JC Brand @jcbrand@mastodon.xyz

🎵 Mastodon to the left of me, Pleroma to the right, here I am, stuck in the middle with you 🎵

The absolute best thing ever about starting your own open source project, is that you don't have to defend your coding style or design decisions to anyone.

Back when I started Converse.js it was a revelation to me. Suddenly programming was fun again.

I could do whatever I wanted with the code and didn't have to justify it to anyone.

Of course, if the code sucks, you're 100% to blame haha

After all these years together, my wife has become a metalhead. I guess it finally rubbed off on her.

The other day I was listening to Anubis by Septic Flesh and to my surprise she remarked that she also really likes that song.

https://open.spotify.com/track/2RMG3QSgPaSaQPHRODEj2F?si=rCV46zYkQQKL7KMjQ3TFyw

Tired of the incessant cookie consent popups that clueless Eurocrats thought would make the world a better place (but instead resulted in the opposite)?

Use the Cookie Autodelete plugin together with uBlock Origin to permanently hide them.

Game changer.

#ConverseJS users have had their localStorage fill up, breaking the app.

I added support for IndexedDB (which has no size limit) many months ago, but performance took a big hit.

Luckily I finally found a solution, asynchronously batching writes together by using a debounced function that merges all its passed in parameters.

I've written a blog post explaining more:
https://opkode.com/blog/2021-05-05-mergebounce-indexeddb

I believe this makes IndexedDB ready for prime time with the next release.

#XMPP

Two years ago I got a nice audiophile sound system and since then I've been buying CDs at fleah markets and on eBay.

There's something special about listening to a whole album start to finish that's lost when listening to a Spotify playlist with algorithmic suggestions.

Currently listening to Dummu Borgir - Puritanical Misanthropic Euphoria. Great black metal album.

Is there a way to show your favourites publicly?

I'd like someone to else to see the posts I've favourited.

About 20 years ago there was much hand-wringing and worrying about the "digital divide'.

The idea that lots of poorer people don't have access to computers and the Internet and are therefore left out of the new economy.

Well, now even the bum under the bridge has a pocket computer, but there's a new digital divide.

Those with technical skills will be able to maintain much higher levels of privacy and autonomy online then those who don't.