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Thomas Knoll 🌊 @thomasknoll@mastodon.cloud

Doing my 2 Minute Mindsweep™ is like stretching… I know I should do it. I know it makes everything better. I know life is better when I do. Also, it’s so easy to skip.

Today, I didn’t skip, and I’m feeling great.

I'm going to need some tools.

And and tool belt.

/me reads medium.com/@Gargron/april-post because Mastodon’s rise has been very interesting to me, and I appreciate everything @Gargron has done, and open source software is important.

switching back over to the slack beta version to see if they are actually improving faster than the stock version

Who has/will build the 1-click OAuth integration to Mastodon instances that automatically backs up my archive?

Been digesting “Alien Knowledge” a.k.a. computers that have decided things are true but we can’t understand why - this morning after stumbling upon backchannel.com/our-machines-n

Oh, wow, remember stumble upon?

Anyway… I like the idea that we want to understand things…. but I’m not convinced we have to understand them for them to be true.

Also, maybe theory of relativity applies to ‘knowledge’ AND time?

Good morning! I’m starting my 2 minute mindsweep. What are you up to?

Oops. That checkin phone call lasted 2.5 hours.

The best kind.

/me starts looking around for a ticket about a nice user facing tool to run personal exports/backups of content/preferences/following data.

Something that exists can always be improved. And allows multiple people to do the improving.

Something that is held only in your mind is fragile and cannot be supported by anyone but yourself.

Mastodon
where you will learn French, Japanese and at least three programming languages through osmosis

It is very hard for a lot of people to figure out the same thing.

Realizing that, while it is fun to play with my own instance, I’d rather settle in to an account on a well managed server.

For now.

Ok, enough naval gazing, time to broaden the horizon.

Anyone build an sms to mastodon bridge yet? I think I'd love to hack on and go back to sms days.