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Fat Bear Week is coming up. The info about it is scattered around a bit, so this will aggregate everything you need to know about the tournament!

On this day in 2009, _why the lucky stiff deleted his profiles and left the Ruby community for parts unknown. This was a grim day for the world.

In my line of work, we have a perennial problem: somebody wants a forms to collect data. Most of Web Development is making <form>s for one person, validating the data, and showing it in a table to somebody else. Some times, people don't want their Web Developer to make a form; instead, they want to make their own forms, like building a SurveyMonkey thing.

My biggest Astro project went live last Friday, so I thought I'd write a bit about using it.

The tl;dr is "astro is pretty okay for making a websight".

I migrated off of WordPress.com for my blog hosting, to my own blogging software. All the important URLs should remain the same. It looks a bit nicer now, and I've got some other functionality running through here.

For the last 13 months, I have been operating a Mastodon (and later, glitch-soc) server. I’ve learned a lot in that time about both Mastodon (the software) and the fediverse as a whole.

There is a lot of Nuance involved, so I wanted to write everything I know down. This post will move seamlessly between social & technical matters because they each shape the other.

Gravis posted a wild ride tearing into the Phoenix Hyperspace dual-booty netbook OS over on cohost. Go read it. It’s good.

Mastodon, an ActivityPub implementation picking up most of the slack from Twitter, can use any S3-compatible object store for user-uploaded images/videos and caching media from other servers.

As part of an effort to stop relying on a couple big platforms for Everything I do on the web, I’ve been returning to some tools from the era Before.

In my Laravel app, I wrote an abstract class that has a fair bit of stand-alone behaviour. I wanted to test this directly instead of via the implementations...