Public posts from @jmac@masto.nyc
RE: https:// masto.hackers.town/@Rob_T_Fire fly/117107021623340001 Since I live a short subway-hop uptown, I didn't wanna over-praise the new # hope26 venue—which was landed in a hurry, after the previous venue unexpectedly cancelled. So I’m really happy to read other folks' initial, positive reports about it, and look forward to seeing full write-ups from conference staff and other attendees.
Am returned home early from # HOPE26 (followed by a short nap). My inspiration-battery is as full as my social-battery is drained, which is as it should be after a good conference. Met lots of folks and had many wonderful conversations across diverse topics, and of course I am delighted to see all the Masto.NYC signups across the weekend.
Just took a soldering 101 class at # HOPE26 taught by Bianca here ( https:// BiaSciLab.com ). I made a thing!! (I stuck some already made things together. But in a new way!)
RE: https:// infosec.exchange/@keen456/1170 97384838568751 Was too exhausted to catch this new documentary about the blind OG phone phreak Joybubbles at its # HOPE26 screening last night. I very much look forward to seeing it some other time, I am totally unfamiliar with the subject and it looks amazing. https://www. joybubblesthemovie.com
Rolling back to # HOPE26 with some of these in tow
RE: https:// masto.nyc/@jmac/11709590874819 1937 I realize in retrospect that this post taken with others implied a narrative where we didn't find a volunteer and so I had to run the table myself. Not so! We did find a volunteer! And also I am helping to run the table! Because it is a joy. Now engaged in throwing together another plain-paper taped-down QR-codey sign or two…
RE: https:// toot.cat/@ceejbot/117097645816 238098 It has been so long since I last ate a pear that I can envision the taste and texture, the sweet graininess of it, so much more clearly than I could if I ate pears every day. If that makes any sense. Or: I have not eaten a pear in so long that I am just confabulating a sense-memory, but either way it's quite pleasant
I did not expect to be tabling about Masto.NYC (or any other topic) at # HOPE26 but here I am anyway, having a blast meeting folks from all over and giving them stickers.
SCAM EMAIL RATE SPARKLINES: 📉 "Would you like my roommate's friend's late husband's piano?" 📈 "Wanna be an American Face to help us install North Korean state agents into tech companies and open-source projects?"
RE: https:// masto.nyc/@jmac/11708490633722 1420 Context for this: I got a bit of junk email that used the “📧” emoji to decorate its reply address in its signature block. I think that's the very first time I've seen it used in the wild. Pretty sure anyone wanting to illustrate an email address just uses a plain old envelope image or emoji. Or a paper plane, or whatever. It meshes nicely with “📞”…
RE: https:// mastodon.social/@rubenbolling/ 117088895277934589 Won't lie, I lol'd at the first one.
RE: https:// masto.nyc/@warren/117082936387 404992 This offer's still open to anyone who wants a comp badge to the HOPE hacker conference in # NYC in this weekend, and is able to help staff a table about Masto.NYC and the Fediverse for part of it! # HOPE26
Reflecting on how 📧 is, counterintuitively, a far more dated emojus than 💾 is.
RE: https:// mastodon.social/@nickmofo/1170 83790166589383 Book Club Bar is a really cool venue! Alas I’m already 😎 booked for this time, but you should go there and get poemed at # NYC
FWIW, I generated a more accessible copy of the # HOPE26 schedule for the weekend, in order to share with someone who found that the official one isn't very screen reader friendly. https:// jmac.org/misc/hope26-schedule. html
I have updated my personal Now page for the first time in 2026: https:// jmac.org/now/ A Now page is something like an About page on a personal site, but focusing more on what's occupying you at the present moment. I like to think of it as what I'd say to an old friend who hasn't seen me in a few years, and has asked what I'm up to. It's one of my favorite # IndieWeb concepts.
RE: https:// mastodon.social/@NoveltyBot/11 7067800524800509 I really like this artist whose work appears again and again in these old ads, depicting dapper Belle Époque gentlemen having their smoking paraphernalia repeatedly inconvenienced
RE: https:// mastodon.art/@MichaelWhelan/11 7059768070211165 My favorite genre of Michael Whelan posts is the “I was wiping my brush on an old rag and decided to have a little fun with it” one.
Reading an article by someone who used genAI to make an audio tool. Reading between the lines, I realize they had a single, long prompt which they'd tweak and then re-feed to the robot in its entirety, over and over, dozens of iterations, until they were satisfied with the output. I now understand the “programming by slot machine" metaphor, heretofore confusing to me because my work with genAI…
RE: https:// mastodon.social/@hotdogsladies /117059242157733110 I remember there being a handful of “local-paper news photographer on a slow day comes by the school and takes a bunch of candid-ish photos” days. I have no idea if anything like this still happens with modern media. But anyway this one time I was sure I was gonna make it in, the photographer asked me how to spell my name and…
Also I didn't know the beaches in Australia (whence come the # BigWalk devs) squeak when you walk on them?! My walking buddy recognized this phenomenon immediately, explaining that it's because they're made of quartz. I thought he said "cork" at first. I would have believed either. I have never heard of such a thing. Absurd!!
# BigWalk is very good. It's a little different than the trailers suggest! At least for the first couple of hours, it's less about chill hiking and coming across a co-op challenge every now and then, and more about running rampant from challenge to challenge, the rewards for which are MORE CHALLENGES! The challenges are pretty great. We completed the first area with three players, then the second…