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Joe Shaw Sep 10, 2023

Danny Lin Sep 9, 2023

More people need to know about the "tabular numbers" feature that modern fonts have

Use it to make numbers to line up with a UI font (or anything not monospace)

CSS: font-feature-settings: tnum
SwiftUI: .font(.body.monospacedDigit())

Joe Shaw Sep 8, 2023

allison Aug 26, 2023

this table of C escape characters is making the same noises as I do when I have to wake up early

Joe Shaw Jun 23, 2023

I retired my Powerley Energy Bridge HomeKit/Prometheus exporter project because my device finally stopped providing energy readings. More info: https://github.com/joeshaw/powerley-energybridge-homekit#status

GitHub - joeshaw/powerley-energybridge-homekit: HomeKit support and Prometheus exporter for the Powerley Energy Bridge (aka AEP Energy Bridge or DTE Energy Bridge)

HomeKit support and Prometheus exporter for the Powerley Energy Bridge (aka AEP Energy Bridge or DTE Energy Bridge) - GitHub - joeshaw/powerley-energybridge-homekit: HomeKit support and Prometheus ...

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Joe Shaw Mar 27, 2023

For example, https://mastodon.social/@jamesturk/110081261241625224

Joe Shaw Mar 20, 2023

2000s: Everything has an API! Web 2.0!
2010s: Oh, data has value and APIs can be abused. Data is siloed and nothing has open APIs by default anymore.
2020s: AI-assisted web scraping exposes siloed data via APIs again

Joe Shaw Jan 24, 2023

now that @ivory is out i expect i’ll be using mastodon a lot more

Joe Shaw Nov 13, 2022

Giving self-hosted GoToSocial a try

Joe Shaw Aug 17, 2018

Amaroq is another pretty good iOS client: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/amarok-for-mastodon/id1214116200?ls=1&mt=8

‎Amaroq for Mastodon

‎Amaroq is a lightweight universal client for any Mastodon instance! Simply enter the instance you belong to, log in, and enjoy the all the wonders of the federated social network from your phone. Features include but are not limited to: • View all your timelines, whether it's your home, local, or f…

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Joe Shaw Aug 17, 2018

> 10 seconds to fetch "My Page" for instance

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Joe Shaw Aug 17, 2018

linking to federated users is a PITA though... and it doesn’t seem to update your timeline when you post, so you don’t know if it succeeded. mastodon.social is dragging too, which affects app performance. it could use some more caching/background activity