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    lattera avatar lattera 3 years ago | link | on: Shrimper - Lobste.rs reader for Android

    Very nice. The lobste.rs interface isn’t too bad on mobile already, but I’d love a native implementation. Great work and I look forward to testing out the beta.

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      jcs avatar jcs 3 years ago | link

      FWIW there is also Pinchy.

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        miah avatar miah 3 years ago | link

        Last commit to Pinchy was on May 5, 2014. Maybe abandoned?

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          birkelund avatar birkelund 3 years ago | link

          It might actually just be “finished” :)

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            miah avatar miah 3 years ago | link

            It would be the first piece of software in history to be such then ;)

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            mongey avatar mongey edited 3 years ago | link

            I actually pushed an update for it recently enough (June 2nd), after someone emailed me with a request. I guess I forgot to push the source to github though.

            I swapped to iOS recently, so haven’t been actively developing, because I don’t use it. But I’m happy to update it if people have suggestions

            Edit: pushed latest to dev branch ….

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          Lethargicpanda avatar Lethargicpanda 3 years ago | link

          Thanks! The invites are on their way!

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          mongey avatar mongey 4 years ago | link | on: What are you working on this week?

          I’m going to fix up some issues with the lobste.rs android app link.

          Notably fixing up links to ask questions & hopefully add collapsible comments.

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            umanwizard avatar umanwizard 4 years ago | link | on: Pinchy: A Lobste.rs android app

            Nice, can’t wait for the iOS version :)

            By the way, the name sounds a lot like “pinche”, a moderate-severity expletive in Mexican Spanish. Not sure if that’s serious enough to merit changing the name.

            Other than that, pretty exciting!

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              mongey avatar mongey 4 years ago | link

              Thanks! The name actually came from the lobster in The Simpsons

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                xyz avatar xyz 4 years ago | link

                True story.

                I graduated High School early and decided to travel Mexico at 17. My poor gringo ears heard the word “pinche” and thought that Mexicans really must like to “pinch” people.

                I also got slapped for using the word “excitado” to ask a girl if she was excited about the football match. Unbeknownst to me, and what my english-spanish dictionary failed to mention, was that “excitado” is slang for horny. My friend later told me that with my poor broken spanish, I basically asked her if Football got her wet.

                Ah, what a young, naive, pup I was.

                1. hrjet avatar hrjet 4 years ago | link

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                    xyz avatar xyz 4 years ago | link

                    Heheh. To be a fly on the wall…

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                mongey avatar mongey 4 years ago | link | on: What are you working on this week?

                I’ll be working on an iOS/Android client for lobste.rs called Pinchy!

                I made a start on the iOS client over the weekend, and have some basic functionality done.

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                  jcs avatar jcs 4 years ago | link

                  Cool! Have you seen this Github issue about a previous attempt? The API never fully materialized because OAuth scares me.

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                    mongey avatar mongey 4 years ago | link

                    Yeah, I’ve seen that. At the moment I’m just parsing the HTML; I didn’t want to get caught up in the server side of it quite yet.

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                      srgpqt avatar srgpqt 4 years ago | link

                      Beware, the HTML structure is quite prone to changing.

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                        jcs avatar jcs 4 years ago | link

                        @mongey: Yes, even without an authenticated API, fetching JSON representations of pages would be much easier. Just stick .json at the end of a story ID like https://lobste.rs/s/e04ccq.json

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                        don avatar don 4 years ago | link

                        How are you parsing the HTML?

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                          mongey avatar mongey 4 years ago | link

                          Using https://github.com/topfunky/hpple

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                      izolate avatar izolate 4 years ago | link

                      I had a short play with making an Android lobste.rs client. I’m still very interested in this. Are you open to collaboration on Pinchy for Android? I also bring UI design skills to table.