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Trying out a few Advent of Code problems in Kotlin this year.
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I really enjoyed My secret life as an 11-year-old BBS sysop on Ars Technica.
I’m just young enough that I missed this era of computing, but I have a lot of nostalgia for the online technologies that came just after this: Prodigy, AOL, and web message boards.
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Some photos from tonight’s dog walk.
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Florida swampland, taken while visiting over Thanksgiving.
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Goodbye, Twitter!
I decided to take a break from Twitter. In short, the doom-scrolling became too much for me. I don’t know if I’ll ever be back. Rather than seek an alternative in Mastodon, I’m going to see if I can avoid re-creating another firehose of content for me. I like the balance of my slower timeline here on Micro.blog with its Mastodon/ActivityPub support, which I’ll be using to follow sparingly (you can certainly follow my posts here @dfj@doug.pub on Mastodon).
Additionally, I’m going to see if I can get my RSS feeds into a managable place. I’m excited about the idea of returning to more decetralized feeds through standard Web technologies. I’m hoping the Twitter exodus helps create a new demand for products and tools in this space.
This [post by @jayeless](https://www.jayeless.net/2022/11/on-mastodon-and-algorithms.html) was definitely inspirational to my approach going forward.
@dave has also been exploring this space in some interesting ways.
I’m sure I’ll miss Twitter at first, but in the long run, I think this will be good for me and good for the Web.
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ATL transportation nexus
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Is there something out there that’s nicer to use than Pinterest? This is a little 👴🗣️☁️, but I just can’t stand their UI.
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A few photos from tonight’s dog walk.
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Bluesky built a decentralized protocol for Twitter — and is working on an app that uses it
Curious to see what, if anything, comes of this protocol. I hope there’s something real here. I like the concept of Twitter, but these days not so much that specific implementation.
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A Day in the Life
October 13, 2022 6:48pm
EWR — Newark International Airport
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Lake Michigan
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RIP IE
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Day 15 📷: clouds
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Micro.blog May 2022 Photoblogging Challenge
Day 13 📷: community
The Kubernetes community at Kubecon 2019 in San Diego.
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Micro.blog May 2022 Photoblogging Challenge
Day 12 📷: tranquility
This is what the view would have been like when Apollo 11 set down and established Tranquility Base.
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Micro.blog May 2022 Photoblogging Challenge
Day 11 📷: maroon
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Micro.blog May 2022 Photoblogging Challenge
Day 10 📷: pot
These pots of lettuce were served as a cut your own salad at this restaurant.
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Micro.blog May 2022 Photoblogging Challenge
Day 9 📷: bloom
