Notices by Cassidy James :rr: :gg: :fh: (cassidy@mastodon.blaede.family)

I’ve had a social media app design in the back of my head for like a decade now and just have never had the time or skills to actually try building it. I think once @moshidon is released with the latest upstream Mastodon changes, I might actually take a stab at it!

It would basically be a strongly opinionated configuration of Moshidon with a couple of very small affordances added. I’ve never done Android development, but customizing an existing app seems a lot easier than starting from scratch.

Namely, I want to strike the balance between Google+ Circles (using Mastodon Lists) and not making users do shit work. I haven’t used Facebook platforms in ages, but it might be similar to the concept of “close friends” from Facebook/Instagram?

The focus would be on making it easier to keep up with the people you care most about, cutting through the noise.

Basically: tag accounts as VIP and they’re the ones you always see in your default feed; make it simpler to add accounts to lists, and just automatically show lists as timelines you can swipe between.

I like to follow a lot of accounts (and that’s especially helpful on the fediverse!), but I’m tired of “no algorithm” (actually just a “reverse chronological” algorithm) meaning I mostly see people who post a lot, and don’t see people I care more about who post less.

Right on the tail of GNOME 50, something else exciting is coming from GNOME very soon… 👀

#GNOME #Linux #OpenSource

I just discovered the band “Save Face” and their album “Another Kill for the Highlight Reel” reminds me SO MUCH of a 2000s—2010s pop-punk artist but I cannot place it. Anyone else hear it?

YouTube Music: https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nIytVziuYd47L0Krjg_WMW0hAPRbVmnB0

Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/another-kill-for-the-highlight-reel/1581067768

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/39YX5r0mg91HGw2scZLm3x

#music #rock #altRock #popPunk

@plwt yes that's them. Thanks!

@soatok @hazelnoot this is when I love @hailey.at’s Bluesky labeler…

@forteller huh, this stumped me. I figured Shift+PrntScr would still work, but it doesn't. It's not ideal, but you can record the screen, then open the resulting recording and use the menu item (or Ctrl+Alt+S) to take a “screenshot” or frame grab from the video.

TIL Inkscape has built-in zine templates! You can design the individual pages and then it lays out the print layout automatically. Neat!

#TIL #Inkscape #OpenSource #Zine

I only joined @roost.tools towards the tail end of 2025, but I’m proud of everything we accomplished in the year.

In particular, I’m stoked that we open sourced Osprey, part of Discord’s mod tools, so that any platform can tackle T&S investigation and incident response in the same ways as the big platforms. And we’ve made great progress on Coop, the content review and moderation platform we acquired and are refactoring into a self-hostable open source tool.

https://roost.tools/blog/roost-in-review-a-look-back-on-2025/

This post is for @sri from Buffer. 😉 The OG cross-poster which has really nice features for modern federated and decentralized social media!

I had 30 mins to play a video game, so I decided to finally start Star Wars Outlaws which I got on a killer sale a while back.

Instead, I spent 30 mins trying to recover and then finally create a new Ubisoft online account. To play an offline, single player game.

AAA gaming is broken.

#StarWars #StarWarsOutlaws #Ubisoft

@K_REY_C there are so, so many posts telling people to use the terminal for Linux. People think they are being helpful, but too often just reinforce this idea that using Linux *requires* you to use a terminal. You can just pop open your app store and install basically whatever you want these days thanks to Flatpak (and Snap on Ubuntu), but if the first time you Google how to do something on Linux you come across ten posts telling you to open a terminal, you're gonna do that.

With very, very little work you can get Adwaita to behave similarly to “Material You”, with tinted but legibly-contrasted colors based on the user’s selected accent color or a brand color.

I’ve been trying this out experimentally in Clairvoyant, and just pushed it a little more in Butler—this time, based on a selected color to match your Home Assistant dashboard rather than your OS accent color.

#GNOME #Adwaita #Linux

I was admittedly bearish about Bazaar early on; I was confused by the design that was trying to reinvent a lot of things, plus I didn’t know how I felt about diverging efforts from GNOME Software.

Now that the Bazaar team has decide to clone the Flathub web UI whenever it makes sense (and improve on it in cool ways!), I’ll admit it: it’s pretty rad.

Huge props to the designers and developers making Bazaar. It’s the Flathub app store @tbernard always wanted.

#Flathub #Flatpak #Linux #GNOME

Hot take, git shouldn't call it the master or main branch; it should be called bough.

A reminder that I've put together some simple 3D printable stencils that could be useful to spray paint protest signs or shirts! You know, in case you were to need some signs this weekend.

https://www.printables.com/model/1178791-letter-number-symbol-stencils-for-signs

#NoKings

Okay, this is cool. AltStore runs a Mastodon server, where the accounts are the developers of apps on the store, and the posts are the release notes. You can just… follow the app on social media and get updates straight from the source!

https://explore.alt.store/public/local

It’s wild to hear “political violence is never acceptable” in one breath, and “I hope he gets the death penalty” in the next.

I’m looking for my next challenge in some intersection of open source, community, and developer advocacy! I am passionate about helping others and doing good with technology, in particular—thus I’m especially interested in working with a non-profit or strongly value-aligned organization.

I’ve loved my work with @EndlessAccess, but unfortunately due to strategic decisions, my particular role won’t exist in the coming months.

https://cassidyjames.com/resume

#GetFediHired #FediHire #OpenToWork #jobs #cv