Looks like fall arrived in downtown SF this morning.
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Carl ZimmerWere Neanderthals morning people? The genes of today’s early risers certainly point that way. Here’s my story. [Gift link] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/14/science/neanderthal-sleep-morning-people.html?mwgrp=a-dbar&unlocked_article_code=1.F00.P8h7.G2W58ELpkth2&smid=url-share
Evan ProdromouI’ve signed an agreement to write a book about ActivityPub for O’Reilly Media. ActivityPub is the protocol for connecting social networks across the Web; it’s what currently underpins Mastodon and will be used by Threads.net. The book should be available sometime after summer 2024.
The book will be a developer guide that will help programmers connect existing software to the social web, as well as making brand new social applications. Currently, developers depend on reading the specifications themselves, forum posts, wiki pages, blog posts, and other content spread across the Web. I hope that a single book with practical step-by-step information will make learning about and building with ActivityPub easier.
O’Reilly is the best programming book publisher, hands down. I have a dozen O’Reilly titles on my shelf, all with the famous engraved animal covers, and I use them regularly. I appreciate that the O’Reilly team sees the potential for an ActivityPub book. I have had a great experience with the editors so far.
I’ll update my progress here. I have a pretty tight schedule, but I’ve rearranged some of my commitments like graduate school to accommodate the work. (I’ll be getting credits from Georgia Tech towards my CS degree for doing this book — a nice bonus!) This is the first book I’ve written, and it’s going to require working code for examples, so there will be a lot of learning and work to do. But I’m confident this will be a step forward.
https://evanp.me/2023/09/07/activitypub-book-for-oreilly-media/
Councilmember Terry TaplinJoin the Solano Avenue Association, City of Albany, and City of Berkeley at their Solano Avenue Stroll, featuring over 400 vendors, entertainers, food booths, government and non-profit agencies, artisans, jewelers, makers, oddities, and more!
Sunday, September 10 | 10 am - 5 pm
Sidewalk Celebration
Saturday, September 9 | 12 - 5 pm
More Info: https://www.solanoavenueassn.org/events/solano-avenue-stroll/
Questions: 510-527-5358 or [email protected]
Alfred TwuTransit Month is here! Lots of events this year, including tours, discussions, and happy hours. Let's organize to learn and inprove Bay Area transit! https://sftransitriders.org/transitmonth 🚌🚋🚎🚞🚄🛳️
SFBA AnnouncementsWe’d love to hear from you! If you’re open to being quoted in a piece like this please send us a testimonial about why you like #SFBA!
We can’t guarantee we’ll use it, but we want to share your opinion about what makes this such a cool place ✍️ let us know in the comments!
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Does anyone on #SFBA have experience writing opinion pieces for local news papers? The admin team is about to attempt a draft explaining SFBA and the fediverse to a local paper audience. Ideally, in a way it could be customized to each area of the bay! I’d love to invite our neighbors to join us here 🎉 Also, I’d love to hear about your local paper so I can include them 📰 I would be super excited if you want to write it for your paper too! I’d greatly prefer to have a recommendation come from someone in the community than one of the admin team for the website 😅 #OpEd #Opinion #LocalNews #BayArea #SpreadMastodon #WelcomeTheCommunity
Paul Mietz Egli@mastodonmigration I run https://montereybay.social/explore, an instance for folks who live near the Monterey Bay in California (or just love the area like we do). I’d encourage everyone to check out the geographical based instance like ours, https://sfba.social, https://ottawa.place, and more. The Local feed on these instances is really local, and you get the benefits of Nextdoor without, you know, all that other stuff. https://masto.town is a great place to find a server near you.
Michael GartenbergNew official Mastodon app for Android is awesome. It's my new default