#monktoberfest — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #monktoberfest, aggregated by home.social.
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Oh no. Pat Patterson, who I know from the #monktoberfest community has passed away. Pat was a kind, thoughtful, and caring human first in addition to a technologist.
This sucks. LinkedIn link because it’s all I have for reference.
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@bcantrill Bryan, thanks for this thoughtful talk. 🙇♀️ It seriously hit on a present day nerve of many sociotechnical-as-craft practitioners and thinkers - in that room and online. And thanks #monktoberfest for documenting this for posterity. 🫂💙
It was great to visit, commune, commiserate, and ideate together. Community is what will build what's next. 🚀 👯♀️
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#Monktoberfest was a delight, as was my extra, lazy day in Portland. Now all that is left is to get one last lobster roll and return home. Hope to see you all next year!
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And yes, they have been terorrizing other countries for decades. It’s now turned inward and will consume everything if not forcibly stopped.
As someone said st #monktoberfest, fascism is just colonialism turned inward.
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CW: Very long post comparing my experience live blogging conference talks on here vs Bsky vs old Twitter
I live-posted while watching conference talks on Twitter for years and have done quite a bit of it on Mastodon (as well as last year's #Monktoberfest on both Mastodon and Bluesky). This week was my first time live-posting only to Bluesky, though, and it was an interesting new experience!
- Compared to last year, the rise of custom domains on Bluesky has made handle discovery REALLY hard; it just doesn't do well finding people who aren't on bsky(.)social. Mastodon meanwhile has been getting much better in this regard, and I think my usability preference may flip there soon.
- Once you think you've found a person, though, Bsky is much easier to confirm on than Mastodon still. I've tried a bunch of clients and they all show the autocomplete suggestion text about the same size as the text you're typing at largest, with a very small photo. The larger photo size is SO helpful while also trying to summarize key points and listen.
- I really like the Mastodon clients' handling of pasted-in hashtags, where the full details don't pop up and obscure text like on Bsky. I usually keep "- @handle #event" in my clipboard throughout a talk to start every post with, and that was kinda annoying to navigate in the Bsky client. I think old-Twitter was still the best at this.
- Quote posts remain one of my favorite means of engagement, and I'm very excited to soon not have that as a deciding factor in where to post.
- When adding alt text, I very much prefer Mastodon; the image you're describing is way bigger in my client, and it's easy to read text on a slide to type out. The stability of the alt text editor feels a bit better on Bsky though.
- I couldn't scroll up more than one post when replying to my own thread on Bsky, which made continuity quite difficult. I'm pretty sure Mastodon is stronger here, and old-Twitter definitely was.
- I was really shocked how many people I thought I was already following but turned out to not be. Oops!Overall, I think Mastodon is still mostly a during-conferences platform for me, but it's gotten really notably strong for that. Thanks, everybody who's been working on it! ✨
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The hacker calling is strong af in many in late 2025. Thanks to the #monktoberfest community for the past few days. You're what makes everything work everywhere everytime whenever. People working together. ✌️💙 #monktoberfest #sipodemos
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Just concluded another fabulous #monktoberfest which prompted me to try to get active in here and Bluesky. Big thanks to #Github for sponsoring my captions at Monktoberfest 2025. Such a great event, seeing the best people again — food for my soul!
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Engineers find ways to solve problems - sometimes using knowledge from past experiences. 💡
Exhibit A: @bcantrill deploys the Gen X era approach to n+1 transit constraints. 🚀
Maybe any SUV can be an 80's era station wagon to a motivated engineer seeking quick and reliable transport. 😉
👋 #monktoberfest is a special community. Safe travels home, friends old and new. ✌️💙
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"That goddamn thing trained on my writing and your writing, to the LLMs credit!" I didn't know @bcantrill was so emdash passionate! 🫠💙 #monktoberfest
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"Goddamit I used an emdash long before these LLMs came about." @bcantrill
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"Trust and accountability are a constant balance.
