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The @roost@hachyderm.io Coop docs are looking preeeeeetty nice now, huh? 👀
https://roostorg.github.io/coop/latest/
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@roost@hachyderm.io OSS Community Manager @gnome@floss.social Foundation Director
Previously: partners & community @EndlessAccess@mastodon.social, co-founder & CXO at @elementary@mastodon.social; UX & web at @system76@fosstodon.org.
Still an emo kid at heart 🖤
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Here’s the latest state of a WIP prototype branch. We’re still going to do a design pass to improve things; maybe removing the card styling of results (since each section isn’t activatable, but results within are).
There’s more to do, and again: this light style is an off-by-default accessibility setting that I’ve been testing with to ensure it will work, but we don’t plan to ship a light shell by default in 51 afaik.
But you can at least see some progress. :)
#GNOME #GNOMEdesign #GNOMEshell
These little guys are so cute!! 🐿️ Spotted in Grand Teton National Park.
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I took this to say I’m ready for FOSSY day one and show people what I look like to find me in person, but it just ended up looking like “Cassidy is a big boy now and headed off to school.” 🎒
#FOSSY #FOSSY2026 #FediCon #FediCon2026
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@hbons@mastodon.social the current search just comes from nowhere and takes over the whole screen; it's a big context shift and is one of the only things in modern GNOME without a clear spatial model. Plus, it's hard to make it accessible to folks with trouble reading light-on-dark without making the entire screen blindingly white.
Something like this makes search feel faster and less overwhelming.
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Getting ready for the opening remarks and panel in the Earth Sciences Building. Come learn more about the fediverse! If you’re reading this, you already know at least a bit, but I’m excited for this panel.
#FOSSY #FediCon #fediverse
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New stress dream unlocked: I woke up in a sweat because I totally forgot to prepare for my TWO talks I signed up to give at FOSSY.
I did not submit any talks to FOSSY this year. 🤣
Day two is off to a great start otherwise!
#FOSSY #FediCon #FOSSY2026 #FediCon2026
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Oh yeah! And during @evan@cosocial.ca’s talk, he mentioned https://tags.pub but apologized for its design because he’s “not a designer.” So… I opened a PR that was merged to make the typography a little nicer (plus dark style support).
We can just do things!
Since @TangerineUI@nileane.fr has been discontinued, I threw a simple little custom stylesheet together. It’s a lot less ambitious, but was a bit inspired by some of the visual changes, namely:
• Swapped the column order on desktop • Post content is inset to make avatars stand out a bit more • Things are more rounded • A lot more colorful, especially in dark style
Technically you can set any --color-accent in the CSS and the rest of the style should adapt.
https://gist.github.com/cassidyjames/292c1e3062ad5248284999e4c7841a17
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Day 2/4 of #FOSSY (1/2 of #FediCon) has come to an end. It was SO good!!
I didn’t know exactly what to expect from FediCon, but it’s been really inspiring and optimistic. I planned to bounce between FOSSY tracks, but ended up hanging out in the FediCon room w/folks building and passionate about the fediverse all day.
I’m grateful I was able to share an impromptu crash course on trust & safety as well; it’s a critical piece of the puzzle that we need more people to understand and care about.
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🚨 FediCon is in a different room in a different building today!! Come see the keynote from @dansup@mastodon.social about Loops!
Head to CEME 1202, here on the map!
#FOSSY #FediCon
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I think the “Community Discussion about Generative AI” at FOSSY was largely positive/productive, but like it was only the tip of the iceberg of the discussion; so many folks in the seats were emphatically nodding or shaking their heads at various points, but we didn’t have nearly the space to dig in.
Everyone has thoughts/feelings, everyone seems to be tired of talking about it, but also… we’re still all over the place.
#FOSSY
The world does not need yet another music player for GNOME, but I promise this one is different…
#GNOME #Adwaita #Libadwaita #WiiM
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Getting ready to submit a pretty dope panel to GDC 2027 (yes, already!). I have confirmed panelists from big, medium, and little organizations coming together to talk about why open source is awesome, specifically for keeping your gamers and community members safe. There’s absolutely at least a couple of names you’ll recognize. 👀
Hopefully it's accepted! 🤞
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Maybe my more optimistic framing is: LLMs can often resemble simple sabotage. As can any bad tooling.
