joepie91

The 5-minute guide to the fediverse and Mastodon

There are lots of guides explaining Mastodon and the broader fediverse, but they often go into way too much detail. So I've written this guide - it only talks about the basics you need to know to start using it, and you can then gradually learn the rest from other helpful fediverse users. Let's get started!

The fediverse is not Twitter!

The fediverse is very different from Twitter, and that is by design. It's made for building close communities, not for building a "global town square" or as a megaphone for celebrities. That means many things will work differently from what you're used to. Give it some time, and ask around on the fediverse if you're not sure why something works how it does! People are usually happy to explain, as long as it's a genuine question. Some of the details are explained in this article, but it's not required reading.

The most important takeaway is the "

merlinmann

Merlin's Wisdom Project

Or: “Everybody likes being given a glass of water.”

By Merlin Mann.

It's only advice for you because it had to be advice for me.

JoeyBurzynski

58 bytes of CSS to look great nearly everywhere

When making this website, i wanted a simple, reasonable way to make it look good on most displays. Not counting any minimization techniques, the following 58 bytes worked well for me:

main {
  max-width: 38rem;
  padding: 2rem;
  margin: auto;
}

orlando

1. Run Software Update

Make sure everything is up to date in the App Store

2. Install Homebrew

1. Open a terminal window and execute the Homebrew install script:

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

gtallen1187

"Scar Tissues Make Relationships Wear Out"

04/26/2103. From a lecture by Professor John Ousterhout at Stanford, class CS142.

This is my most touchy-feely thought for the weekend. Here’s the basic idea: It’s really hard to build relationships that last for a long time. If you haven’t discovered this, you will discover this sooner or later. And it's hard both for personal relationships and for business relationships. And to me, it's pretty amazing that two people can stay married for 25 years without killing each other.

[Laughter]

> But honestly, most professional relationships don't last anywhere near that long. The best bands always seem to break up after 2 or 3 years. And business partnerships fall apart, and there's all these problems in these relationships that just don't last. So, why is that? Well, in my view, it’s relationships don't fail because there some single catastrophic event to destroy them, although often there is a single catastrophic event around the the end of the relation

indiesquidge

Homebrew

How To

Homebrew is a package management system for OS X. You can read more about it here, or simply run

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

to install it.

skyl

#!/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/Current/usr/bin/ruby

# SET YOUR_HOME TO THE ABSOLUTE PATH OF YOUR HOME DIRECTORY
# chmod +x install.rb
# ./install.rb
YOUR_HOME = ''

HOMEBREW_PREFIX = "#{YOUR_HOME}/usr/local"
HOMEBREW_CACHE = '/Library/Caches/Homebrew'
HOMEBREW_REPO = 'https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew'

tvpmb

[
{"name":"Alabama","alpha-2":"AL"},
{"name":"Alaska","alpha-2":"AK"},
{"name":"Arizona","alpha-2":"AZ"},
{"name":"Arkansas","alpha-2":"AR"},
{"name":"California","alpha-2":"CA"},
{"name":"Colorado","alpha-2":"CO"},
{"name":"Connecticut","alpha-2":"CT"},
{"name":"Delaware","alpha-2":"DE"},
{"name":"District of Columbia","alpha-2":"DC"},

nimbupani

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  {% assign content = post.content %}
  {% include post_detail.html %}
</div>

chitchcock

Stevey's Google Platforms Rant

I was at Amazon for about six and a half years, and now I've been at Google for that long. One thing that struck me immediately about the two companies -- an impression that has been reinforced almost daily -- is that Amazon does everything wrong, and Google does everything right. Sure, it's a sweeping generalization, but a surprisingly accurate one. It's pretty crazy. There are probably a hundred or even two hundred different ways you can compare the two companies, and Google is superior in all but three of them, if I recall correctly. I actually did a spreadsheet at one point but Legal wouldn't let me show it to anyone, even though recruiting loved it.

I mean, just to give you a very brief taste: Amazon's recruiting process is fundamentally flawed by having teams hire for themselves, so their hiring bar is incredibly inconsistent across teams, despite various efforts they've made to level it out. And their operations are a mess; they don't real