Notices by Sorin Davidoi (sorin@toot.cafe), page 13

@Clipsey Living in Copenhagen for the last couple of years (originally from 🇷🇴 Romania).

:android: :chrome: Any takers for implementing the Web Share Target API in Mastodon?

It just landed in Chrome Canary on Android and it would take integration with the operating system to the next level, allowing users to easily share text from other applications in Mastodon.

For use-case see https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/5850

If you are annoyed by the Firefox scroll bars in Mastodon, you can apply some custom CSS (with Stylus) to hide them.

Stylus: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/styl-us/
CSS: https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/5562#issuecomment-341681307

https://toot.cafe/media/RtG8gEiRCqsJ_FFUdKk

@Katharsisdrill I've seen this chubby fella in the park almost every time I've been there for the past two years 😍 https://toot.cafe/media/GzO9YbJzPfVZJuHh938

@Katharsisdrill Did you see the orange kitty? 🐱

@GNUDuffer Totally feel you. Donated via Patreon to a group of independent journalists that produced new and interesting content, but they totally didn't get how Patreon works. No updates, no engagement, no sneak peaks, no perks - they set it up as a donation box.

Would be interesting to see if the model Brave proposes catches on - would have preferred if they made it as an extension though, as I don't intent to switch browsers anytime soon.

@zatnosk I've started hacking together one but I haven't gotten far: https://github.com/sorin-davidoi/cobalt

Would love to see a follow up to the analysis The New York Times did in 2015 regarding the impact of ads on data usage. Doubt things improved - but then again when most of us refuse to pay and use ad-blockers, we kind of leave them with no choice.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/10/01/business/cost-of-mobile-ads.html

When you block images to save data - downside of using emoji packs. https://toot.cafe/media/A7mBx8gZ4zP8yw4I1p8

Best time to report Firefox bugs: before sleep, while in bed, from your phone.

The phone is important - elevates your frustration with Bugzilla to a whole new level.

It's not the DOM, stupid!™️

@nolan @unarist @bea @ashkitten Looked some more into this and opened on issue for react-swipeable-view. TLDR the library is animating the right thing, but React just adds too much overhead when updating the DOM.

Took some time today to investigate why the swipe animations in Mastodon are janky in Firefox on Android. Of course the reason is too much JavaScript :mystery:

@mlcdf Looking forward to Isle of Dogs 😍

@nolan Well at least Twitter doesn't survive :blobpats:

@soapdog Finally submitted a bug report for this: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1411349