Five years ago, a open-source project I worked on moved to Zulip (from Slack) and it was a small hurdle. But after a month, I really like it!

So much that I’ve pushed a few other open source projects (who lived on Discord).

I was really surprised when I started a new job two years ago and THEY used a self-hosted Zulip. It’s everything Im used to on Slack.

Discord has team speak/video sharing, which I don’t think Zulip has. But then again, we use something else for video calls.

For e2ee, neither does Discord, nor Stoat, which is what most of these comments are pushing people towards.

What was the problem with Zulip on mobile did you have?

I only use it for text chat, so I’m curious.

It does lead to slippery slopes. First, it’s to block “adult content”.

Then, they’ll consider certain topics “adult”. News about current events? LGBT content? Video games with some violence in it?

Facebook is an example of this slippery slope. And for parts of the country, they do need to scan an ID.

Yes.

Nextdoor is full of morons sharing their ring videos and then going, “Well my videos aren’t being shared online to Amazon because I checked the ‘privacy’ settings.”

Back in mah day as a 13-yo who didn’t have parent supervision, I went on the internet and learned HTML to update my geocities page with more pictures of anime and hotties.

I downloaded 4 songs and it took me 10 minutes a piece, and one of them ended in .exe.

I played web games that didn’t know how to make money so sometimes they’d beg people to give them money or put banner ads all over the place.

The I found some cool software on Usenet. It was broken in 80 rar files (I am still testrunning winrar), and when I unzipped it, it was corrupted.

Then I reached out to my AIM/ICQ to chat with a 22-yo man pretending to be a teenager and cyber’d with them. But before I got to anything good, my mom picks up the phone and my connection dropped.

My favorite part about the commend that Windows is poor quality software is the part where Satya Nadella bragged about how as much as 30% of windows is written by AI

Ah yeah we called that zip files and Dropbox. I don’t miss it.

Im joking of course.

1. Turn on monitor.
2. Sudo su
3. Copying and pasting terminal commands I find off the Internet
4. Living life to the fullest.

I’m so glad that so many fast food chains are disappearing in my city. There’s so much local cuisine here.

Compared to when I was in the Midwest, where there was a dozen of each franchise.

Give me a week long battery.

I got a Chromebook that lasts like seven days sleeping and 30 hours that I booted with Linux. It has headphone jacks. It has three USB ports. It also cost like $300.

It was awesome for light coding and browsing, and lasted 10 years.

Still got sweats going, “Eww it’s notApple/isGoogle/cantplayCrysis/cant3DModelWhileWatching4K.”

I’m getting into meshtastic and learned how those esp32 devices are everywhere! They seem pretty neat

I stay away from all the micro tech drama and I feel like two years ago, that community was bitching that raspberry pi sold out and everyone should switch to arduino.

I don’t have a side. I just pick whatever is easiest to make a emulation station.

“… And that is how I used React as a database language.”

~me presenting at a conference in 2026

I read it twice and it felt like word salad.

I try not to let considerations get in the way of doing great work.

This is what makes me laugh so much. I had an argument a few years ago with a guy who shat on low-powered PCs because his gaming rig was 100 times more powerful.

And like dude, this shit isn’t for you. The world doesn’t revolve around your needs.

I can’t remember what pissed me off but fuck Petsmart.

I switched to Chewy and local pet shops.

Maybe I believe in community rules too strictly.

If the rules say women only, it means women only.

Which is so ridiculously easy in my head. But then I see like 4 million people playing and I’m wondering… Am I the crazy one?