David A Flood
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David A Flood
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PhD New Testament and Early Christianity, University of Edinburgh (UK); Arts and Humanities Research Computing at Harvard University
This CloudFlare outage took down Apatosaurus v2, but not for anyone who installed the PWA from their browser
November 18, 2025 at 12:59 PM
- Notifying the user of their sync status based only on internet access is not sufficient. It might be the case that the server goes down. If so, then the user still needs to be able to do their work but still be notified of the gap in sync.
November 17, 2025 at 6:01 PM
- The current offline/online status needs to be clearly communicated to the user. "Clearly" being the keyword because in the case of Apatosaurus, there are multiple databases to sync locally. One per transcription document _and_ one for the other metadata.
November 17, 2025 at 6:01 PM
My working working theory for offline capable apps that do work on data:

- If the app allows editing data offline, then it had better have a robust mechanism for "catching up" when back online.
November 17, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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January 29, 2025 at 5:32 PM
That's great!
January 16, 2025 at 12:28 PM
I would guess it's an indexing bug. Maybe you updated the file, which triggered a reindexing, and instead of replacing that index entry, a new one was appended.
December 31, 2024 at 2:11 AM
Fantastic!
December 7, 2024 at 2:27 PM
This is great! Glad you were able to snag the perfect domain too.
November 25, 2024 at 1:10 PM
I sympathize as I also have to sit out this year.
November 19, 2024 at 6:31 AM