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Apple Wants To Kill PWAs
  • Apple's implementation of other PWA standards requires an app to be opened from the home screen. A user can't access features of the app if they can't add it to the homescreen.

  • Looking for Notes App for Android & Linux
  • I use TiddlyWiki via TiddlyPWA. It's an offline-capable PWA with builtin sync and encryption. It doesn't have folders but it does have nestable tags. I don't think it supports markdown out of the box, but I'm positive you can find a plugin to use markdown. Plugins are crazy easy to install in TiddlyWiki; you just drag and drop the plugin into your wiki window and confirm the installation.

  • Searching for a Samsung Notes replacement
  • TiddlyWiki via TiddlyPWA is what I use. I don't know if it supports the S Pen and the notes are all saved in a single HTML file.

  • Looks like there might be yet another mass-migration wave from Twitter to Mastodon on the way...
  • but it’s the one many first-time Fediverse users coming across from Twitter end up on.

    That's because it's the only one ppl will mention as an alternative. Stop telling ppl to try mastodon, tell them to try firefish or akkoma.

    Also, the jump effect is way overstated. Some users do end up moving to other software, but many more just leave because they don't like mastodon.

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  • Entirely unmoderated tags are not an option for lemmy as the moderation workload would be too much. Additionally users being able to type out tags themselves introduces splintering in the tag contents due to typos. A better solution is a curated list of tags users can attach to their posts

    I vehemently disagree with the main idea behind this RFC. Just let users put arbitrary tags on their posts and other users can search for whatever tags they want. The rest of the fediverse has unmoderated hashtags and it works fine. I don't see a good reason hashtags should require moderation. And typos can be corrected by editing the post.

    Adding those restrictions just makes this feature more complex than it needs to be and reduces compatibility with the fediverse. Users of any fediverse software can create a post in a lemmy community and those posts may have arbitrary tags. Why should lemmy users have less capability on lemmy than external users?

    Finally, hashtags could be a useful way to filter posts within a community if these restrictions are dropped. I posted this in the github thread, but imagine a general programming community. Posts could be tagged with a language, paradigm (OOP, functional, etc), or whatever else to allow users to browse subtopics within a community. Having to request moderators add a tag is an unnecessary extra step.

  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gen\_JNDD-10](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gen_JNDD-10) @nvidia [@linux](https://lemmy.ml/c/linux)
  • It's not OP's fault, but voting is how we're supposed to curate content. This post doesn't have a title or description so it's a bad post on lemmy and I think downvoting it is acceptable. Don't consider votes a reflection of a user's value or standing

  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gen\_JNDD-10](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gen_JNDD-10) @nvidia [@linux](https://lemmy.ml/c/linux)
  • Agreed. This is a lemmy bug. The OP is on mastodon (where video previews are fetched and displayed) and has no control over how its rendered over here. It'd be nice if lemmy fetched the title and description

  • cleantechnica.com Agrivoltaics Is Making Friends Across Partisan Lines, Thanks To Farmers

    Agrivoltaics beats fossil fuels with a bottom line case for farmers to install solar panels on their land.

    Agrivoltaics Is Making Friends Across Partisan Lines, Thanks To Farmers
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    GitLab plans support for ActivityPub
  • This is exciting. I think code forges are one of the biggest opportunities for ActivityPub to really go mainstream and change the internet. Not only because it'll make working with open source way easier since you can work with any compatible forge, but developers will be more exposed to ActivityPub just by working with the software and so more likely to participate in AP dev. It will be interesting to see what effect this has on the fediverse. There's been a lot of talk from various organizations/companies but this will be the first large project adopting AP. I'm interested to see how development goes for them and for other fediverse projects.

    I wonder what changes it will force on Mastodon. Masto won't be the biggest project anymore and won't be able to throw its weight around as much. Just like the recent influx of users forced the implementation of full text search and has reenergized conversations about quote posts, I think federated gitlab would force masto to rethink some things.

  • A place for everything about web development @lemmy.ml 0x1C3B00DA @lemmy.ml
    deno.com Fresh 1.4 – Faster Page Loads, Layouts and More

    Discover new improvements in Fresh 1.4 that makes your site quicker to load and comes with several improvements to make authoring complex projects easier.

