I live in New York. I get paid to write about databases. I don’t get paid to write about other stuff, but I do it anyway.
Tech writer at Google; Co-founder of IFTF, an interactive-fiction nonprofit; Liker of coffee, cats, open web technologies, et cetera.
I pronounce it [MACK in tawsh].
| Homepage | https://jmac.org |
| Blog | https://fogknife.com |
| Co-founder of | @IFTF |
| Pfp by | http://www.icelvl.com |
One of my best tweets is one that I never actually posted. It is only on a slide found in a presentation about blogging that I gave in 2015.
I illustrated the craft of "hyper-summary" tweets by boiling down the Gettysburg Address to exactly 140 characters.
I thought it'd just be another sight-gag in a deck stuffed with them. But the audience *rumbled*, electrified, as I spoke over this slide without even bothering to read it out loud.
In retrospect, one of the best things I've ever written.
Here's a demonstration of what I mean (marked as "sensitive" so it doesn't look confusing on your TL). It's a screenshot from Ivory, but the mastodon.social web app looks similar to this.
My previous two posts are a boost of Drew's post which includes a preview of a link to a Wikipedia article, followed my my own linking to an earlier Mastodon post—with an inert, unexpanded URL just sitting there.
That's weird, right? The link is even to a post on the same instance!
Earned this cheevo from my Apple Watch last week: 365 days of burning at least 750 "active calories". Took me about 21 months. Spurred a lot of late-night walks around the park, closing those rings before bed. Feels good.
The watch is only the latest fitness-enabler in a line of exercise toys stretching back 20 years to my first Dance Dance Revolution pads for PlayStation 2. Each has pushed me harder than the last, even as I age. I need these ridiculous things, and they all do all right by me.
Hello. Twitter has lately hurt to use for extended periods of time, so — like many others, apparently — I today experiment with Mastodon.
My first avatar is a cropped screenshot of the 1982 video game "Swimmer" that happened to be in my random-pictures folder when I needed to choose an avatar, just now.
