Notices by Morgan McMillian (thrrgilag@monkeystew.social)
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Morgan McMillian (thrrgilag@monkeystew.social)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Mar-2017 01:28:06 UTC Morgan McMillian Black sand beach on the island of Hawaii. Just south of the volcano. -
Morgan McMillian (thrrgilag@monkeystew.social)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Mar-2017 00:06:18 UTC Morgan McMillian Dude! 🐢 https://monkeystew.social/photos/thrrgilag/image/133ecd6335d96637855f604d6daeac02 -
Morgan McMillian (thrrgilag@monkeystew.social)'s status on Sunday, 12-Mar-2017 17:48:17 UTC Morgan McMillian @mcscx That would have been nice but the owners seem to be very unresponsive to their users. I should add that to the reason the network ultimately failed. Supposedly they will open up the source code but we'll see if that actually happens. No idea what if anything they'll do with the domain in the end. -
Morgan McMillian (thrrgilag@monkeystew.social)'s status on Sunday, 12-Mar-2017 16:43:16 UTC Morgan McMillian Saying goodbye to old networks
This week I'm saying goodbye to an old network as App.net is shutting down http://blog.app.net/2017/01/12/app-net-is-shutting-down/.
I joined App.net back in 2012 with the promise of a social network with a different business model from Twitter. It was a service focused on benefiting developers and users who were willing to pay for a better experience rather than advertisers and data mining. Unfortunately that idea wasn't enough and App.net couldn't become a sustainable business. Rather than breaking their promise and becoming yet another advertising network they scaled back the service and ultimately had to close the doors.
As another social network fades into the background I'm taking some time to reflect on what I've gained rather than lost. I've met some amazing people on App.net and have been lucky enough to keep up with them as they've moved on to other places. I've also gained some useful development experience. For those reasons I'll remember App.net with fond and happy memories rather than mourn it's loss. As far as I am concerned, App.net was a success. -
Morgan McMillian (thrrgilag@monkeystew.social)'s status on Sunday, 19-Feb-2017 00:04:56 UTC Morgan McMillian Attention app.net users. This is happening...
#mndp at the End of the Universe. 3/13/17, Urban Chestnut Brewing Company, St. Louis. Doors open at 8pm. -
Morgan McMillian (thrrgilag@monkeystew.social)'s status on Friday, 13-Jan-2017 00:21:13 UTC Morgan McMillian So I guess they are finally going to pull the plug. http://blog.app.net/2017/01/12/app-net-is-shutting-down/ -
Morgan McMillian (thrrgilag@monkeystew.social)'s status on Sunday, 28-Aug-2016 14:33:44 UTC Morgan McMillian I've started work in earnest on a couple of apps for #SailfishOS. Two social network client apps, a port of Renamed Todo, and one other that is in the planning stages. All of these are or will be open source projects and code will be published on my site. -
Morgan McMillian (thrrgilag@monkeystew.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Aug-2016 23:49:12 UTC Morgan McMillian BlackBerry PlayBook development
I've pulled Todo.txt Enyo for the PlayBook from BlackBerry World today and I will no longer be developing for this particular device. My biggest reason has to do with the SDK and the odd bit of hacking it took to build this particular application (the combination of Java and Adobe AIR to build HTML5 apps is a bit bonkers). With Dropbox deprecating v1 of their API I felt it was a good time to bring this particular effort to an end. The source code will continue to be available from my site for those who wish to build their own BAR files. On the brighter side of things the Palm SDK still continues to work so I'll be continuing support for webOS. I'll be posting more on that in the near future. -
Morgan McMillian (thrrgilag@monkeystew.social)'s status on Saturday, 06-Aug-2016 18:37:08 UTC Morgan McMillian Found some old stickers I used to have in my cubicle once upon a time. https://monkeystew.social/photos/thrrgilag/image/6be7656590b381bf7ccb121ad33d8ee4 -
Morgan McMillian (thrrgilag@monkeystew.social)'s status on Sunday, 10-Apr-2016 16:42:10 UTC Morgan McMillian The pump.io host I was using is still offline. It's been almost a month according to http://pumpiostatus.website/dashboard/checks. I'm trying to decide if I should create another account elsewhere and hope that it remains up or if I should spin up my own instance. Not sure which way to go but I also don't want to abandon that network yet. -
Morgan McMillian (thrrgilag@monkeystew.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Apr-2016 17:51:08 UTC Morgan McMillian Is it weird that I just installed and switched to using TWM on my Ubuntu guest? -
Morgan McMillian (thrrgilag@monkeystew.social)'s status on Saturday, 12-Mar-2016 17:07:04 UTC Morgan McMillian New GNU social instance
I've been running my owner Friendica instance for a couple of months now. And so far I've been pretty happy with how it's turned out thus far. There are however some quirks with how it works between the various networks. With that I decided to go ahead and run a dedicated instance for GNU social (gs.monkeystew.net) and start following my various ostatus contacts from there. I'll continue to run Friendica and leave ostatus enabled but my interactions are going to be a little more split. I cross post frequently so feel free to follow me in both places or just one if I repeat myself too much. :-) @thrrgilag@gs.monkeystew.net -
Morgan McMillian (thrrgilag@monkeystew.social)'s status on Thursday, 18-Feb-2016 00:58:44 UTC Morgan McMillian Decided to try noodling around with Visual Studio 2015. Created a blank C++ project using their templates, hit build, and Windows Defender detects it as malware and removes it. Hats off to the virus writers of the world for successfully trolling Windows. :p -
Morgan McMillian (thrrgilag@monkeystew.social)'s status on Friday, 29-Jan-2016 20:21:33 UTC Morgan McMillian Looking at laptops and wondering if 8GB would be reasonable enough for development work (desktop & mobile) or if it's worth the extra dough to get 16GB right from the start. Any recommendations? -
Morgan McMillian (thrrgilag@monkeystew.social)'s status on Monday, 18-Jan-2016 23:43:10 UTC Morgan McMillian I must be some sort of mood. I just went through and tossed most of my circles in G+. Mostly people I followed that were just blasting stuff out. What remains are friends and family so I expect the activity to be pretty small since even they tend to use fb.