+ You're the first person I've met that keeps a spreadsheet of their lightbulbs.
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+ VERY MUCH not garbage [...] a worthwhile human
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+ a social networking acquaintance
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Mastodon documentation
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In August 2019, a offered their services to completely revamp the documentation for Mastodon, while also writing or rewriting significant portions of it. From the beginning, they developed an information architecture based on the various user personas that would be reading the documentation -- end users, administrators, contributors, client developers, and protocol implementers. a developed each persona into a section with its own narrative journey. Following this, they wrote out the missing parts of the documentation.
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+ a was contracted again in late 2022 to help update the content of the documentation for the monumentous v4.0 update of Mastodon.
a has been active in the world of open source and free software since at least 2017. As a power user, a quickly got involved in discussions on the GitHub issue tracker for Mastodon, Pixelfed, and other fediverse projects. a is a member of the Social Web Community Group at the W3C, and is also active on the SocialHub forum for the ActivityPub community.
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-title = "Abdullah Tarawneh"
-summary = "**Abdullah Tarawneh** is an information architect, designer, developer, photographer, and all-around creative, especially for the web."
-tags = ["abdullah", "tarawneh", "birmingham", "hoover", "alabama", "design", "designer", "web", "developer", "freelance", "freelancer", "photography", "photographer", "technical writer", "creative", "consultant"]
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-## h-card
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-{{< hcard-full >}}
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-## Professional work
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-Main page: [Work](/work)
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-Abdullah Tarawneh is currently available for work.
-
-### Mastodon documentation
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-Main page: [Mastodon](/work/mastodon)
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-In August 2019, Abdullah Tarawneh offered their services to completely revamp the documentation for Mastodon, while also writing or rewriting significant portions of it. From the beginning, they developed an information architecture based on the various user personas that would be reading the documentation -- end users, administrators, contributors, client developers, and protocol implementers. Abdullah Tarawneh developed each persona into a section with its own narrative journey. Following this, they wrote out the missing parts of the documentation.
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-Abdullah Tarawneh was contracted again in late 2022 to help update the content of the documentation for the monumentous v4.0 update of Mastodon.
-
-### Senior Technical Writer / Product Knowledge Curator at Trilogy
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-Main page: [Trilogy](/work/trilogy)
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-From May 2021 through December 2021, Abdullah Tarawneh was contracted as a Product Knowledge Curator for Trilogy. In this role, they managed the knowledge bases of numerous products all at once. Being responsible for several products under the banner of Central Support meant that they had to quickly and rapidly learn new products with limited information. They were tasked with analyzing customer support tickets one by one, in order to document the problems and solutions faced by actual customers. The resulting analysis would be used to write a clear and concise solution article, and the troubleshooting steps involved in reaching that solution would be compiled across several tickets into a troubleshooting article that would aid agents in disambiguating similar issues. Based on these articles, Abdullah Tarawneh created training units within a learning management system consisting of either a test or a task based on each article/ticket pair.
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-## Free software contributions
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-Main page: [Code](/code)
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-Abdullah Tarawneh has been active in the world of open source and free software since at least 2017.
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-### Involvement with the fediverse
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-As a power user, Abdullah Tarawneh quickly got involved in discussions on the GitHub issue tracker for Mastodon, Pixelfed, and other fediverse projects.
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-## Quotes about the subject
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-{{< figquote cite="a former classmate" >}}
-It's scary how much you know.
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-You're the first person I've met that keeps a spreadsheet of their lightbulbs.
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-{{< figquote cite="a social networking acquaintance" >}}
-VERY MUCH not garbage [...] a worthwhile human
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-{{< figquote cite="a professional colleague" >}}
-Honestly, I trust your judgement more than I trust my own.
