Apple is in its "fuck around" phase with the EU right now. Can't wait for the "find out". It's gonna be gorgeous.

It's been 0 days since I last cursed at Google as an Android app developer.

Facebook may be down, but #Smithereen is not 👀

Can anyone recommend a free, preferably open-source, stock-looking launcher for Android that has usable pages on *both* sides of the main page? Like it used to be before Google Now was introduced (which was wonderful until someone totally ruined it with news to get promoted).

What's the thing lately with this insistence on writing proper names starting with a lowercase letter? As someone for whom English is a foreign language, I sometimes struggle to discern whether a word is a word or a name. Capitalization helps with this quite a lot.
(Though in this particular case, they at least say it should be in italic, although there are many places that don't support/allow text formatting)

https://heydonworks.com/article/what-is-a-single-page-application/

Making your beta-quality software available to the open internet has one good thing about it: someone, at some point, will abuse it so much, that all resource leaks you have will be exposed and will cause trouble.

It turns out I was leaking database connections while getting post likes. I don't know what it was, probably a crawler of some sort, but I had everything break with "too many connections" from MySQL every hour or two, which forced me to investigate this ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

#Smithereen

Before Taylor Swift, there was Taylor Objective-C

UX tip of the day: people typically don't open your app simply because they are bored. They open it with a concrete goal in mind, and you're getting in the way with your cutesy "what's new" and "rate us" and "please update" and other similar forcibly-context-switching crap.

Brought to you by me running an instance of IDEA with default settings to debug my plugin, but mobile apps do this way more often and way more obnoxiously.

Kinda want a browser extension that would replace all mentions of "X" with "Twitter" in news articles

It's been 0 days since I last got cloudflared

How I see the Bluesky bridge debate:

— We're on a decentralized microblogging network open to everyone, owned by no one! Finally!
— Hi all, I used the open protocol of this network to bridge it to another network that would also soon open up to everyone.
— No! Not that kind of open! You can't do that!!!! I did not give you consent to publicly rebroadcast my public posts! How DARE you!

#Smithereen is about to become GDPR compliant 😅

I like my approach with deactivation period better than what others do. For example, @pixelfed deletes accounts immediately and it turns out people change their minds on this stuff sometimes.

#activitypub

Oops, I broke everything on grishka.me because I initiated its transfer to a cheaper registrar last week and it only actually transferred today... and the NS records carried over. Pointing to servers that no longer know about this domain. Fixed them now, but I wonder how long the cache invalidation would take.

Deutsche Bahn is fully meeting my expectations so far

Thinking of it, M1 iPads are almost like running DOS on an AMD Threadripper.

Almost, because DOS would at least allow you to run arbitrary unsigned software and even write your own.

Everyone adding "in the EU" to all those Apple news like it's a real insurmountable obstacle. It's not just for the EU. It's for the entire world. Stupid malicious-compliance geoblocks are meant to be bypassed. I'm sure someone will figure it out in like an hour after the beta comes out.

Remember how nearly every social app in the early 2010s had photo filters?

Modern phones have some really powerful camera hardware. For example, on anything but the crappiest cheapest Android phones, you can obtain full-size raw HDR (10- or 12-bit) images straight from the sensor in real time. I wonder what kinds of filters that would make possible 🤔

Still having a hard time getting over the fact that it's 2024 already