A Programming Note
In lieu of the various issues at the Bird App (including, but not limited to: becoming a capricious billionaire's plaything, employee mistreatment writ large, the destruction of the third-party developer ecosystem, etc.) I have decided to give Mastodon a fair shake and see if it can fill the real-time social networking-sized void in my heart.
If you'd like to follow me, I'm @cvp@mastodon.social. (I also have the @chrisvanpatten handle, but plan to post as @cvp for the time being.)