John Watson 🇺🇸🇨🇦

@cranky_engineer
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Asheville, NC

For #Mastodon app developers and fellow #fediverse platform developers, with the approaching Mastodon 4.6 release we've put together an overview of new and changed APIs that you may want to look at! Collections, profile editing, #Wrapstodon, and more:

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/06/mastodon-4-6-for-devs/

Mastodon 4.6 for Developers

Mastodon 4.6 contains several technical changes that developers will want to learn about.

Mastodon Blog
Nothing like a drive on the #blueridgeparkway in the summertime…
Was driving through town towards the River Arts district a few weeks ago and stumbled on this. Such an #asheville moment…
Hello All. Nice day today, perhaps a second consecutive day absent rain. Enjoy while you can. For my part I have a lawn to mow…

Sometimes the 3d printer giveth, sometimes, it just burns cash.. after 15 hours, I went to take off the car rear end print and the too skinny side panel decided to come apart (delaminate). Thinkin I might just reuse the old one..

More coffee is required..

#maker
#3dprinting
#uuugh

Mike Johnson thinks the Congressional salary is too low and he wants us to "have some sympathy." I'll give him the same advice he and other corrupt elites give working people suffering on $7.25/hour:
•Get a Second job at $7.25/hour
•Go to college with an 8% loan
•Stop buying avocado toast
•Split rent on a studio apt
•Move in w/your parents
•”Find something new”
•Make coffee at home
•Learn to code

Be Best!

Closing time

Musk v. Altman felt less like the fate of OpenAI and more like a window into petty grievances between Elon Musk and Sam Altman.

The Verge

We went for a drive along the #BRP west of #Asheville today, and it was one of our best ever. While 72F and overcast at home (2160') by the time we got to our favorite Roy Taylor Overlook (5580') it was a gorgeous blue sky, quite windy and 60F.

I thought we'd be seeing fully leafed-out trees, but at this elevation most of the trees had just barely begun, a good month-plus behind ours.

It was like Second Spring, and absolutely beautiful. This is one of my favorite spots, and the tourists today just swooped through the parking area, and never got out to go look at the overlook.

#Spring

Pass it on!
Always count the shadows. #caturday