You Should Not Ignore the Mastodon Social Network Any More
The Mastodon social network reached 2 million users some days ago, almost doubling its number of users in one year.
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The Mastodon social network reached 2 million users some days ago, almost doubling its number of users in one year.
Remote work is not for everyone. It depends a lot of anyone’s taste. But it’s definitely for me. Here is why and how I switched from working full time in an office to 3 days of remote work.
I use Ansible to automate the deployments of my websites (LinuxJobs.fr, Journal du hacker) and my applications (Feed2toot, Feed2tweet). I’ll describe in this blog post my setup in order to test my Ansible Playbooks locally on my laptop.
I’m the Founder of LinuxJobs.fr, a French job board for Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) jobs. I use a pay-per-job-offer model. When a recruiter creates an account, he usually either buys a job offer pack (1, 5, 10 or 15 job offers), either leaves, realizing he has to pay for posting job offers. Like …
During a long era, electronic mail was the main communication tool for enterprises. Slack, which offer public or private group discussion boards and instant messaging between two people, challenge its position, especially in the IT industry. Not only Slack has features known and used since IRC launch in the late ’80s, but Slack also offers …
Many voices arise now and then against risks linked to the Github use by Free Software projects. Yet the infatuation for the collaborative forge of the Octocat Californian start-ups doesn’t seem to fade away. These recent years, Github and its services take an important role in software engineering as they are seen as easy to …
Do you need to send messages to both Twitter and Mastodon? Use the Remindr bot! Remindr is written in Python, released under the GPLv3 license. 1. How to install Remindr Install Remindr from PyPI: # pip3 install remindr 2. How to configure Remindr First, start by writing a messages.txt file with the following content: o …
Remember, Mastodon is a new decentralized social network, based on a free software which is rapidly gaining users (already there is more than 1.5 million accounts). As I’ve created my account in June, I was a fast addict and I’ve already created several tools for this network, Feed2toot, Remindr and Boost (mostly written in Python). …
I just released the version 0.6 of Feed2toot, a self hosted bot to automatically post RSS feeds to Mastodon, a free (as in free software) and decentralized social network. Thanks a lot to all involved contributors (read the changelog for details), this version is mostly their work. Feed2toot on Gitlab (would be awesome if you …
I’m a user of the new Twitter-like social network Mastodon and the need to automatize sending content on a regular basis to Mastodon soon pushed me to develop my own tools like Feed2toot (RSS to Mastodon) and Boost (automatically boost messages). But I also needed a command-line client for the Mastodon Network in order to automatically …