Entries tagged 'mastodon'

When I added auto-posting of entries here to my Mastodon account, it just took the title of the entry and posted that along with the link. But those end up being kind of cryptic, so now I made it possible to actually write the Mastodon post alongside the blog entry.

Just a small step in building out this online presence more fully and making sure it’s connected to other places more thoughtfully.

The next thing I want to do is build a new home for my photos. I stopped renewing my Flickr Pro subscription. I’ve thought about setting up a Pixelfed instance but that seems like overkill. I may use it as an excuse to build something in a language other than PHP because my resume could use that. Nearly all of my non-PHP work has been lost to me because it wasn’t open source.

L.A. Times Executive Editor Kevin Merida to step down - Los Angeles Times

The Times has fallen well short of its digital subscriber goals and needs a revenue boost to sustain the operation

As a reader (and subscriber), I find the app and website for the LAT disappointing. The front page the app presents is very picture heavy and only has headlines, and sometimes the photos are terribly cropped. It feels like it presents so very little of what is being published. I’m also disappointed that they seem to have given up on posting to their Mastodon account. The digital experience just isn’t very good, so no surprise they aren’t drawing more subscribers. The actual journalism is top-notch.

Their real mistake, of course, is that they left the gorgeous LA Times Building in DTLA and set up shop in El Segundo.

i figured that i should do something clever like automatically post to my mastodon account when i posted here, but i was surprised to find that the state of mastodon api clients for php is pretty sad. php-mastodon was what i used to get it working, but it's really an incomplete implementation and the error handling is pretty much non-existent so it took way longer than it should have to get going.

(and put me down as someone who is glad that “tooting” is being pushed into the background as the term of art for posting on mastodon, but couldn’t resist using it this time.)