If you've noticed Mastodon.social being offline a few evenings this week, it was actually under DDOS those nights. When I asked, I was told the best way to help with Mastosoc's scaling and resiliency-under-pressure issues would be to help them fill this open job posting for a devops position with Mastodon gGMBH:

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mastodon/290fd40f-125e-41fc-942d-f4ce59e6bda2

If you know anyone who might be qualified for this position, pass it on!

@davemark I’m using a customized version of Tusker. It’s an iOS app and had some very good features that worked for me but the macOS support was via Catalyst and there were a few things I didn’t really like — it wouldn’t remember the window positions for starters.

Since it’s open source, I took the source, modified it to fix all the issues that annoyed me and now I have something I really like. Plus, since I’m using it as a Catalyst app on macOS, I can give builds to my wife to run on her iPad. So we’re both happy. Of course, that doesn’t help you 😛

@yonomitt They research all the info I believe 🙂 I don’t know if you’ve seen “QI: Quite Interesting” (it’s a British show) and they do a lot of research for the show and what you get on Twitter is kind of repeats/overflow/discards etc. would be my guess …

@qikipedia

Forest Bears

2023-01-30 day 228 of doing art every day for a year (mostly – I took sick days off).

This is a Tatyworks tutorial. I did a few things a bit different than her instructions indicated. I like it!

#ArtMatters #AYearForArt #Procreate #ProcreateArt #DigitalArt #WomensArt #WomenArtists #ArtistsOnMastodon
A mamma bear and a baby bear wa…

Boat on a Beach series

2023-01-28/29 day 226/227 of doing art every day for a year (mostly – I took sick days off).

I started with a reference photo, and after I painted the first one, I decided to experiment with various styles and methods. I was curious, and what better way to learn?

I’m curious which one you like most? I mean, I know which one I prefer, and Fahim gave me his vote as well, but what about you?

#ArtMatters #AYearForArt #Procreate #ProcreateArt #DigitalArt #WomensArt #WomenArtists #ArtistsOnMastodon
A red and aqua coloured boat on…
Same as the first.
Same as the first.
Same as the first.

Watercolor and ink garden
Midjourney 4 AI Art
#stablediffusion #dalle2 #dalle #aiart #nightcafe #midjourney

I don’t really do sunsets but this was irresistible.
#Photography #Sunset

LUNAR ECLIPSE

SOLAR ECLIPSE

APOCA LYPSE

I love Mister Rogers.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

Hi ! New to Mastodon, and flailing around a bit. I am totally blind and still adjusting even though it has been over 4 years. Previously I lived aboard my boat for over 10 years. I am a civil engineer/creative writer/Moth Storyteller.
#introductions #blind #liveaboard

Hi! Newbie here. Posting from just south of the Florida sausage factory. :) Twitter scares me and I wanted to check things out here. #introductions

We’re hiring a Senior Engineering Manager!

This role will be supporting a team of around 5 engineers working on building new features across the scope of our core product offering.

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and some awesome perks:
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(and there are even more amazing perks we didn’t list here!)

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Something I recently re-worked that is based on old photos I took of reflections in water.

#DigitalArt #Painting #reflections #water #WaterReflection #nature #Impressionistic #MastoArt #FediArt #ArtMatters #MarkOnArt

Prints, etc. on my site here: https://mark-tisdale.pixels.com/featured/reflecting-on-nature-mark-tisdale.html?product=art-print

I really miss having @qikipedia posting facts over here. For a week or so, they did and then they’ve gone back to only posting on Twitter 😞

So I guess I’ll have to repeat their facts since I do enjoy them … but then there is no quoting posts and I have to resort to screenshots .. Ah, well 🙂
There is a termite city underne…

One of those nights when you look out the window of your house and say, "I didn't realize how close I lived to Mordor."

@Jennifer_Pinkley @davemark Add me to the list of BritBox fans … well, OK I haven’t used BritBox, I used Acorn but it’s almost the same 😛 BritBox has more variety in terms of content and we were going to subscribe to BritBox (since it had some of the British panel shows we loved etc) once our Acorn subscription ran out, but unfortunately we left Canada and with that went most of our subscriptions …

@gavinmckenzie As I was telling @oscb in a reply, I've just given up on SwiftUI yet again ... Maybe next year 😛

I did get the multi-selection working for grids, but then drag and drop turned out to be one item at a time and there apparently is no way around that (yet). Since there is no way to even code an alternate solution, my verdict at the moment is that SwiftUI is just not ready ...

@oscb I'm sorry that you have to go through that. I thought lists were badly implemented when SwiftUI first came out but a lot of things were rough at that point and so I let a few years go by (while checking every years or so) and thought maybe this time around things would be better since a couple of people I know were raving about SwiftUI. But unfortunately, it doesn't look as if it has progressed enough ...

If there's anyway I can help you with your list stuff, let me know since I did a lot of research into this but finally gave up. I started redoing my app as an AppKit app yesterday because there are features that I just have to have and SwiftUI just doesn't seem to be flexible enough to let me code it myself even ..

Yin and Yang
2023-01-26/27 day 224/225 of doing art every day for a year (mostly - I took sick days off).

This is just me having fun.

#ArtMatters #AYearForArt #Procreate #ProcreateArt #DigitalArt #WomensArt #WomenArtists #ArtistsOnMastodon
A yin and yang symbol, one half…

The river Durance cuts beautifully through the 'barre tithonique' (hard calcareous rocks, Upper Jurassic age) in Sisteron, France. #fridayfold #foldfriday #geology #rocks #france #alps #mountains