    Fresh 1.4 – Faster Page Loads, Layouts and More
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    The Web Is Fucked
  • my original point was that the main idea of the article down plays the accessibility gains of the modern web. Your reading was that the author meant a different definition of accessibility and not A11y, which would mean the author didn't just down play it, they completely ignored it. The author is complaining that the modern web is awful, while ignoring the huge gains for people who need these accessibility features and how awful web 1.0 was for them

  • The Web Is Fucked
  • Are you asking for every article ever to have a section discussing accessibility?

    No. I'm asking that when they complain about how the modern web is "fucked" and web 1.0 was better, they don't try to act like that is an absolute, since that's an opinion that is not widely applicable.

    No, thats just the angle that the article wanted to take. Just because it ignores an aspect of something doesn’t mean that its position is moot.

    Ignoring part of a topic makes your argument weaker.

  • The Web Is Fucked
  • Accessibility almost always refers to disabled people, especially in web development. I've never heard anyone in the industry refer to accessibility in any other way, without explicitly making that clear.

    If they meant the reading you took from it, that's even worse and my point is even more pertinent.

  • The Web Is Fucked
  • Accessibility wasn’t the main topic discussed in the article

    That's part of the problem. All these rants about the glory of Web 1.0 are ignoring the fact that Web 1.0 wasn't usable for anybody with accessibility issues and the modern web is better for them. A tiny acknowledgement at the bottom of their rant shows how they value accessibility lower than all of their other concerns.

  • Pocket for Mac to stop being maintained Aug 15
  • If Mozilla open sourced it years ago like they promised, it could be picked up by someone else.

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    deno.com Fresh 1.3 – Simplified Route Components and More

    Explore the key improvements in Fresh 1.3: streamlined route components, enhanced error handling, updated linting rules, and multi-island exports. This release also supports the stable Deno.serve API, making Deno projects more efficient and manageable.

    Fresh 1.3 – Simplified Route Components and More
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    deno.com Fresh 1.3 – Simplified Route Components and More

    Explore the key improvements in Fresh 1.3: streamlined route components, enhanced error handling, updated linting rules, and multi-island exports. This release also supports the stable Deno.serve API, making Deno projects more efficient and manageable.

    Fresh 1.3 – Simplified Route Components and More
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    Looking for some entertainment tomorrow? Reddit is launching r/place again. Should be fun to watch
  • I think you're right that the best response is no response, but the protests do have an effect beside driving traffic. Investors won't want to be involved in a company at war with its userbase, so if protests are loud and long enough it could mess us reddits IPO plans. So for the users who just aren't ready to give up reddit, spamming protest comments is probably their best bet.

  • [@fediverse](https://lemmy.ml/c/fediverse) do you think Tumblr + activitypub will ever happen?
  • Not really. There was a recent article that came out that said tumblr is still losing money. I don't see them spending time and money on something that doesn't have a direct monetization strategy, especially since their userbase isn't actually asking for ActivityPub

  • Ficus retusa to bonsai (progress pictures inside)
  • That looks great. What are some resources I can use to learn how to do this?

  • Remote Work to Wipe Out $800 Billion From Office Values, McKinsey Says
  • Yea it could definitely work for those but I don't think it's limited to those.

  • Remote Work to Wipe Out $800 Billion From Office Values, McKinsey Says
  • Because what use would a bodega be on it’s own? They aren’t large enough to have the inventory to replace a supermarket.

    I didn't mean the store would have to be a bodega; that was just an example of a small store sustaining itself with that size customer base. I meant that it could be a small grocery store, one that doesn't qualify as a supermarket. And like I said, if we're talking about a whole district, there are multiple buildings available so you don't have to get everything from one store. You could have a butcher in one building, a produce shop across the street, the grocery store with just nonperishables beside that, etc.

    These kinds of commercial districts with nothing but office buildings are terrible sad places to be. I’m not sure why anyone would want to live in such a depressing place.

