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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.

Touch Tone your Funny Bone

Recently, my organization decided to switch our phone system to “soft phones”, meaning your work calls come in via a software app rather than having a physical phone at each desk. The pandemic obvi...

Mastodon API - Media Only Parameters

The official Mastodon API documentation has many endpoints that return collections of Status objects, but not all have the same parameters. An interesting one is the ability to request only posts ...

Apple Shortcut for Hide my Email

If you have an iOS device and an iCloud+ subscription, you can create random email addresses to use whenever you’re creating a new account, signing up for a newsletter or any field really that asks...

Weekend Project - Mastodon Starter Kits

I have a new weekend coding project: Mastodon Starter Kits! This is very new, so I don’t have much public code to share just yet. The idea here is to provide a starting point for testing new ideas...

Mastodon Apps - The Next Generation

The Mastodon app dev community keeps growing. The next generation is already on their way! 🎉🎉 Mastodon: The Next Generation This is a bit Apple heavy because I do not own any Android devices. Repl...

Spoutible - Initial Thoughts

This post has been updated to include new information regarding the Bot Sentinel feature that was announced on March 1, 2023 via Twitter. Instead of pointing out all of the cracks we know exis...