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Here are my tutorials (here’s a bit about my approach), project updates, and various other articles, including the ongoing Fediverse Explorations series.

I also contribute to the Botwiki blog with articles, tutorials, and interviews.

You can follow me on Mastodon, GitHub, and SoundCloud. And if you find any of my work useful, see here for ways to support it.

My side projects Press coverage Support my work

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Impact of fediverse clients on the use of alt text article

Analyzing the ways fediverse apps handle image descriptions.

📅 19 days ago

A tinted screenshot of my Mastodon poll: The web can be such a small world sometimes. Has this ever happened to you? You look up an answer to a question you have, or come across someone's fun side project, look at the author, and -- hey, that's a friend of mine! 59%: Oh yeah! 41%: Hm, not really

Poll: The web can be such a small world sometimes article

I know that person!

📅 24 days ago

A tinted screenshot of a poll from the article.

Data on sending a post into the fediverse article

How long does it take a fediverse post to reach its audience?

📅 a month ago

A tinted screenshot showing results of the main poll from the article on the various ways people fund their fediverse communities.

The ways we keep the fediverse sustainable article

Go buy some stickers and plushies!

📅 a month ago

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Making a map of UNESCO World Heritage Sites article

Learn the basics of working with Wikidata and Mapbox.

📅 a month ago

How many fediverse servers know about my server? article

How federated is my fediverse server?

📅 a month ago

Progressive tutorials article

Radicalized by async/await.

📅 a month ago

Why I made Alt Text Hall of Fame article

Not because it's easy, but because it should be easy.

📅 a month ago

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CSS shape-outside globe demo with Mapbox article

An example use of the shape-outside CSS property.

📅 a month ago

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Fediverse World Sight Day and Global Accessibility Awareness Day article

Highlighting the importance of well-written image descriptions

📅 2 months ago

A cropped screenshot of a graph chart showing relationship between my bots and their followers. Each bot is represented by a circle corresponding to the number of followers, and is connected to dots representing them.

Analyzing fediverse followers article

A look at 6,000+ people following my 40+ creative bots.

📅 2 months ago

A collage of the designs I've used for my personal website between 2013 and 2024.

15 years of running a personal website article

A brief history of my personal website's domains.

📅 3 months ago

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Introduction to Apache ECharts article

Learn to make data visualizations with Apache ECharts and Bootstrap, and host them for free on Glitch.

📅 4 months ago

A tinted, slightly cropped world map showing locations of government offices present in the fediverse.

Fediverse: An overview for government agencies article

Fediverse as a tool for government.

📅 5 months ago

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Turn an RSS feed into a Mastodon bot article

Learn how to make a Mastodon bot from an RSS feed with Pipedream.com.

📅 6 months ago

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7 years with Glitch article

Celebrating seven years of creating the open web with Glitch.

📅 6 months ago

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My first (full) year in the fediverse article

Celebrating my first #fediversary! 🎉

📅 8 months ago

A tinted screenshot of a 4x3 grid of audio players showing various music loops I've made.

Making a fediverse post audio wall article

Music loops!

📅 8 months ago

A tinted screenshot of the Mastodon interface for creating polls, showing the ability to add 10 poll choices instead of the default 4.

How to increase the number of Mastodon poll options article

When four is not enough.

📅 8 months ago

A tinted screenshot of three posts made by the @AltTextHealthCheck bot showing breakdowns of the data it collects.

Alt Text Health Check image accessibility report #1 article

Looking at a growing trend of images being posted without a description.

📅 8 months ago

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