John O'Nolan @johnonolan@mastodon.xyz

New side project coming together nicely and I am

🔥Excited 🔥

Preparing for full circumnavigation of the earth in the next 3 weeks. All for 1 conference and 2 meetings.

Something not mentioned in this post that I'm very interested in, is using ActivityPub to connect different Ghost instances together - just like Mastodon. If anyone is interested in chatting about this, I'd love some advice.

Proud to share: After 5 years, $3Million, and no investors: Here's everything we've learned from building the #1 CMS on Github 🔥 https://blog.ghost.org/5/

9 days off work inside the Arctic circle of Norway has been absolute heaven. What a trip.

Just started hiring for some new and exciting positions at Ghost.org - Roles in marketing, development and ops. All come with:

🌍 Fully remote
💸 Competitive salary
✈️ International retreats
💻 Equipment paid for
📅 3 day weekends

https://blog.ghost.org/tag/careers/

Get in touch :)

The fallacy of taking time off, when you just end up cramming the same todo list into less time/sleep to compensate

Who has the best quality developer community+docs+news you’ve ever seen?

My shortlist so far:

Laravel/LaraCasts/LaraNews
Digital Ocean
Stripe
[?]

A stunning sunset this Easter weekend in Cape Town - absolutely in love with this place https://instagram.com/p/BhH6_27FRGO/

Spent the last week setting up a fresh instance of Discourse on forum.ghost.org - and it was a generally great experience (yay open source). I posted some thoughts about why we're moving away from Slack toward Discourse over on Twitter. I won't republish them here, but if anyone is interested here's the thread: https://twitter.com/JohnONolan/status/980872508395188224

Now just need to move everything from there to Mastodon. Right?

What's liberating about Mastodon is that it's a fresh start - as much as anything else. I barely post anything on Twitter anymore because there's a lot of pressure. Always feels like you'll be clogging up someone's timeline, or chastised for saying something not appreciated by the thought-police.

SO. In that spirit. I'm going to test out using Mastodon fairly heavily / without self-censoring.

If it clogs your stream, feel free to unfollow or mute - I won't be mad

Have learned so much already today! Big thanks to everyone who has helped explain Mastodon basics, esp @MatejLach

Also found this a really helpful overview of the underlying tech / ecosystem: https://social.zxq.co/objects/fa781dd4-16b0-48e1-b69f-e78b4aa10252

@MatejLach btw if you have any recommendations for MacOS and iOS clients, just to save me a lot of time researching and comparing, that would be very welcome! 🤗

Oh I guess I can only see other people being followed by someone on the current instance. Hm. Any way to see a wider list of who they're following across any instance?

Is there an easy way to see a list of who other people are following? Maybe silly question. But when I click on the "follows" tab, I can't actually see who people are following. There's usually just me and maybe 1 other name. Is there a trick?

I've been meaning to try out Mastodon for a long time, but I still don't fully understand how best to set it up and get a useful stream of toots. Anyone have tips for getting started and discovering great people to follow?