If mobile OSes had the feature of modern game consoles where it records the screen continuously into a buffer in memory and then saves that recording of the past when you ask it to, it would make figuring out some bugs so much easier. Brought to you by a bug report that had me question my […]

Dear Discord, did you know that you're a chat app which is a tool I use to talk to people? Did you know that best tools blend into your workflow and become invisible instead of constantly going out of their way to remind everyone of their unique-ass identity?

On one hand, it's cool to have a universal connector standard so you could use the same cable for all your devices. But on the other,

RE: https://mastodon.social/@pxlnv/115538192074566829 Now imagine what could've been if iOS apps could be distributed without any Apple involvement whatsoever.

I added support for displaying blurhashes as image placeholders in #smithereen on the web. In what is probably the most cursed way possible. It turns out every browser supports the BMP file format, which is just a simple header followed by the raw pixel data. So, here's what I did:

Of course the previous 5 times I said "no" don't mean anything, what if I changed my mind after all, right?

Why do I sometimes get the feeling that the entire world is "based in the United States of America"...

I suppose one can get away with putting some liquid glass into Material Design by claiming that it is, indeed, a material...

RE: https://mastodon.social/@macrumors/115440692032713998 Totally justified with how they're giving away the iPhones and Macs for free /s

It's been 0 days since I last divided by zero

I forgot to turn off my VPN and opened a YouTube video. An ad in German started playing instead of the video, having somehow bypassed uBO. I'm so accustomed to not having any form of advertising whatsoever on my personal devices that I was utterly shocked. It felt gross. Almost like I got hacked.

Yeah we noticed today

Here's some truly bizarre UX for you. This is a public transport ticket machine in my city. Each subway station has at least several of these. They are used by tens of thousands of people daily. If you simply put your rechargeable card in, it would show up […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

On a fediverse server with a versioned client API, what would you expect to happen if an API call is made with a version number higher than what the server supports? Should it return an error? Should it take it to mean its highest supported version? Something else? The API isn't RESTful, the […]

Yo dawg, I heard you like advertising popups, so we put an advertising popup on top of your advertising popup so you could be advertised to while you're being advertised to. screenshot by @phagleb

TIL that there was this lost media Russian music video that people spent years looking for. It was finally found yesterday on a cassette that someone who archives TV recordings bought as part of a lot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzmOLwNS9l8

AGI any moment now. (taken from Twitter)

Seeing yet again how IETF RFCs are split into paper-sheet-sized pages, I can't help but ask — does anyone ever print them out? There must be people who do, because otherwise it would make no sense. Or is it just a historical artifact?

#Smithereen 0.11 is out! This one mostly focuses on groups and moderation. Groups now have discussion boards, admins can specify server rules (with translations!), moderators have more and better tools at their disposal, and users can now pin posts and […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Why is most CLI software so insufferable with its error messages? And why do some Linux distros not have ifconfig any more?

Oh my fucking god iOS 26 is so laggy. I especially like how the icons in settings take time to load. A real person sat down and wrote the code to make it do that.

It's interesting how de-emphasized the iOS 26 update is. Will they only start annoying people into installing it later? Do they *know* that .0 versions of their major updates are crap? I'm still gonna install it. For science. I don't use this iPhone for […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

#smithereen now supports pinned posts. #activitypub #mastodev

I'm gonna wait for a stable release

Are they going to release Earth, Fire, and Water iPhone models?

Still not sure why phones — portable communication devices predominantly for use outside — need powerful CPUs. Saying that as someone who's been making Android apps since 2011.

Installed Android 16 QPR1 and it's surprisingly not terrible. It even fixes some of the gripes I had with the whole Material 3 redesign, like comically large notifications. Notifications are still way too damn large, but at least not comically so any more, at least they now fit more than three […]

The "message request" system in Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter has to be the worst instant messaging UX our civilization has to offer.

One mildly cursed #androiddev realization: you can reuse RecyclerView adapters and view holders outside of a RecyclerView. View holders in particular make neat small self-contained view controllers. Here's an example of such reuse […]

Google, go fuck yourself with a cactus. https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/08/elevating-android-security.html?m=1

"Sideloading" is the rentseeker word for "being able to run software of your choosing on a computing device you purchased". There is no reasonable case for an operating system developer having a say over what programs you run on your hardware. #android #google

I like hating on modern UI/UX but here's a counterexample: this seek bar in the video player on media.ccc.de is very convenient for quickly seeing what's in a long video

#froscon does sound almost like "frosch con", and indeed has a frog on its logo 🐸

I'm glad that your maps app works offline, but could you please not obstruct my use of the damn thing? Have you considered that maybe, just maybe, I might have opened your app not out of pure boredom, but to look something up right here and right now?

Meanwhile in Twitter 🤔

I have another UX question. Sometimes I would see that some desktop apps would intercept the mouse wheel, or the corresponding trackpad gesture, to do something that isn't scrolling. For example, adjusting volume in IINA, VLC, and Chromium browsers, or flipping through media files in Telegram […]

It turns out the "links" section in VK groups is more clever than I remember. You enter a URL and it tries to determine what it means. If it's an internal VK URL to a profile or a group, it would use that actor's name and avatar and let you enter a […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Some recent #Smithereen updates: - Finished discussion boards in groups - Server rules (with translations) - New reporting flow, almost like Mastodon's - Moderators can now exclude content from reports - ...as well as add extra content via the new "content" […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Yeah, I get it, it's possible. But what would be the point of doing that? Why would I want to extract that code into a method that would only used in exactly one place?

I realized why us millennials miss the technology of the 2000s and early 2010s so much. This was the period when everything was already mature and reliable (operating systems had memory protection and preemptive multitasking!) but user respect was still very much the default. Dark patterns were […]

Does this "we found" mean that some actual people looked at my installed apps and their usage statistics?

Released a new version of NearDrop that adds support for sending files using QR codes. https://github.com/grishka/NearDrop/releases/tag/v2.2.0

The chance of seeing a cybertruck is never zero.

Why make the entire screen bright when you can do this?