

PUBLIC 🌏
Anyone can see and boost your post everywhere.

UNLISTED 🔓
✅ Tagged people
✅ Followers
✅ People who look for it
❌ Local and federated timelines
✅ Boostable

FOLLOWERS ONLY 🔐
✅ Tagged people
✅ Followers
❌ People who look for it
❌ Local and federated timelines
❌ Boostable

DIRECT MESSAGE ✉️
✅ Tagged people
❌ Followers
❌ People who look for it
❌ Local and federated timelines
❌ Boostable

https://cybre.space/media/J-amFmXPvb_Mt7toGgs #tutorial #howto

There are 3 remaining positions for the apprenticeship program I'm helping put together for Industrial Logic.

This position is open to anyone who is interested in getting paid to level up their engineering skills through training by the org that trains Google.

Perfect for first or second (or even third!) gig engineers! Relocation package provided for those outside of the greater Detroit, MI area: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IZfJB2o7BmMVn7CEH9synQklEFhvEdM3yxbZGaCscmc/edit#

Prose writing is anti-modular. A small change can cause all kinds of threads that are picked up further on to come loose.

You could make it modular, I guess, but that would break the pleasant immersion of _having_ these threads run through it.

Here's the follow up on that #Detroit #Software #Apprenticeship #Job: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IZfJB2o7BmMVn7CEH9synQklEFhvEdM3yxbZGaCscmc/edit#

1. It's full time, paid, and offers benefits + a relocation package for people outside of Detroit.
2. We expect you to be comfortable enough with *one* programming language that you can walk us through code you've written.
3. We expect you to be eager to learn not just how to do X, but why X works, and how to do X well.

Boosts welcome <3 <3 <3