 A tiny #Smithereen update: I've updated the okhttp library from the ancient version I've been using for some reason to the latest (latest 3.x because the newer major releases are in Kotlin). That should fix TLS errors when connecting to some servers.  @grishka I think that traditionally serif fonts are used on long form text content (substack, write.as, medium, etc). The fact that most of the web is predominantly sans serif seems to be only a side-effect of how little of that makes up the internet in general. When the average web user doesn't have an attention span longer than two paragraphs you get a pretty pictures, sans-serif world. :) Minor #Smithereen update. Two small #Smithereen updates. - The timestamps are now more nicely formatted and show today/yesterday/tomorrow. How to not make a good UI, Instagram edition. This screen is dedicated to follow requests. This is what opens up when you follow a notification about someone sending you one. Yet somehow, the follow requests themselves only take up one third of the height, and require an extra tap to expand for no good reason (other than some metrics going up perhaps). Which permissions were removed? From which apps? How many months is "a few"? This is an example of a terrible notification right here. Zero inormation given to me as the user. #Smithereen is now capable of sending email, at last. And you can now reset your password the usual way.  "Why did you write #Smithereen in Java?" To add to this, it's somehow a common misconception that Java is bulky and slow. https://www.teamten.com/lawrence/writings/java-for-everything.html The bizarre world of email, where you can't use UTF-8 directly for some reason and apparently have to encode it into something else that fits into ASCII. Except in the subject line. But it all works in the end, so... fine I guess? The most bizarre thing to me is that Facebook is apparently buying a lot of online advertising. What for? To show you more ads, of course. #Smithereen update: you can now block users and domains, both in your account and in groups you moderate. One step closer to the first release 😏  @grishka @activitypub congratulations Gregory. Cranking out cool features at an impressive pace :) Just watched the first episode of "Upload", and I have questions. UIs look like a video game, that's common in TV shows though still bugs me, but... How come have they figured out consciousness transfer and real-time brain emulation, yet a ruptured lung is somehow still an absolutely incurable condition?! I have a feeling that current science fiction/dystopian movies and TV shows will not have aged well in 20 years. @grishka I won't give you any spoilers, but the fact that it doesn't make sense to you means you're already catching on to the main point of the plot. Okay, finished the 1st season only to learn that the 2nd one apparently didn't come out yet. Nathan is cute. How many software developers does it take to make a new tweet form (literally the most important part of your product) that doesn't suck? Apparently Twitter still doesn't have enough. Oh YouTube, how nice of you to replace the smooth, auto-hiding scrollbar provided by my operating system, that I deliberately chose to use in my settings, with an uglier, laggier version that takes up space at all times. #Smithereen update: content warnings. This one is pretty self-explanatory. @activitypub #ActivityPub |
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@grishka I think you can call Kotlin code from Java transparently, no?