I've been using this account as my primary for about a week now, and I'm think I'm settled on using it for the foreseeable future, so I guess it's time to do another #introduction post.
I'm a dad of four kids, and a web developer. I have a college degree in #Theater (or #Theatre) and had aspirations of being an actor. I kind of fell into web development as a career. It was a hobby back in high school, and I just needed to pay some bills after college, so I ended up doing this.
I always have aspirations to do other things, but for now, I'm pretty happy spending most of my time as a dad and husband.
Some day, I'd like to get back into #acting, or maybe do some #VoiceActing. I also enjoy #writing and will, from time to time, post some #MicroFiction, usually from somebody's #WritingPrompt.
I love #StarTrek, and usually watch at least one episode nearly every day. I like all #SciFi really, though, as well as #fantasy. I used to read a lot, but find I don't have as much time or mental capacity for it as I used to. I also enjoy watching #anime, and have really been enjoying the new episodes of #Bleach lately.
Feel free to follow me if you think we have similar interests, and I may follow you back, if I think likewise. 
#WebDev #PHP #BackEnd #Laravel #introductions #Parenting #DadLife 
Son: What's Frogger?
Me: 
It's Crossy Roads with a frog.
I've failed him as a parent.
Dan Jones shared 3 days ago
@danjones000 Here is your #FediTree for the year 2025.
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4 accounts were omitted due to #nobot tags or discoverability settings.
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A simple drawing of a fir tree, crowned with the pentagon symbolizing the Fediverse.There are some christmas bulbs hanging in the tree, which have the avatars of the following accounts inside: @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] The accounts appear in the tree in the same order, from top to bottom and from left to right. The order symbolizes the number of interactions, from most to least. The Fediverse logo was created by @[email protected] and the tree design was obtained from https://freesvgdesigns.com
Dan Jones shared 3 days ago
Tonight you will be visited by three ghosts.
Happy Christmas All!
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Screenshot of Pacman trying to get away from Blnky, Pinky and Inky
Dan Jones shared 3 days ago
Yesterday, the #FediBuzz relay at https://relay.fedi.buzz turned three years old. By now we are feeding 1704 servers and 6149 other users.
Dan Jones shared 3 days ago
Are you the Spirit whose coming was foretold to me?
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Secret level from Wolfenstein 3D featuring very Pacman-style ghosts.
Dan Jones shared 3 days ago
But I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight, "Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker!"
My five-year-old decided to put out milk and pretzel sticks for Santa, and some carrots for the reindeer.
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A couple Christmas presents in bags on the floor. In front of them are two bowls and a cup. The bowl on the left is sea blue and contains several carrot slices. The bowl in the middle, colored purple, curtains pretzel sticks. The cup on the right is blue and half full. The contained liquid isn't visible.
Dan Jones shared 4 days ago
🎬 Filmmakers! The Internet Archive’s 2026 Public Domain Day Remix Contest is open!
🎥 Create a 2–3 minute short film using at least 1 piece of public domain material from 1930. 🎼🎶🎭📚
📆 Deadline: January 7, 2026
💰 First prize: $1,500
ℹ️ Details 👉 https://blog.archive.org/2025/12/01/2026-public-domain-day-remix-contest
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Poster for the Internet Archive's 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest, featuring the "Lockette," a cartoon character with an open lock, seated in a director's chair, legs crossed, and holding a megaphone. Projected on a screen to her right is a frame from the 1930 film "King of Jazz". Illustrated by Freya Morgan.
Dan Jones shared 4 days ago
Sorry, but I’m not visiting the United States this Christmas. We may have ice at the North Pole, but we don’t have ICE.
-Santa
Dan Jones shared 5 days ago
I shouldn’t have to say this, but please don’t post direct links to the elementary OS ISO, especially on release day. This is my only form of income and I really don’t make a lot of it. I want to keep making elementary OS as my job, but when you bypass our pay-what-you-can ask it cuts directly into the revenue I rely on to pay rent and buy food. The vast majority of people already pay nothing when they download. Please don’t take away the biggest opportunity I have for folks to support my work
Dan Jones shared 5 days ago
Be weird. Be colorful. Help random people. 💕
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gean-grey-blog, a social media post "One time I was leaving a friend's place and an older lady with basically no English came up to me and communicated that she was very cold and needed a ride. She pointed to tell me where to go. I got there and her daughter or granddaughter came out and was like omg her phone died we were worried And then the older lady said something and the younger lady translated. "She knew she could trust you because you have pink hair" I thought it was funny at the time. But when I think back on it I think she was basically saying "you had a visible sign of not vibing with the system I was afraid of" Be weird. Be colorful. Help random people."
One person's trash is another person's evidence.
I just looked at my last Trakt year in review, to see my watching habits during the past year. It's my last one, because I'm canceling my VIP subscription, and the Year in Review is a feature only for paying members.
It's a shame, since I've been a paying for well over a decade. I've been a paying member for longer than most of my children have been alive. I just can't justify $60/year on it, especially when that's quadruple what I'm currently paying.
Maybe next year I'll build my own trakt Year in Review using their API, assuming they don't start charging for that.
Anyway, most of my viewing this year has been dominated by me rewatching Scrubs before season 10 comes out in a couple months.
A few weeks ago, I was driving and saw a chicken crossing the road. I started to laugh at the absurdity of it all, until a hawk tried to swoop down and snatch it up. The hawk failed because it flew into my car, and turned around in confusion.
But, I like to think that the hawk was underestimating the chicken. Maybe the chicken knew she was being tracked and set a trap for her predator.
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A chicken strands on top of a hawk. The hawk seems to have been defeated soundly in a one-on-one fight.
Why does my ten year old son think I don't know how websites and apps work when I've been building them for about thirty years, professionally for twenty?
Dan Jones shared 11 days ago
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Donnie Darko meme. "I made a new programming editor" "New editor or vscode with AI plugins?" "Vscode with AI plugins"
Dan Jones shared 11 days ago
The event is schedule is as follows:
🖋️ Dates: Jan 1st - Jan 31st, 2026.
🖋️ Daily #writing prompts will be supplied, but are optional.
🖋️ The goal is to #write a minimum of three pages a day.
🖋️ Writing daily is more important than meeting the goal.
🖋️ Posting excerpts is optional, but encouraged.
If you are interested in participating:
➤ Sign up on https://feedit.online and join the FediWriMo Community, or
➤ Join [email protected] from any Lemmy, Mbin, or PieFed instance.
➤ Follow @nanowrimo2 from Mastodon, GotoSocial or other platforms for daily prompts and updates.
➤ Use the event hashtag: #FediJournJan
I hope you decide to join us this January! More information to come soon.
#journal #journalwriters #writers #writerssupportwriters #journalingideas
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Image of the official announcement for #FediJournJan - aka the FediWriMo Journaling January event.
Dan Jones shared 11 days ago
The trailer for Disclosure Day, a new movie about aliens directed by Steven Spielberg. Very excited for this! In theaters on June 12, 2026. https://kottke.org/25/12/disclosure-day
Dan Jones shared 11 days agoRagú Unveils Sensory Deprivation Marinara Tank. “The detoxifying marinara is slowly simmered to the exact temperature of the user’s body, allowing the mind to drift freely into a meditative gravy state, just like Nonna used to make.” https://theonion.com/ragu-unveils-sensory-deprivation-marinara-tank/