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Spent a great deal of today writing my own Mastodon client that works how I want it to, which I can do because Mastodon’s API policies aren’t awful.
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To everyone's surprise, Toot! v17.0 is out!
This is the first in a series of releases that implement support for new Mastodon features. More will come in the near future, but this version offers:
* Full support for all new types of notifications in Mastodon 4.0, including admin notifications.
* Updated to use more modern versions of various iOS functionality. As a result, however, the minimum supported iOS version is now 13.
* Bugfixes.
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There seems to be a lot of misconceptions about how to set up Mastodon.
1. You do not have to sacrifice a duck. Any waterfowl will do.
2. The bit about dancing around naked in a forest glade? While dancing is fun, you may just walk.
3. When the demon appears, you needn’t chant in Latin. It is fluent in all languages.
The rest of the guide is correct.
Registered for the ConFuzzled lottery. Let’s see if I’m gonna attend a furry convention for the first time in 13 years or not. 👀
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Today, because I woke up at 2:30 in the morning, I learned that Harry "HBomberguy" Brewis is the reason Toots are called Toots, and that it was a fart joke.
I would've missed this forever if it weren't for acid reflux.
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#introduction
Hi y'all, @batbeeps here.
Olive is my other half (in a plural system sense, not a relationship sense) and, well, they wanted their own Mastodon profile. So here it is.
Olive is largely, but not entirely, non-vocal. Toots from them will only occasionally contain words, largely consisting of actions, emojis, images, and sounds.
No promises on how often this will get updated, as Olive's ability and willingness to front can fluctuate a bit too.
Stay fresh, y'all 💜
Goddamn the moment they ignite the SRBs and she just fucking FLIES god I love it 💚💚💚 #Artemis1
I’m pretty sure I’ve mentioned this somewhen in the past, but Adobe Fonts, plz, tell me what OpenType features you have. (You too, Google Fonts.)
Why do I prefer to write my name ‘beeps’ in all lower case?
So that the b mirrors the p.
That’s it. That’s the entire reason.
Now you know.
It's not fully fledged, by any means. We've done what was required for our existing components and for future-proofing.
Unfortunately things like full RTL language support (which I'd have *loved* to do) hit the cutting room floor early on.
Oh, and also it had to work in a way that's backwards compatible with hundreds of existing http://GOV.UK services (some of them partially translated), be WCAG 2.1 AA compilant, and… most painfully of all, it even works in Internet Explorer 8.
"Big whoop," you may think, "you just replaced hardcoded strings with variables."
In some cases, yes. In others, we had to work around hardcoded string interpolation, devise methods of swapping out strings based on other variables, standardise new APIs to do all this with...
Not too often I post about work, but a piece of work I’ve been involved in for most of this year has finally been released: You can now translate every single text string in the http://GOV.UK Design System. All of ‘em!
https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-frontend/releases/tag/v4.4.0
@noiob @awoofriend Are random citizens like I allowed to make federation requests?
A fair few fuzzy artist friends are signing up at mastodon.art after migrating off Twitter and it’s sad not being able to follow or interact with them!
I said I wanted to join cohost so I could shitpost with CSS. Let’s start as we mean to go on.
https://cohost.org/batbeeps/post/253485-div-style-color-wh
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzR68Zq4-Rs big into the math rock, me
I’m pretty sure my job role disallows me from commenting on this, so here’s a link, with no comment.
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/08/home-office-asylum-seeker-trans-transphobia/
Happy Therianthropy Day to my nonhuman kin :>
Wait ’til the biological essentialists get a load of this one.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-63549909
NFC#844
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