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 
Dan Jones 
shared a day ago
future computers?
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cover of April 1981 Byte magazine with an absurd wrist watch computer
Dan Jones shared 2 days ago
You are perhaps a tulip fancier?
Dan Jones shared 2 days ago
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Tweet from @ObviousrebelM: If you encounter a guy dressed as a girl "as a joke" this Halloween offer them transition info and be welcoming because if it's an exploring trans girl it will be helpful and if it's a shitty cis dude, he will be furious. It's win/win.
Dan Jones shared 2 days ago
If billionaires are too scared of Trump to allow their newspapers to endorse Harris because Trump might win and take revenge, THAT SHOULD TELL YOU EVERYTHING.
NO ONE will be safe
Vote like your life depends on it
Dan Jones shared 3 days ago
The Harris rally is set to begin and this place is packed to the brim.
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Photo by Stephen Michael on October 25, 2024. May be an image of crowd and text.
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Photo by Stephen Michael on October 25, 2024. May be an image of 1 person, crowd, concert and stadium.
Dan Jones shared 3 days agoA campaign official tells me over 30,000 people are here in Houston for the @KamalaHarris rally, her largest rally yet.
RE: https://www.threads.net/@stephenreports/post/DBkaG9Pxz6D
I really want to watch new episodes of Star Trek on Paramount+, to support the show and ensure Paramount gets good viewing numbers.
But it is the most unstable streaming app on my TV. I can't watch a single episode of anything without the episode just randomly quitting, and sometimes the entire app crashing, often within seconds of an episode starting. Sometimes, I have to go back in and continue the episode three or four times to watch an entire episode.
This is definitely one of the reasons people pirate shows they want to watch. Paramount should just leave the streaming to Netflix and Hulu and license their shows to stream on one of those.
Dan Jones shared 6 days ago
"Let me tell you what's gonna help us move on: I get elected president of the United States" -- Hallie Jackson asks Kamala Harris if she would considering pardoning Trump but Harris isn't having any of that nonsense
Dan Jones shared 6 days ago
If' you're interested in following the US presidential elections and supporting the Kamala Harris campaign, there is a group set up for it at:
β‘οΈ @KamalaHarrisWin
To see the group's posts in your timeline, just follow the account.
To post to the group, make sure you're following the account and then mention the account in your post.
(If you're seeing too many posts from the group, try putting it in its own timeline using Mastodon's Lists feature.)
Many years ago (maybe 2008), I wrote a GreaseMonkey script to synchronize my tweets to my Facebook status. This was way before Zapier/IFTTT could be used to do this, and before there was a Facebook API that could do this.
It worked by having a browser window open all the time to Facebook, and the user script installed in the browser. The script would periodically fetch my tweets from Twitter's RSS feed (I don't think same-origin policy was being enforced for XMLHttpRequest at that point), and if the latest entry was new, it would set the status's input field value to the new tweet, and submit the form.
Now, I work at a company that uses both Slack and Mattermost (Slack for internal communications and Mattermost for working with clients), and I'm thinking of making a newer version of this to keep my statuses between those two synced so that I don't have to install Slack/Mattermost apps to do it.
Dan Jones shared 7 days ago
you're offered free music by somebody, which format (of the following) do you choose? please boost for sample size.
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Cassette 5% (49 votes)
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CD 46% (429 votes)
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USB drive you voted for this answer 47% (439 votes)
I just got a rejection letter for a job I applied to over six months ago, and even met with the internal recruiter about. Whatβ½
Dan Jones shared 9 days ago
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#HarrisWalz2024 @KamalaHarrisWin
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Tweet from Four Seasons Total Landscaping apologizing that their venue isn't big enough for a Kamala Harris rally, but that they could easily accommodate a Trump rally due to their smaller size
I saw the pilot for the new Australian The Office series, and it was interesting.
In the UK/US versions, the series starts with corporate announcing layoffs (bad) and David/Michael trying to save the branch (good). In this version, corporate announces they're going fully remote, which the workers obviously like, but the boss, Hannah, doesn't like this, so tries to keep her branch in office, because she genuinely enjoys being with her employees. But, to satisfy corporate, her branch has to meet certain sales goals to justify the expense of the office. Once the employees figure this out, they figure they can just do their jobs poorly so that they can get to work from home.
We didn't see much of the other characters, to be honest. The main ones are there: the overzealous Assistant to the Manager, the sales guy who plays pranks on her, the receptionist who's slightly flirty with him, the HR guy whom the boss can't stand.
The dynamics are there to make this a good adaptation. I'm a bit disappointed they followed the common formula nowadays of an entire, very short, season dropping all at once. But I'm excited to see how it plays out.
Dan Jones shared 10 days ago
Today my WordPress.org account was disabled unexpectedly. I did not request that and I have received no communications with reasoning ahead of time or at the time of that being disabled (like most people who were deactivated on Slack or .org disabled).
This puts the @pods project at risk on .org since we've used the security best-practice of having release confirmations enabled on the Pods plugins on .org since they added that feature. To confirm a release, you must log into .org
Dan Jones shared 15 days ago
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Presidents for trump: photos of putin and Kim Jong Un. Presidents against trump: photos of every living former US President.
Dan Jones shared 16 days ago
Want to keep tabs on all the bullcrap Matt Mullenwag is doing?
Check out bullenweg.com/, where you'll learn that Matt announced that he poached the creator of WPGraphQL from WP Engine.
Dan Jones shared 20 days ago
Iβm looking for a software engineer to join my team at the Internet Archive. We work mostly Pacific hours but are fully and forever remote (we do have a lovely SF HQ if you're in the neighborhood). Our department uses Python, Django, Temporal.io, Postgres, and some in-house database technologies to build web archiving and other digital preservation services for over 1000 partner cultural heritage and memory institutions.
Remember four years ago, when the winner of the US Vice Presidential Debate was a fly that just landed on Mike Pence's head for like five minutes?