I decided I wanted to learn #golang a little while back. I really want to expand my skill set. I've been a #PHP developer for a really long time, and I really like PHP, but I need to branch out some more.
I had an idea for a #fediverse project, and decided that this project would be the perfect way for me to learn go.
But, I'm finding it really hard to make any headway on the project because there's so much to learn to make it work well.
Meanwhile, I'm finding that I really want to make this project a success, and with the extremely slow pace of building it in go, I'm thinking that maybe I should give up on that right now and build it in PHP after all. I could probably have a working MVP in a few weeks if I did it in PHP. And then tackle a less ambitious project in go later.
I can't decide which way to go. Maybe I could even build it in PHP and later rebuild it in go.
Having a #Fediverse instance that gives me a notification when someone blocks me is always interesting.
I don't get blocked very often. I try to be respectful of others, and not rude. But, I got a block this morning.
I'd never interacted with the person who blocked me. I didn't follow him; he didn't follow me; I've never seen his posts.
I was curious why he would've blocked me, so I checked out his profile, and I saw some recent posts discussing the whole silliness of this proposed American TikTok ban. I think he blocked me because I made a joke this morning about it, and maybe he happened to see it in his Federated feed, or in a tag search.
But, if that's why he blocked me, he probably didn't get that I was being sarcastic, making a joke.
I'm not offended, or anything. Like I said, I wasn't following him. It's no real loss on my part. But, I do find it weird. Do people really #block others so easily? I rarely block other people. I really only block people who are bigoted, or trolls, or just generally hateful. I wouldn't block someone just because they said something I disagreed with, especially if it was someone I didn't even follow.
I find the whole thing odd.
Well, this is certainly interesting. 
https://korg.docs.kernel.org/social.html
The Linux kernel team has set up an Akkoma instance to join the Fediverse. Any kernel maintainers can get an account.
And yes, Linus has an account: @[email protected]
