Yes, that’s exactly what I do when I rename lol

Most of my frustration comes from combining cases insensitive folders/files with git and then running my code on another machine. If you aren’t coding where you have hundreds of files that import other files, I could see this being a non issues.

On Mac when I rename a folder from “FOO” to “foo” git sees them as the same folder so no change is committed. In JavaScript I import a file from “foo” so locally that works. Commit my code and someone else pulls in my changes on their machine. But on their machine the folder is still “FOO” so importing from “foo” doesn’t work.

…and whoever decided a file system should be case insensitive by default, I hate you.

I’m sold! I’m going to subscribe for a month and try it out.

Dropout.tv was created by college human right? Idk if their old videos would hold up today, but I remember liking their content. Nice to know they’re still around.

Tbh I dont use it enough, but I love that’s it no ads like you said. Also feels good to support creators instead of Google. I’ll check out the originals!

Not a fediverse thing, but I pay $5 a month for nebula. I think it’s worth it to support creators. And I believe the whole “if you’re not paying for something you’re the product”. Though you can still be the product even if you do pay.

Lemmy isn’t.

Blorp lol. Don’t ask about the name. Very much a work in progress, but I’m aiming for a public beta in 2ish months. Though I know it’s very likely I’ll be the only one that uses it.

As an Android/iOS app, Blorp will cache the data (and optionally images) offline. So any feeds/posts that are already loaded you will be able to read offline.

Right now that’s the biggest feature setting me apart from Voyager, but I want to keep iterating and improving.

This is the website version, which admittedly is a bit more clunky than the iOS/Android app. https://blorpblorp.xyz/

Yeah I’m curious too! What technical sorcery is OP doing for presumably free API access

And this is actually the issue. As a developer I want to build and app based on what interests me. Then I want to write a post about it.

The comments:

• person 1: Why would you waste your time building an app for that platform, you should build an app for this platform that way less people use”
• person 2: “nah that’s a waste of time you should build an app for this even more niche platform with even less users”
• person 3: “you should just use RSS feeds and anything else is a waste of time”

Me as a developer “thanks guys I just wanted to build an app for a platform I’m passionate about”

Wrote this comment on my own lemmy client, because I like using about lemmy :)

Idk maybe I’m wrong. I worked for a news outlet for a couple years and I just remember generating and parsing XML to be more work then generating a JSON feed.

It’s not even just parsing. I just remember crawling the parsed JSON tree to not be as nice as navigating a JSON object.

But a lot of languages have native support for parsing JSON without the need for a library. When it’s handled by the language, it’s more likely to be done to spec, doesn’t increase bundle size (if that matters to you), and will be considered as updates to the language are made.

I get that the idea of rss is sort of a universal protocol for publishing articles, which is really cool, but damnit if you make me parse XML in 2025. As a developer, I would be ok if they modernized RSS feeds.

Something like this

Did the logo fix everything?

I don’t think anyone else runs a BlueSky server right now except for BlueSky. At last not one with any substantial amount of users. Imo this makes BlueSky a lot less resilient compared to Lemmy or other federated social media.

Will it brick the kid?

Don’t be ridiculous. It’s more like Google search result you click is an ad rather than an organic search result, and that ad… is an ad that’s ai generated… god damnit

Why are people on this sub so quick to label things an “ad”? Someone did it to me yesterday. I wish we could just share interesting things we find on this sub.

Rober made a cool project, gave a really good explanation for what goes into engineering the satellite (see YouTube video announcement), and made a website so you can upload jobs to the satellite yourself. It’s free if you’re a Crunchlabs subscriber, and if you’re not, you can choose to make a donation to help a kid learn engineering.

If you’re not interested in donating, you can still watch the video and learn a lot about launching small satellites free of charge.