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andypiper/README.md

Hey there, friend! 👋🏻

I'm Andy. You can find me primarily on Mastodon (but I am also in other places in the #Fediverse). I am Head of Communications at Mastodon.

I'm a maker at Forge & Craft, and I attend and help out with the Makeroni pop-up hackspace meetup.

📑 Glitch in Bio (it's like "Link in Bio" via Linktree etc, but free, and yours to improve!)


Recent blog posts


More about me

💖 OMG

  • I'm one of the co-hosts of the weekly technology podcast 🎙️ Games at Work dot biz - you can find us on all of the major podcast directories. Let us know what you think!
  • I sometimes write longer things on DEV, Medium, or on my own website. My most recent blog posts are listed above.
  • I have a newsletter 📮 which gets sent to subscribers on an occasional basis. I haven't sent one out for ages. I should get on that.

Code (beyond GitHub)


Fun facts 🎱

  • 🌱 I’m spending time learning 🐍 MicroPython, and 🌐 Fediverse (Social Web) APIs like ActivityPub
  • 📝 Most-used editors: VS Code (GUI), neovim (CLI)
  • 💻 First computer: Acorn Electron (and, I still have an Acorn Risc PC that I need to dig out from cobwebs sometime soon)
  • 💻 Current systems: M1 Pro MacBook Pro, MNT Pocket Reform, Framework 13"

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Bonus badges 🎖️

One of my commit sha starts with "ab". I pushed a commit with "cafe" 6 times. I made cosmetic commit. I rolled before Covid-19: Survivor of the Great TP Shortage I committed on the day Doctor Emmett Brown invented the flux capacitor! I used only emojis in my commit message. I made an epic commit with a message over 500 chars. My favorite word is "signed-off-by:". I did 2 sequential fixes. I joined GitHub 10 years ago. I am a polite coder. I have participated in pull requests with 10 or more people I have one public key I committed on the Halloween! Boo! I'm a star gazer! I collected 1000 stars. I found the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything! I commit in the morning. I commit in the evening. I commit at midnight. I got more than 10 thumbs down. I got more than 10 thumbs up. I've starred 4 my own repositories. I committed on Friday the 13th, One… By One… I pushed a commit with "dead" once.

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  1. theindiebeat-gnome-ext Public

    A GNOME Shell extension to stream sounds of the Fediverse from The Indie Beat

    JavaScript 4 1

  2. mastodon-embeds-examples Public

    Examples of different ways to embed Mastodon timelines (and posts/toots) in HTML

    HTML 21 1

  3. fediverse-devnet/fedidevs.org Public

    Forked from gabek/fedidocs

    Documentation for the Fediverse

    Python 21 7

  4. mcauser/awesome-micropython Public

    A curated list of awesome MicroPython libraries, frameworks, software and resources.

    HTML 1.5k 190

  5. Useful resources for getting started...
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    # 📚 Books 
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    * [Selling the Dream - Guy Kawasaki](https://guykawasaki.com/books/selling-the-dream/)
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    * [The Business Value of Developer Relations - Mary Thengvall](https://www.persea-consulting.com/book)
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    * [Developer Relations: How to build and grow a successful developer program - Caroline Lewko & James Parton](https://www.devrelbook.com/)
  6. tych-split Public

    Process Alfie TYCH film images into individual half frames.

    Python

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Contributed to mastodon/blog, mastodon/joinmastodon, andypiper/theindiebeat-gnome-ext and 147 other repositories
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March 2025

Created 5 repositories

Created a pull request in hackernoon/pixel-icon-library that received 1 comment

Correct spelling mastadon -> mastodon

Corrects the name of the Mastodon logo.

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Opened 4 other pull requests in 4 repositories
  • Fix cache
    This contribution was made on Mar 16
Reviewed 4 pull requests in 1 repository
mastodon/documentation 4 pull requests

Created an issue in adarsh-sgh/homenote that received 2 comments

Home Note plugin options don't show in the correct place

On Linux, I'm seeing the Home note options panel appear outside of the regular place in the UI:

2 comments
Opened 5 other issues in 2 repositories
4 contributions in private repositories Mar 3 – Mar 19
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