@derralf @t0fur0cker last i checked you need UK right to work and they don’t sponsor visas.

@garpu naw
— giving a remote brownbag workshop at bay area lunchtime … but 9pm in Zurich where I am.

Inviting you to join us online for lunch today California time (9pm my time). I’m giving a mini-workshop: Agile Sustainability, It’s Not Just About Pace

It’s a workshop about change, wicked complexity, messy problems and social, environmental, and economic sustainability. My favourite agile principle, as a software developer, is "Agile processes promote sustainable development." But, what does that mean in a world of climate change and other looming crises.

https://www.meetup.com/scrumprofessionals/events/292267049

The Theory of Change of the @gsfcommunity presented by @SaraEBergman at @oop_conference - I thought @zurcherart you would love to see that 🤗 #OOPdigital

South Africa’s load-shedding gives wireless ISPs (Wisps) an edge over cellular networks due to much lower power consumption requirements https://gadgeteer.co.za/south-africas-load-shedding-gives-wireless-isps-wisps-an-edge-over-cellular-networks-due-to-much-lower-power-consumption-requirements/

#loadshedding #southafrica #technology #wifi #wisp

Sounds about right.😜

@david looking forward to your review and recommendation. (Yeah for me it’s totally a messaging thing. If they had set different expectations I’d be having a different experience, but i know different people respond differently. So this one didn’t land with me. Yet.)

@david funny! Yeah I think the app looks cool. I am half teasing about the cheekiness. But there’s not much info for the casual “shopper”. So I kept getting the you have to pay for this feature. By the time I figured out their demo/business mode I was frustrated enough by the experience to delay purchasing. Maybe indefinitely.

@dave @mttvll good tip. Curious about it now. I want to check it out, but my phone maxes out at iOS 15.7.3 (!) so i can’t run it. Testflight says i have to upgrade iOS. Now I sound hopelessly out of touch. But the fact is i like my iPhone SE (and don’t wanna turn a good phone into e-waste).

Thinking about how TWO devices that I own are “obsolete"—not because the hardware has kicked the bucket—but because Google simply doesn’t want to provide security updates for them.

And now that I think about it, it’s all so wasteful.

Here’s a strange thought for you. I own a Sony Walkman that was made decades ago. It still plays NEW cassettes sold on Bandcamp. The device is probably ~30-years-old.

None of these Android phones will be usable in 30 years.

@dave Thanks for the info. Searching for that does not create a great experience for me especially when that could be shared in app. But I’m glad it’s good for you. Thanks for letting me know.

@krlksmnt Respectfully, not with that attitude. I’m on the fence. But you’re convincing me that Ivory is not for me. App displays "We’re not going to list out our features. A great experience is everything." A great experience for me would be vendor tells me what I’ll get before I invest time using the free trial, or money paid every month/year in app. Had nice things to say. But not having that great experience yet. Good if you are. Maybe don’t @-me to tell me what should be enough for me.

I like Aral’s @aral … premise in this toot I just boosted. I haven’t read his links yet, but curious about it. — I guess that’s a disclaimer to say the boost indicates I want to learn more not necessarily that I’m "co-signing" :) — What do ya’ll think?

The Small Web isn’t about going back to the days of GeoCities. It’s about going forward differently, using modern tech in a non-colonial manner.

It’s not about building clones of Twitter, YouTube, etc. There’s no way anyone can self-host a dozen different services. Instead, it’s about having a single-tenant place on the Web that you own and control without technical knowhow; a place you can add Twitter, YouTube, etc., *features* to.

https://small-tech.org/research-and-development/

#SmallWeb #SmallTech #SingleTenant

Plus, i’m waiting for @terhechte to drop #ebou to the public!

What will his pricing model be? Should I buy them all? Or just one? Is a messenger presentation what I need from my mastodon client? Is someone going to release a mastodon client that supports vi-keybindings and markdown? Will Mary Hartmann ever get rid of that waxy buildup? On the next … #TootsOfMyLife
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Like sand in your speedo, these are the #TootsOfMyLife …

It’s a good thing you’re pretty, #Ivory!

I mean the app is smart, thoughtfully and beautifully designed for my taste, and it’s fast. Free trial is read-only. Look around, but can’t post anything. Price is ok too (25 bucks Swiss a year).

I want people to pay me for my work, and certainly want to pay people for theirs when I benefit. But all cheek aside, I would appreciate more info on what I’m getting when I pay. If you’re crowdfunding it’s great! Still wanna know what might come out though.
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This is cheeky of you #Ivory. "We’ve really hobbled the free trial. You have to pay us (on a recurring basis) to do anything with our app, but we’re too cool to tell you what features you unlock by paying us. Also, we’re in beta. So maybe we haven’t written the feature yet. Find out, after you pay us."

I recognise one person’s cheeky is hip and sassy. Another’s borders on unspeakably rude. I am put off by #Ivory’s cheek, and I recognise it’s closer to fun, hip and sassy than unspeakably rude.

I've had the idea for a weird kind of Twitter client for years. With Mastodon being all open, I've decided to do the experiment:

What if your Timeline looked like iMessage. A normal timeline confuses me to no end because everything is out of context.

My experiment, Ebou, is a Mastodon client that looks like iMessage. Conversations are grouped by friends and sorted by recent postings.

It is super basic right now, but this already feels much more natural to me 😀

Now I’m ready for the client app with vi keybindings! And markdown support. (That likely exists somewhere in the multiverse, but just realised I wanted it 😅 haven’t tried to find my way to a timeline wirh such a beast — yet.)