Notices by Darius Kazemi (darius@friend.camp)

I was interviewed for Marketplace today about running your own social network site! You can catch me on NPR stations today or just listen/read here:

https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/diy-build-your-own-social-media-site-guide/

Paul Baran: also apparently doing the xkcd thing 50 years before xkcd

Full paper: https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_memoranda/RM3638.html

Today is the 50th anniversary of RFC-1, which in a sense means that programmers have now been chatting and arguing about the internet for 50 years. https://write.as/365-rfcs/50-years-of-rfcs

I've posted it a little early because I'm excited but here is my reading and analysis of RFC-1, the very first official Request for Comments document and an important piece of internet history.

https://write.as/365-rfcs/rfc-1

I'm doing one of these a day for a year. You can follow along at @365-rfcs. I'll only be posting the really noteworthy ones on this account.

In honor of the 50th anniversary of the first ever Request for Comments (RFC), I'm doing a project where I read the first 365 IETF RFCs in 2019.

Don't know what an RFC is or why I'm doing this? The explanatory post is up! https://write.as/365-rfcs/365-ietf-rfcs-a-50th-anniversary-dive

You can subscribe via your ActivityPub client of choice by following @365-rfcs

We are now on v2.4.4! It should be an invisible update to all of you but rest assured that somewhere this guy is cursing how quickly we updated.

I made my follow request notification improvement into a cherry-pickable commit, compatible with v2.4.3. (Pluralization bug in the screenshot is fixed.)

Instructions here if you want em: https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/455#issuecomment-413389602