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Alex Gleason
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I create Fediverse software that empowers people online. I'm vegan btw. Note: If you have a question for me, please tag me publicly. This gives the opportunity for others to chime in, and bystanders to learn.

Hey everyone, Merry Christmas!

I'm pleased to announce that I have unblocked the Mostr Bridge, Spinster, Neenster, and Poast from Threads. Read more here: https://soapbox.pub/blog/threads-server-blocking/

This Christmas, let's make the world more open and connected.

Enjoy your freedom!

Something interesting will happen tomorrow. Tune in.

Weirdly optimistic granola box.

The harp is such an awesome instrument. And man I love this song, it just makes my neurons connect. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVEBdXzEEjg

This is the only thing I listen to.

Throwback to that time I met Vermin Supreme.

New Alex Gleason pic just dropped.

:gleasonator: I'm debugging something live, server will go up and down

In Nostr you can publish a profile event for yourself 100 years in the future. Then you get stuck in a state where clients will only recognize that one unless you publish another event also 100 years in the future. You are stuck always in the future.

Someone reinvented SQL in React... this is so cursed.

Man everything sucks today. Bullied in mentions for not being racist enough. Power outlets not working. Cat puking on the floor, and old ladies having existential crisis because the old version of Spinster from 5 years ago went down. Fuck today.

Do you know about the Knocker Man?

Rhonda Santis is gonna be the first woman president.

Journalists are finally starting to understand the things we understood 5 years ago. https://www.theverge.com/23990974/social-media-2023-fediverse-mastodon-threads-activitypub

Got scam email. Looked at the HTML. When you enter your data it submits it to a Telegram bot, complete with the API key(!!!). It goes to somebody named "skele". Should I write a script to loop over and over again sending messages to this Telegram room?

So much is happening in the Open Source world right now, it's truly magical. A Christmas miracle. A lot of very smart people just went on vacation from work and are tinkering in their free time.