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Mastodon’s userbase milestone;
I am once again asking you to move to Mastodon.
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Ragequitting. No-one wants to be on the receiving end of a salty diatribe. No-one wants to be within thirty feet of a spiked controller, either.
Nevertheless, we should think it possible to call out the aggression of ragers AND support them.
Ranked sucks. Ping matchmaking.
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Something’s gone wrong with time – I don’t want to say ‘late stage capitalism strikes again,’ but pre-industrial societies in Europe had something good going.
Is the agony of procrastination a trace of how we would prefer to go about our tasks?
The rules of the pomodoro technique – a clever coincidence
IT’S ̶p̶i̶z̶z̶a̶ POMODORO TIME!
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I bought Nick Brawl 2 on sale. It’s about time I got back in the saddle…
I am asking you once again to read my opinions on network effects
Playing to win is for losers.
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A brief respite from editing posts on polemic books to bring you news about the ex-bird site – news about its ex-users , that is.
The migration from X (formerly known as Twitter) to Mastodon gave researchers a golden opportunity to record data on the collective action problem. Spoilers: it’s pretty good news.
TOOT TOOT
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Twitter friends: Friends, on Twitter, who I left without telling them where I was going.
Our social media predicament: Is it addiction, a you problem? Or does that distract us from the reality of monopolies doing a monopoly?
The EU will force Big Tech companies to interoperate in 2024. It’s got one chance to show the world how interop can work. I hope it does.
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Setting up my own blog locally on a Raspberry Pi was a proper treat. Moving that to the web was a bloody nightmare.
Hello, World: Twenty years late to the blogging party
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