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Front-end web developer at Paravel and co-host of the ShopTalk Show podcast; blogs at daverupert.com.

• RE: https://mastodon.social/@ichris/117304197141910099 An honor to have @ichris’s beautiful baritone voice bringing one of my short stories to life.

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Software engineer and educator; creator of Testing Library and of the EpicWeb.dev and EpicReact.dev courses.

• Scott the Sloth is one of my Grok bots and it gets an email thanks to @kodykoala. Scott has managed the entire trip using Kody connections to access my calendar and email. I did not have time in my schedule for this so Scott drafted a reply for this for me.

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British open-standards and open-source technologist, formerly of the UK Government Digital Service and the W3C Advisory Committee. Blogs at shkspr.mobi, where he posts a book review most weeks.

• Looks like @Mastodon's sharing page is broken for some instances.

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Writes jvns.ca, turning "hard and scary" topics — networking, debugging, Linux internals — into plain explanations and hand-drawn comics. Publishes Wizard Zines, illustrated programming zines. Software developer based in Montreal.

• RE: https://mastodon.social/@grimalkina/117295092454037261 this is so real

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Mac and iOS developer at the Iconfactory, where he has worked on apps including Twitterrific and Tot. He writes about development at furbo.org.

• RE: https://mastodon.social/@vpsteinmann/117293899437626165 This also works! You still need to use the home indicator gesture to close the window.

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• RE: https://mastodon.social/@stroughtonsmith/117293878099646572 This works - but stay away from the bezel when you do it.

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• 1. Work for months on a major update of iOS & macOS app 2. Test, test, test 3. Submit to App Review a week before launch 4. Schedule a price increase 5. Get an in-app event approved 6. Have iOS app approved on the same day 7. Have macOS app go into review on the same day 8. Wait a day for macOS 9. Wait another day 10. Wait another day 11. Wait another day 12. Panic 13. Investigate how to unschedule price increase and abort in-app event Mac App Review is actively harmful to the app ecosystem.

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Writes The Pragmatic Engineer, the software-engineering newsletter, and wrote The Software Engineer's Guidebook. Formerly an engineering manager at Uber, and at Microsoft/Skype and Skyscanner before that.

• Pretty incredible how the skills repo by @mattpocockuk is only 6 months old, and has more stars than the React one. We had to sit down and talk. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 05:48 How Matt got into tech 10:14 How Matt got into open source 12:58 Joining Vercel 18:39 Total TypeScript 23:21 AI’s impact on technical education 30:32 Building reusable skills for AI coding agents 40:46 The “smart zone” vs the “dumb zone” 45:02 The wayfinder skill 47:52 Why agents excel at software engineering 50:54 “Leading words” 1:01:10 Learning the fundamentals 1:09:17 Local vs. cloud agents 1:12:36 Planning vs. cours…

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British open-standards and open-source technologist, formerly of the UK Government Digital Service and the W3C Advisory Committee. Blogs at shkspr.mobi, where he posts a book review most weeks.

• RE: https://mastodon.social/@Edent/117271435790504594 Do *none* of you have strong views on the correct encoding of HTML within an XML Atom feed????

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Mathematical physicist at UC Riverside. Wrote This Week's Finds in Mathematical Physics and now the Azimuth blog on mathematics, physics and environmental science.

• RE: https://mastodon.social/@nancycomics/117258763170086314 AI alignment.

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British open-standards and open-source technologist, formerly of the UK Government Digital Service and the W3C Advisory Committee. Blogs at shkspr.mobi, where he posts a book review most weeks.

• ActivityPub - How to send an updated user profile to Mastodon and the Fediverse

  Let's suppose you've updated the description of your ActivityPub account from "World's Number 1 Taylor Swift Fan" to "This account is now a Nickleback Truther". How do you let the rest of the Fediverse know that you've…

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Librarian, technology instructor and writer in rural Vermont; longtime community manager at MetaFilter and author of a book on the digital divide.

• Friday afternoon reminder to not empty your inbox at the expense of someone else's. My "big plans" today involve sawhorses and telephones and catching up on my newspaper reading. Argue all you want about AI, the analog world will be here when you're done, mostly. Schedule those emails. Have a good weekend. Image credit: State Library of New South Wales, on Flickr Commons

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Mathematician at UCLA, working mainly in harmonic analysis and partial differential equations. Writes What's new, a long-running blog on their research, open problems and expository notes.

