summer sprite @srn@sprite.land

i am given to understand there are new people

therefore, an #introductions post for me again!!

i'm the fairy princess of sprite.land and i dislike monarchy, capital letters, and geographical distance

i like people and song lyrics and quiet radicalisms

i have a lot of names at different times

some biographic data: mid-20s computer security person ~monolingual white relationship-anarchist-ish alloromantic queer pan gender-fluid non-binary trans often-girl college dropout in chicago

a certain fiend/lynx wore a tutu to be able to say xey love us two (where us two is me n sofi @sigmaleph​) too in the tutu

xey also said xey'd toot about it but xey were too sleepy so i'm doing so for xem

are crows hybrids of cows and deer

argentina is moving toward legalizing abortion!!!

https://twitter.com/DiputadosAR/status/1007247301121921024

(basically the Chamber of Deputies approved it, though i think some of the details haven't been nailed down yet, and i think the Senate will also need to approve it?)

Gargron recently implemented redrafting, which was I think first suggested by @Triplefox​ in this issue https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/256#issuecomment-263441693 and has been pushed for since then by a number of people, including at least @hoodie​ and @iliana​

i have vague recollections about other features (and more certain knowledge about lots of glitch-soc features but idk what got merged into upstream)

i'd be really happy to hear about who's behind a lot of the other stuff in masto! who was asking for unlisted posts? who designed the way they work? who wrote the code for that? who translated related text into different languages? who fixed important bugs? etc.

i know @kibi​ designed bio fields and also wrote the first implementation for glitch-soc. idk if the current implementation that upstream has reused any of that code or just rewrote it

i know @KitRedgrave​ implemented mutes. Garg later made them hide notifications (at @shel​'s request iirc). i added the toggle that lets you choose whether or not to hide notifications on a per-mute basis at the request of @hoodie and with feir input as well as that of several other people in the glitch-soc discord on the design and iirc shel's advice on accessibility ​and @aschmitz​ tweak the APIs for that to get it merged into upstream.

i haven't been around for as long as some folks (and haven't really been paying much attention to mastodev for the last several months)

so i only know about a few things.

a thing that i think would be nice is a list of the different folks who worked on a bunch of the nice features that masto has, at the level of design, implementation, documentation, etc. (though "who wrote the code" is often the easiest thing to go back and reconstruct historically)

just testing a thing

i'm just like extremely whhhhhh about that 60% drop in the 16th century.

“the daily wages of an English carpenter, expressed in kilograms of grain”

table from Caliban and the Witch, data i think from B. H. SlicherVan Bath’s “The Agrarian History of Western Europe, A.D. 500-1850”