Dag Ågren @WAHa_06x36@mastodon.social

Ok, I lied, I will make some videos of my Mastodon client and the animations I’ve been doing for it.

Here’s some toot browsing: https://mastodon.social/media/dkUgbMzMf7zdjOVH8G4

Is anyone having a problem with Toot! crashing on startup?

There is a bug with caches getting corrupted and causing this kind of crash, but to fix it properly I'd really to get a hold of a copy of one of the crashing cache files.

(If you delete the app and reinstall, it will start working again, but then I can't get that cache file to investigate.)

No matter how much I know Bitcoin is 100% bullshit, seeing stuff like this still makes me stop and wonder what on earth is going on.

Like, sure, somebody suddenly buys a lot and the price goes up. But there is no further reaction at all? Everybody just goes "Oh I guess we are trading at a higher price now, oh well."

Co-worker's laptop just glitched so hard he started bleeding from his nose.

Borzoi pride. https://mastodon.social/media/jbuNYldZBt78xQDgQ5g

Ok, I decided to go with GitHub for now after all.

https://github.com/DagAgren/toot/issues

Here's the issue tracker for Toot!. I've added a lot of the issues I know of, but probably not quite all. If you have one that is missing from there, do add it! And vote for anything you would really like to see.

Struggling with a decision here:

I want to set up a bug tracker for Toot! finally, but: I currently use Bitbucket to host my repo, because they support mercurial. But their bug tracking, and most of their UI in general, is lacklustre.

I could set up a separate tracker using GitHub - their UI is significantly better, and more people use it anyway - but I never really liked GitHub, even before they got bought.

Haven't really seen any other bug trackers that weren't fairly terrible, or obscure.

I am planning on setting up a proper bugtracker now, hopefully tomorrow. We shall see.

This release was supposed to be out two weeks ago, but I got bogged down in refactoring and inventing new architectural primitives. I hate programming sometimes.

New in this version:

* Settings! You can now configure Toot! per instance, and you can manage, order, add and remove instances finally! Not all settings are implemented yet, but some very useful ones are.
* Absolutely no bugfixes.

It’s that time again! Releasing another new beta of my iOS client, "Toot!". It is getting closer to fully functional! From here on I will be focusing more on filling in the small bits of missing functionality and bugfixing, rather than adding new big features, to try to push towards 1.0. If you are already a tester, you should get a notification soon. If you are not, but want to be, message me here or on paracelsus@gmail.com and give me an Apple ID email!

Obviously I am thinking about all of this now that Pixar is in the news for being such a horrible environment to work in, and I am wondering if that is what ended up rubbing off into the actual works?

Or am I just imagining that now that I was told about it?

Either way, Pixar. I don't really like them.

The thing that bothers me is that the tone of the events and the humour always seems just a little bit off? It doesn't feel that genuine? It doesn't feel like whoever created it was actually feeling the emotions they are trying to evoke, perhaps, and they end up clashing in subtly weird ways?

I've watched "good" Pixar films and "bad" Pixar films, and I slightly struggle to tell the difference. "The Good Dinosaur" is supposed to be a "bad" Pixar film, but it only feels like it's a bit less meticulously constructed? Which I kind of prefer, even if it is more boring? It feels a bit more real?

So. I think it's time to dump unpopular opinions on people who have no interest at all in hearing them. That means you!

Pixar.

I don't like them, not really. There is something off about their films. Somehow they feel like they were written by someone who spent their life studying emotions, became a master at them, yet never felt one themselves.

There is something robotic, something clinical about how they progress through their character arcs.

It creeps me out.

https://mastodon.social/media/2pnSyFCtWgkPblI_eAc

Remember Google Plus?

It still exists!

Remember when genetic algorithms were cool? When everyone was writing a glorified gradient ascent and calling it a genetic algorithm and getting it spammed all over social media?

It's good that we don't do that any more.

https://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/1009897352323162113?s=21