Chinwag Posts

Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL] https://social.chinwag.org/@mike
Chinwag admin, fan of open communication standards, maintainer of communities, male comedienne.
Winner of Time Magazine "Person of the Year" 2006 and will never get tired of that joke.
I talk about #retrocomputing a lot. I also do a lot of #gardening and occasionally make #bread and #beer. I have been a Unix #sysadmin for about 30 years but I think I'll be OK.
I live in #Melbourne, #Australia and sometimes tell jokes on stages around here. I co-host a #StarTrek podcast with @ThePingMachine
I'm so sick of this whole business where it's dark outside before it's even 6pm and I demand someone gets onto making the days longer immediately.
RE: https://chinwag.au/2026/06/21/chinwag-release-4-5-11/
It's a bit sad that this is probably the final Chinwag Social release in its current form. I've really liked what we've managed to pull together here so far, but the last couple of years it's definitely been down to @TangerineUI doing the heavy lifting.
The default Mastodon experience has improved a lot since I first got so pissed off at it that I forked the damn thing 8 years ago, for sure, and I wouldn't need to do the same thing today ... but there are some other minor things we've got in Chinwag now that I would like to see carried on.
Time for a good think.
Thanks again, @nileane for all your work on Tangerine!
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And of course I noticed an element I missed the colour changes on immediately after deploying it.

Chinwag v4.5.11 is live (yes it's taken a while).

I found a companion piece a couple of blocks over, this one a commentary on how the detritus of capitalism has led us to turn our backs on nature.


