A View From The Crow's Nest

  • AVFTCN 025 – Mozilla, Mastodon and the Fediverse – and also Pebble

    5:18 am When I climb up into the crow’s nest and look out at the horizon, one of the “lands of opportunity” I continually see is the world of “decentralized social media”, and in particular Mastodon and the other services that use the ActivityPub protocol and are broadly referred to as the “Fediverse”. For context,…

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  • AVFTCN 024 – A long walk-through of using WordPress’ “Jetpack AI Assistant”

    4:06 am Jenna (our 16yo miniature poodle) didn’t get the memo about the time change. Can someone remind me why we do this again? I was going to write about Mozilla and their plans with Mozilla.social this morning… but in trying out WordPress as a platform for a combined newsletter and blog, well… there’s something…

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  • AVFTCN 023 – What WILL happen with all the LEO satellites burning up in the atmosphere?

    5:19 am What’s going to happen when 25+ satellites are burning up in our upper atmosphere EVERY DAY? In a really weird bit of synchronicity, after sending out my message yesterday where I ended saying that the environmental effects of low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites was an entirely separate conversation… I was scrolling through Mastodon…

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  • AVFTCN 022 – The Global Chokepoint Where SpaceX Is The Only Consistent Launch Provider

    5:09 am We’re in this really strange place where we have amazing ambitions for space, including launching 100s of thousands of satellites into Low Earth Orbit (LEO), and yet at this moment in November 2023, we have only ONE single launch provider – globally – that is consistently launching rockets – SpaceX! If you have…

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