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title = "Certbot DNS-01 hook for Namecheap"
summary = "A manual authorization hook for EFF Certbot, allowing DNS-01 challenge verification with Namecheap domains. Written in Python."
author = "Abdullah Tarawneh"
-date = "2019-10-30"
+date = 2019-10-30
tags = ["namecheap", "certbot", "dns-01", "python", "letsencrypt"]
categories = ["Code"]
+aliases = [
+ "/code/namecheap",
+]
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## The problem
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title = "Liberapay: Add Pleroma support"
summary = "Pleroma is compatible with the Mastodon API, but uses a different URL format. This pull request creates a Pleroma identity provider within Liberapay that takes this difference into account."
author = "Abdullah Tarawneh"
-date = "2019-11-13"
+date = 2019-11-13
tags = ["mastodon", "api", "pleroma", "liberapay", "contribution", "pull request", "github"]
categories = ["Code"]
+aliases = [
+ "/code/liberapay-pleroma",
+]
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pleroma is compatible with mastodon api.
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title = "MastoMods"
summary = "CSS tweaks and modifications for Mastodon, a libre micro-blogging social server similar to Twitter."
author = "Abdullah Tarawneh"
-date = "2019-02-18"
+date = 2019-02-18
tags = ["mastomods", "mastodon", "css", "userstyles", "tweaks"]
categories = ["Code"]
+aliases = [
+ "/code/mastomods",
+]
+++
This work is heavily based on (and an extension of) my earlier work on Mastodon Flat CSS, and its child theme Linernotes Mastodon Themes. I grew tired of having to maintain what was essentially the same code in multiple different places, so this repo was created to be a more modular way of managing code snippets after I learned enough about how importing works.
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title = "You don't have a right to profit."
summary = "People will go to ridiculous lengths in the name of protecting the “right” to profit. Let’s be real here. No one has a “right” to profit."
author = "Abdullah Tarawneh"
-date = "2015-07-08"
+date = 2015-07-08
tags = ["capitalism", "profit", "music", "music industry", "piracy", "distribution", "access"]
-categories = ["Blog"]
+categories = ["Uncategorized"]
+[[resources]]
+name = "featured"
+src = "download.png"
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These days, you see a lot of ridiculous things like copyright claims on the download pages of free software, because they contain the word “download”. A lot of these stupid actions are done in the name of “protecting the artists”. People will go to ridiculous lengths in the name of protecting the “right” to profit.
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title = "OBS Studio: Ctrl+E to Edit Transform"
summary = "I added a shortcut to edit transforms on a source in OBS Studio."
-date = "2017-04-30"
+date = 2017-04-30
author = "Abdullah Tarawneh"
tags = ["obs", "open broadcaster software", "obs studio", "keyboard shortcut", "edit transform", "pull request", "github"]
categories = ["Code"]
+aliases = [
+ "/code/obs-edit-transform",
+]
+++
Editing was very easy in OBS Classic, and I could not find the option for stretching a source to bounds in OBS Studio, so the "Edit Transform" dialogue should be more user-facing. Giving it a keyboard shortcut denotes that it is important enough to have a shortcut, as opposed to the myriad options with no shortcut.
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title = "I wish personal websites were actually personal."
summary = "When I say personal website, I do not mean a page or portfolio for potential employers or clients to hire you."
author = "Abdullah Tarawneh"
-date = "2023-03-18"
+date = 2023-03-18
tags = ["personal websites", "portfolios", "services", "branding", "marketing", "capitalism"]
-categories = ["Blog"]
+categories = ["Uncategorized"]
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A lot of resources and materials that are readily available for helping you make a so-called personal website generally assume that you are trying to get hired or get clients. To me, this is a strange interpretation of "personal". I would describe such websites as professional websites instead. When I say personal website, I do not mean a page or portfolio for potential employers or clients to hire you. I mean a place to be yourself and to express yourself to others. I want advice on self-reflection and introspection and knowing yourself -- how to identify and how to introduce yourself; how to be genuinely engaging. Stuff that gets to the heart of who you are.
