Eugen Rochko
Executive Strategy & Product Advisor, Founder of @Mastodon. Film photography, prog metal, Dota 2. Likes all things analog.
Executive Strategy & Product Advisor, Founder of @Mastodon. Film photography, prog metal, Dota 2. Likes all things analog.
A year ago I made Wellness Ping because someone I care about went silent and it took too long for anyone to notice.
v2.0 is now out.
It now works entirely over Signal, usernames or phone numbers, both for your check-ins and for your emergency contacts. Email isn't safe for everyone to use, but it's still there.
Three new security modules, all optional, stack as many as you want: PIN, authenticator 2FA, and passkeys.
The PIN has a duress option. Enter that one instead and your contacts get alerted immediately, while your screen says everything went fine. (really proud of this one. tweaked to the point of obsession so that response time for a duress PIN matches a normal one. nothing on your screen or in the timing gives it away.)
Also added vacation pause and custom alert messages, both of which people asked for.
v2.0 got a full security review before release. The check-in path is much harder to spoof now. Details in the release PR.
Free forever (as long as I'm alive) and open source.
oh and btw, the person who went missing, for whom I made this originally, turned out to be okay. It took a lot of time and a lot of effort to find them, but I did actually find them. I thought you might want to know that.
We're excited to share the results from Mastodon's first #DiscoveryWeek!
In case you missed it, earlier this year our Head of Design @imanijoy arranged a week of workshops and surveys to get to know you, learn about your needs and wants, and discover how you're using (and want to use) Mastodon.
This week was tremendously helpful for us, and we're grateful to everyone who participated.
Here's what we learned:
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/08/discovery-week-2026-what-we-learned-and-what-were-doing-next/
Maybe I don't have control of anything;
Maybe the world does not spin because I want it to spin
Mamá. Please stop asking me “wie is de liefste poes???” and “wie is de poezigste poezepoes?????” I have neither the data nor the means to gather it.
The Fediverse. Where I spend my day discussing the relative quality of music throughout the decades, the complexity and accessibility of Jazz, and in what order I would eat the Muppets (with a possible extension to Sesame Street now I , apparently, have a taste for Muppet meat).
(I'm a borderline Vegan but Muppets don't count. There's no mention of them on either the vegan society or PETA's websites)
tulip the cat (they/them) on macpaint on a mac classic II
The Light is Sweet, a 1687 engraving by the Dutch poet, illustrator, and engraver Jan Luyken.
One of 900+ prints available to buy from our online shop: https://publicdomainreview.org/product/the-light-is-sweet/
A statue depicting a mother cat and her kitten sits atop the roof of Château de Pierrefonds in France. The castle was constructed between 1393 and 1407.
Bravery and cowardice are two ends of a spectrum, and fear is part of both. The brave are not fearless. The brave overcome their fears. Cowards never do.
