ohryan.ca

A Web Developer in Winnipeg

Category: Apps

  • Twitter Circles Security Incident

    A couple of months ago I wrote a post promoting the use of Twitter’s Circles. It was one of my coping mechanisms for using current Twitter in its semi-broken state. Then people started reporting that their private circle posts had were appearing in public timelines. They were right. Twitter sent out an email last week…

  • Running a Mastodon server

    I ran a mastodon server over at winnipegsocial.online for about two months. I took it down last over this past weekend. When the mastodon exodus started to bubble up I thought I’d jump in feet first and find out what it takes to run a server. Overall, it was just about as easy as I…

  • Three of the greatest things of all time… this week…

    This past week I’ve made three minor tech-adjacent discoveries that have the potential to change my life in small but important ways. None of these are groundbreaking on their own, but together they’re actually making me a little excited about “tech” again. In sort of a strange way. Stoop I’ve always had two related problems…

  • Nylas, an email client for 2016

    I have been experiencing an unusual burst of adventure and excitement surrounding some of the tools I use. Over the past week and a half I have been trying out Nylas N1 as my daily email client. Nylas is an open source, extensible email client. It follows the recent software development trend of editors like…

  • Pokémon No

    Pokémon No

    Update: A thread in r/pokemongo addresses most of the game playability gripes i express below. Very useful if you’re new to the game. Check it out. Much hyped Pokémon Go finally launched in Canada over the weekend (while I was out camping). I downloaded it ASAP, after some expected server issues setting up my account, I…