I finally fixed my mastodon server setup so that updating doesn't take me several hours of figuring out merge issues. Separated all my server-specific features into pull requests that I can update individually when I have to bring in the latest masto updates

Photo upload test after server updates

Not close

I continued to receive regular statuses and replies though

I ran out of disk space and Mastodon started silently dropping likes/boosts/and poll votes

The Ohio Senate voted to ban RCV across the state a few months ago because they thought Ohioans were too dumb to understand it

https://www.cleveland.com/news/2025/05/ohio-senate-to-vote-on-bill-banning-ranked-choice-voting.html

@tinker https://infosec.exchange/@tinker/114746292947427234

"this page serves as an archive for the art of cathy jarboe, creator of skull trumpet and many other pieces of art."

http://cjarboe.com/image26.html

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I like finding websites built on WordPress that don't know about any of the other WordPress features

This bar in Columbus (https://www.thewalruscolumbus.com) has a comments rss feed that contains 3 comments, all of which are porn bots. And I'm the only one that has seen them (until now)

Playing some Speedy Eggbert on android

Static site generator powered by Python

Source Code: https://github.com/getpelican/pelican

"Splinter is a tool for Mastodon threads. Splinter turns long articles into Mastodon threads and posts them for you automatically. "

Source Code: https://codeberg.org/neiman/splinter

Generate cat sprites

Source Code: https://github.com/cgen-tools/pixel-cat-maker

"Take control of your honks and join the federation. An ActivityPub server with minimal setup and support costs. Spend more time using the software and less time operating it."

Any response time is good response time is what I always say

"A federated PubSub bookmarking system for XMPP.

Blasta is a collaborative bookmarks manager for organizing online content.

It allows you to add links to your personal collection of links, to categorize them with keywords, and to share and synchronize your collection among your own software, devices, machines, and also with others.

The ability of Blasta to display to you the links that other people have collected and shared, as well as showing you who else has bookmarked a specific link is what makes Blasta a collaborative system.

You can also view the links collected by others, and subscribe to the links of people whose lists you deem to be interesting.

Blasta does not limit you to save links of certain types; you can save links of types adc, dweb, ed2k, feed, ftp, gemini, geo, gopher, http, ipfs, irc, magnet, mailto, monero, mms, news, sip, udp, xmpp and any scheme and type that you desire."

I wonder how close Tumblr is to that ActivityPub support

Apple ML Research paper

Another related blog post: https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/a-knockout-blow-for-llms

I was listening to the Waveform podcast during my run this morning, and #FediForum / @anewsocial got a shout-out

The IRS open-sourced Direct File. I don't know how useful this is yet, but good to see anyways.

https://github.com/IRS-Public/direct-file

"WiiMart is an open-source revival for the defunct Wii Shop Channel service. It was closed on January 30, 2019, making an entire library of digital-exclusive games get left behind. WiiMart brings back the experience of downloading and playing these titles with a revival of the Wii Shop Channel."

I'd write a blog post on it, but I really didn't do much of anything. It's basically just @Edent's single page php AP server (https://gitlab.com/edent/activitypub-single-php-file) with an https tunnel (https://dev.to/ghoshbishakh/website-in-your-pocket-turn-your-android-phone-into-a-web-server-53gb)

The hardest part is just copy pasting without a keyboard

Ha, you can run an ActivityPub server on your android phone through termux

A web-based WeatherStar 4000

https://github.com/netbymatt/ws4kp

Jon Bois is blessing us with Scorigami sequel(s)

"There is no JavaScript on this page. All the logic is made 100% with pure HTML & CSS"

Minecraft made w/ HTML and CSS

https://github.com/BenjaminAster/CSS-Minecraft

"HTML/CSS drawing inspired by Flemish baroque oil portraits. Hand-coded entirely in HTML & CSS. "

https://github.com/cyanharlow/purecss-lace

I wrote about Meshtastic and Mastodon

https://tomcasavant.com/i-posted-to-mastodon-1-mile-away-from-an-internet-connection/

Meshtastic-Mastodon client source code

I went out to an arboretum about 1.5 miles away, and something was receiving my messages, but nothing was hitting my nodes (or so I thought, looking at the logs it picked up one of my '!ping' commands and responded, so theoretically could've posted from out there if I kept trying for 30 minutes)

I'm so glad this one posted, I was sitting in a kroger parking lot for about 20 minutes, and this was my last attempt before my final destination (meshtastic said it wasn't received by any nodes)

https://tomkahe.com/@tom/114559331767436047

"This is a work-in-progress software clone of the Wii U gamepad for Linux (including Raspberry Pi and Steam Deck) and Android"

Turn your device into a Wii U Gamepad that works w/ an actual Wii U (hopefully should help all the consoles out there with non replaceable gamepads)

Guide to convert a $15 solar light into a solar-powered Meshtastic node

A lightweight comments widget built on GitHub issues. Use GitHub issues for blog comments

"This is where I maintain a list of Unparalleled Misalignments (formerly quadruple entendres), pairs of non-synonymous phrases where the words in one phrase are each synonyms of the words in the other"

A USB-C gamepad designed for portrait gameplay on smartphones

"Timeline algorithms should be useful for people, not for companies. Their quality should not be evaluated in terms of how much more time people spend on a platform, but rather in terms of how well they serve their users’ purposes. Objectives might differ, from delving deeper into a topic to connecting with like-minded communities, solving a problem or just passing time until the bus arrives. How these objectives are reached might differ too, e.g. while respecting instances’ bandwidth, one’s own as well as others’ privacy, algorithm trustworthiness and software licenses.

This blueprint introduces an approach to personal, local timeline algorithms that people can either run out-of-the-box or customize."

Chill endless driving web browser game