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?

Trying to reverse engineer the QR code feature in Google's Quick Share. I forgot that Google loves indirection so much. I found the place where the URL from the code is parsed, and I found the place where they put the "key" parameter from it through HKDF-SHA256 to then use in MDNS. But I have […]

I factory reset my old phone to use it for app development and oh my fucking god is the modern Google the master of annoying users into submission. It's been a long while since I've experienced pristine Android out of the box on a real device, and I kinda […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Made the mistake of trying to discuss politics on Twitter and now I'm starting to understand why people hate it so much. Never used the block button so much before.

Another very nice article criticizing generative AI: https://paddy.carvers.com/posts/2025/07/ai/

After implementing partial support for Mastodon's FEP-044f quote post authorization in Smithereen, I realized that this flow with sending a "*Request" activity and receiving a corresponding Accept{*Request} is nothing but an RPC mechanism. So now Smithereen also uses TopicCreationRequest and […]

Cringeneering #словотворчество @rf

Really wish I could hide all AI-related content from HackerNews

Imagine if Docker came on a CD or a stack of floppies

I wanted to get some Smithereen logo stickers made, but I was terrified to find out that, apparently, Corel Draw is not only somehow still not dead, the print shops I looked at require that you submit your design as a .cdr file 🤯 But only when you want your stickers cut out in a custom shape […]

a blog post by my friend eevee which is, y’know, preaching to the choir about exactly what you think, but. yeah. https://eev.ee/blog/2025/07/03/the-rise-of-whatever/

Has someone managed to jailbreak the AI thing in Google Play app listings?

Paying attention to dwindling usage numbers because of a series of boneheaded redesigns, despite all competing products being blocked by the government? Nah, too boring. Let's slap ads for our desperate attempt to replace YouTube on taxi cars instead. That'll definitely help.

Whenever I search for mentions of #smithereen, there always are three types of posts: - Something being blown "to smithereens" - Something about the music band The Smithereens - Someone actually talking about my project

Nice.

This video is very telling about Apple's priorities. 90% of their demonstrations are on iOS. Mac is officially an afterthought now. https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2025/219/