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@ryedai Thanks!

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I share the latest releases of Human Side of Dev on both Twitter and Mastodon. Currently, Mastodon makes up about 56% of traffic, while Twitter is 34%. With the recently announced changes, I expect that second number to drop.

I find this interesting both because I have significantly fewer followers on Mastodon, and because the timeline is only chronological. I feel like the correct decision is to focus more on interacting on Mastodon in order to build an audience for the show.

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If I'm going to be maintaining this site, I might as well get some personal benefit out of it. It's been fun to extend it in this way, and that's all I can ask from a side project.

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But probably the first thing I added besides blogging and podcasting was a read-only view of my Mastodon usage. It was really fun to integrate into the site, and feels like a logical extension of using such an open platform.

lindsaykwardell.com/@lindsay

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For awhile I've been on the hunt for a good recipe app. I use one that I really like, but it felt reasonable to build a very simple version for myself. I'm migrating the recipes I make onto my site, and when cooking I can check off used ingredients.

lindsaykwardell.com/recipes/pa

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One example is this page I created to track my stats for Blood on the Clocktower. I started recording my games at the start of the year, and it's been fun to see what roles I've gotten and my personal win rate. Nobody else probably cares, but it's been fun.

lindsaykwardell.com/botc

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I've slowly been changing my less from a showcase to a personal resource. Originally it was just a place to collect my writing and podcasting, and highlight a few of the projects I've done, but I've been adding more pages that I personally reference, and that feels good.

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Wait, who was bold enough to claim HTML as their favorite programming language on Human Side of Dev?? You'll have to listen on Tuesday to find out!

Pie chart of favorite programming languages. So far, Typescript has two votes, followed by one vote each to Lua, CSS, and HTML.
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I've added a page to the Human Side of Dev site to track guests' favorite programming languages. Four episodes in, Typescript is currently in the lead, but we'll see how that looks going forward!

humansideof.dev/favorite-langu

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@briannawu Doesn’t help that Twitter is running pretty slow today, it feels like.

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One of my favorite parts of Mastodon (and specifically @elk) is that notifications work the first time I load the page, unlike other bird-themed sites.

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The best part of editing a podcast has to be getting to really listen to everything that your guest says. Repeating bits of conversation adds a whole new layer to the discussion.

The worst part is I come up with new questions I wish I'd asked in the recording!

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