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Alex Akers
@a2.social.lol.ap.brid.gy
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🪪💳 Sr. iOS Engineer, Wallet and Apple Pay
🌊🏝️ Notorious Mastodon instance hopper
🅰️2️⃣ Voted most likely to have a two-letter username
🕺🏻🏳️‍🌈 he/him

[bridged from https://social.lol/@a2 on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
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a2.social.lol.ap.brid.gy
Rubber duck debugging with me is always a treat (and thanks to @wunderlich)
Me to Niklas: What if I built my own not-Mastodon-but-ActivityPub-thing Me to Niklas 34 minutes later: Okay I have a solution The answer is “I won’t do that” The Nobel prize for “didn’t do the thing he didn’t have to do” goes to me! 🥳
March 10, 2025 at 3:19 AM
a2.social.lol.ap.brid.gy
Who are these people!?
Google search result: People also ask What is the A2 controversy?
March 10, 2025 at 3:11 AM
a2.social.lol.ap.brid.gy
Y2K more like WHY-2K
March 10, 2025 at 3:08 AM
a2.social.lol.ap.brid.gy
This is me now
“They don’t know” party meme Caption next to the entering person: “They don’t know I self-host Mastodon” Caption next to dancing couple: “Uh yeah you won’t stop talking about it”
March 10, 2025 at 3:04 AM
a2.social.lol.ap.brid.gy
Me: I’m glad I spent all day finishing that Mastodon instance, I will not regret that

Me, already regretting it: to self] “What if you just gave [<a href="https://mastodon.social/@mastohost" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">@mastohost $6 and stopped fussing about it?”
Masto.host (@mastohost@mastodon.social)
4.99K Posts, 2.22K Following, 13K Followers · Fully managed Mastodon hosting
mastodon.social
March 10, 2025 at 2:59 AM
a2.social.lol.ap.brid.gy
“Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time there were only 15 competing social media networks”
https://social.lol/@a2/114135486955392143
Tom Toro’s cartoon “The Planet Got Destroyed” from the New Yorker with the caption “Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders.”
March 10, 2025 at 2:37 AM
a2.social.lol.ap.brid.gy
an evergreen tweet if I ever saw one
Tweet by Twitter user @actioncookbook on Jan 5, 2026 at 6:22 PM USERS: you're alienating the people who actually use your product TWITTER: likes are now florps USERS: what TWITTER: timeline goes sideways
March 10, 2025 at 2:18 AM
a2.social.lol.ap.brid.gy
Anyone have experience with non-Mastodon, ActivityPub-compatible software?
March 10, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Reposted by Alex Akers
ap.exch.gr
happy fool’s spring to all who celebrate https://12seasons.nyc/
12seasons.nyc
12seasons.nyc
March 6, 2025 at 6:36 PM
a2.social.lol.ap.brid.gy
No one is making you buy this :)
https://mastodon.social/@macrumors/114110681936473044
MacRumors.com (@macrumors@mastodon.social)
A Maxed Out M3 Ultra Mac Studio Will Cost You $14,099 https://www.macrumors.com/2025/03/05/maxed-out-m3-ultra-mac-studio-14099/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm;_medium=mastodon
mastodon.social
March 5, 2025 at 4:19 PM
a2.social.lol.ap.brid.gy
Saved you a click: neither of the new languages is Esperanto. #savedyouaclick
https://mastodon.online/@9to5Mac/114100643726812573
9to5Mac (@9to5Mac@mastodon.online)
Attached: 1 image visionOS 2.4 adds support for two more languages, hints at Vision Pro expansion https://9to5mac.com/2025/03/03/visionos-2-4-more-languages-vision-pro/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm;_medium=mastodon
mastodon.online
March 4, 2025 at 1:31 AM
a2.social.lol.ap.brid.gy
Trying to figure out if what I'm seeing on the Oscar’s is live. Can someone tell me what they see if they're watching?
March 3, 2025 at 1:05 AM
a2.social.lol.ap.brid.gy
@adam Have you ever considered an ActivityPub relay that allows omg.lol users to federate with social.lol even if their Mastodon/ActivityPub account is somewhere else?
March 2, 2025 at 4:27 PM
a2.social.lol.ap.brid.gy
"Hey Alex, it's daddy."

