Threads for lucian
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I continued to redesign Subreply and this weekend it gets a completely new sidebar to improve one hand usage on mobile devices.
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I implemented account data export for Subreply using StrictYAML. Last weekend I increased the character limit from 480 to 640.
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I finally decided to implement a character counter for Subreply. The good thing is the ASCII only input which makes str.length work as expected in JavaScript.
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Curious about subreply, since I also make a forum discussion for my community. At first I make it very plain just ‘post’ and ‘comments’, with same reason. But after a while, community start asking for features like wysiwig, reply on reply, etc.. what will you do if similar things happen? Good luck BTW
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A private contact form for Subreply.
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I’m working on Pybench, a Python benchmarks suite inspired by Geekbench.
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Everything is monolithic until you split up code based on functionality.
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New release of Iosevka—a font for coders—now has variable width and expanded width variants
SF Mono is all I need.
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Can you not just take any other web browser, change its user agent to match a mobile browser, and then shrink the window? Firefox even has a “responsive design mode” built right in that’s two-clicks away.
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You have to change the user agent on other browsers and even then you might not trigger the mobile version. Apple WebView + iPhone UA + iPhone sized viewport = mobile web on desktop.
Try to browser mobile version of LinkedIn on any browser. On Monochrome works exactly like on iPhone.
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For my site (link on profile), I use PHP to dynamically create a blog from source files. In my case the source file is a single JSON file. I can write a Hugo/Jekyll compatible CMS in PHP that generates content dynamically.
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Chromium should get a fork at this point. No way we can allow every bad script to run in the browser. From a security stand point, this is the worst thing that can happen on the web.
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How about https://iridiumbrowser.de/ ?
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What exactly is this? A general/tech-inclining news aggressor? Where do the links come from? Some AI or are they scraped from various sources like a planet site? What relation does this have to https://sub.cafe – a parallel project, or is there some connection between the two?
Just posting a link like this is confusing and doesn’t say much. Add a comment if you know more, or maybe add a short note to the title “Newscafe: An AI-based news aggressor”or whatever it is – would help a lot.
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Found this poking around a bit:
Newscafe is my newest project and it’s up at news.sub.cafe. Right now it fetches some RSS feeds and ranks the links by number of shares on Facebook. But it can be much more with better sources and interesting metadata.
(Here)[https://sub.cafe/lucian/] (Sorry can’t find a way to link to a specific post.)
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I working on Newscafe (news.sub.cafe). It includes links from the front page of Lobsters too. I will try to improve quality of news this week. Ideas about how to achieve that are welcomed.
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First of all, congrats on launching!
Could you share a bit more of its story? I’m interested whether this service has any basic use case, or you just built it for the fun (which is perfectly fine!)
One of the messages says:
Messages are grouped in channels like they are on Slack and voted like they are on Reddit. It’s using mentions like on the first version of Twitter. The only thing in common with sublevel.net is the tech stack and the fact is they are both created by me. There’s filtering of bad messages and blocking of multiple consecutive messages. Private messaging will come later.
So it’s like Twitter, but messages can be voted, and hashtags define channels?
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Hi, the markup looks solid and neat.
- Is the site open-source?
- Can you share information about the tech stack?
- The page mentions sublevel, created by you, sharing the tech-stack. So I went to the sublevel site from the link in your profile and found a message stating it is “now open source”, but I can’t find a link to the source code repository, will you please share it here?
Great job, thanks for posting!
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- Not yet.
- Django 2.0, PostgreSQL, Pillow for images, Gunicorn, Jinja2, Sass for themes, django-cleanup and django-simple-captcha. A VPS form DigitalOcean running Ubuntu 16.04 which is faster than 18.04.
- Released the code for Sublevel then Microsoft acquired GitHub the next day, so I removed it.
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Seems nice, any plans to open source the software? And maybe allow federation? Creating an account on a closed-source and centralized service is an insta-no for me unfortunately.
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What are the benefits of federation?
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Federation means that a few things become possible;
For one, if you dont trust the admin of your instance or find it has become “toxic” you can switch to another one or start your own.
Secondly, it gives easy support for themed instances, where while the backend remains the same, the frontend parts can be edited to better support a specific interest, mastodon does it very well and secure scuttlebutt can go even further than that.
Also, since people tend to group by interests, it’s not impossible to have an instance be “nazi” themed or “loli” themed, but most federated protocols tend to have an option to ignore part of the federation, not a plus for federation, but more of a reason why it’s not a minus either.
Now this is all made possible by simply open sourcing an application, gitlab and lobsters do that very well. But the implementation of a federation protocol allows all these different instances to communicate together very easily, which strengthens the network as a whole.
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A bit disappointing that this uses GoogleAds. Not sure what ads add to this website.
Sorry, I have Ka-Block! and I didn’t notice any ads on the site.
Well I didn’t either, I looked at the JS loaded to show these pages (with umatrix) and saw that googleads was included. :) I can understand the usage of some kind of tracking to improve the website (which it might be used for), but not sure overall of the point of googleAds here.
It’s similar to the point of ads on most pages: the people who publish the page are hoping to make some money.
Indeed, although on these kind of sites, there isn’t any ads usually so I was surprised.