Scott Small 🇨🇦Nov 12, 2022

I've published Macstodon, my silly little Mastodon client for Classic Mac OS to GitHub: https://github.com/smallsco/macstodon

I'm not providing any support or planning any serious development or maintenance of this, it's just a fun little hack project. Please fork and extend :)

Some Gotchas:
- You need MacPython 1.5.2 installed to run it, because my Mac crashes when I try to compile it into a standalone app.
- You need some kind of SSL stripping proxy running on another machine, I recommend WebOne: https://github.com/atauenis/webone
- It only posts plain text toots and doesn't have any other features
- There's no error handling. Expect crashes!

GitHub - smallsco/macstodon: A basic Mastodon client for Classic Mac OS

A basic Mastodon client for Classic Mac OS. Contribute to smallsco/macstodon development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Show threadHamish Williams
@smallsco As longs as you make it sound deliberate then handling errors by crashing is a feature.
Nov 14, 2022 at 8:08amWeb
Show threadScott Small 🇨🇦Nov 14, 2022

@hamishwilliams There is _some_ error handling where I catch a few exceptions and log it to the console. Perhaps it would be better to say that there is no error _recovery_ , because it means the app ends up in an unknown state.

I don't intend to make a serious development effort out of this though - I do programming in my day job as well, so, I don't want to spend a whole lot of time outside of work _also_ doing it. I'm hoping that others will want to contribute, or fork and extend it - open source is a great model!

Show threadAde ThompsonNov 14, 2022
@smallsco @hamishwilliams ok so first attempt failed as it doesn’t seem to like it if you have TFA enabled, once you enter the TFA code it tired ti load the web archive of the request URL which sounds like it’s timing out somewhere.
Show threadScott Small 🇨🇦Nov 14, 2022
@apt That sounds like an issue with WebOne, it will try to load pages from the Internet Archive if the request times out. Try adding your instance's domain (mas.to) to the ForceHTTPS section of your WebOne config file, and restarting it.