I will be at the NGI Forum in Brussels next week! On Thursday I will participate in the NGI Impact Stories panel to explain how @npub17jlv...c3ef is helping Mastodon, and on Friday on a another panel to discuss tech sovereignty and what can bring in Europe with @npub1knja...m37n You can still register to attend online:
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 If you also attend, please come say hi! I will have some Mastodon stickers to distribute and will be happy to discuss anything Mastodon / Fediverse related #ngiforum
I am very happy that today we merged the pull request switching the Mastodon frontend build chain from the very old (and outdated) Webpack 4 to @npub19e3u...mcy2 โšก๏ธ It is not visible to end-users but it will greatly improve the developer experience with working on the Mastodon frontend and opens the door for many good things. I started the initial work 2 years ago, then @npub19td6...g68x took over and got it over the finish line ๐Ÿš€
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Convert from Webpack to Vite by ChaosExAnima ยท Pull Request #34450 ยท mastodon/mastodon
This is a PR based on #24981 that will merge into #34454. It also contains #34469 and #34485.
 #mastodev
Our team is growing, and I am very excited that there are now 2 developers focused on the Mastodon web interface, with a designer joining in a few weeks. Brace yourselves for a lot of interface improvements in Mastodon this year ๐Ÿ’…
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Mastodon Engineering (@MastodonEngineering@mastodon.social)
Very happy to welcome our second front-end developer to the core team - hey there @diondiondion@indieweb.social ๐Ÿฅณ We've got plenty of improvem...
We are implementing the final version of RFC9421 (HTTP Signatures) in Mastodon, and would like to test this with other ActivityPub implementations. Do you know of any AP implementations supporting both incoming (verification) and outgoing (signing) RFC9421 signatures, and if possible with support for the double-knocking mechanism as described in
ActivityPub and HTTP Signatures
 (section 3.5)? #activitypub
Quick poll for Mastodon server administrators : what is your biggest pain point between those two? You can add a bit more detail in a reply, and I am not interested in other areas. #mastoadmin