Darius Kazemi @darius@friend.camp

I have just released Hometown v1.0.5+3.4.0! This release adds no new features, it simply brings Hometown up to date with Mastodon v3.4.0.

https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown/releases/tag/v1.0.5%2B3.4.0

#hometown

I've been building a Facebook Events style event organizing system for the Fediverse. It's based on the simple, open source, privacy-respecting event organizing tool https://gath.io

The attached video is a work-in-progress preview and shows compatibility with Mastodon. My hope is to get it working with lots of software, including stuff like Friendica that supports events and calendars.

Check out more at my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/organizing-on-32729070

I finished my stint as a Mozilla Fellow and now I'm relaunching my Patreon with a focus on, well, fixing social media.

This means I'm going to continue my concerted work trying to make the fediverse a better place, in the form of best practice guides for running instances, external advocacy, and technical tutorials and training so that more people can contribute software to the fediverse at large.

You can read a partial summary of my work so far at my new Patreon page!

https://www.patreon.com/tinysubversions

The W3C Decentralized Identifiers standard is now a 1.0 draft.

https://www.w3.org/TR/did-core/

(I only just heard of it today, I have no opinions on it right now.)

Ocean Spray™ CrAnCap

One of my favorite things about Looney Tunes as a kid was them repeatedly clowning on Betty Smith's 1943 novel "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn". Had I ever heard of it? No. But as a little kid I loved that they were making fun of it.

(Now that I look it up it seems like a very serious coming of age novel that deals with poverty and substance abuse.)

@danbruno so I never got more than a few hours into Ao but I recently cracked my Vita and realized that there is an English psp iso floating around. Look at this glorious thing

If I feel I'm not "done" with a programming task at the end of my work day, I leave myself detailed notes on what to do the next morning. Like: the next ~3 things I think I am going to need to do (update function X, run the tests, investigate function Y if the tests fail, etc). I've attached this morning's notes-to-myself.

Basically this lets me just "follow orders" at the start of my work day and ease my brain back into a place where I can start thinking at 100%

There are of course ways for it to bite you in the ass. If you use eslint, you can tell it to complain at you if you are using it in an unsafe way:

https://eslint.org/docs/rules/no-unsafe-optional-chaining

"Optional chaining" is really nice!

If you have written any JS you have probably had to do something like this this:

if (myObject && myObject.foo === 1)

in order to prevent things from going to shit if myObject happens to be undefined.

Optional chaining lets you do this:

if (myObject?.foo === 1)

It's made a whole lot of my code a whole lot less verbose. It's of course even better when accessing sub-sub-sub properties. More here:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Operators/Optional_chaining

Learning about graphql fragments and while I totally see the utility, uhhh, this also seems like a way to completely entangle your data with your UI and ensure that migrating from graphql to any other kind of API will be an enormous pain in the ass.

https://graphql.org/learn/queries/#fragments