Delightful day at #FOSSBackstage - followed by dinner with some folks from the Mastodon team. 👌🏻
Andy Piper
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Delightful day at #FOSSBackstage - followed by dinner with some folks from the Mastodon team. -
Thanks for the great conversations and questions about my #fossbackstage session.Thanks for the great conversations and questions about my #fossbackstage session. This is a great event for thought-provoking discussions around OSS sustainability and adoption!
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Excited to be here at #fossbackstage seeing old friends and meeting new folks.Excited to be here at #fossbackstage seeing old friends and meeting new folks. Excellent to be in a space to discuss the policy and other non-technical aspects of the open source ecosystem. Oh, and a Fediwall right at the entrance! 🎉
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Tomorrow: a day of train travel to Berlin, for #fossbackstage on Monday.@benvantende prep for Monday! But, thanks for the thought! :-)
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Tomorrow: a day of train travel to Berlin, for #fossbackstage on Monday.Tomorrow: a day of train travel to Berlin, for #fossbackstage on Monday. 🇩🇪
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Today’s adventure: Nuremberg!Today’s adventure: Nuremberg!
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Thanks for the nice wishes!Thanks for the nice wishes!
Today, we mostly explored Franconia. 🥨 🇩🇪
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First half century complete.First half century complete. Happy birthday to me. 🎂
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someone wrote an app that lets you bet on Deutsche Bahn (and now other country!) delays.@echo darn I only just saw this, in time for my delayed DB regional service to be delayed!
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Cancellation, delay, late arrival - the reality I was sold, has been restored!Cancellation, delay, late arrival - the reality I was sold, has been restored!
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Current status: on a train to Würzburg 🇩🇪 🚄@phil to be fair I think I imagined everything would be delayed so we would have more *more* time to connect to the delayed thing ahead of us. But, that's not how delays work when you're *on the delayed thing trying to reach another thing*
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Current status: on a train to Würzburg 🇩🇪 🚄Current status: on a train to Würzburg 🇩🇪 🚄
I could definitely have planned better for connections on this trip. It is all a bit tight 😬
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Mastodon has a new human-over-AI contribution policy.@k @neil @bert_hubert just to clarify, the AI Contribution Policy applies across any form of contribution to the project and our repositories.
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... and this is why commit hooks and preflight checks are useful.... and this is why commit hooks and preflight checks are useful. Probably need an action of some kind to stop bad links from creeping in to blog posts in the future.

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The February 2026 Trunk & Tidbits is posted.@jgilbert sorry about that - the Elefeed link should have already been ok I thought, I just corrected the link (to the App Store) for CrowFi. Thank you for pointing it out.
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The February 2026 Trunk & Tidbits is posted.@jgilbert @MastodonEngineering that is a mistake, I will fix!
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There is a lot happening on the project right now, especially in the lead up to 4.6.@thisismissem that is correct (as mentioned in the blog post).
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There is a lot happening on the project right now, especially in the lead up to 4.6.RE: https://mastodon.social/@MastodonEngineering/116204764577950180
There is a lot happening on the project right now, especially in the lead up to 4.6. We're also now part of the Social Web Working Group at the W3C. As usual, many moving parts to coordinate. I'm always excited to see the team's progress as we pull together our monthly update for the community.
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I think the #LEGO Insiders app may have a small issue with labelling for some rewards.I think the #LEGO Insiders app may have a small issue with labelling for some rewards.
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Two hours of meetings, followed by an hour of podcasting #EndOfTheWeekTwo hours of meetings, followed by an hour of podcasting #EndOfTheWeek