If you’re building something, contributing to an open source project, or organizing a community, familiarize yourself with simple sabotage to be able to identify if/when you are actually slowly sabotaging yourself with bad tools.
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I look forward to the afternoon session about the SFC’s recommendations¹ because—as Jynn Nelson wrote in the excellent Rust LLM policy blog post²:
Our choices are not “no policy” or “policy”. Our choice is whether to have the policy be an unofficial list of moderation notes or something we stand by publicly. …writing our rules down is better than not writing them down.
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@hbons@mastodon.social there's a blog post in the works with some other Shell design dreams that might help with context/seeing a bit of a longer term vision the design team has. 😉
Okay, #WriteFreely is pretty dope!
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@pixl_xip@pleroma.envs.net my personal opinion: it should just be light in the light style! This window sort of morphs out of the search bar; it's really nice.
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My essentially single-user Mastodon server is becoming more expensive to run on @mastohost@mastodon.social without doing some cleanup. My problem is that I don’t actually know how/what to clean up.
Early on I used relays to improve federation; I think there’s a TON of data in the db from that which could just be purged, but I don’t want to accidentally lose any user data. A couple of years ago we did run tootctl statuses remove but I might have still had a relay enabled more recently.
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I’ll be arriving at the UBC campus around 8 PM this evening. Anyone else coming in early and want to grab a drink tonight or a coffee in the morning?? I’m also cassidyjames.01 on Signal in case that’s more reliable.
#FOSSY #FOSSY2026 #FediCon #FediCon2026
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To be clear, I think automated code quality tooling is great; CI with automated workflows, test suites, and linters are genuinely super helpful! But off the shelf LLMs reviewing my code might find a typo, but completely miss that I’m trying to solve the problem completely the wrong way.
And so far, they have been *tedious* in a way (most) human reviewers aren’t.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@simple_sabotage/116621792027803705
Ask Claude, then Copilot, then Gemini, then CodeRabbit—and then double-check yourself because you can’t fully trust any of them. 😅
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TIL Freddie from iCarly is Wedge Antilles in Star Wars Rebels. 🤯
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0470941/
#StarWars #StarWarsRebels #VoiceActing
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Great Dane Coffee had a massive line out the door, so I suspect anyone who stopped by before #FOSSY opening this morning may be late to the first session. 🫣
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It’s live! If you have been curious about Coop, it’s now a whole lot easier to learn about and get the open source trust and safety moderation tool up and running.
https://roostorg.github.io/coop/latest/
It’s still technically pre-release software, but we’re sprinting towards a 1.0 release soon. I’d love your feedback about the documentation; the rework was a pretty huge effort but I’m sure there is even more cleanup to be done and improvements to be made.
#OpenSource #TrustAndSafety
@julian @ozoned @logaldeveloper@infosec.exchange which hot pot place did you end up at? 👀 I wound up chatting by the registration desk for a while 😅
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@logaldeveloper@infosec.exchange @julian I’m a situational user!! I use light style most of the time but sometimes if I have a migraine (or am just in a dark room) I toggle the dark style on—and in that case, I want all my apps and websites to behave. 😝
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@simple_sabotage/116819265044753883
It continues to hold true.
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+5,258 / -2,055 lines changed across 52 files and 55 commits. 13 issues addressed. All of it documentation.
The good news is that we’re gonna have some great docs, plus I know a lot more about Coop than I did before. 😆
https://github.com/roostorg/coop/pull/338
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I plan to do more live streams with a bit more structure from the @roost@hachyderm.io account eventually, but I was so excited that I couldn’t wait to share this little demo I was going to record for colleagues anyway. 😅
For now, back to finishing up that massive documentation rework in time for a v1 release…
Bit of a long shot, but do I know anyone from Atlassian, especially doing anything related to trust & safety?
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@dansup@mastodon.social @julian @ozoned @logaldeveloper@infosec.exchange ah I was at another place basically next door lol, trying to find that entrance now