At that point I was 23, freshly graduated from university with a B.Sc. in Informatics, living with my parents, and freelancing on the side (I had a freelancing career in web design since high school and went to university just to get a degree). I was able to save a lot from my student loan as well, so I had the opportunity to experiment with this open-source side project.

@MegaMichelle the best kind!

Heh. I misremembered the date--thought it was today, but looks like it was October 5. On that day, 10 years ago, I posted a link to Mastodon on Hacker News, with the title "Show HN: A new decentralized microblogging platform". That it made it to the front page ended up bringing the first 5,000 users, setting the project on the trajectory it's on today.

@saucerlost
Thank you for your kind message, it's deeply appreciated :)

omg wafrn makes noises?!!? who was going to tell me this?!?

When you come to a new open source project for the first time to report an issue, a "thank you for your work" or any kind words are very welcome.

We give our free time to contribute. We have no salary and we represent no company. We are humans who want to offer the best for everyone.

Yes, issues are mostly opened when something is wrong, but before writing one, remember the dev will read it and try to help you. We are not a company selling your data, and you did not pay for a service.

https://evanp.me/pollfaq#never

@cassim.montilla.fr @frandroid.com grosse vibes "le Cybertruck est capable de flotter"

Our nearest Mercadona supermarket in Santa Cruz de Tenerife was renovated for the past 3 months, and was reopened last week. Today I went there without my headphones, very unusually, and that was great, because I noticed that they had acoustically treated the whole market very well! The whole ceiling was tiled with sound absorbing tiles. And additionally, the background music had been turned way down, it was barely noticable. It felt much calmer than before, just because of this.
I'm really glad they have done this, so big thanks to Mercadona for investing in my well-being!

The Folders Programming Language

Link: https://danieltemkin.com/esolangs/folders
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50114342

I gave the barman a 2$ bill and told him to keep the change as I was lighting a cigarette and all of a sudden it was not 1995 anymore...

My spirit animal is Chiitan

cute boy but hes a bit insane and twitchy and weird and sweaty and shaky but uhmm he tries his best sometimes

拉致されてる

https://fedihome.stefanomarinelli.it/stefano/p/1792177536.850378

And it's running on SmartOS

#illumos