Yet another #Smithereen update. Besides now being able to open the wall as a separate page and filter it by own/all posts, you can now also see what two people have written on each other's walls.

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Tiny #Smithereen update: Mastodon-style reposts (aka retoots) no longer look terrible.

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Two #Smithereen updates.
- If a post contains more than one picture, those will be laid out in this kind of tile layout. It works better when image dimensions are specified, which unfortunately no other #ActivityPub software is doing as of now afaik.
- There's now this half-assed photo viewer in a layer. Will do for now, but I'll have to make a proper one anyway when there will be photo albums and tags and comments and all that stuff where photos aren't just image files.

It only took me two years before I realized that my monitor is big enough that I can maximize the browser window and have the dev tools side by side like this, as opposed to using it in a tiny area at the bottom of a small-ish window.

Another day, another Vivaldi bug reported to never be fixed.

So, #Smithereen update. Tweaked the desktop layout a bit. Made the overall page narrower, changed other dimensions here and there, updated the logo to look nicer. Now it's starting to look like something I'm nostalgic about :)
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Drawing pixel-perfect icons gives me some weird kind of satisfaction.

A thought on #Smithereen. What if I (later) add a setting to disable microblogging? Either per account or per instance. As in, you won't be able to write on your own wall, and you won't see other's posts in your news feed. You would still see other events there. This would essentially be a switch to "bring the wall back" outraged VK users were asking for in 2010. 🤔
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#Smithereen update. I guess I'm done with my image storage changes — it all works now, and blurhashes are calculated and stored for all newly uploaded images in posts. I also made building the JNI library easier because it's only now that I discovered the intended use for pkg-config (to return compiler flags).

So, uh, what about groups? 🤔 😏

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The all-new, imgproxy-ified build of #Smithereen is already running on my server, but I'm yet too scared to actually push the code to github. All the existing data was carefully migrated using two sloppily written php scripts.

Uh, and I forgot blurhash. Gotta add blurhash.

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#Smithereen progress update. I'm currently rewriting everything related to image storage to use https://github.com/imgproxy/imgproxy. It's just so much better it's mind-blowing. What used to be 8 files (4 sizes in 2 formats) is now a single webp image. I deleted so much code. Profile pictures in particular are now 1 file too, since imgproxy handles cropping the square version out of the full rectangular one.

Why is this a thing on git.activitypub.dev? We all know password complexity requirements have nothing to do with security. Btw, this is configurable in gitea: https://docs.gitea.io/en-us/config-cheat-sheet/#security-security

cc @cj @pukkamustard

🤔🤔🤔 #activitypub

You aren't using Facebook right now. Please tap here to fix this ASAP.

(I have two completely empty accounts added to the app, tested oauth a while ago)

How naive of this thing to assume I have anything resembling a sensible sleep schedule.

Today I learned about this Houdini API thing that will finally make the web a viable application platform. Custom layout and drawing without compromises and workarounds, at last.

Meanwhile "please use #Firefox, browser engine diversity is important".

Small #Smithereen update. As in VK, you can now specify your middle and maiden names, if any. Unlike VK, you can specify a maiden name regardless of your gender, because why not.

#activitypub #mastodev

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