mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06I live in New York. I get paid to write about databases. I don’t get paid to write about other stuff, but I do it anyway.
Tech writer at Google; Co-founder of IFTF, an interactive-fiction nonprofit; Liker of coffee, cats, open web technologies, et cetera.
I pronounce it [MACK in tawsh].
I'm going to make good on my "Plan A" to relocate to a smaller Mastodon server, soon as I found a fitting one. Let's try masto.nyc, an #NYC-regional server run by @seano@masto.nyc. I'm very interested in the idea of an instance pinned to a city like this, and I can't resist seeing what it feels like.
This isn't necessarily my "forever home"; I still have my eye on certain colleagues with Fediverse plans. But for today, I'm gonna pull some levers and see what happens.
See y'all across the Hudson!
Hey, @shortgame@zork.social has logged in! This has been my favorite video game podcast for years, ever since they started covering IFComp. The show focuses on video games in the fifteen-hours-or-less category—including lots of indie games, adventures, and other work that puts quality over quantity. Check em out.
Interesting explainer on what happened with Southwest. I saw folks on here mentioning antiquated or bespoke software, which is part of it... but the main factor seems to have more to do with their rejection of the traditional hub-based carrier model, which apparently is Their Thing. (I didn't know this.)
Hubs can be annoying for day-to-day passengers, but they're also a lot simpler to get back online with nearby reserve crews & vehicles after a giant scheduling jam-up.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/28/travel/southwest-airlines-flight-cancellations.html