Notices by rowan (rowan@toot.cafe)

y’all i’m serious about this. get in touch if you want to help with a trans culture news site. i don’t have much of a plan yet, but i want to work with you to figure this out. spread the word. this could be great.

is there a trans culture-focused news site? a la autostraddle? if not, anybody want to try and fill a niche? i’m itching for it to exist and also for more web side projects

imagine email, but federated

hi friends i'm on scuttlebutt tell me how to connect with you there

um no thank you

What the shit is the Shadow DOM anyway?
#development

https://blog.rowan.website/2018/02/15/what-the-shit-is-the-shadow-dom-anyway/

full stack engineer like if you give me a stack of tasks i will do all of them in reverse chronological order

full stack engineer like if you give me a stack of books i will build a li'l bridge

ban all video-only documentation

foss alternatives to disqus? willing to set up commenting myself but don't want to write any code to make it happen at the moment. and feel gross about using disqus.

i wrote a blog post about what mastodon is. i know that it's a tired genre, but i think that i did a good job of explaining it in an easy-to-approach way. please read and share!
https://blog.rowan.website/2018/01/08/yet-another-explanation-of-mastodon/

RT @precisememory@twitter.com: In an incredible victory for AI against us humans, my parents' roomba knocked over our Christmas tree this morning, shattering two glass ornaments and requiring a manual vacuum cleaner to clean up

@venetianblond if you can't make your own joy, store-bought is fine

i have a super cheap vps now! what should i do with it besides host some websites and test activitypub stuff?

RT @mcclure111@twitter.com: What if single payer, but with a blockchain

No, no, hear me out. Here's the plan: We create a single payer system. Then we also create a blockchain. The blockchain does nothing, but it gets the libertarians to agree to the plan bc their eyes gaze over when they hear "blockchain"

lord save me from programming

i made a patreon i guess
https://toot.cafe/@rowan/99038453357717842

RT @90swomen@twitter.com: Carrie Fisher in the trash with a bottle of wine, 1977.

folks who know more about Networking Etc than i do: if i run mastodon on localhost:3000 should i be able to access it from my application on localhost:5000 and vice versa?

i just submitted my project to ActivityPub implementation reports, and you should too (if appropriate)