If you have no accountability, all you have left if faith and benevolence. It's like "Oh, I hope he's a good king.""
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"Autonomy without respect is negligence." @rstephensme #Monktoberfest
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"Your company is incapable of loving you back." @rstephensme #Monktoberfest
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We're not even 5 minutes into @rstephensme #Monktoberfest talk and I'm already tearing up. I always love your combination of humor, empathy, and research 💙
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I gave a talk on roller derby at #Monktoberfest this morning and was immediately asked by two people if I knew @miketheman.
I'm a context-dependent person, so at first it was a lot of squinty not sure eyes (by me). After the idea soaked for approximately 6 hours, everything finally clicked and now the world feels a little smaller in a very nice way.
Wish you were here, Mike!
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First day of #monktoberfest down. Thank you to everyone who created a safe space for @circlejtp and me to talk about very personal things.
And thank you for your kindness.
This is why I come.
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it's never too early, I guess? #Monktoberfest
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Metrics are increasingly employed as trust deteriorates. Recommend reading Muller ⬇️
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This #Monktoberfest talk is about navigating dementia in a loved one while caring for yourself.
There are two very brave people up at the front of the room baring their experiences for us. I couldn't even start to sum it up.
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I love that #monktoberfest goers ask me if I’m still practicing my “Year of No” and the short answer is yes.
I no’d so hard this year I resigned from my job, fired my doctor, and surrounded myself with people who provide me the support to thrive.
I am looking for my next DevRel role tho so 😊
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Oh, interesting, it’s mostly commenting that the metrics that come from engineers are not particularly trustworthy. It’s a more cynical take than I was expecting. #Monktoberfest
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A #Monktoberfest talk about management has multiple mentions about gathering "Metrics (very carefully)" -- I'd love to hear more about that... I hope he expands on it.
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Ah #monktoberfest how dare you make me immediately be sad I'm not there. How dare you. (yes, I also aim to make an event that beloved; sometimes I succeed?)
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This year #Monktoberfest listed Bsky as the official platform, and double-posting last year was HARD, so if you're looking for my live posts please come join me here: https://bsky.app/profile/maggiefero.bsky.social/post/3m27q3vrqc22n
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I haven't done a #Connection #Connections list for a while where I bring you interesting accounts from across the :fediverse:, so let's start Saturday morning with that - and #coffee of course.
There were some really interesting folx at #Monktoberfest this week judging by the comments on the hashtag, including my all time fave @phire. Jenny is a writer, a socio-technologist and someone I admire greatly. You should follow her. @ag_dubs has super interesting takes on #Opensource supply chains and you should follow them too. @eamon seems super interesting and is into #prometheus and #k8s. 👋
@asilata is into #maths, and loves #sourdough baking 👋
@huertanix is into press freedom and mechanical #keyboards (ohai from my KeyChron 8 mapped using keyd with glow in the dark keycaps) and #infosec 👋
@The0rangeMan is an organiser for #NoTechForApartheid 👋
@rubenerd is into #FreeBSD and #NetBSD 👋
@fenwick is a #Professor at #Concordia and author of Internet Daemons - which questions how much transparency and oversight we're handing over to autonomous agents. 👋
@miskaknapek is into information #vizualisation and has a really engaging website! 👋
@Andy_Tattersall is a #researcher and research trainer and did a thought-provoking post recently on which disciplines have moved from X/Twitter to other platforms 👋
That's all for today, hope you all have a great day and let's continue to build a more deeply connected --- if we want to --- social network ❤️
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Recently gave a talk on the importance of collaboratively understanding developer productivity using science, instead of mind reading. Massive thanks to #RedMonk for having me and for creating the delightfully inclusive event and community that is #Monktoberfest. Truly one of my favorite experiences this year! PS I would like to formally brag that I hand knit the top that I am wearing (pictured) 😁 #knitting #developer #SoftwareEngineering @seresearchers