miramarco @miramarco@blob.coffee

📌 Please read this before following:

This is my alt Mastodon account and it is intended for a more limited and intimate audience.

My plan is to leave this account locked for now and to accept follow requests only from people who are already mutuals of mine on my main (unlocked) account: @miramarco

So if we haven't interacted that much before, please let's do that through that account first

Lots of love

By the way, I apologize in advance if I send a follow request to an account of yours if you would prefer me not to follow it. I won't take offence if you decline my request!

I can’t wait to use bookmarks here on Mastodon 🔖

Anyway, I like writing codes of conducts, or any text in legalese for that matter, because it tickles the mathematic in me: What words should I use to cover all the cases I want to express, and nothing more than that? It's not much different from writing the hypothesis for a theorem

In view of the recent events, I decided to revisit the code of conduct of my instance (which still has only one user, but maybe not forever…), so I added a couple of paragraphs on copyright and privacy.

Any feedback is welcome.

tfw you are really in the mood to post something, jump to Mastodon, and one of the first things you see in the timeline is something that you would have preferred to see CW'd and it kills your mood in an instant

Does it make sense to make announcements on behalf of a single-user instance?

Well, anyway,

blob.coffee says trans rights

Oh, what I would give for some bruschette right now

Oh, today is also my last day in the office for this year. I will be on a business trip next week and then I’ll be on holiday until January 6th

I finally sorted the custom emoji of this instance by mood (more or less).

Wow. I learned about Asexual Awareness Week last year, when someone on Fedi posted a toot *after* the week was over.

I felt a bit disappointed: It would have interested me a lot, and somehow I had missed all the posts‽ Did anyone actually talk about it?

But this year I’m seeing many more posts about Ace Week on my home timeline and it makes me so happy

My initial strategy – going to the swimming pool at lunchtime on Saturdays, hoping to find fewer people – was not as effective as I thought. So now I'm going to the pool after lunchtime, which means I'm having lunch after the period after lunchtime…

Yes, the project is still in a very bad shape, but at least the task I have been assigned now involves quite a bit of problem solving, which makes this job more engaging, rewarding, and bearable than usual

A special thank you to all my lovely mutuals who are putting up with my complaining and who are helping me through this tough time. You are precious and wonderful and amazing

For the records, I rewrote the code of conduct of this instance (in the ‘about’ page), so now it goes more in detail about what the general principles of moderation are.

(I wasn't intending to publish it today, but I could not change the instance settings because the previous CoC had an invalid html tag – I don't know how that happened – so I took the new CoC from my drawer, formatted it, and published it )

Omg

The custom emoji categories show up in the latest version of the Mastodon emoji picker

This means I can divide the blob emojos by mood

This changes ev-ery-thing

Why do I even write things in emails if the recipients are not going to read them?

At this point, explaining stuff feels less like “here’s what you need to know” and more like “I’m telling you this, because I know you’re going to complain anyway, but at least I will be able to reply with ‘I have already told you’”

I just learned that, when one of our customers tried to call me on a Saturday morning, they also called one of our project managers.

Who was on vacation.

And it wasn’t even 7am when they called him.

But the weirdest thing is that he answered the call

This must have been the 594th “ping” sound I’ve heard in the last 10 minutes from the other side of the office.

I’m sooooo close to go there and shout “This is an open space, for heaven’s sake put that f@€&!ng phone to vibrate mode!”

Also, people know that I have a 9-to-5, Monday-to-Friday job. Do they really think I am going to answer a work phone call at 8am on a Saturday morning? Let me sleep, for heaven’s sake

And once again my decision to put my work phone in airplane mode during the weekend proves to be a smart choice