Spent the whole day fixing ActivityPub JSON deserialization for different servers.

You start with:
"this field is probably a string"

and end with:
"this field is apparently a string, an object, an array, an array of objects, or an eldritch combination of all four."

Turns out JSON is less a format and more a negotiation. Now I'm just curious what systems I haven't met yet are storing in "url". Maybe a dictionary with keys like href, vibes, and trust_me_bro..

Yesterday the weather was beautiful, so I spent the whole day taking photos. Today I improved the keyboard navigation in Vernissage Web, added an API for fetching the list of muted accounts, and updated all the libraries used by the Vernissage API. I also added feedback when you tap buttons on the status details screen in Vernissage for iOS.

Now I can kick back with a smile, listen to some music, and relax - and I wish all of you some relaxing time too. 😌🎶

From time to time the topic of Mastodon API Enhancement Proposals (similar to FEPs) appears here. When that happens, it often signals something is going in the wrong direction. Each platform should be free to design its own service-specific API and differentiate itself. If everything is forced into a single common denominator, what will justify the long-term existence of multiple platforms?

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