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Chee Aun 🤔

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Product-1st Front-end Engineer, based in Singapore. Currently on a career break since July '22. Working on a Mastodon web client https://phanpy.social/ and Bluesky web client https://swablu.pages.dev/ 👉👉 @cheeaun.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

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Chee Aun 🤔 @cheeaun.com · Dec 26

Oh well, introducing Swablu, my yet another hard-to-pronounce web client, this time for Bsky.

Note that this is very early, experimental and buggy. Feel free to play around https://swablu.pages.dev/ and look at the code https://github.com/cheeaun/swablu

Chee Aun 🤔 @cheeaun.com · Dec 12

Been working on this for the past few days. Very experimental, early, buggy, and NOT complete.

1️⃣ One small sneak peek for now.

For those who don't know me, I created Phanpy (web client for Mastodon) that has *a lot* of these kind of UI ideas & experiments. This allows me to experiment more.

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Chee Aun 🤔 @cheeaun.com · 3d

Yeah, I get that too. Though some of them are perhaps a bit misinformed.

For me, one of the cases are those who turn on 'Lockdown mode' on iOS 100% all the time, which disables quite a lot of web features 😩

Chee Aun 🤔 @cheeaun.com · 3d

Just thinking how many would think so 🤔. I mean, many other features could secretly track users too.

If users think of this last-tracked old/new replies as tracking, it's probably some form of inherited expectation from other apps 🤔

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Chee Aun 🤔 @cheeaun.com · 3d

why shady?

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Chee Aun 🤔 @cheeaun.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11d

Just submitted my entry for https://badux.lol/ (Bad UX World Cup) 🤞

The other entries are just too good. Mine: https://cheeaun.github.io/clockwork-date-picker/

#badux #datepicker

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Chee Aun 🤔 @cheeaun.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13d

Got bored. Made this. https://codepen.io/cheeaun/pen/OPMvRJO

Seems to work best on Firefox. Weird bottom margin on Chrome. Laggy on Safari. #css #marquee #codepen

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Chee Aun 🤔 @cheeaun.com · 14d

Test.

Also, this modal need to be scrollable if exceeds viewport height 😬

Chee Aun 🤔 @cheeaun.com · 17d

Test Red Dwarf

Chee Aun 🤔 @cheeaun.com · Sep 19

Chee Aun 🤔 @cheeaun.com · Aug 22

Is @bsky.app considering adding this feature from Threads?

I only found this issue github.com/bluesky-soci... (Feb 2025)

A post by wongmjane: "Threads added this neat little thread indicator"

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Chee Aun 🤔 @cheeaun.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 16

Kinda disappointed that the resize cursor doesn't smoothly rotate around the curves of the window edges.

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Chee Aun 🤔 @cheeaun.com · Sep 9

Kinda but this one is private tho'. I know that at some point, folks will bookmark too many things, to a point where they need to organize them or search for them fast.

"Unread" folder would be nice too, which can be a read-later service. Auto-unbookmark once read 🙈

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Chee Aun 🤔 @cheeaun.com · Sep 9

how about bookmarks but with folders/tagging? 🙈

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Emelia @thisismissem.social · Sep 6

Recently there has been a lot of dividing & heated discourse about ActivityPub and AT Protocol.

Yesterday at the Social Web CG meeting, I proposed releasing a statement on this discourse, you can read the full statement here:

github.com/swicg/genera...

#activitypub #atprotocol #atproto #SocialWeb

github.com

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anisota @anisota.net · Sep 5

It's been 2 weeks since beta launch and we'd love to hear from you...

What features, bugs, or design patterns cause you to choose other Bluesky/ATProto clients over @anisota.net still?

Your input will help inform what gets prioritized and focused on! 🕯️

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Chee Aun 🤔 @cheeaun.com · Sep 4

uh… this kinda works 😅

Idea from @patak.dev few months ago bsky.app/profile/pata...

Randomly revisiting this codebase to upgade dependencies 🤷‍♂️

#SwabluDev

Screenshot of a Bluesky post. Quotes button showing a preview of quotes quoting the post.

Quotes button expanded, showing list of quotes of the post.

Chee Aun 🤔 @cheeaun.com · Sep 2

I see… 🤔

Samuel @samuel.fm · Sep 2

mutewords are stuffed into the Preferences API, which is super jank and terrible. super easy for 3rd party apps to accidentally wipe all your data, and (more importantly for bookmarks) have a size limit of some amount of megabytes, so it's not sufficient for this use case

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Chee Aun 🤔 @cheeaun.com · Aug 22

Is @bsky.app considering adding this feature from Threads?

I only found this issue github.com/bluesky-soci... (Feb 2025)

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Chee Aun 🤔 @cheeaun.com · Aug 22

Is @bsky.app considering adding this feature from Threads?

I only found this issue github.com/bluesky-soci... (Feb 2025)

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Chee Aun 🤔 @cheeaun.com · Aug 22

which ideas?

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Chee Aun 🤔 @cheeaun.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 21

Weird flex, both @elk and @phanpy are mentioned on "Introduction to AT Protocol" https://mackuba.eu/2025/08/20/introduction-to-atproto/

via HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44965233

Introduction to Bluesky's AT Protocol

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Chee Aun 🤔 @cheeaun.com · Aug 20

Mutes are private, right? 🤔

🌈 TOKIMEKI Bluesky 🍺 @tokimeki.blue · Aug 20

I am implementing a bookmark feature in TOKIMEKI, and the main reason why this feature is not implemented in the official app is probably because of the requirement that bookmarks should be private. (1/3)

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Chee Aun 🤔 @cheeaun.com · Aug 20

Basically leaving the page open in the background for the soundscape 🙈

Chee Aun 🤔 @cheeaun.com · Aug 20

Testing @anisota.net

dame @dame.is · Aug 20

it's been a long time coming, but i'm happy to share that my latest creative project is finally here...

@anisota.net is an experimental social client (and game!) for Bluesky and the AT Protocol

i built it for me because i'm kinda weird and needed an equally weird way to experience social media 🕯️

anisota @anisota.net · Aug 20

Welcome.
Anisota is here.
Step inside.

🕯️ anisota.net 🕯️

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Joe Fabisevich @mergesort.me · Aug 14

Threads continues to ship one feature after another from the idealized roadmap I left for my coworkers at Twitter when I left the company back in 2022.

fabisevi.ch/2022/04/01/g...

hashtagheyalexa 5h
Okay, @Threads automatically labeling threaded posts with the #/# bit now is actually quite nice.

• Thread marker. Instead of users manually writing 1/25
to signify the first of a 25-tweet thread, since we know how many tweets are in a thread we should show a little bubble on the tweet in the top right corner that says (1/25). It'll save people precious characters and let threads grow in size without having to know how long they'll be upfront.

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Ernest is: on transit! 🚌🚇🚅 @ernestonpt.bsky.social · Aug 14

Fascinating to see BusRouter, an unofficial bus route visualisation tool developed by @cheeaun.com, used by Bus Controllers at Operation Control Centres operated by official transit agencies

Not everything has to be proprietary - what’s open is often also decent

Page of busrouter.sg previewed by a bus operator at Woodlands Bus Operations Control Centre

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Chee Aun 🤔 @cheeaun.com · Aug 6

wait lol the what

Code for post-thread.ts that sorts post records that contains "📌".