This blogpost may be a bit old but is very valid as it goes through the points that an admin has to keep an eye on, verify the proper work and maintain regarding a Mastodon instance

Burn the old rule books. Keep warm by the fire.
Block without warning. Mute liberally. Don’t offer up explanations

Much like how an electrical circuit breaker prevents an overload by stopping the flow of electricity when excessive current is detected, the Circuit Breaker pattern in software engineering stops the flow of requests to a service when the number of failures exceeds a predefined threshold. This ensures that a failing service doesn’t continue receiving traffic until it recovers, preventing further strain and potential cascading failures.

Example of code to create plot graphs with the style and typography of XKCD, in Python.

Gemini, a new internet protocol that aims to do things kind of similar to the web but while also being more simple. The Small Internet can be a bit tricky to figure out, so I’ve decided to write this post as an introduction and a beginner’s guide to accessing content on Gemini (and Gopher).

`ap` is a command-line client for the ActivityPub protocol coded in Python by @evan@cosocial.ca, initially developed to illustrate how to write client code for the ActivityPub API as part of his book for O'Reilly Media, "ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web".

Getting prepared to watch a movie but realising that subtitles are needed. This site contains a great set of subtitles for lot of languages. It also gets classified by the file name so finding the right subtitle file for the right movie is very easy.
Just be aware of the huge amount of ads

A collection of concise write-ups on small things I learn day to day across a variety of languages and technologies. These are things that don't really warrant a full blog post. These are things I've picked up by Learning In Public™ and pairing with smart people at Hashrocket.
https://dev.to/jbranchaud/how-i-built-a-learning-machine-45k9

Prosody is a modern XMPP communication server. It aims to be easy to set up and configure, and efficient with system resources. Additionally, for developers it aims to be easy to extend and give a flexible system on which to rapidly develop added functionality, or prototype new protocols.
Prosody is open-source software under the permissive MIT/X11 license.

This Guide will show you how to migrate an existing Mastodon dockerized instance to a new Server without docker.
Even the article dates from June 2021, it's a good overview about the steps to perform