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OneWheelGeek

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I'm Jeff. I write code and ride a unicycle, among other things.

#unicycle #ham #cycling #woodworking #selfhosting #homeserver #infosec #privacy #python #golang #dotnet #geocaching

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Joined October 20, 2023

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https://owg.me

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OneWheelGeek @onewheelgeek@social.lol

· 5mo ago

Timezone rage finally got the best of me.

Coordinating meetings across time zones isn't something my brain is great at. A million sites already do this, but most are ugly, ad-ridden, or want you to sign up.

So I built *timething*:

• No ads, no accounts, no tracking
• Per-zone working hours
• Shareable links — generate, send, done
• Beautiful landscape printouts (with a "valid until" warning, because DST sucks)
• Mobile-friendly, because I don't only get confused about time at my desk

>> https://timething.app

Hope it makes you a little less angry about timezones.

#timezone #DST #webdev #indiedev #productivity

timething.app

timething — meet across time zones

A clean time zone comparison dashboard for finding meeting times across the globe.

OneWheelGeek @onewheelgeek@social.lol

· 3mo ago

Curious what kind of luck people have had running a single-user, self-hosted @gotosocial@gts.superseriousbusiness.org instance instead of joining a larger shared node. With relays in GotoSocial, my feed is great—I can discover pretty much everything I care about. My bigger question is the *other* direction. I've heard some instances de-prioritize or outright limit federation from low-volume, self-hosted, or otherwise unknown nodes. If you're mostly consuming content, I imagine it's a non-issue. But if you actually want to participate in conversations, are you giving up reliable interaction by running your own tiny instance? Curious to hear real-world experiences. #Mastodon #Fediverse #SelfHosting #GoToSocial

OneWheelGeek @onewheelgeek@social.lol

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@SchwarzeLocke@ohai.social So cool you gave such great feedback. I really appreciate it! Cheers.

OneWheelGeek @onewheelgeek@social.lol

· 5mo ago

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@deliverator@infosec.exchange You're welcome! That was the conversation on Friday. "Maybe I just need to buy four clocks on Amazon". I like this better :)

OneWheelGeek @onewheelgeek@social.lol

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@SchwarzeLocke@ohai.social Fixed, thank you — you're right. This is what I'm talking about when I say timezones hurt my brain ;) The underlying "valid through" date was already tracking the earliest next transition across *all* your zones, so the math was fine — just the copy was lying. Appreciate the close read!

OneWheelGeek @onewheelgeek@social.lol

· 5mo ago

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@SchwarzeLocke@ohai.social Thank you for that. I hadn't spotted that. I like the EDT, CST badges since those are the names that I encounter more often over here, so I decided to include both. Did I say... timezones are hard? ;)

OneWheelGeek @onewheelgeek@social.lol

· 5mo ago

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@SchwarzeLocke@ohai.social Nice improvements. Did those too. Thank you so much for all the feedback.