Rod Christiansen

@rodchristiansen
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Tech enthusiast running Focused Systems — software integrations and automations for business processes and metrics dashboards.
Aiming to start writing all about it and more in the upcoming blog.
Vancouver, Canada. Where the sockeye salmon is abundant, people are friendly, the sea breeze is fresh, and the climate can be overcast half the year.
Websitehttps://blog.focused.systems
Today’s social media status quo isn’t cutting it, so Mozilla is exploring an alternative here on Mastodon. In early 2023, Mozilla will be testing a publicly accessible instance in the Fediverse at Mozilla.Social. We will keep you updated, but for now learn more here: https://mzl.la/3BNXQMQ
Mozilla to explore healthy social media alternative | The Mozilla Blog

Update: Starting May 4, 2023, we’re expanding Mozilla.social to a private beta. If you’re interested, join our waitlist. In early 2023, Mozilla will st

Elon Musk is Still Silencing the Journalists he Banned from Twitter.

It looks like our accounts have been reinstated, but it's an illusion: We're actually locked out and can't post anything without deleting specific tweets the billionaire doesn't like.

This latest article embeds a Mastodon post and links to posts by @drewharwell @MattBinder @w7voa and @tony

https://theintercept.com/2022/12/20/elon-musk-twitter-banned-journalists/

Elon Musk Is Still Silencing the Journalists He Banned From Twitter

To you, it looks like Musk unblocked journalists like me. It’s an illusion: The truth is that we are still locked out of our accounts.

The Intercept
Waiting for @ivory TestFlight!!!
I haven’t opened the bird app for days!
Unfollowing everyone really helped break my habit.
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Whenever an app is frozen, I feel like the OS should make that a little more obvious in the UI
The excellent @foodnoms app is getting a big update in January!! Excited. Literally my entire food tracking system is based on FoodNorms.
Potentially unpopular opinion: I'm loving stage manager on iPad in tablet made - hand held with pencil - so great to have 4 apps at a time on screen. Stable enough as of 16.2
Sunday easy chill vibe. Snowing quite a bit today. The forecast is we will all turn into popsicles by Thursday thanks to cold air from Siberia.
Mastodon has cracked the top ten social networking apps in the App Store. For context, Signal is at 15.