• RE: https://mastodon.social/@tristanbuckmaster/117233413705701198 A remarkable achievement: Alpöge and Buckmaster have managed to push one of the major promising approaches towards constructing blowup solutions to fluid equations --- as developed by Cordoba and Martınez-Zoroa --- to establish finite time blowup for many key fluid equations, including 3D incompressible Euler, with a smooth forcing term. (Previous work by these authors on similar equations could obtain a smooth forcing term for the IPM equation, and a subcritical but not smooth regularity for other equations.) The arguments hav…

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Economist; former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund.

• Separate and interesting discussion. True, the ECB (BDF) is slowly reducing its holdings of sovereign bonds, including French bonds (this is called QT, quantitative tightening). By selling those bonds, it decreases their price (not very much, but a bit) and thus increases the interest rate paid by the governments of the euro zone. This indeed makes things a bit harder for the government, who now pay more on their debt. Is the ECB doing this to spite governments, or to induce them to adjust? Emphatically not. It is doing this because it wants to reduce reserves (which is what happens when it s…
  Quoting@StefPalomba@ojblanchard1 1/ la BdF fait partie de l’Etat donc 2/ l’histoire ne tient pas sauf à imaginer que Pierre soit le gouv, 3/ si Paul, dont ce n’est pas le rôle, veut contrer la politique de Pierre, il remet les titres sur le marché, le taux d’intérêt grimpe, 4/ congeler a donc du sens pour Pierre

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Canadian software developer and writer, co-editor of the XML and Atom specifications and formerly of Sun Microsystems, Google and AWS. Has written the blog ongoing since 2003.

• RE: https://mastodon.social/@bcantrill/117220486316266236 Bryan makes important points, then veers into a convincing Pangram testimonial. Oxide is now requiring public statements to be Pangram-negative. #clankerslop

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Designer, product manager, YouTuber and developer who has written about technology at Birchtree since 2010. He makes the Quick Reviews and Quick Notes apps and the A Better Computer YouTube channel.

• Comfort Zone rocks! Our new website even says so.

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Librarian, technology instructor and writer in rural Vermont; longtime community manager at MetaFilter and author of a book on the digital divide.

• Friday afternoon reminder to not empty your inbox at the expense of someone else's. I'm deep in my Massachusetts visit, becoming one of those people who can't look at a place without remembering what used to be there. My birthday is tomorrow, so there are all sorts of opportunities for reflecting and remembering. Oh and I guess it's a holiday weekend in the US, so maybe schedule those emails for Tuesday. Image credit: Library of Congress, on Flickr Commons

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British open-standards and open-source technologist, formerly of the UK Government Digital Service and the W3C Advisory Committee. Blogs at shkspr.mobi, where he posts a book review most weeks.

• A reasonably practical guide to validating RFC 9421 HTTP Signatures for ActivityPub in PHP

  If you're reading this, you've probably been hitting your head against a brick wall trying to parse and decipher the new HTTP Signatures sent by Mastodon and other Fediverse servers. This is a basic and somewhat incompl…

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Designer, product manager, YouTuber and developer who has written about technology at Birchtree since 2010. He makes the Quick Reviews and Quick Notes apps and the A Better Computer YouTube channel.

• RE: https://mastodon.social/@darylbaxter/117201014629317190 Make him do it!

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Writes The Pragmatic Engineer, the software-engineering newsletter, and wrote The Software Engineer's Guidebook. Formerly an engineering manager at Uber, and at Microsoft/Skype and Skyscanner before that.

• Still find it so wild that SO MANY European banks schedule 1-2x per month 4-8 hour maintenance windows between 10pm-6am local time. INSTEAD of biting the bullet and learning how to do zero downtime migrations & infra upgrades Devs pull all-nighters instead + learn nothing about modern engineering

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Programmer and technology writer known for his long Mac OS X reviews at Ars Technica; co-hosts the Accidental Tech Podcast and Hypercritical.

• RE: https://mastodon.social/@siracusa/117196097301277170 I eventually got back in by changing my password from a Mac that was still signed into this Apple ID, but that revoked all my app-specific passwords, which was a giant pain. …and now I'm locked out again.

