Category: Personal

  • Social Media

    I’m not the most active person on social media. I like email. I use Facebook with family, friends and neighbors. Instagram is private but I’ll add any request that seems like a real individual. And I plan to post occasionally to my personal Mastodon instance. After that, the rest of the places are less important…

  • Personal Mastodon Server experience

    This week I took a step towards personal control of my own Mastodon instance. You can add @[email protected] to your Mastodon account if you wish to follow me. Mastodon is seven years old today. It’s a free, open-source, social network that federates accounts and posts between multiple servers. You can join Mastodon.Social or choose a…

  • Memory Lane

    In re-starting my website, again, I was thinking about the past iterations and wondering if there were any gems that should be re-published here. I’ve decided that the answer is likely no. This goes back to my confidence in my writing. The reason I trashed the older versions was because I don’t think anyone cared…

  • 2021 changes everything?

    I’ve published on the domain, mjohnson.net, almost since I bought the name in the fall of 1998. But it was rarely about the content for me. It was more about the technical process of managing and running the server, the name servers, the email, and the content management system. The technology behind the creativity was…