There is shockingly little of the latter content among what I can find. Virtually everyone is offering their advice for the former. The personal has become the professional. And, well... can you blame people, really? The current internet is highly commercialized and focused on promoting products or services. Sure, a website is ostensibly about conveying information, but a lot of that information is intended to get you to do something -- usually something representing a financial transaction.
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No one seems to have any tips or hints on how to make a truly personal website. It's always "build your brand" or "showcase your portfolio" or some other transparently profit-motivated initiative. Everyone is always talking about the sales funnel or the call to action or whatever. It's just assumed you are also like this.
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No one seems to have any tips or hints on how to make a truly personal website. It's always "build your brand" or "showcase your portfolio" or some other transparently profit-motivated initiative. Everyone is always talking about the sales funnel or the call to action or whatever. It's just assumed you are also like this.
How many websites are basically just "Hello I'm $NAME and I'm a $ROLE"? That doesn't really tell me much about a person. It doesn't really stand out at all. But what should you do instead? There's so little that you can take as an example. Perhaps a stroll through something like Neocities might help, but you'd have to look for quite a while.
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title = "PhotoBucketGrabber"
-summary = "Download all your photos from PhotoBucket using this Python script."
+summary = "[OBSOLETE] Download all your photos from PhotoBucket using this Python script."
author = "Abdullah Tarawneh"
-date = "2019-03-17"
+date = 2019-03-17
tags = ["python", "photobucket", "automation", "scripting", "archive", "export", "download"]
categories = ["Code"]
+aliases = [
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## The problem
I had an old PhotoBucket account that I wanted to archive and delete. However, it would take an extremely long time to manually save each photo and recreate any albums' folder structure.
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title = "RIP Grooveshark."
summary = "I last used Grooveshark earlier today. I refreshed the page and found that it was dead. [...] I find myself feeling about Grooveshark similarly as when I found out that Megaupload had been shut down, and that many of my files were lost forever."
author = "Abdullah Tarawneh"
-date = "2015-05-01"
+date = 2015-05-01
tags = ["grooveshark", "music", "music industry", "culture", "user generated content", "capitalism", "copyright"]
-categories = ["Blog"]
+categories = ["Uncategorized"]
+[[resources]]
+name = "featured"
+src = "rip.png"
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I last used Grooveshark earlier today. I refreshed the page and found that it was dead. Grooveshark has finally shut down. UMG et al have won. Effective immediately, the Grooveshark service no longer works, all music has been wiped entirely from the site, user data has been lost, curated playlists are inaccessible, VIP users are unable to get refunds, all social media accounts have been deleted, and the grooveshark.com website shows only an apology that admits wrongdoing and directs users to whymusicmatters.org, the RIAA’s website.
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title = "salatime"
-summary = "Basic terminal script to print out daily prayer times for Birmingham, AL."
-date = "2019-05-09"
+summary = "[OBSOLETE] Basic terminal script to print out daily prayer times for Birmingham, AL."
+date = 2019-05-09
author = "Abdullah Tarawneh"
tags = ["python", "web scraping", "scraping", "beautifulsoup", "salat", "prayer", "time"]
categories = ["Code"]
+aliases = [
+ "/code/salatime",
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social web so-called "expert"
+a has been active in the world of open source and free software since at least 2017. As a power user, a quickly got involved in discussions on the GitHub issue tracker for Mastodon, Pixelfed, and other fediverse projects. a is a member of the Social Web Community Group at the W3C, and is also active on the SocialHub forum for the ActivityPub community.
+ +Fediverse Enhancement Proposals
++- FEP-7888: Demystifying the context property
+ - FEP-7458: Using the replies collection
+ - FEP-0391: Special collection proofs
+ - FEP-fb2a: Actor metadata
+ - FEP-888d: Using https://w3id.org/fep as a base for FEP-specific namespaces
+ - FEP-bad1: Object history collection
+ - FEP-7502: Limiting visibility to authenticated actors
+ - FEP-e229: Best practices for extensibility
+ - FEP-a070: Ordered properties for plain JSON consumers
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