Dione Maddern
Dione Maddern
@twistappel@twistappel.com

Australian living in the USA. Game master, technical writer, occasional artist. Opinions are my own.

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  • If you are designing a user interface that allows people to upload profile pics and banners, I AM BEGGING YOU to put the dimensions of those things on the upload page. #UI #UIDesign

  • True. But demystifying it for the more adventurous can’t hurt.

  • I was going to think of a good name for my blog, but I guess it’s just going to be called “Twistappel”. With zero explanation.

  • Reblog of Low Quality Facts:

    Reblog via Low Quality Facts

  • Reblog of Shrig 🐌:

    Reblog via Shrig 🐌 Tentacles, the disabled writers collective a good friend of mine runs is open for submissions for their 2026 Anthology.Are you a disabled poet? This is an opportunity to work with a poetry editor and have your work in print xhttps://www.tentaclescollective.co.uk/submissions

  • Ah. I found the setting to stop my #Mastodon / #Friends posts from showing up my blog. And to stop #Wordpress emailing me every time somebody posts. #ActivityPub

  • I’m going to use #Wordpress as my main account for now, but I’m probably going to cross-post to #Wafrn too. I went with WordPress/Friends because it was easier and cheaper (I’d have had to pay for a VPS), but I really like being able to talk to people in the #Fediverse and #Bluesky at the…

  • Manually re-adding all my followed accounts was a trip down memory lane. There were a lot of defunct accounts from my early days on #Mastodon. I remember total chaos of everybody migrating instances every couple of days because the instance they were on had committed some minor transgression. While I stayed on matodon.social out of…

  • Migrated my #Mastodon account to my #Wordpress page. I used the #ActivityPub WordPress plugin, plus the Friends plugin to create my own instance. Friends I’m also using Enable Mastodon Apps so I can post from my phone. Enable Mastodon Apps

  • I converted my husband’s computer to run on Linux

    Over about the last year, my husband has been getting increasingly frustrated with Microsoft. Husband isn’t exactly a power-user, but recently even he has noticed worse performance, unwanted AI features being shoved in his face, useful features disappearing, and being expected to pay for all of this. So he finally accepted my repeated offer to…