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Spent some time teaching my kids (and my wife, lol) how to do laundry today and they ask me ‘who taught you how to do laundry?’ ‘My...

Spent some time teaching my kids (and my wife, lol) how to do laundry today and they ask me ‘who taught you how to do laundry?’ ‘My mum’ ‘did you have washing machines when you were a kid?’

LOL. A client just asked for advice on an email they received. But instead of forwarding the email they printed it out, then took a photo...

LOL. A client just asked for advice on an email they received. But instead of forwarding the email they printed it out, then took a photo and sent that via WhatsApp 😂

A for effort!

Who started a BBQ?! 😡https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3wdpwv9n3jo

Who started a BBQ?! 😡

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3wdpwv9n3jo

Following on from this, I've deployed a version of this at https://fedialgo.thms.uk/. I did this really for my own use, but feel free to...

Following on from this, I've deployed a version of this at https://fedialgo.thms.uk/.

I did this really for my own use, but feel free to have a look at it and play around.

Things I notice and like about it:

It works well, even on a single user instance.
The feed looks nice.
Everything happens in the browser - nothing leaks to the server.
@cryptadamist has been extremely helpful helping me get this is working! Thank you so much!

Things that still need work:

It really isn't mobile compatible at all. Hopefully I'll have a moment soon, and might send a PR your way @cryptadamist, if that's OK with you.
This is hugely experimental. I make no guarantees whatsoever about whether this will work or not.

#fedialgo #mastoadmin

I've been playing around with @cryptadamist ‘s FediAlgo Demo App, and I think it's really really cool! Highlight some very interesting...

I've been playing around with @cryptadamist ‘s FediAlgo Demo App, and I think it's really really cool!

Highlight some very interesting posts! I may install it on my server and make it available to myself.

https://github.com/michelcrypt4d4mus/fedialgo_demo_app_foryoufeed

#mastoadmin #fedialgo

This looks promising:https://spatie.be/blog/a-package-to-handle-passkeys-in-laravel#laravel

This looks promising:

https://spatie.be/blog/a-package-to-handle-passkeys-in-laravel

#laravel

So my 11 year old is doing coding. Primarily at the moment PHP.He's currently using VS Code, but I would love him to use PhpStorm, as it's...

So my 11 year old is doing coding. Primarily at the moment PHP.

He's currently using VS Code, but I would love him to use PhpStorm, as it's so much better for PHP. But obviously he doesn’t have the money to pay for it.

I know PhpStorm has free licenses for University and High School students, but there are still a good few years to go.

Does anyone know if Jetbrains has a way for primary school kids to access free PhpStorm licenses?

#phpstorm #php

The Online Safety Act is such a terrible piece of legislation!And Ofcom deciding the enforce it in the strictest possible way makes it even...

The Online Safety Act is such a terrible piece of legislation!

And Ofcom deciding the enforce it in the strictest possible way makes it even worse!

https://medium.com/wikimedia-policy/wikipedias-nonprofit-host-brings-legal-challenge-to-new-online-safety-act-osa-regulations-0f9153102f29

One of the joys of family life is how we share everything!Last week kid no 1 started vomiting. A few days later the MIL (currently staying...

One of the joys of family life is how we share everything!

Last week kid no 1 started vomiting. A few days later the MIL (currently staying with us to help after the birth of baby). A few days after that the OH. This morning kid no 2.

it’s like real life dominoes.

4 down. 2 to go…

Well, here is reason number 1 Million and 1 why Open AI sucks - as if we needed any more reasons…It appears as though OpenAI's crawler is...

Well, here is reason number 1 Million and 1 why Open AI sucks - as if we needed any more reasons…

It appears as though OpenAI's crawler is crawling the web with tracing headers set. Wasting even more resources than they already do by instructing all the tracing libraries out their to trace all of OpenAI's requests...

https://blog.thms.uk/2025/05/openai-sucks?utm_source=mastodon

#web #webdev #ai #openai

I really do like PHP8.4’s new Dom\HTMLDocument class!This is a good write-up, I...

I really do like PHP8.4’s new Dom\HTMLDocument class!

This is a good write-up, I think:

https://liamhammett.com/php-84s-new-domhtmldocument-in-diffs

#php

Ah yes, back to good ol' racism...‘Sorry mate. Wrong skin colour. We can't accept your passport application.’At what stage do they...

Ah yes, back to good ol' racism...

‘Sorry mate. Wrong skin colour. We can't accept your passport application.’

At what stage do they rename Labour to New Tories? Or New Reform?

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn0wd75ne82o?utm_source=mastodon

I hate Royal Mail! Buying postage for a letter to Germany online, and their system insists I must fill in a customs declaration.You can...

I hate Royal Mail! Buying postage for a letter to Germany online, and their system insists I must fill in a customs declaration.

You can blame Brexit all you want, but a simple birthday card does not need a customs declaration!

They even insist on a Commodity Code! This is madness!

😡

I’m suddenly feeling a lot better about my DIY skills 😂😂😂“curtain pole won’t stay up on this...

I’m suddenly feeling a lot better about my DIY skills 😂😂😂

“curtain pole won’t stay up on this wall”

https://www.reddit.com/r/DIYUK/s/Tevb78Dkk9

(You must read the comments though - they are the best part!)

#diy

Calling all FediFetcher users who are currently running FediFetcher as a GitHub Action:Following recent changes by GitHub, and a poll, which...

Calling all FediFetcher users who are currently running FediFetcher as a GitHub Action:

Following recent changes by GitHub, and a poll, which showed that only a single respondent actually relies on GitHub Actions without any alternative way of running FediFetcher, GitHub Action support for FediFetcher has been deprecated.

If you are currently running FediFetcher as a GitHub Action, please refer to our new guide on migrating FediFetcher from GitHub Actions:

https://github.com/nanos/FediFetcher/wiki/Migrating-From-GitHub-Actions

You should have until 20th June to perform the migration, but if you don't migrate before then, FediFetcher will likely cease working for you shortly after.

If you have any questions, please free to open an issue on GitHub, or reply to this post.

And if you are that one person who doesn't have an alternative way of running FediFetcher: Please get in touch! I'd love to help you if I can.

#FediFetcher #SingleUserInstance #MastoAdmin

I’ve managed to fix all known bugs in our app!🥳💪

I’ve managed to fix all known bugs in our app!

🥳💪

I think this might be the first time I remember that we actually have it warmer at home in London than the in-laws in Cairo ☀️ 😎...

I think this might be the first time I remember that we actually have it warmer at home in London than the in-laws in Cairo ☀️ 😎 🏖️

Sorry to spam y’all, but if you are using FediFetcher and running it as GitHub Action, I’d really appreciate it if you could vote in...

Sorry to spam y’all, but if you are using FediFetcher and running it as GitHub Action, I’d really appreciate it if you could vote in this poll:

https://mstdn.thms.uk/@michael/114420962728564499

Thanks!

#fedifetcher #singleUserInstance #mastoadmin

I’m not sure whom to root for here 🤔https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/apr/29/amazon-trump-tariff-costs

I’m not sure whom to root for here 🤔

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/apr/29/amazon-trump-tariff-costs

“When surveying Cloudflare customers […] 11% reported that they mistakenly inflicted the DDoS attack on themselves (self-DDoS)”😂...

“When surveying Cloudflare customers […] 11% reported that they mistakenly inflicted the DDoS attack on themselves (self-DDoS)”

😂 😂 😂

#cloudflare #ddos