    Because they don't have many other options. We're talking about affordable housing, which is needed by people who are increasingly getting priced out of non-depressing areas. And areas like what I'm describing, with small, locally owned stores colocated with housing with shared ammenities can be incredibly vibrant communities. You could even close off the interior roads and make something like the superblock concept that's been growing (I've heard about it the most in relation to neighborhoods in Spain).

  • Remote Work to Wipe Out $800 Billion From Office Values, McKinsey Says
  • Say you get 100 apartments out of it, you can’t run a supermarket on 100 customers.

    Why does it have to be a supermarket, though? From what I've heard, New York City has bodegas everywhere and those are small convenience stores that have similarly sized customer bases. If the bottom floor is a small market, they have a nearly guaranteed 100 customers. And in your hypothetical commercial district, there would be more than one unused office building so more opportunity for mixed-use space.

  • I Filed an Issue About Handling Duplicate Communities
    github.com Community Grouping · Issue #3071 · LemmyNet/lemmy

    A lot of new users are really concerned with the idea of duplicate communities, e.g. lemmy.ml/c/gaming and beehaw.org/c/gaming. While I don't think this is as big of a concern as they do, I think w...

    Community Grouping · Issue #3071 · LemmyNet/lemmy

    I filed an issue on the lemmy and kbin issue trackers to address duplicate communities. If you have an #ActivityPub development experience/knowledge, please take a look and offer feedback. If not, please offer any feedback here.

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    Community Relays?

    > There is no way for an instance like lemmy.ml to know about all lemmy servers, because there’s no central server keeping track.

    -- https://lemmy.ml/comment/447791

    I was reading the above comment and it made me think about the relays and how they could help lemmy/kbin/other Group software. Relays were a solution the microblogging sector of the fediverse used to jumpstart instances, which would have an empty federated feed making it difficult for local users to find new users to follow.

    The way I envision it working would be a community relay would be an AP server with a Service or Application type Actor. This actor could receive a copy of a community's Create message and could then Announce that community to its followers. Lemmy/kbin instances could follow relays to be alerted of new remote communities and notify the relay about their own new communities.

    In this way, users/instances could learn about new communities across the fediverse in a participatory way without relying on a central authority.

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    I mentioned this here but I am very disappointed in the removal of a web UI for a #fediverse project. I don't use Takahe myself, but this will make those users harder to engage with. If I only use a browser for my fediverse activity, I won't be able to see any of those users without following.

    EDIT: Everything I said above and in the linked post is probably wrong so ignore it. Thanks to @KelsonV@lemmy.ml for pointing that out to me. https://lemmy.ml/comment/423338

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    ez.substack.com The Uncanny Valley

    It has been a truly bizarre week. We’ve watched three banks die, and then a fourth bank almost died (Credit Suisse) before being scooped up by UBS for the rock-bottom price of $3.2bn. Credit Suisse’s fall from grace is especially remarkable given that it was

    The Uncanny Valley
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    A place for everything about web development @lemmy.ml 0x1C3B00DA @lemmy.ml
    jvns.ca Writing Javascript without a build system

    Writing Javascript without a build system

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    www.eurekalert.org Using spiders as environmentally-friendly pest control

    Groups of spiders could be used as an environmentally-friendly way to protect crops against agricultural pests. That's according to new research, led by the University of Portsmouth, which suggests that web-building groups of spiders can eat a devastating pest moth of commercially important crops li...

    Using spiders as environmentally-friendly pest control
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    seldo.com The case for frameworks | Seldo.com

    Today I read Alex Russell's post The Market for Lemons and I found myself compelled to write a rebuttal. I am a big fan of Alex's work in general but not of this post in particular, which is very long, so allow me to attempt to summarize it: JavaScript-heavy single page apps (SPAs) are very popular...

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    www.theregister.com Mozilla, Google looking ahead to the end of Apple's WebKit

    Work on a Gecko-based version of Firefox for iOS is underway, again

    Mozilla, Google looking ahead to the end of Apple's WebKit

    While this is cool, I worry about Mozilla's ability to support another platform. They already have trouble maintaining support on their current list of platforms

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