Notices by deutrino (deutrino@mstdn.io), page 23

@kaniini Hey, how's #litepub going? Trying to reverse engineer a list of API endpoints to implement for Mastodon federation compatibility, and existing docs are ... sub-optimal, to say the least. #ActivityPub

Researchers build first 3-person brain-to-brain communications network using EEGs and TMS devices, allowing users to play a simple Tetris analog: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612212/the-first-social-network-of-brains-lets-three-people-transmit-thoughts-to-each-others-heads/

#cyberpunk #cybernetics #telepathy #telecom #neuroscience #BrainComputerInterface #BCI #soon

A more basal reason why I get mad when I see 'node install' (or 'pip install' to be fair) under "Installation" in a program's docs, is that it speaks to the existence of a fast-growing class of software which makes BIG assumptions about potential users, chief among them that they want an entire development toolchain on their system to run what should be distributed as a single fucking executable! All the bloat of Electron, none of the ease. #UXfail

A more basal reason why I get mad when I see 'node install' (or 'pip install' to be fair) under "Installation" in a program's docs, is that it speaks to the existence of a fast-growing class of software which makes BIG assumptions about potential users, chief among them that they want an entire development toolchain on their system to run what should be distributed as a single fucking executable! All the bloat of Electron, none of the ease. #UXfail

...and NONE of the people who've written an #OpenAPI documentation rendering tool can be bothered to ship a package for it.

(Except a node package. Some of them can ship those. By god, I've made it to late 2018 without installing an ENTIRE DEVELOPMENT ECOSYSTEM to run somebody's stupid tool, I'm not about to start now.)

((I'm just going to pretty-print the JSON and dump it in my issue tracker and call it good, no thanks to any of these helpful tools.))

I'm trying to find docs on the federation API for Masto et al. Mistake #1, I know. Anyway I found a GNUsocial plugin somebody is writing; the API is specified in JSON using a standard called #OpenAPI 3.

Great, I think, surely there's a web tool to generate docs from this definition. Lo, there are several! All written with hip JS frameworks du jour.

Not a single fucking ONE of them can produce an intelligible printout, nor save intelligible HTML. Not one.

Fortunately I got my anger out in advance by writing comments about how bad Electron is while I was stuck waiting for the bus :D

And not like... tofu font boxes, I mean rounded-corners, is apparently some kind of tag or something boxes.

It wasn't doing this literally two minutes before, but now it is.

So again: (╯¬‿¬)╯︵ ┻━┻

Oh cool, Gitlab suddenly decided to start dropping boxes into my issue titles whenever I type a colon.

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@RussSharek Yeah. We'd need some way to preserve history.

@RussSharek Good to know. Not sure what's going on, I've got a user whose join doesn't seem to be syncing. Ah well, I suppose we'll either figure it out or maybe just use Jabber.

So I tried a #Riot / #Matrix room (on a different server than riot.im, in an attempt to be a good federated citizen) with encryption, and that was pretty terrible, so I tried one without, and it doesn't seem able to present a fully consistent view to people who've joined or are trying to join. Is this the current state of the platform (with encryption turned off), or am I experiencing weird rare problems that are unlikely to keep happening a lot?

@rick_777 Thanks, definitely have stared at those docs a while but they're pretty hard to understand from an app-building perspective. I think what I'm looking for is "given ActivityPub, here is an example of actually implementing $trivial_social_app."

Is there any overview out there about how to talk to e.g. the Mastodon backend, Pleroma, etc, that is higher level than raw API docs? Trying to find a good place to start, and digging through code and the blog posts I've seen so far isn't getting in my brain. #mastodev #fedidev #pleromadev

and the winner for worst possible answer to an innocent nerd question IS: https://askubuntu.com/questions/75530/how-do-i-install-and-manage-gnome-shell-extensions

#Gnome #Packaging #PackageManager #SoftwareFail

A functional test suite for the #Pleroma back end would also be a functional test suite for any drop-in replacement, including those not yet written... #fediverse #mastodev #TDD

A functional test suite for #Pleroma would also be a functional test suite for any compatible API, including those not yet written... #fediverse #mastodev #TDD