My new interests - the Fediverse, Mastodon and the creative IndieWeb community keep me entertained. My days are filled with .NET and other Microsoft technologies.
Discussions and photos of my dog may slip into a post now and then.
Open source contributions aren’t always code. The creator of the Mastodon client Ice Cubes put out a call for a custom notification sound and just happened to see it on a rainy weekend morning, so ...
I inherited a SharePoint site that needed some TLC. While we have utilized SharePoint and I was familiar with the basic concepts, I never delved too deep into the specifics. This site was already ...
Have you ever taken the long way home? This is one of those journeys. It was a fun journey. But an unnecessarily long one. This shortcut solves a simple problem - a lazy person’s desire to do less...
I’m continuing my quest to pass all the Webmention Rocks! tests and receive my badge of IndieWeb honor. In a nutshell, the IndieWeb is about owning your content. Making your site the central reposi...
Sometimes weekend plans aren’t quite what you expect. I thought I would be settling into some 80s tunes on my walkman while working on my IndieWeb hobby projects. Instead, I spent much of my weeke...
I have loved watching the experimentation and creativity coming from Mastodon app creators. Native apps, web apps. Experimental concepts presented to the community to discuss. I ended up being qu...
My first attempt worked, but I noticed that my avatar wasn’t included in the webmention. Adding just a couple of webmentions to this post after making a change to my h-card. Reference this post f...
I continue my journey into the world of the Indieweb by attempting to add webmentions to my static Jekyll site. My understanding of webmentions is this. A two way notifcation of activity surround...
I implore you. As a developer for over 25 years. Document it. It needs to be documented. Make a journal. 📓 Crochet it. 🧶 Etch it on stone tablets. 🪨 Get a tattoo. 💘 Just do it. Your future sel...
I had the weekend to myself with the spouse on a business trip. While cleaning out my closet, I found a collection of cassette tapes from my youth, along with my casette player that still worked! ...
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