Show newer

The tea selection at the shop continues to change (one of our suppliers became too insane for us to continue doing business with as a result of getting bought out by a larger company one too many times) so I get to take home the last bit of a really nice oolong tonight.

It looks like the person I've met who was running for SCA board of directors got elected. I met Asli while I was teaching at a trade event in Brazil a while back. She should be a good fit in this new role.

For those of you wondering what I’m talking about: in response to tumblr attempting to drive off the better part of its user base a bunch of fans got together to spec out what they wanted out of a social platform for fandom. The finished doc is 134 pages long & includes discussions on everything from federated vs centralized to identity verification to How Tags Should Work.

If you want to read it, you can do so here: docs.google.com/document/d/1r-

Show thread

Cat just started hissing and screaming at the basement door. She's usually an easy going cat.

Working late to roast more coffee. Maybe I'll use the gift certificate for the pizza place across the street instead of cooking.

Innovating without a budget and giving the result away to the world seems like a better thing to give an award for than successfully taking other people's money to start your for profit company.

Show thread

They should send me an award anyway. I've innovated stuff and done it on a budget of approximately $0.

Show thread

Indiegogo just confirmed that they did, indeed, send me that email but that I did not win an award and I should just ignore it.

I should probably migrate all my stuff off tumblr at some point. Most of it I don't care about but there are a few articles that are actually useful that I still sometimes point people toward or use for my own reference.

Cat allergies have been bothering me more lately and I finally figured out why. My air purifier doesn't start back up after a power outage and I failed to realize it wasn't running.

If anybody legit wants to help support my free software work, you can do that at typica.us/ (there's a form right on the front page, JavaScript needed for the credit card processing).

In the month of November I got precisely $0.00, down from $50 in October. Right now all the money goes toward keeping the project web site online, but there are certainly uses for more.

Show thread

This just arrived in my inbox and, umm... I didn't have an Indiegogo crowd funding campaign? There aren't any super-obvious signs of a scam going on, so I think maybe this just got pushed to the wrong mailing list? If someone used my email address to set up an Indiegogo campaign I'd think I'd've gotten an email about that and rather than an award I guess I'd rather have the money. I'm sure I can find a project to push that to.

It's cold at work. I want to go home and hug the cat.

Last night's cat pics. I tried to get one of her hugging a table leg but she noticed that I was about to take a picture and composed herself for that.

Show older
Typica Social

The social network of the future: No ads, no corporate surveillance, ethical design, and decentralization! Own your data with Mastodon!