Jan Boddez @[email protected]

I’ve been using Mastodon for quite a while now—since #DeactiDay, give or take—but have never posted a proper #introduction.

So, I’m a thirtysomething mechanical engineer and lousy guitarist. I work in the semiconductor industry, spend most of my spare time developing for the web, and own quite a few affordable (!) electric guitars, a handful of Raspberry Pis, and a couple hacked together MAME—I know—cabinets. Also, happily married, father of two, wannabe investor.

#introductions

They came and “fixed”—LOL, not—it last week.

In reply to https://deeden.co.uk/notes/2022/05/18/094125/.

Hehe. What I do is file a million tiny GitHub issues, like, during lunch breaks and stuff, ~~to revisit later~~ and then totally forget about them.

(https://jan.boddez.net/notes/94e0aa1109)

Note to self: I don’t think Pixelfed’s API supports revoking access tokens, or a `since_id` parameter (like, when getting the most recent statuses).

#pesos #pixelfed

(https://jan.boddez.net/notes/fd42062341)

When you’re all like ✂️✂️✂️

Nothing like a quick look out the window and being greeted by all that green.

> Weaver’s Iron Law of Blockchain: _When somebody says you can solve X with blockchain, they don’t understand X, and you can ignore them._

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2022/05/why-this-computer-scientist-says-all-cryptocurrency-should-die-in-a-fire/

(https://jan.boddez.net/notes/a2a2ab3906)

So, if I were to drop my personal Mastodon instance, I’d totally go with indieweb.social. (And pay [!] them the €4 per month or whatever I currently spend on my VPS.)

And Micropub of course requires IndieAuth, which brings us back to our first point: you are you, like, you.yourdomain.net, or whatever, not @‎somebody on f—king Twitter.

What’s the IndieWeb. Do I need it? Why would I want it?

Here’s what you probably need: a place on the web to call your own, that is _not_ controlled by megacorps that can do just about whatever.

Won’t be long till you start thinking about Webmention, though, which enables cross-site conversations. And `h-entry`, which enables more meaningful webmentions.

That’s about all most folks would ever need, I think.

Micropub is nice to have, because when done right, it works regardless of your CMS.

That’s what I do, too. I use “notes” for short status updates, and for quick replies and “bookmarks” (like this one). But I’ve also published “long-form” replies—which I _would_ like to see more of—before, and have, on occasion, added `u-bookmark-of` to in-_article_ links.

> Even though I can use my blog posts to reply or like other people’s posts — as I’ve done here and here — I’ve recently decided to employ a second type of layout: notes.

https://minutestomidnight.co.uk/blog/indieweb-and-webmentions-for-my-static-site/

(https://jan.boddez.net/notes/ed3f1b9823)

Should’ve become a software developer, earn them big bucks, but alas.

Throwback to when I was still trying to add WebSub support to my feed reader, and came across an `X-Hacker` HTTP header. https://geekcompass.com/@jan/106255868488606145

Dead bee in my bed, because why not? Couple of shrews strutting around the terrace, too.