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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Today 16 app updates were “bug fixes and improvements.” But I really enjoyed the one app that said “Bug improvements”. I really hope they didn’t just forget the phrase “fixes and” and the update really does consist of improved bugs. The same bugs, just now they’re worse!
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Andre Louis @FreakyFwoof@universeodon.com
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@fastfinge Something about space time continuum, drunk too much coffee, took the afternoon off. Yep.
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Devin Prater ​:blind:​ @pixelate@tweesecake.social
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@FreakyFwoof @fastfinge YouTube lol.
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Andre Louis @FreakyFwoof@universeodon.com
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@pixelate @fastfinge Yes. And the app is buggy and clearly failing some QC checks.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@FreakyFwoof @pixelate Now that you release your own app, isn’t it fun how angry you get to be at apps like YouTube that go out the door with bugs you wouldn’t let into an app release? Even though they’re a trillion dollar company?
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Andre Louis @FreakyFwoof@universeodon.com
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@fastfinge @pixelate OOOo yes, very damn much. And if there is a stupid bug in mine and it's told to me, I push a release with a single item in the changelog because I don't need to funnel through 512 corporate people and release on a deadline. I just... Do it. Some guy on github has been filing issue after issue and I'm happy about it. It's nice someone cares enough to do so.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@FreakyFwoof @pixelate Thought I had this morning actually. You should make an opt in and totally optional thing, where people upload there system info to you, and then it builds like a website of the average machine configuration of your app users. I suspect most of us are screen reader folks, so it’d be interesting to compare with the stats from other places. Do blind people upgrade slower? Or faster? Do we all have 3 tb hard drives and no video card? Do we tend to have less available RAM and CPU because of screen readers? That kind of thing. I bet the folks at the BBC would be super interested. Maybe they’d even fund a bit of it.
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Andre Louis @FreakyFwoof@universeodon.com
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@fastfinge @pixelate Oh wow I love that idea. It could use the anonymised report option to do that.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@FreakyFwoof @pixelate It would also probably be super helpful to people like NVDA. Is it safe to stop supporting Windows 10? How many people have enough resources to run an AI model if they included one? How many people still have 32 bit machines? Etc.
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Josh @Orinks@mastodon.stickbear.me
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@fastfinge @FreakyFwoof @pixelate Vercel would probably be good to whip up a prototype of that.
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Andre Louis @FreakyFwoof@universeodon.com
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@Orinks @fastfinge @pixelate What's that?
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Josh @Orinks@mastodon.stickbear.me
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@FreakyFwoof @fastfinge @pixelate Website hosting that has a pretty nice free tier and allows you to make backend APIs and such. Can't do that type of thing on shared hosting like Dreamhost etc. If you have a VPS you're good though, can do anything you want.
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Andre Louis @FreakyFwoof@universeodon.com
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@Orinks @fastfinge @pixelate Aah I see. I do have a vps, so will attempt there.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@FreakyFwoof @Orinks @pixelate You also don’t even really need powerful hosting. Like, you could make an account where the app uploads reports via FTP or something. Then run a script every hour that gets the new reports and regenerates the pages with all the statistics. That way you don’t have to worry about the security issues of running your own server all the time.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@FreakyFwoof @Orinks @pixelate The only problem I can’t figure out how to solve is detecting unique machines. Like if I upload the same report 7000 times it could mess up the stats.
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