Jon

Backend developer and software researcher for hire. My work consists mostly of research/reverse engineering of software and building tools and APIs for them, as well as other general backend server development.

I work with web scraping, reverse engineering APIs, building replacement Nintendo game servers, and everything in between.

Lead developer of pretendo.network

@bot @djsumdog @pretendo still not against any US laws, which is where Pretendo is based

@slips @nano @pretendo it’s easy for you to call it “bootlicking” when you carry none of the risk. You aren’t the one who will have their years of work thrown down the drain by Nintendo if they ever decide to drop the legal hammer. There are other places to get what you want, it doesn’t mean we’re willing to take that risk and potentially get our project shut down over something as stupid as piracy

@limes hello

@selzero They shouldn't have taken his account, but don't go around and spread misinformation like this

This is EXTREMELY misleading and full of misinformation. They didn't give him "@ Muscan", they gave him "@ Musicfan". All of his followers, tweets, etc all carried over. They aren't "squatting on his 11 million followers" either, he never had that many. They renamed the old TwitterMusic account, which had the 11 million followers

Screenshot of the @ Musicfan Twitter account

@sladewatkins Thanks for reaching out! We will definitely keep the offer in mind!

Out of curiosity, have we worked together before? I remember back when AC:NH first released someone in OatmealDome's server was working on an app for the game and I was helping reverse engineer the BCSV file format at the time!

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2022-11-24

If you're a white person on the #Fediverse and you want to help make it less hostile for Black folks:
-search #BlackMastodon or #BlackFedi or #BlackFediverse

-follow some Black folks

-boost their posts

-do this semi-regularly

-listen to Black folks and support them when they complain about #racism they've experienced here or elsewhere, PLEASE do not get defensive about Mastodon. Work through those feelings on your own

Those are my suggestions for a good start.

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Pretendo Network :bw_fix:pretendo@pretendo.network
2022-11-23

Another huge funding update! We have officially reached (and now surpassed!) 33% of total funding! We are over 1/3 of the way towards making Pretendo development a full time job!

A screenshot of the progress page on the Pretendo Network website showing 33% on the donation goal.
Jon boosted:
2022-11-22

When are we getting a bottom level domain

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RustyPawz :heart_nb: 18+rustypawz@mastodon.lol
2022-11-21

Reblog if you think trans people are rad

Jon boosted:
2022-11-21

Ah yes, the age-old yoga pose of, "compiling a library on a thermally constrained laptop"

A lot of you likely know me as a developer, most notably as the lead developer of @pretendo

Software development has been my passion since I first touched a computer over 10 years ago

What many of you might *not* know however, is that I’m a mechanic as my day job! I’m looking to quit and do software development, self employed, full time soon. But for now I work on tractor trucks!

It’s getting colder where I live and I work outside, so I got myself some new gear! I’m bad at selfies, lol

Selfie of myself in a bathroom mirror wearing a dark gray jacket, black fingerless gloves, and a light gray beanie hold an iPhone 8 Plus with a pink flower case
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Tony Wasserkaneobrain
2022-11-21

Not gonna lie: I haven't been as excited about a "new thing in tech" as I am about this recent growth of Mastodon in a looong time.

Sure, things right now are chaotic. And we're tearing at the networks we built over the years. It just won't be the same as Twitter.

But it's a breath of fresh air. It's the first new platform in a while I'm optimistic will actually work in favor of users more so than corporate greed.

Let's build something new! I can't wait to see where we'll take this 🥳

Jon boosted:
Pretendo Network :bw_fix:pretendo@pretendo.network
2022-11-20

Hey, just a PSA:
we may or may not have moved from @team to this account because someone decided that a generic handle was going to be okay and that it wasn't going to matter if it wasn't as recognizable. Regardless, we're not going to drop names. Just the handle @ashg

Jon boosted:
Zhuowei Zhangzhuowei@notnow.dev
2022-11-20
"Mastodon is just like email."
Like email? So I use Microsoft Outlook?
"Use WHAT"

(Tools -> Account Settings -> RSS Feeds -> New -> https://mastodon.social/@Gargron.rss)
Microsoft Outlook 2007 showing 20 messages from a mailbox named "@Gargron@mastodon.social".  The right preview panel says "Eugen Rochko: I don't want to just be posting about numbers like a clock, but the 2 million mark of monthly active users across the network is a pretty big deal. This is going big numbers! Shout out to all the server operators who are absorbing this wave."

@eval even better, the YouTube homepage youtu.be/fMXWmACfhmQ

Client Info

Server: https://mastodon.social
Version: 2025.04
Repository: https://github.com/cyevgeniy/lmst