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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.

Bonfire Setup Guide

Bonfire has some excellent ideas when it comes to access control and extensibility, two things lacking in current fediverse platforms. Initially, I was interested to see how I could utilize this to...

Sending Event RSVPs via Webmentions

I’ve seen a few events being posted on the Indieweb.org website, and have been attempting to make the monthly one in Pacific time, it just hasn’t clicked yet. I noticed that you can RSVP through w...

My Current Favorite Podcasts

Recently, I’ve been taking long car trips. Like, 10-12 hours long at a time. Music gets me pretty far, but I also have started enjoying good podcasts. I’ll actually SAVE podcasts for a trip so I ca...

Forkey Pages

Forkeys offers more than just your basic timelines and posting capabilities. Pages One of those extras is Pages, which is really your own playground for creating just about any type of content, lo...

Honoring Greatness

Growing up, my parents were what I would call quiet forces of nature. Never garnering for public attention, but always participating and leading where they saw a need. But busy. Sweeping school caf...

Home Lab - Monitoring Setup

I’m setting up a full stack of platforms for logging my home lab servers. These are my cleaned up notes from setting up Grafana and Prometheus. I’m very new at all this, and thought this might ...

One year in the fediverse

I joined Mastodon one year ago today, October 29th. Finding the fediverse has really expanded my understanding of social media and introduced me to the open source community. It allowed me to expan...

Mastodon Featured Profiles

Once upon a time, Mastodon had a design element on profile pages that displayed a user’s selection of “Featured Profiles”. It was configured very similarly to “Featured Hashtags”, allowing you to c...