People posting things they're working on professionally or personally is *literally why I'm here*.

I would love nothing more than a feed full of smart people absolutely nerding out on shit they're into.

@aaadaaam
Just followed you for exactly that.
Great Post.

I definitely nerd out appreciation of other people’s topics of nerding.
Take Abandoned America (a GREAT follow)
And SARDONICUS.

Of course DAVID TROY for all things. And Greg Olear and THE_FIVE8

@Chopinsheart great recommendations, thank you!

@aaadaaam
And…. If you follow @the_five8 on youtube, you can join and post comments and join the after hours group.

It’s sanity making.

@aaadaaam @joshdick that’s what my whole instance is about 😆
@aaadaaam I am in the process of trying out a way to get prebuilt implementations of ATS2 templates, so the stuff can be taken from a library instead of inlined, IF you include the implementations interface.

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Oooo, I like the Complexity creates new problems.
I have to read more of these.

@aaadaaam I can read an entire IT techie post where I understand most of the words individually, but very little-to-none of what they mean...which is a trip in itself!
@aaadaaam it's great to see the paintings, the poems, the weaving, photography,etc every morning. I also can read about the computer nerd who is excited about a new form of code. I love to see people excited and happy. The people out doing good spreading their cause work and able to gather volunteers and not hate.
@Eloise42 yes! I love sharing in the passion and excitement people have for various subject matters, shared interest or otherwise.
@aaadaaam are people trying to come up with more "rules" ?

@aaadaaam You asked for it...

-TERMINATION SHOCK -- a monthly actual-play podcast of a SF #TTRPG

-DYING BREATH -- a 1920s horror game that isn't CALL OF CTHULHU

-GATES OF IVORY, GATES OF HORN -- card based game if dreams and nightmares dungeon crawling for souls

@GregStolze @aaadaaam I read the last one as dungeons crawling for souls, and now I have an image of dungeons unmooring themselves in order to crawl into the cities to claim the souls of the unwary.

If the adventurers won't go to the dungeon...

@GregStolze @aaadaaam where can I find info on Dying Breath?
@cbrails @aaadaaam Ah ha hah, nowhere yet. If you go to www.gregstolze.com, you can sign up for an email list where I notify about all my stuff. Or, the Discord for LUDONARRATIVE DISSIDENTS is an open one - I'll surely go off about it there, or you could just ASK. What do you wanna know?

@aaadaaam

Man I can't even get started good in 1024 characters.

Teaser:

It's a full stack python site built on Flask, SQLAlchemy and HTML5/JS/CSS3.

It is derivative of Miguel Grinberg's 'Flasky', informed by his 'Mega Tutorial'.

As designers, we worry about education, hate, and philosophy.

As devs, we worry about legal liability, labor cost, and administration.

We have a plan to open source the project, but not until there is a certain basic feature set in place.

The reason for this is that we see it as a founding principle that we should, as they say over at google, "Eat our own dog food".

We're about there; I'd guess we're at about 85-90% of our feature targets.

Currently, we have user security/profiles, we can make posts and comments, we have followers, contacts, and some rudimentary management of user supplied media.

It is a markdown rich environment.

Yet to finish before dropping the code are threaded posts, decaying comments, ActivityPub support, and a rich endorsement/karma system.

😆

@aaadaaam let's get mastodon full of #buildinpublic people :D
@aaadaaam I am slowly building a permaculture garden
@aaadaaam ditto
So many interesting posts and folk. Keep it coming
@aaadaaam I might be biased because I fit into both categories but I love seeing people showing off what they pour their heart and soul into - tech, art, music, games, doesn’t matter.
@aaadaaam I'm a compost nerd, I've learned for the past decade to master this skill. I use it to create beautiful and productive gardens.
@nicole2g ooohhh, I'm excited to follow along and up my compost game
@aaadaaam I'm here to learn about open source software practices among nerds. I will also post plants. Re: compost bins.

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Nerding out on readability. The average American reads at a 7th grade level or lower. That means that if your content (for the general public) is significantly higher, you're creating covert barriers. If you're trying to inform the public, you're leaving huge information gaps that others will be happy to fill, possibly with misinformation.

Writing at a lower readability rate isn't "dumbing down." It's "opening up."

@aaadaaam @multosakalye Literally what we do every day about fashion on FashionSocial.host!

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That they are WILLING to share with the rest of us

@gotklss2 little daily gifts for everyone
@aaadaaam Here, have a #minecraft International Space Station built at 1:1 full scale completely in Survival Mode. #ISS
@sfierbaugh AMAZING, thanks for sharing!