The Importance of Ritual
This weekend, we celebrated my parent’s 60th anniversary. My family has been talking about it for months, and we were excited to finally come together to honor them.
Jeff Sikes
Jeff Sikes is a development manager for a large non-profit. Scribbles mostly about coding, leading a team and non-profit technologies.
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Flashing Headlights on the Highway - A Fediverse Analogy
Have you ever been driving at night and seen an oncoming car flash their headlights to warn you about something ahead? That simple gesture illustrates the power of the fediverse better than any technical explanation.
SXSW Fediverse House - Walking Distance Food, Drinks & Attractions
When attending the inaugural Fediverse House at SXSW 2025 (hosted by Flipboard and Surf), you’re going to be based at the Speakeasy Austin (412 Congress Ave). Being just three blocks from the Austin Convention Center puts you in a prime location, but you’ll still need places to eat, drink, and unwind between sessions about decentralized social media.
Importing Pixelfed Posts to GoToSocial with Slurp
Recently, I wanted to migrate my Pixelfed content over to a GoToSocial instance. Enter Slurp, a new CLI tool that’s making this process much easier. Here’s my experience, including some recent updates that streamline the process.
Installing Snac - A Minimalist ActivityPub Server
Installing SNAC Fediverse Server on Ubuntu
Installing Hollo with Docker - A Complete Guide
Installing Hollo with Docker: A Complete Guide
Making the most of my newbie Dreamforce experience
A First-Timer’s Guide to Navigating Dreamforce 2024
Eleventy Experiment - Salesforce User Directory
Eleventy Experiment: Salesforce User Directory This is a simple experiment to see if I can use Eleventy to generate a small user directory from a Salesforce SOQL query. Spoiler - it works! npm I’m using the JSForce library to connect to Salesforce and run a SOQL query to get a list of users. I’m then using Eleventy to generate a static site with the user data.
Updating a Mastodon Instance
My objective here is to document the process of updating my Mastodon instance from 4.2.9 to 4.2.10, an urgent security release. I’ll then reference this when future upgrades are necessary.
Installing the FediBuzz relay
Let’s take a look a fediverse relays, and in particular, FediBuzz. We’ll go over the basics of how relays work, and then dive into a fresh install on Ubuntu.