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German developer; founder and lead developer of Mastodon, the decentralized open-source social network.

• #Mastodon (the band) - The Vanishing, from their new album that was released yesterday. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm77ggDFcPU #NP #NowPlaying

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Swiss full-stack developer working mostly with Laravel and Vue; author of the widely used git-auto-commit-action GitHub Action.

• RE: https://mastodon.design/@rafa/117174170269449667 Rafa is single-handedly convincing me to buy a 3D printer.

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Developer and podcaster; created Instapaper and Overcast, co-founded Tumblr, and co-hosts the Accidental Tech Podcast.

• RE: https://mastodon.social/@martimw/117174328129113589 From scratch. Making custom models has turned 3D-printing from a family novelty into a full-blown craft and life-improving hobby for me. I started in TinkerCAD, which can get you VERY far, VERY quickly. Now I make most models in Onshape, since I've built up the skills to be pretty fast with it, too. I sometimes print stuff I find on Makerworld, but usually the problems I'm trying to solve are too specialized.

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Investment researcher and engineer who runs Lyn Alden Investment Strategy, writing on macroeconomics, currency systems and equity analysis.

• STRC back up to $98, basically in the par zone.
  Quoting@LynAldenContact@GhostofWhitman It’s near a sentiment bottom, imo. I think they have the tools to get it back up. Of course the timing partially depends on bitcoin price. Would’ve liked to see bigger reserves for moments like this, but alas.

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Programmer and technology writer known for his long Mac OS X reviews at Ars Technica; co-hosts the Accidental Tech Podcast and Hypercritical.

• RE: https://mastodon.social/@atpfm/117162643534245852 (And, yes, I pronounced “patriarchy” the British way multiple times in this episode, for some reason. I blame British TV.)

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German developer; founder and lead developer of Mastodon, the decentralized open-source social network.

• My "Artists of Mastodon" collection is finally ready to be shared. Please peruse if you want to fill your home feed with art.

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Developer and podcaster; created Instapaper and Overcast, co-founded Tumblr, and co-hosts the Accidental Tech Podcast.

• RE: https://mastodon.social/@refactoredd/117157266100987313 I may someday return to it, but I have shelved it for now. I just don't use an iPad enough. The worst part of developing the app was having to carry an iPad with me. 😬 Every time I try to work an iPad into my computing life, it doesn't stick for very long. It feels like computing with mittens on. Nearly everything I frequently do with my computer or phone is less capable, more cumbersome, or outright impossible on an iPad. And the iPad's strengths are generally things I rarely or never do.

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Programmer and writer on computer architecture, performance, and software reliability. He has worked on CPU design at Centaur Technology and on software at Google and Microsoft, and writes long-form technical essays at danluu.com.

• RE: https://mastodon.social/@danluu/111037093079443322 With the discussions of how bot traffic is flooding websites, I was surprised to find that my CDN is "only" using 3.5 TB/mo, up 3x in 3 years. Human traffic is probably down because I haven't been active for the last couple years, so maybe we can call that a 4x to 5x increase due to bots? Maybe my site just isn't very appealing to bots, but from the way people talk, I was expecting a higher ratio. I would've guessed >= 100x from how people are talking; 10x would be nothing in terms of load.

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Programmer and technology writer known for his long Mac OS X reviews at Ars Technica; co-hosts the Accidental Tech Podcast and Hypercritical.

• RE: https://mastodon.social/@daringfireball/117134233627329540 This has been killing me as well.

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Writes jvns.ca, turning "hard and scary" topics — networking, debugging, Linux internals — into plain explanations and hand-drawn comics. Publishes Wizard Zines, illustrated programming zines. Software developer based in Montreal.

• RE: https://xoxo.zone/@gretchenmcc/117129377626182493 some fun (and free to read & print!) linguistics zines at

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Developer and podcaster; created Instapaper and Overcast, co-founded Tumblr, and co-hosts the Accidental Tech Podcast.

• RE: https://mastodon.social/@steveriggins/117126501933807091 That'll be my Calendar replacement next year

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German developer; founder and lead developer of Mastodon, the decentralized open-source social network.

• RE: https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/117117221397911074 After hearing feedback from people struggling with #Mastodon’s layout and navigation for a long time I’m really looking forward to these changes. And I’m really impressed with the work @imanijoy has put into researching user needs with surveys, interviews, and round tables. I feel like the community has never been so represented in the design process before. The screenshots are marked “in progress” for a reason though—it’s a process.

