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Outbound Comet ZTF

Image Credit & Copyright: Rolando Ligustri

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230324.html #APOD

Holy shit! The #Flickr API team is still alive!

After a decade(?) of stagnation, it looks like they're going to be making some changes.

https://www.flickr.com/groups/api/discuss/72157721918374433/

Announcing Atlas v0.10: Cloud Community Preview

https://atlasgo.io/blog/2023/03/13/atlas-v010

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://atlasgo.io/blog/2023/03/13/atlas-v010

#golang #programming

I'm starting to learn Go. At work we're splitting out some parts of our architecture into a few microservices, and our Chief Architect decided we should write them in Go, instead of our usual PHP.

I've been enjoying learning it. It's been a long time since I've really tried to learn a completely new thing (as opposed to a new framework or whatever).

As a project to get myself into this, I've been thinking about building my own Fediverse server in go. Architecturally, I want it to be a lot like microblogpub, which I currently use. I actually want to be able to have a clear migration from one to the other.

Like microblogpub, my new project (which I'm tentatively calling gopub) will be a single user instance, intended to be easily hosted on your own computer, with a fairly simple sqlite database, and focused on broad ActivityPub and IndieWeb compatibility.

But I've got some ideas for a few features that I haven't seen elsewhere.

For example, I was thinking it might be cool to have alternate handles for a single user, to only follow certain things. E.g., if I'm user@fedi.tld, and somebody wants to follow me, but not see any boosts from others, instead of following user@fedi.tld, maybe they instead follow user+noboost@fedi.tld. Or, if they only want to follow my posts that include a particular hashtag, they can follow user+tag-tagname@fedi.tld.

Similarly, a single user with multiple handles would be nice. I think Friendica has this, but I'm considering including it in my project as well.

And one thing I really want to add is location check-in. Basically, the Fediverse equivalent of Foursquare. ActivityPub already has the vocabulary for this, but I haven't seen it implemented anywhere.

I'm still at the very, very early stages. Who knows if I'll ever get it in a usable state. And I'm working on it during my extremely limited free time. But I'm excited to start a new project.

#NewProject #Golang #Programming #ActivityPub

Planning Go 1.21 Cryptography Work

https://words.filippo.io/dispatches/go-1-21-plan/

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://words.filippo.io/dispatches/go-1-21-plan/

#golang #programming