Ed Summers

So, I'm pulling up my stakes and moving instances. There is no drama or reason why, I've just been feeling like a change. I've learned a lot here on social.coop over the last 7 years, especially helping out in the tech working group. I've just been wanting a local timeline that's a bit more synced up with my interests, so I am headed over to merveilles.town. Look for me there? Hopefully this Mastodon move feature will let people know when I have landed. & big thanks to @d6@merveilles.town for the invite.

I never noticed how #Maintenance has the French word "maintenant" in it, which means "now", and is composed of the words hand (main) and to hold (tenir). It speaks to how maintenance requires attention and engagement with things as they are. It also reminds me of one of the perks of maintenance work is that it grounds and connects you to the present.

It's hard to overstate how useful it is to be able to watch a web archiving crawler do its work (the actual browser windows) while also being able to inspect, edit and click on the the queue of URLs yet to be crawled. Maybe there are other solutions to this, but I've yet to see any software do better at this than @webrecorder@digipres.club's Browsertrix https://browsertrix.com. I've found it's especially important when you are using a browser "profile" to be able to crawl otherwise unavailable content.

I've made a career out of building, repairing, and preserving the web. Now, closer to the end of my career than the beginning, I see I haven't spent enough time learning methods for how to dismantle and disentangle the web from work and lived experience. How to practice viable and effective strategies for resisting automation & convincing decision makers when to turn things off.

I was kinda shocked to see this trio is playing a nearby pizza joint on Nov 8:
https://orcuttshelleymiller.bandcamp.com/album/orcutt-shelley-miller you bet I got tix

I'm (not so secretly) worried I might be, or have turned into, a reply-guy, as I lounge around this Saturday morning reading my fediverse stream, and responding to random posts. #uhoh

@anelki@tilde.zone hey, you know what, I am! I guess it stuck.

It's kind of weird to be reading about some of the reasons why people on Bluesky left Mastodon and recognizing them as things I actually like about being here. I guess that's why I am not using my Bluesky account at all...

#bug #feature

https://erinkissane.com/mastodon-is-easy-and-fun-except-when-it-isnt

@anelki@tilde.zone cook, lmk how it goes. I found it easy-ish to try out since I was already using firefox -- plugins and account/sharing etc all work the same. I like not being constantly reminded of my tabs and being able to group them into workspaces.