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Gregory
Gregory

Now that I'm about to introduce another ActivityPub extension, I'm thinking that I should first write the documentation, and only then start with the code. This way I'll be forced to think through all the edge cases *before* any code is already written with all the wrong assumptions.

10 Jul 2023 at 20:59 | Open on mastodon.social
Gregory

Star

Anonymous poll

Poll

Wars
18
45%
Gate
7
17.5%
Trek
15
37.5%
40 people voted.
Voting ended 11 Jul 2023 at 17:52.
10 Jul 2023 at 17:52 | Open on mastodon.social
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Gregory
Gregory

The posts from accounts I don't follow on Threads are getting ever more infuriating. They drown out the posts from people I do follow. Following someone seems to be merely a suggestion to them.

I'm not open to discovering new "content" from people I don't know, for fuck's sake. ActivityPub support can't come soon enough. I'll just follow everyone from my server and never open that app again.

6 Jul 2023 at 17:07 | Open on mastodon.social
( . )( . )

@grishka I believe it was predictable considering the amount of recommended content in ig and fb.

6 Jul 2023 at 17:34 | Open on mastodon.social
Gregory

That whole "threadiverse" word, it hasn't aged well, has it

6 Jul 2023 at 0:17 | Open on mastodon.social
Gregory
Gregory

In the usual Meta style, the thing puts posts from people I don't follow into my feed
5 Jul 2023 at 23:20 | Open on mastodon.social
Gregory
Gregory

On the subject of Reddit API shutdown — why is adversarial interoperability not a thing any more? Why does everyone play by the rules these days?

Many years ago, ICQ was the most popular IM service around me, but almost no one used the crappy official clients. Most people have never even seen them. The protocol was reverse engineered and documented and the 3rd-party client scene flourished.

What happened to this attitude? Is it because of the mobile app stores?

30 Jun 2023 at 22:07 | Open on mastodon.social
Poolitzer

@grishka i think for a lot of people the official apps are just fine.

30 Jun 2023 at 23:21 | Open on mastodon.social
Nubesik

@grishka can't use the protocol/API if it's authenticated and only returning information with the right token. The alternative is web scraping. But that's likely to fail even with UI changes.

1 Jul 2023 at 5:15 | Open on chaos.social
Ik

@grishka, смотри, сейчас всё делается для юзеров Айфона. Вышла новая фича iOS = все приложения до релиза нового iPhone или iOS ещё в бета-версии ос делают эту фичу.

А что с Android: тот же Mir Pay только через 2-3 месяца после релиза свежей версии Android'а оптимизируют работу под эту ОС.

Или вот пример: Яндекс и ВКонтакте, в Android 13 Google кардинально поменяла плеер в статус-баре, а они до сих пор не адаптировали свои приложения под Android 13.

7 Jul 2023 at 0:21 | Open on mastodon.social
Gregory
Gregory

Oh hi, the OG #Smithereen :P
16 Jun 2023 at 22:14 | Open on mastodon.social
fperson :dartlang:

@grishka cute! Is this a super-nice coincidence, or was the original name influenced by the show?

17 Jun 2023 at 4:10 | Open on fosstodon.org
Gregory

This is the best Reddit post title I've seen in a while 🙃
15 Jun 2023 at 20:59 | Open on mastodon.social
Gregory

Today's cursed idea: a converter from SWF to Android animated vector drawable

14 Jun 2023 at 12:08 | Open on mastodon.social
⚛️Revertron :straight:
iliazeus

@grishka aren't SWF's vector graphics and animations basically bytecode for their VM? Would probably be simpler to use something more "imperative", like a Canvas.

Or just render it frame-by-frame with skia or cairo or whatever, getting an SVG, then convert that to VectorDrawable XMLs.

14 Jun 2023 at 12:19 | Open on lor.sh
Gregory
Travis F W

@grishka omg that face. What a guilt trip. What did you do!?

12 Jun 2023 at 14:30 | Open on fosstodon.org
Gregory

when the subreddit blackout goes so well that even the front page becomes private

12 Jun 2023 at 14:33 | Open on mastodon.social
Gregory

Made a thing. Now THAT'S what I call "material design".

