Posts by acb@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #AlpGJgWRwQ2RO58yPo by acb@mastodon.social
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@dansup Flickr is not in the same category as Instagram. It has publicly available APIs and feeds, and can be accessed without using an official slot-machine-style zuckerpump app (indeed, its official app leaves much to be desired). The engagement-farming age has passed Flickr by.
(DIR) Post #ApGyu08Vk4MKLU9Me0 by acb@mastodon.social
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@impressia Yikes.And that’s from someone whose mobile apps are janky piles of React Native that sort of work? Pot, kettle.
(DIR) Post #ApGzcLEaf3d6WP8XHE by acb@mastodon.social
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@dansup @impressia I write iOS apps for a living, and have done so for over a decade. They’re all native, though. React Native, like Electron, just feels like a stopgap for when you don’t have the resources to make a proper app (or shareholders said no); the fit and finish are never going to be the same, and it’s going to feel slow and burn through battery. Surely in that case, you’d welcome someone else doing that for your APIs?
(DIR) Post #ArkYXF5Rer4e4T6gsa by acb@mastodon.social
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@mntmn You could ship it with a built-in uxn/Varvara virtual machine: https://100r.co/site/uxn.html
(DIR) Post #Au4wtk1wjSYVcbwvNA by acb@mastodon.social
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@pixelfed There appears to be a bug in Pixelfed. I uploaded this post recently, and while it has propagated to followers, it has not appeared in my Pixelfed account’s profile or timeline, seemingly fallen through the cracks. Is this a known issue, and are there processes for finding and sorting out such cases?https://pixelfed.social/p/acb/828051816379639712
(DIR) Post #Au6LO2n08xIWXytw0m by acb@mastodon.social
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@mntmn A possible cryptic crossword clue “pulling on a chain (3)”
(DIR) Post #Au9T7Xu2apMTEEiYYy by acb@mastodon.social
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@vernissage You may be interested to know that Impressia uploads to Pixelfed (the .social instance at least) appear to have been broken for the past few days. Could the API have changed?
(DIR) Post #AvsB16uFYfn6laLH04 by acb@mastodon.social
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#TIL that in the 1960s, a phonetic alphabet for English, the Initial Teaching Alphabet, was devised and, at the behest of a Tory MP and keen amateur educationalist, introduced into schools for teaching children to read. The children took to it like ducks to water, though unfortunately for them, society failed to replace the regular orthography elsewhere, so a few years later they crashed into it face first, with many never mastering it.https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/jul/06/1960s-schools-experiment-created-new-alphabet-thousands-children-unable-to-spell
(DIR) Post #AvsB18KsFAgLCRo38a by acb@mastodon.social
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Unsurprisingly, the Initial Teaching Alphabet doesn’t seem to have made it into Unicode.
(DIR) Post #AvwAcfVYYA9zTTycYS by acb@mastodon.social
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Are the Americans OK?
(DIR) Post #AvwAci3f4Kd5NpwszY by acb@mastodon.social
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I’m in Sweden. About ⅔ of the office is micro-retired for the next month or so. (The consensus-minded Swedes do like taking July and/or the first half of August off.) I’m not, but I did a 1½-week micro-retirement in March, and have a shorter one coming up later this summer. Last year, I took most of a month (so, a mini-retirement) to go to Australia.Framing a week every 1-2 years as a “micro-retirement” sounds like giving the Overton window a further push to normalising servitude.
(DIR) Post #AxVSB9L4xh3U1Vq0Js by acb@mastodon.social
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@MicroSFF Alcohol? Cocaine? MDMA?
(DIR) Post #B1gryVkWrJNJalNNdw by acb@mastodon.social
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@ancientjames That looks like the electronic component equivalent of this: