Scott Mallinson

Software development engineer

  • Have I finally managed to set my website up as a fediverse entity?!

  • I’ve been trying to get Mastodon to play nicely with scottmallinson.com since Automattic bought the ActivityPub WordPress plugin, but I’m not having much luck. And to make things more challenging, IndieWeb/Fediverse components need testing in live environments.

  • That feeling you get when your favourite restaurant removes your favourite dish from the menu.

  • I’ve been attempting to follow the Wildebeest documentation to create a Mastodon instance using CloudFlare’s infrastructure and it’s not quite a turnkey solution, and at a minimum of $10 to get started it’s not a cost-effective option either (compared to using a VPS).

  • Well, we did it. We migrated all 112 plugins to the new framework version and addressed the breaking changes and inter-dependencies in the process. Dare I say, we may have even improved some of the code. Though it may be too ambitious to say at this time until regression testing has completed.

  • https://scottmallinson.com/blog/2023/02/02/1040383/ by scottmallinson Some wins, some losses today. Managed to get a bunch of plugins migrated at work. Huzzah! Dishwasher broke. Boo! Dishwasher not broken! A couple of calls to customer services and we managed to fix it. Also, rounded out Friday with approximately 75% of plugins migrated.

  • https://twitter.com/TwitterDev/status/1621026986784337922 by Twitter Dev (Twitter) Starting February 9, we will no longer support free access to the Twitter API, both v2 and v1.1. A paid basic tier will be available instead 🧵 Starting February 9, this account will no longer post notes from my website. Subscribe to my feed at https://scottmallinson.com.

  • Some wins, some losses today. Managed to get a bunch of plugins migrated at work. Huzzah! Dishwasher broke. Boo!

  • The fun of self-hosting web apps. Following a step-by-step installation guide verbatim until you realise one dependency is newer/no longer available/renamed/no longer consumes other dependencies, and you hit a wall, hard.

  • Exhausted after a two and a half days planning the next 8-10 weeks of work, with some of it exciting and challenging. But for now, the weekend!