(cc @samhenrigold @dlx)

11 Jun 2023 at 7:47 | Open on mastodon.social
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Internet Hedgehog

@grishka @samhenrigold @dlx this is NOT what I meant when I said "I want Windows Phone back"

11 Jun 2023 at 13:04 | Open on mastodon.social
Gregory

More ideas of what can be done with these new APIs:
- Floating Action Bubbles (with proper refraction of whatever is behind)
- Page curls like in pre-flat-curse iOS versions
- Stickers that look like actual stickers
- Noisy backgrounds & gradients
- All kinds of glows and shadows that aren't possible with setShadowLayer()
- Motion blur for fast scrolling so it feels smooth on 60 Hz screens
- Same for bottom sheets when they slide in and out
- Holographic stickers

@samhenrigold @dlx

More ideas of what can be done with these new APIs:
- Floating Action Bubbles (with proper refraction of whatever is behind)
- Page curls like in pre-flat-curse iOS versions
- Stickers that look like actual stickers
- Noisy backgrounds & gradients
- All kinds of glows and shadows that aren't possible with setShadowLayer()
- Motion blur for fast scrolling so it feels smooth on 60 Hz screens
- Same for bottom sheets when they slide in and out
- Holographic stickers

11 Jun 2023 at 14:59 | Open on mastodon.social
Nick Stoler
Gregory

Rewrote the database connection management in #Smithereen. Used to be one connection per thread, now it's a global connection pool that grows and shrinks in response to load. What's more, it feels like pages load faster now! Didn't expect that.

#activitypub #mastodev

8 Jun 2023 at 23:56 | Open on mastodon.social
Gregory

If you're using an Android phone, which Android version does it run?

I'm seeing a very unusual version distribution in Google Play for the Mastodon app — more then half (!!) of all users are already on Android 13. It's been out for less than a year! Meanwhile, 7 and 6 are 0.5% combined. This breaks every assumption about Android versions I've ever had during my entire career. My intuition tells me 10-11 should be most popular.

Let's prove or disprove it with this poll.

Anonymous poll

Poll

12 or newer
30
53.6%
10 or 11
16
28.6%
8 or 9
8
14.3%
7 or older
2
3.6%
56 people voted.
Voting ended 30 Apr 2023 at 7:39.
27 Apr 2023 at 7:39 | Open on mastodon.social
Gregory

And it is kinda like this, 11 *is* the most popular according to *some* statistics:
twitter.com/MishaalRahman/stat

27 Apr 2023 at 7:43 | Open on mastodon.social
⚛️Revertron :straight:

@grishka Maybe they just run Mastodon app in an emulator? ;)

27 Apr 2023 at 8:11 | Open on zhub.link
teledyn 𓂀

@grishka

Bleeding edge or go home? Or is it because we can't repair the old perfectly-viable device?

Here's a question: what was the last #Android update that gave you something you now couldn't live without?

I'd thought splitscreen was going to be super fab, until I tried to use it…

28 Apr 2023 at 2:38 | Open on mstdn.ca
Gregory

I just released #Smithereen 0.5.

This release brings lots of much-needed improvements:
- Federation is now more reliable thanks to retrying. Smithereen now also keeps track of federation errors and stops delivery to servers that are down.
- Reporting (Flag activity) is now supported. The corresponding moderation UI is very minimal for now, but that will improve in future versions.
- Long comment threads can now be paginated through and seen in their entirety.

#activitypub #mastodev

I just released #Smithereen 0.5.

This release brings lots of much-needed improvements:
- Federation is now more reliable thanks to retrying. Smithereen now also keeps track of federation errors and stops delivery to servers that are down.
- Reporting (Flag activity) is now supported. The corresponding moderation UI is very minimal for now, but that will improve in future versions.
- Long comment threads can now be paginated through and seen in their entirety.
22 Apr 2023 at 11:55 | Open on mastodon.social
Gregory

One more thing I forgot: there's now support for federation blocking. Blocked domains are always publicly displayed in /system/about.

The next release will be even more important: I'll implement private messages and friends-/followers-only posts, at last! As far as federation is concerned, this will bring feature parity with Mastodon.

22 Apr 2023 at 11:59 | Open on mastodon.social
Gregory
Gregory

High-DPI displays are not an excuse to stop striving for pixel perfection.

30 Mar 2023 at 3:35 | Open on mastodon.social
⚛️Revertron :straight:

@grishka But for the font rendering I gave up pixel perfection long ago :(

30 Mar 2023 at 6:20 | Open on zhub.link
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