3AM, Licking
Microsoft's Surface Laptop 2 Was Built for Me but You Should Buy One Too
Another accidental hardware acquisition astoundingly ended up becoming my favorite of any portable computer I've ever owned.
The Case for Chuck Klosterman
The genius of one Chuck continues to perform to the refreshing benefit of scholars in American culture.
Profound Revelations in iOS 12
Apple's latest mobile OS update might've seemed mundane, but Siri Shortcuts gives users vastly more power than Apple customers have ever before experienced.
Goodbye, CR-V
Tweetbot 5 for iOS Review
Through an iPhone 4's Lens
Seven years ago, the fourth generation of Apple’s iPhone instigated a change in our perception of digital photography. Now – thanks to Google Photos – I’d like to reflect on my favorite shots of mine.
Out
listen now, wrinkling husk of the wheat:
now or then, it did not matter, but forgone, it comes back around again.
come down out of there, now. tend to that mess before supper – no chance to get out of the house, again.
the disarray! standing, splayed - overgrown, lonely, half-awake.
blasted, or washing away. words aplenty, nothing to say.
through his night where even demons find the story mundane, starving for knowing before dew and the shakes
David Blue, Federated
If you’ve been keeping up with the web at all in the past two years, you’re no doubt at least somewhat familiar with the terms “Mastodon,” “Diaspora,” or “federated social.” Extratone readers may remember my interview with Eugen Rochko last April — the day when his federated social “clone” made its way around the front pages of the major technology and tech media websites. Though the piece itself was designed and written quite disastrously (genuinely sorry about that — it was easy for me to get carried away when I had no idea what I was carrying,) Eugen is a great communicator of his ideal, which you’ll find to be as aligned with a FOSS future as you’d think it would be.
I signed up for mastodon.social in the February of last year, yet I suppose year sof o find myself going back to Twitter looking for what I only get on Mastodon, these days: diverse, sincere, talented, and extremely curious users from all over the world backed and deeply co-habitated with an inclusive developer culture filled with smart problem solvers who just want to contribute something grand. It’s not exactly easy, yet instances and variations on the ActivityHub project, itself have begun springing up at a pace I can’t keep up with. There’s the open-source federated blogging CMS Plume, along with the gorgeous and very promising Instagram-esque PixelFed. Additionally, Diaspora is gorgeous and fully-functional now.
Directory of my accounts across the Fediverse
Mastodon
- Mastodon.Social
- Writing.Exchange
- Mastodon.Technology
- FOSStodon
- Toot.Cafe
- Radical.Town — perhaps the loudest-looking property in the Fediverse.
- Experience Shift, from our friends.
- LinuxRocks.Online
- Mastodon Racing
- Tilde Pleroma
- Tilde Mastodon
PixelFed
Diaspora
Others
- Baptisete.Gelez.xyz, the current public test instance for the upcoming federated blog CMS, Plume.
Illiteracy in American Media
