Typical Twitter. Not regretting the decision to leave the service a month ago. Relying on Mastodon, DEV, and RSS feeds for keeping myself in the tech loop has done amazing things on my mental health and cut my staring at phone to less than half.
Can only recommend the same for Dan and the rest of the community.
Web Dev full-stack [LAMP] since 2005, but much heavier on the JS stuff these days.
Jack of all Stacks, Master of some.
Always looking to learn new things. Always glad to help out, just ask.
Location
Atlanta, GA
Education
B.S. in Biochemistry 2004, M.S. in Computer Information Systems 2007
I'd say that stands for all social media. At the same time, they're also not going away anytime soon because they feed people's ego so damn much. And people love those little bursts of "feel good" hormones.
Typical Twitter. Not regretting the decision to leave the service a month ago. Relying on Mastodon, DEV, and RSS feeds for keeping myself in the tech loop has done amazing things on my mental health and cut my staring at phone to less than half.
Can only recommend the same for Dan and the rest of the community.
I think it's pretty clear that Twitter is terrible for the mental health of its users, and the collective mental health of the software community.
It's addictive and enables limited-context arguments, like this one.
I'd say that stands for all social media. At the same time, they're also not going away anytime soon because they feed people's ego so damn much. And people love those little bursts of "feel good" hormones.
Dopamine*