Alan Levine / is on Nostr

Veteran of the open web since 1993, still likes doing raw HTML by hand. Day job at Open Education Global, crafter of SPLOTs, web toys, silly mashups, and long winded blog posts other times. Now juggling 3 mastodon accounts, hoping to downside. And big fan of the people, lands, and ideals of New Zealand.

Last Notes

2024-01-23 17:16:44

Thanks for all the toots.... Getting ready to alias this account to a new mastodon home at @npub1ajt…hf95
Followers should be transferred there because Mastodon Does This Well
Many thanks to @npub15cz…28tu @npub196g…tc4w for providing a home at social.fossdle.org I was not unhappy there!

2024-01-19 16:17:25

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@npub15cz…28tu @npub1ahr…m294 that’s what I guessed. Thanks for confirmation. Is it saveable as a link?

2024-01-19 14:03:08

Calling for #FediHelp I'm looking for a way to link or at least see posts I've made using a hashtag (filtering a hashtag for my own stuff)
It looks like from #FediTips I can use search options "from:me" https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-search-for-stuff-on-mastodon/
My account is set to be public searchable. But it appears my server does not allow search options (it is 4.2.0)
Help? Paging also @npub15cz…28tu
https://social.fossdle.org/system/media_attachments/files/111/782/975/625/478/330/original/712a2571fd5764cc.jpg

2024-01-19 04:12:17

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@npub1ahr…m294 your own solar?

2023-12-06 19:54:36

Another nifty Mastodon embedded media "feature" -- I start playing a youtube clip in a post, and start scrolling down, because I am sort of listening.
Once I get about 2 full scrolls, the video stops. I like it, no phantom audio "which of my 300 open tabs is playing a video"!
Yes @npub1ahr…m294 I truly was listening to your Cloudron set up stream.

2023-11-20 18:26:40

Today I had a legitimate reason to look up when the toilet plunger was invented.
And also spent maybe too much time fixing a mistake in the Wikipedia ref citation, my nanocntribution added to the commons today

2023-11-17 05:57:07

I type in a box and make bad music. The inevitability of it all
https://stableaudio.com/
https://social.fossdle.org/system/media_attachments/files/111/424/343/984/440/037/original/55e503f14c69361d.mp3

2023-11-16 06:02:18

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@npub1typ…c8hh What a treat, it's all about the eyes, even when they are ears. Thanks

2023-11-01 15:05:52

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@npub1ahr…m294 Isn't that Lemmy? https://join-lemmy.org/

2023-10-06 16:51:52

I'm even more keenly interested in Pixelfed, have tested setting up with Mastodon login
https://pixelfed.social/@cogdog
and also at https://pic.fossdle.org/@cogdog
Liking a default CC license clearly shown
https://social.fossdle.org/system/media_attachments/files/111/189/101/097/677/031/original/527886111cbbc4db.jpg

2023-07-28 10:17:26

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@npub1ahr…m294 Interesting— not sure how it works but isn’t Netlify just a web host platform? Better question for the creator @npub14fz…7muk But I am a tad curious as I have dreams of redoing my ancient Feed2JS.org which has withered because it as built on an early 2000s PHP RSS parser

2023-07-16 19:37:06

#SilentSunday
https://social.fossdle.org/system/media_attachments/files/110/725/442/803/729/928/original/5c46633f21af4b92.jpeg

2023-07-13 17:09:46

For those feeling like they post here and nothing happens... heck I've been doing that for 20 years in my blog.
Do you write to get heard/seen or because you have something to say?

2023-06-23 22:58:08

I can’t even tell who or what publishes this site but such a curious description of Bard as an educational platform and the platform as being “open” (it reads like AI writing about AI) (hallucination) https://anyuakmedia.com/google-bard-revolutionizing-global-education/
https://social.fossdle.org/system/media_attachments/files/110/595/999/462/067/277/original/6d16023eb5d67490.png

2023-06-19 22:15:00

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@npub137w…7g9r Color me interested-- this is rendering embed codes? I am more interested for autoembed from a post URL
I made a crude one that's been working on my WP blog
https://cogdogblog.com/2022/12/toot-in-em-bed/

2023-05-23 17:43:58

Had this bizarre dream where most folks who previously published ideas openly on sites under a domain of their own had left and gone to posting to LinkedIn.
Then I checked my Feed Reader. Yikes. Not a dream.