Only basic path handling so far but it's very tidy: https://codeberg.org/oppenlab/OppenURI
Having different dependencies in Android app variants, I posted a version of this on works Slack and they asked me to expand on it for inclusion on their tech blog, so I wrote it up on my own site, basic stuff really but I'd not done it before:
Covid, work stress, usual moaning
Covid test was negative so just a cold on top of being exhausted. I have asked work for a permanent 4 day week today though so will see what they say. I also went on a massive rant about the state of the project I'm on. It's no wonder I get a reputation as a miserable curmudgeon, but life is hard enough at the moment without suffering badly managed projects on top of it all. #theVent
Web link for those who don't want to use the Play Store: https://oppen.digital/software/phaedra/
I've not had any negative feedback but I think I'll write a post in defense of the burger menu. It's as old as time (Xerox days) but it got a load of negative press a few year back in UX circles around bad discoverability. What people were really commenting on was the Android Navigation Drawer... now that was/is a painful bit of ui.
Phaedra is up on the Play Store now: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=oppen.phaedra it's still alpha, lots to do but I'm liking the simplicity compared to Ariane (both have their place though I think). Next job is to concentrate on refactoring and bug fixes in Ariane, the codebase is far more complex than it needs to be. #gemini
Found this on lemmy:
https://www.sustaphones.com/
Should've been asleep hours ago but I've been adding features to Phaedra. Now has bookmarks, and you can set a home capsule, and you can override the background colour. Will upload tomorrow. #gemini
I worked on the UK PNC years ago in another life, what most people don't know is it's still an old school mainframe system from the 1970s or something: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/jan/16/priti-patel-faces-increasing-pressure-over-deletion-of-police-records
All modern tooling the police use to access the PNC is just a very bad service wrapped around a screen scraper...
"A Pixel is Not a Little Square"
Alvy Ray Smith, 1995
https://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/fall00/cs426/papers/smith95b.pdf
Covid, tired, ill
Covid test booked for the morning. Just feels like a common cold, but unfortunately that's what Covid feels like too. Got a cough and running hot and cold so...
Loving the amount of #Gemini links on my timeline. It may still be a small bubble/community but we've reached a point where a capsule is as convenient and natural as posting a website. When I hop back here after following a capsule link, then click a link to a website it's jarring how noisy and cluttered they all are.
I agree that HTML, CSS and JS are more of a problem than HTTP as this author suggests gemini://ebc.li/rambling/alternative-web.gmi
The vision for gmi-web is to abstract those things into something as simple as #gemini in a standardish way and then idc if you use Gemini or HTTP really, I happen to prefer Gemini clients.
Heathen developer with two feral children. Autistic, half deaf.