@aeva @aud @archenoth Honestly doesn't seem like the worst thing to have missed if you already had enough cursed stuff to be thinking about

@aud @archenoth It *should* have been!!

@archenoth Twitter launched its first single-page app in 2011, and back then most web browsers didn't support rewriting URLs without causing the browser to actually do new fetches. So Twitter changed its URL structure, sticking a #! (the hashbang) between the domain and all routes, to ensure that all routes resolved client-side. Twitter links looked something like twitter.com/#!/horse_ebooks instead of twitter.com/horse_ebooks.

https://isolani.co.uk/blog/javascript/BreakingTheWebWithHashBangs

Just encountered a real, honest to goodness twitter hashbang link in the wild. Unsurprisingly modern twitter’s webapp has no idea how to resolve them anymore.

@aud Right? I thought I'd miss it at first - like, oh, maybe I'll miss reading up on posts from certain feeds or something. But no! It turns out that having a chronological timeline of posts without a "read/unread" state means I'm *more* likely to read something, not less? It's great.

An absolutely killer feature for me is that you can pick how posts are rendered from a feed by default: you can pick between the HTML right from the feed, the full original webpage, or the webpage in a reader view. You can configure this *per feed*, not just per folder, which is really granular. I follow a number of blogs with opinionated and very readable webpage layouts, so it's nice to get to set those as the default view.

I've been trying the new Reeder as an RSS reader recently, and I'm really impressed. It's so different from how other readers work I wasn't sure I'd be able to get into it or not.

The big thing is it doesn't have unread counts anymore. Instead, you're intended to browse feeds like a social media timeline, and your position is synced between devices so you can pick up where you left off. It's surprisingly effective - it's helping me keep up to date with some feeds I used to miss.

It’s so funny seeing people get invested in Mastodon vs Bluesky fights when Threads has 250 million active users. We’re fighting over who’s 3rd or 4th place. Feels pointless. Like yeah Threads is a cultural void, but arguing over whether Bluesky or Mastodon has more users means nothing.

Pyroclastic flow? The Enya song?

@petrichor @fishcat My wife just introduced me to Red Dwarf - we watched that episode just last week. Kind of perfect timing!

@fishcat What’s today’s fish?

Absolutely incredible exchange here https://www.theverge.com/24285581/gm-software-baris-cetinok-apple-carplay-android-auto-google-cars-evs-decoder-podcast

Sometimes Sazae-san strips are hard to pin down to a specific time… and then sometimes it’s *very* exact

That's true. When you think about it.

Some truly bright criminal minds in the latest issue of Citation Needed https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-69/

Move to Canada I guess

Actually, it's kinda funny that right now it's possible to migrate a Mastodon account's post history to Bluesky, timestamps intact, but not possible to do it on Mastodon itself…

Having a Mastodon server I have an account on shut down is making me wish again there were *some* kind of solution for migrating post history when moving instances. Even if it's only a few months' worth, I don't want to lose my old posts!

(Not this one, don't worry)

@bcj We *should* have neighbouring Vancouvers. Warring Vancouvers. We could have a three-way rivalry with Vancouver Island

It's surreal seeing posts about ballot boxes in "Vancouver" hit by arson while we're in the middle of an election recount here - turns out that's Vancouver, Washington, not here