The latest Trunk & Tidbits Mastodon blog post highlights all the recent work on the upcoming quote posts. "The feature is nearly finished, and you can expect a full blog post on it very soon!"
Mastodon Blog
Trunk & Tidbits, August 2025
Behind-the-scenes updates from the Mastodon team. A trip to FrOSCon, and a lot of preparation for quote posts.
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Mastodon Engineering (@MastodonEngineering@mastodon.social)
In August, we made a lot of progress on backend code updates... and, we also had some holidays 🏖️ Here's the more in-depth version of what t...
 #Mastodon #MastodonDevelopment #fediverse #QuotePosts #QuoteToots
Nice touch, designing the poster for the Together for Palestine charity fundraiser to look like a petition. "The absurdity of the context, the cognitive dissonance in our lives today, and the conditions that led to the need for the existence of this charity for a campaign to be written, justified, shaped, and sold, made the design task very difficult."
Samar Maakaroun’s identity for Together for Palestine applies the visual language of petitions
“This was not a time for design showmanship, it was a time for space and reflection, designing from within the discomfort,” says the creative d...
 #palestine #gaza #TogetherForPalestine #T4P #fundraiser #design #art image
Some good reasons for starting a website, from @npub12kpd...xvml.
daverupert.com
“Why would anybody start a website?”
Nilay Patel sat down for a Decoder interview with Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott to talk about NLWeb, an open source effort to allow an LLM-style indexi...
 #indieweb #PersonalWebsite image
I certainly have my own opinions and feelings about the whole "fediverse vs Bluesky" thing, but this joint statement is a good reminder that fighting on the internet is never a good look. "We do not win by tearing each other down, which only emboldens and empowers those who do not want either protocol to succeed." 📃.md via
Hachyderm.io
Emelia 👸🏻 (@thisismissem@hachyderm.io)
Recently there has been a lot of discourse about ActivityPub and AT Protocol which has been quite dividing and heated. Yesterday at the Social We...
 #fediverse #bluesky #activitypub #ATProto
"There are several possible dates you might pick, but for me it will always be September 5th 2014 - when I committed the first sketch of a specification I called ActivityPump and pushed it to Github." Happy 11th birthday, ActivityPub!
Erin 💽✨ (@erincandescent@erincandescent.net)
The obvious choice for ActivityPub’s birthday would be the 23rd of January 2018 - the day it was annointed as a W3C recommendation. That doesn’...
 #ActivityPub #fediverse #anniversary
"Wikipedia should not be taken for granted. This is an existential threat."
The Verge
Wikipedia is under attack — and how it can survive
The site’s volunteers face threats from Trump, billionaires, and AI.
 Archived link: https://archive.is/rXgsz #wikipedia
Please excuse the Substack link, but given that "84% of developers now use or plan to use AI tools"*, it is interesting to see measurable proof that this does not translate to increased productivity. "We should be seeing apps of all shapes and sizes, video games, new websites, mobile apps, software-as-a-service apps — we should be drowning in choice."
Where's the Shovelware? Why AI Coding Claims Don't Add Up
78% of developers claim AI makes them more productive. 14% say it's a 10x improvement. So where's the flood of new software? Turns out those produc...
 #technology #tech #AI
Please enjoy @npub1gpzd...n4t3. https://stefanbohacek.online/@birds/115129422604441185 #birds #BirdSounds