Notices by Casey Kolderup (casey@sharetron.com)

Goodbye Brussels 👋

24 hours left in Europe and I’m facing a Brewster’s Millions situation with my eSIM

I’m not staying up too late, I’m preparing for the timezone shift back to the west coast

client to server gang just got good news from @matthias at #SocialWebFOSDEM

Here's the talk I gave at FOSDEM this weekend. It's about my social bookmarking platform Postmarks, the crisis of confidence I had after its initial release, and the fatigue I feel with what I'm calling the "flattened web". https://motd.co/2025/02/fosdem-2025-postmarks/

alright, on my way to #SocialWebFOSDEM day 2 part 1 🚊

I kept telling myself “at least I’ll finally sleep well after giving my talk”. I gave my talk and then proceeded to meet like 20 people who all had brilliant new things to say about what I’ve spent the last two months processing. Found myself wide awake at 3am thinking about what they shared 😭

Leave it to @darius to be the positive version of the “I actually have a comment rather than a question” guy #SocialWebFOSDEM

On Saturday I'm going to be giving a talk at FOSDEM in the Social Web room. It's about Postmarks, ActivityPub, and interoperability.

#SocialWebFOSDEM

@anildash well well well https://paul.kinlan.me/adding-activity-pub-to-your-static-site/

I’ve been posting semi-pseudonymously on cohost since before its public launch because it was just nice to post with cool people without all the baggage of 25+ years of being online. It was a really special place. I’ll miss it when it’s gone and I hope to find some way to honor it in the way I spend time online after that. Thanks so much to @vogon for getting me on there in the first place and to all of @\staff for making a cool place.

seriously, delete your substack account https://substack.com/@hamish/note/c-45811343

@anildash I always thought mimetypes were invented because file extensions were fake. turns out mimetypes are basically fake too

every once in a while a very long PR necessitates a quick image edit to go with it

I’m so glad CircleCI now has the power of AI to tell me how to fix my test failures

Just published a one-month update about #Postmarks, with information about the changes that have happened in that time as well as information about both work already in progress by repo contributors and the user-facing work I consider to be highest priority! https://motd.co/2023/10/postmarks-one-month-update/

Just launched: the initial version of Postmarks, a new ActivityPub platform that lets you save, tag and share bookmarks on the Fediverse! More info on my blog: https://motd.co/2023/09/postmarks-launch/

@Gargron @shadowfacts @mcc was it added sometime in the recent past? In January I couldn’t get hidden tags from my app to show up in Mastodon’s search tab, but once I was compliant with the click event they showed up immediately.

@shadowfacts @mcc when building a non-Mastodon activitypub app I was surprised to discover that Mastodon would completely ignore tags from the spec-compliant field; it literally looks for <a> containers in the Note’s content whose child data’s first character is ‘#’ to populate clickable/searchable hashtags

it is absolutely buck wild to me that everyone I know has been complaining about how google search results are getting worse for at least a few years now and tomorrow they're going to put on a press conference to excitedly tell us how it's about to go downhill much, much faster