Finally got to my first Twitter post ever. I’ve been on a campaign to delete as many tweets as I can. Knocking off the low-performers, the dumb posts, written in haste, zero-engagement, etc. I could only go so far back in the timeline before the infinite scroll stops scrolling. Twitter stops showing older posts at …
Category Archives: Technology
Turning Cranks With No Thanks
I have seen the greatest minds of my generation copied, co-opted, ripped off, written over, memified, stolen, and misapplied whenever they put their best efforts into the work they post on the internet. I have no illusions that my own work has become grist for the mill. I’ve seen it. Most of my readers are …
Old Kid, New Town
For those who are interested, I have a Mastodon account. There you can follow me, and interact, and engage, and tease, and tempt, and cajole, and love love love. Sweet love. Please be gentle.
Handset Snips Music at the Ankles
A few days ago my Pixel 4a phone, running Android 13, started exhibiting a problem where I can play music in VLC, pause it with my Bluetooth headset, wait a few minutes, and when I unpause with the same headset, I get no response. Crickets. No music plays. So I wake up the screen, see …
Federation
So this weekend has seen some shakeup. I joined Mastodon and started learning about how it works and how that it relies on an open standard called ActivityPub, which allows separate sites to share activity such as posts, comments, etc. This is the nervous system between Mastodon sites, enabling them to federate (just like how …