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• I’ve been dealing with #PPWR compliance for Mastodon’s merch shop and frankly I don’t see how this regulation doesn’t just eradicate all small business within the EU. This is a self-goal if I’ve ever seen one.

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Writer of the personal-finance blog Of Dollars And Data and author of Just Keep Buying and The Wealth Ladder. Chief Operating Officer at Ritholtz Wealth Management.

• The Myth of Owning Your Time

  You've probably heard it all before. Be your own boss. Control your schedule. Own your time. As attractive as it sounds, it's a lie. Many people believe that working for yourself means unlimited flexibility. You can wor…

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Developer and podcaster; created Instapaper and Overcast, co-founded Tumblr, and co-hosts the Accidental Tech Podcast.

• RE: https://mastodon.social/@jpteti/117094603833259184 One potential reason: delayed-location alerts require "always" location permission, whereas immediate ones just require “when using”. (Unforgetful only asks for the level it needs for the tasks you create. So if you never use delays, it sticks with "when using", and if you never use location reminders at all, it never asks for any access.) But a likely reason is that they just didn't think of it, because most to-do apps seem to be made by people with much more discipline and focus than I have.

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Swedish programmer with degrees in engineering and psychology, author of Your Code as a Crime Scene and founder of CodeScene.

• I made a conscious effort to unplug during my vacation. Coming back, I noticed the lovely new Substack feature: Scan for AI text. Coincidentally, I had updated the About section for my Substack a while back with some notes on what my blog is *not*: "## What this isn’t Content creation isn’t my job. I write these articles because I a) love to write, and b) care deeply about our profession. It’s a fun hobby, not a job. Consequently, I don’t feel any pressure to publish on a schedule. I’d rather publish less and maintain a higher quality bar. So far, that has worked out to roughly one article pe…

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Engineering manager who has worked at Apple, Netscape, Slack and Palantir; writes as Rands at randsinrepose.com and wrote Managing Humans.

• BlueskyThis is what The Zone looks like:

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Writer and creator of Daring Fireball, a long-running blog about Apple and technology; co-created Markdown and hosts The Talk Show.

• RE: https://xoxo.zone/@robotspacer/117022787251002124 “How did you go bankrupt?” “Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.”

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Programmer and technology writer known for his long Mac OS X reviews at Ars Technica; co-hosts the Accidental Tech Podcast and Hypercritical.

• RE: https://mastodon.social/@marioguzman/117005289701832778 Bring this image back in time a decade or two and try to convince people it’s real.

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Programmer and technology writer known for his long Mac OS X reviews at Ars Technica; co-hosts the Accidental Tech Podcast and Hypercritical.

• RE: https://mastodon.social/@siracusa/116953762988198212 Update: this is fixed now! 🎉 (Presumably it was just a weird bug.)

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Scottish software developer on the Statamic core team; runs a one-person business maintaining Statamic addons such as Runway and writes at duncanmcclean.com.

• Two weeks to go until Laracon US! I've built an app which lets you add the schedule to your calendar, including the day 0 events. 📅 Handy whether you're there in-person or watching along online!

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Front-end developer and writer; co-founder of CodePen, founder of CSS-Tricks, and co-host of the ShopTalk Show podcast.

• RE: https://mastodon.online/@latte/116814413370686059 I mean — that's why I have a fart widget.

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Software engineer who writes the blog Made of Bugs about performance, debugging and understanding computer systems. Previously worked at Anthropic on interpretability, at Stripe on Sorbet, and at Ksplice.

• A while ago, @regehr was tooting about optimizing brainfuck, and I speculated that peeling off the first iteration of a loop might make the loop body easier to optimize: https://mastodon.social/@nelhage/113241955294210125 Today I learned that RPython/PyPy use a very similar idea to support loop optimizations in their trace optimizer: https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/2480360.2384586 By peeling off a single loop iteration, the optimizer can "see" that the body proper is dominated by the first iteration, and specialize much harder.

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Web designer; founder of SimpleBits, co-founder of Dribbble, and author of Bulletproof Web Design and Handcrafted CSS.

