Now: A Little Drive
Before: Slack, Pinterest, Boxer, AIM, Brizzly, Google Reader & Pyra Labs
Reading your thoughts, if you write them down first.
Web Guy, retired; he/him; made my fortune writing sketchy third-party JavaScript and browser extensions for places like #Pinterest; perpetrator emeritus of #Speculations, the magazine for writers who want to be read.
Currently messing around with #Tootski, a browser extension to help you boost, follow, favorite, or share from outside your home Mastodon server.
Also:
I make apps for my company Junecloud and play adventure games on Twitch.
auld hairy scottish git in Toronto. Does futile things with electronics, including trying to sell them. This ended very badly, so now I build cameras instead. I've built and operated wind farms in many places: I may know what I'm talking about here.
I've been known as scruss since 1981. Some people know me by it and may not recognize my real name.
(he/him)
formerly @scruss
Hey! If you follow me and you've got 0 posts and 0 people following you, I'm going to block you.
XOXO is an experimental festival that celebrates independent artists who live and work on the internet.
I bear a lot of grudges, and I love French cuisine.
Living in the wilds of Berlin. Peripatetic reclusive. Working in the wikiverse. Writing, biking, movies, community.
Novelist: Durance Vile.
Storygraph: https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/datn
Matrix: @datn:mozilla.org
Previously @spanner.works, @mastodon.social, @hact.org.
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Follow requests accepted from profiles with avis and real posts. Posts auto-delete after a time interval you are cordially invited to guess.
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Hacker, bicyclist, househusband. Living in beautiful downtown East Vancouver.
Once upon a time, I was in Silicon Valley, bouncing between idealists, pranksters, and tech giants in the SFBA. Formerly Google, Flickr, Wikipedia, and others.
I worked remotely for VRChat until June 2024, when 30% of the company was laid off.
I do mostly backend server apps, APIs, and server orchestration these days. I used to be known for frontend and UX innovations.
Interested in full-time and contract work.
A daily calendar of fictional significant dates from movies, TV, games, comics, and more.
Sometimes also historical events depicted in film taking place #OnThisDay!
For a curated list of films for every day of the year, check out my series with Letterboxd, Dating the Movies, July: https://letterboxd.com/crew/list/dating-the-movies-july/
Spot a date in a movie or show? 🔎 Let me know!
#Movies #Film #Games #TV #Television #Dates #Calendar #TodayOnScreen #Cinemastodon #fedi22 #Letterboxd #tfr
I used to make websites. I wrote “Design for Community.” I designed the original Blogger. I created JPG Magazine, Fray, Kvetch, Cute-Fight, and more.
Now I grow flowers and turn them into CBD products for https://milkbarn.farm. I take care of 30-something chickens, 13 goats, 3 dogs, 2 cats, and my wife and myself in Boring, Oregon.
Nazis, TERFs, and Republicans can fuck off. Do not explain capitalism to me.
He/him.
#fedi22 #community #goats #communitydesign #farmlife #design
Since 2002, hot links and cool takes from Andy Baio aka @andybaio.
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