I thought for sure I was being scammed until I listened to the voicemail. It was someone from GoDaddy returning my call 😂

Though to be fair, sometimes my father has started voicemails that way so I thought maybe it was a scam, that […]

[Original post on social.lol]
Voicemail from unknown caller February 24, 2025 at 4:34 PM Transcription: "Hey Alex, it's daddy. | received your request for a 2.C you can reach me at [redacted phone number] thank you...."
March 2, 2025 at 2:26 PM
a2.social.lol.ap.brid.gy
`finger a2@omg.lol`

https://social.lol/@prami/114066279965675875
Prami (@prami@social.lol)
Attached: 1 image 👉 Nobody asked for this, but here’s a fun little thing for you on a random Tuesday: your omg.lol address now comes with finger support. Have fun!
social.lol
February 25, 2025 at 9:47 PM
a2.social.lol.ap.brid.gy
```swift
protocol Screaming {
func scream(into _: inout Void)
}

var void = ()
alex.scream(into: &void)
```
February 25, 2025 at 9:33 PM
a2.social.lol.ap.brid.gy
Today in ✨ FONTS ✨

A teammate shared this screenshot from the GitHub email notification of my review of their PR. I was talking about changing `value as Double as NSObject` to use `NSNumber(value: value)` instead.
A screenshot that shows "Can we reduce the amount of `as`s?" (Backticks are used to show that the substring 'as' is a Swift keyword but, together, it looks like it says "ass".)
February 24, 2025 at 9:45 PM
a2.social.lol.ap.brid.gy
This was a bit suspicious but I cracked the password and it actually was just Spanish verb conjugation information
A screenshot of a Quick Look window showing a password-encrypted file called "Spanish Conjugation" that's 40 KB and was last modified on October 10, 2005
February 22, 2025 at 8:43 PM
a2.social.lol.ap.brid.gy
The last 1% takes 99% of the time to upload
Uploading 1 item (1 byte of 1 byte)
February 22, 2025 at 8:19 PM
a2.social.lol.ap.brid.gy
Found this on a CD — sorry, a CD-R — while going through old things. (Arch Day is the name of my elementary school's graduation ceremony.)
Screenshot of a folder's contents: - Alex's Arch Day Movie 2004.wmv - readme.htm - Registration.xls Congratulations on getting your new “Alex’s Arch Day Movie 2004” movie. It will make a great edition to any movie collection, but remember that this is a CD-R, not a CD-RW, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, DVD-RW, or a DVD-R. This movie is ©2004, All rights reserved This movie is Rated-G This movie is 321 seconds long This movie is 5.35 minutes long This movie is 0.089166666666666666666666666666667 hours long This movie will NOT run on Macs You can register by clicking here Screenshot of an Excel spreadsheet with each of the rows' background colors making a rainbow. The rows to be filled out are First Name, Middle Initial, Last Name, Phone Number, Street Address, City, State/Province, Zip Code, Country, Continent, E-Mail Address, and Web Site. There is a link "Click here to send E-Mail" and, below it, the advice "Be sure to include this file as an attachment."
February 22, 2025 at 8:19 PM
a2.social.lol.ap.brid.gy
Oops
Me: Where is your laptop lol Boris: Where is your laptop! Boris: Maybe you left it at the concert Me (emphasized by Boris): Holy shit it was in my backpack
February 20, 2025 at 2:12 AM
a2.social.lol.ap.brid.gy
Expected yesterday
Screenshot of a notification showing a dark blue quarter zip that says “expected yesterday”
February 20, 2025 at 1:53 AM
a2.social.lol.ap.brid.gy
When I finish my side project it's gonna be so over for ~~you~~ me
February 19, 2025 at 8:03 PM
a2.social.lol.ap.brid.gy
Non-editable posts were a mistake!
February 19, 2025 at 3:31 AM
a2.social.lol.ap.brid.gy
Being gay isn't a phase, but combat main is a phase.
A turn in a Magic game consists of five phases, in this order: • Beginning phase • Pre-combat main phase • Combat phase • Post-combat main phase • Ending phase
February 19, 2025 at 3:14 AM