• RE: https://mastodon.social/@simplebits/116721589786720249 🤦‍♂️

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Writes jvns.ca, turning "hard and scary" topics — networking, debugging, Linux internals — into plain explanations and hand-drawn comics. Publishes Wizard Zines, illustrated programming zines. Software developer based in Montreal.

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Writes jvns.ca, turning "hard and scary" topics — networking, debugging, Linux internals — into plain explanations and hand-drawn comics. Publishes Wizard Zines, illustrated programming zines. Software developer based in Montreal.

• links to css colour palettes jvns.ca/blog/2026/05... (from a discussion over on mastodon)

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Founder of the International Center for Clinical Excellence and originator of Feedback-Informed Treatment. Writes about what actually makes a therapist effective, usually against the field's own assumptions about training and experience.

• The Accidental Therapist

  “So …,” I asked, “I’m wondering, would you like to schedule another appointment?”

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London-based front-end architect, web developer evangelist and cloud consultant; Microsoft MVP. Writes at praveen.science and answers on Stack Overflow.

• Folks! 👋🏻 #London 🇬🇧 → 🇮🇳 #Chennai, this Friday, the 13th, today! ✈️ Visiting: 👉🏻 #Chennai 🌊 👉🏻 #Coimbatore 🌴 👉🏻 #Bengaluru 🚀 If you're a #developer, #student, or #founder building something interesting, let's grab coffee and chat! ☕ Schedule intentionally flexible! 👋🏻

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Web infrastructure engineer and standards editor; chaired the IETF HTTP working group and co-authored core HTTP and Atom specifications.

• Some thoughts about how to schedule online meetings for a global organisation in an equitable way.

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Irish independent game developer, maker of VVVVVV, Super Hexagon and Dicey Dungeons.

• Hello Mastodon! I wrote a big blog post about what's in my upcoming game collection, and what isn't:

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Writes jvns.ca, turning "hard and scary" topics — networking, debugging, Linux internals — into plain explanations and hand-drawn comics. Publishes Wizard Zines, illustrated programming zines. Software developer based in Montreal.

• New microblog with TILs

  I added a new section to this site a couple weeks ago called TIL (“today I learned”). the goal: save interesting tools & facts I posted on social media One kind of thing I like to post on Mastodon/Bluesky is…

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Software engineer who writes the blog Made of Bugs about performance, debugging and understanding computer systems. Previously worked at Anthropic on interpretability, at Stripe on Sorbet, and at Ksplice.

• Help me out, cyclists of Mastodon: I want a rear basket for my bike (RadCity 5) that will also let me hang my panniers on either side of the rack. This seems to be a shockingly hard thing to find? Am I missing something?

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Executive coach for product leaders. Previously a partner at GV (Google Ventures) and a product manager at Google. Writes at Bring the Donuts, including a standing essential-reading list for product managers.

• Zone of Genius and Flow

  Express your full magnificence by living in your Zone of Genius - Iremember countless evenings as a teenager in the 1980s when I’d retire to my family’s Apple ][+ computer after dinner. I’d excitedly jump back into a BA…

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Distributed-systems safety researcher; runs the Jepsen consistency-testing project and wrote the Riemann monitoring system.

• mastodon-utils — Utilities for working with Mastodon's API

  CommitsREADME: shorten rails console example · README: fix follower repair example by unfollowing first · Initial commit

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Distributed-systems safety researcher; runs the Jepsen consistency-testing project and wrote the Riemann monitoring system.

• prometheus-mastodon-exporter — Exports Mastodon statistics for polling by Prometheus

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Research scientist at Anthropic; co-creator of the Variational Autoencoder and, with Jimmy Ba, of the Adam optimizer, two of the most widely used tools in deep learning.

• This might be blasphemy over here, but to support longer/deeper discussions on Mastodon, I think it'd be nice if Mastodon would implement options for non-chronological lists of posts, e.g. similar to reddit's default 'hot" view. Could be as simple as sorting threads based on most recent reply. This could be opt-in and can co-exist with the current chronological view.

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Research scientist at Anthropic; co-creator of the Variational Autoencoder and, with Jimmy Ba, of the Adam optimizer, two of the most widely used tools in deep learning.

• Just migrated to sigmoid.social, an AI-focussed Mastodon server. Thanks for setting it up @thegradient! Migration was a breeze.

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