Notices by stephen@mastodon.observer (stephen@mastodon.observer)

@abby @staticsafe

Did you get SMTP to work over IPv6 on DO? Because when I tried, it failed until I finally figured out that DO blocks SMTP over IPv6. This is because when people block spam IPs, they block ranges of IPs. And in IPv6, the smallest range blocks all of DigitalOcean customers. Took me a couple days to figure that out, because the error messages were not helpful, it was just failing.

@cwebber I've been alarmed for a solid two years now. It's exhausting. That's surely part of their strategy, shifting the Overton window by attrition. What are they trying to shift it to? Authoritarianism. 45's fondness for it is clear.

Rather suddenly in the market for remote contract web development work. Located in Central Time, US. I'm full-stack, with a focus on the front-end. HTML, CSS, JS, PHP, Java, a little of everything. I'm a former scrummaster. I write a lot about web dev. I believe in empathy and compassion in tech.

I'm currently working on my own blog. Meanwhile, I have posts on tech at medium which get over 2k views per month.
https://medium.com/@uistephen/keyboardevent-key-for-cross-browser-key-press-check-61dbad0a067a

Would appreciate boosts, thanks.

My post about creating your own Mastodon instance got 283 views this week. That's like 5x what it usually gets. 😮 “Part 1: Creating Your Own Mastodon Instance — Getting Started” @uistephen https://medium.com/@uistephen/part-1-creating-your-own-mastodon-instance-getting-started-fd4cb25fe193