Heading to San Diego Comic-con. I’ll be back in about 9 days.
Looking forward to a week of not answering messages, reading social media or worrying about email.
Be well and I’ll speak to you all again soon enough 💛
In my 16 years of making free/open social networks, the thing that really ends up grinding at you is the personal connections you make along the way.
I’m fairly on the record about how much I wasn’t a good project leader for GNU social. Ian’s death is sadly another in the history of free social networking and I am sad.
My Analogue SuperNt and Mega Sg FPGA video game consoles finally shipped! Just in time for me to leave town for over a week.
Any/all “real programmer” shit should fuck off forever.
Emails that have Re: in the subject that aren’t replies should be banned.
Sorry we didn’t get 90000 million people to join in a day but Libre.fm remains the social networking platform thing where you literally email me for support ❤️
Threads is hard to use. I can’t find most of my friends on there and finding people is hard. Also the app immediately assumed which server I should be on 🫠
Social media CEO should be something you go to jail for.
Don’t make a bunch of fucking randos appear in my feed #Threads
Disappointed to find no official OPENSTEP Threads app.
Someone should make an app for JPEG users to post some text as a treat.
My word Threads is dire.
I’m on Threads as @mat.tl. Install the app to follow my threads and replies. www.threads.net/@mat.tl 🤷♂️
If I was a billionaire who bought a social network I would try to just pay my bills and not be a massive fucking dipshit about everything all the time.
Very excited to add the new version of Epic to my pile of opportunities.
Image shows the 223 miniatures in the box, split between Space Marines, Solar Auxilia, and Titans. Most of them are very tiny.
Remember when HP released a co-branded iPod? Remember the U2 iPod before Apple was forcing an unwanted U2 album on everyone?
What would be a worse idea than the HP iPod?
It continues to astound me how many people get their own email address wrong and send me their sign up emails instead. What am I supposed to do when that happens?
Thinking about getting into Enterprise Linux. What’s good these days?
Delighted to see the cryptocurrency bro utterly fail on Jeopardy yesterday.
A month until I get on a plane for the first time in four years and head to San Diego for Comic-Con.
The last time I left New England was in early 2019 when I was the keynote speaker at CUSEC in Montreal. That was also the last time I did any kind of conference-thing.
If you’ve ever engaged with Warhammer 40,000 I want to hear about it. #40k #warhammer
If anyone ever asks me what my job is I tell them I’m a monorail driver at a zoo. This was especially fun for me when taking the Caltrain to Mountain View, CA… so many people eager to switch tech jobs. I’d explain away any tech t-shirt if I was wearing as “I found this at Goodwill”
Moving my Mastodon profile from social.mat.tl/@mattl to social.coop/@mattl – things should forward but please follow me there too.
Bad news.. Via the Horus Heresy game I have accidentally become an historical wargamer.
How does your group chat work?
We have an ridiculous amount of admin, an awards ceremony every year, a judicial system and a military hierarchy.