Notices by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa (miyagawa@mastodon.social)

Rust is super easy and fun when i write everything inline. When I start to extract the code to a function, struct and generalized code in a module then rustc starts to yell at me

TIL Pixel 5 has a subtle magnet around the wireless charging area so MagSafe kinda works just fine. Charging speed is pretty fast as well.

SF friends - any dentist recommendations? I've been seeing this dentist for forever and while she's good, I do not like their handling of billing and insurance -- they always try to upsell stuff in the last minute.

Trying out Phanpy for Mastodon web client. Been using Elk and love it, but Phanpy seems amazing as well, love how it summarizes the boosted posts.

https://phanpy.social/

Make your public posts searchable if you're on mastodon.social - Settings > Profile > Privacy and Reach:

I'm sure advertising biz goes well when you limit the engagement of the app

Right angle USB-C cable from UGREEN. Useful when I need to use my keyboard in the office desk that's close to some obstacles.

@zundan yeah, I hate it the answer to many feature requests to Mastodon is "It's possible on ActivityPub but Mastodon doesn't let you do this, so you have to run your own fork"

@zundan I wish if it was supported through API at least. Then even if Mastodon official client doesn't support it, third party apps could choose to accept Markdown and post pre-rendered HTML to the API.

I understand there's a security implication to this, but that'll apply to posts coming from other ActivityPub implementations already.

Does this become a link on Mastodon or I guess it's up to the clients @miyagawa@twitter.com

yep it becomes a link on Elk, Ice Cubes and Ivory. Not on the official Mastodon app or web UI.

I guess the right way to do this is to somehow encode this in HTML i.e. [@miyagawa](https://twitter.com/miyagawa). I know ActivityPub is HTML based, but not sure how to post it to Mastodon via its API - using Markdown doesn't seem to work ?

Instagram has apparently added status messages like MSN did.

This reminds me of my tiny service called "ymrss" which is a Yahoo! messenger bot which produces RSS feeds for your status message. I made it in 2003, years before Twitter launched :)

https://twitter.com/notwaldorf/status/1602869410221285376

Mastodon: Looks like there's no way add a user to a list without following them first?

1 week before Heroku reportedly will start shutting down the free dynos. I'll have to upgrade a few of my instances to Eco, and upgrade the Postgres database to Mini. Given the tremendous amount of values I get from Heroku to host my podcast supporter portal, I really don't mind paying extra $10 or so, but it still hurts that they view their free developer accounts as a burden.

@zundan but it should, because people come here to look for the news feed bots.

Here're some of the rss bots that already exist None of them looks official, so they can harvest the followers and then one day switch to crypto bot or something.

Mastodon should support following RSS feeds natively. I know you can setup a bot account with crossposting from RSS, but that'll end up with multiple accounts for the same resource, and in the worst case, the instances running these bots will get abandoned etc.

Following the feeds can bypass the verification step as well since we'll follow the feeds with their native domain e.g. https://www.nytimes.com/rss/... we don't need to worry about "is this nytimes bot actually run by NYTimes?"

mastodon.social seems struggling with the load...