I’m still here! Made a few updates to the website, including adding (for the first time) a little bit of javascript to lazy load the image gallery posts. I’m still on the fence about javascript as a hard dependency, but I like the look of these long-form galleries and a 35 mb initial payload is downright rude.

In other news, I’ve migrated my primary social media presence from mastodon over to bluesky . A lot of ink has been spilled on this topic, especially in the wake of the election, and I don’t have much new to add. I believe they are two fundamentally different tools, with mastodon best suited for small, niche communities and bluesky a suitable successor to twitter as a general-purpose network. Sensible, top-down moderation of any social network at scale is extremely difficult, and they’ve acknowledged that by building incredible tools for community-first moderation and community-first algorithms. It’s a great community full of kind people and I hope to see you there.