Hello! If you'd like to explore alternate social media platforms or creating your own site, I'd love to help. You can reach me here:
https://aTylerRobertson.com
, who I met through work but have relied on Twitter (and his amazing newsletter) to keep up with since he went freelance. Thanks for reminding me of what's important in life and inspiring me to think differently about my career. ✉💘
, who I've known for over a decade now (!!!) but haven't seen in a long time because we live far away. I guess we'll have to fully move our LOTR meme chat to Instagram now. 🌋💍
, who let me guest on his show with a silly idea of mine, even though I'm not at all in the TTRPG space. I'm still worried that I accidentally made it the worst episode yet, but he's too kind to say so. 🧙♂️
! I had the pleasure of chatting with Andrew a few times while we worked at Zapier together, and while I was never lucky enough to work directly with him (yet!), his work on
I'm going to do a little thread shouting out the great people I've met on here, and the people I'm doing my best to keep up with after the site goes down. Sort of a Follow Friday thread, I guess, but not really.
I work from home, in a very different timezone from my team. I sometimes go several days before talking to anyone besides my partner. This place really substituted social interaction for me, and despite its... everything, I'll miss it.
Whatever the opposite of “hardcore” 10x rock star dev is, that’s what I want.
cosycore, moving slowly, making things right, petting the dog, naps, staring out of the window pondering problems and drinking tea.
Scoop: Elon Musk just sent an email to all staff outlining "Twitter 2.0", writing it will"need to be extremely hardcore". Long hours, high intensity.
People need to click "yes" to confirm being part of this by 5pm ET tomorrow, else they get 3 months severance. More details:
Your Twitter archive does not contain information about your followings, especially not their profiles' bio or websites. Download this information in case you want to stay connected outside of Twitter or follow their blog. >>> http://opml.glitch.me
It's not just any Tuesday, it's ChooseDay! #PokemonScarletViolet launches in a few days, meaning you'll be choosing your partner Pokémon soon - a very important choice, right?
Update: company sources tell me that yesterday Twitter eliminated ~4,400 of its ~5,500 contract employees, with cuts expected to have significant impact to content moderation and the core infrastructure services that keep the site up and running.
People inside are stunned.
Mastodon and other decentralized services are popular now, but I feel like a lot of the #IndieWeb is still geared towards people with technical knowledge. How can we lower that barrier and build better social media?
✏️ I wrote a thing:
1/ Just want to put this news in plain language for people.
Senior people at Twitter have resigned in the last 48 hours. We now now why. They said in private Slack channels that
For a while now I've been working on a photo book of LAN parties documenting the phenomenon and culture. You can preorder it now! https://vol.co/product/LAN-party/…
We’ve seen an explosion in interest in the fediverse over the last week, and we’re excited Glitch is the place people go to build for the fediverse, so we made a playlist of some of the coolest & most popular projects to check out: