Gregory

@grishka
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Software developer who's almost lost faith in the modern IT. Used to work at VKontakte, then Telegram. Currently building my own fediverse project to save our online social lives from greedy corporations. Follow the progress: #smithereen

Also working on the Mastodon Android app.

Русскоязычный аккаунт — @grishka

Websitehttps://grishka.me
:mastodon: teamhttps://joinmastodon.org/about
Smithereen websitehttps://smithereen.software
I'm still quite perplexed when Idea does this. Why would I want to extract that to a separate method? What would that achieve? This code is only ever used in a single place anyway. What's the point having a private method that is only ever called from one place?
Is it normal that I sometimes feel like the entire city is crawling, and would even get road rage walking behind slow people every now and then 🤔
And please don't tell me to stop using Instagram. That's a choice reserved for people who have a life. Once I do get a life, I'll be happy to only remember about the internet as a whole only a couple times a day.
I keep tapping the top right corner to get to DMs, but they're now in the bottom bar *and* use a different icon. This is what I mean when I say you as a developer or designer should never mess with users' muscle memory.

I've been using Instagram mods for over 5 years, but the one I've been on longest stopped getting updated in 2023. So, yesterday, I switched to a different mod that's based on one of the latest app versions. This means three years of changes all at once.

Some of these changes leave me perplexed:
1. When you open a post from a DM, it opens full-screen like a reel. Even if it's just a post
2. You seemingly can't see the complete list of people who liked a reel
3. They moved buttons around AGAIN

It doesn't work well btw. If the search query contains more than one word, it will return rows that match *any* of the words, not *all* of them. Which is unacceptable. You have to use "boolean mode" and put a + in front of each word to make it work sensibly.
I wonder what Cydia looks like with liquid glass

RE: https://mastodon.social/@macrumors/116772024898424114

So does this mean I'll soon be able to jailbreak the iPhone 11 I occasionally use to test iOS apps 🤔

"Natural" means "straight" in Russian slang and uhhh why do these kinds of things keep making me smile. Straight people language mode hehe.
What annoys me a lot about modern network software, especially browsers, is that their connect timeouts feel like eternity and are not configurable. If a server didn't respond in 10 seconds after several SYN packets, why would someone think it could still respond in a minute or more? That's usually not how these things work.