It might be different for you because you're catering to a specific niche...

But IMHO bsky and twitter are a very poor way to reach actual gamers.

Smart phones are like little babies, constantly whining for attention with the permission checks, the accounts and the pin codes, the migration wizards, the id scanning, the terms of service, the cookies, the feedback requests, the pop-up ads, the feature tours, the notifications... 😫

Icing on the cake from @fairphone.bsky.social:

Our brand-new $$$ FP6 was soft locked on the TOS approval screen. Checkbox and Next button overlapping so no way to click either.

I got through this by decreasing text size in the accessibility menu.

Without help, my mom would have had to return it.

I had to go through this for half a dozen apps on two separate phones. Draining, exhausting, and impossible to figure out for non-tech people.

As far as I'm concerned, Google, Android, Chrome, ING, DIGID, SIgnal, Samsung and Fairphone all share equal blame in this UX disaster.

4/n

This is then followed by each app eagerly offering to show you around to discover all the new features. Yay!

3/n

Even with the migration wizard, for each app you need to:
* Remember your username & password
* scan passport or ID (in case of banking & digid)
* approve TOS and/or accept cookies
* Set up a new pincode
* Click away ads
* Set permissions for location, notifications, file system, etc.

2/n

Of course that station has changed completely. Back then it looked more like a dirt starter base.

And this Thursday you can find me at #JFall.

I'll be speaking on two topics, no less, and both of them are about #gamification. i18n-puzzles AND the micro frontend game.

Het Duitse equivalent van steenkolenduits

It occurred to me that the examples you give are perfect for the backend-for-frontend pattern, as it's now much easier in Java to combine, bundle, or transform requests to a backend.

There was some discussion on avoiding UTC for *future* timestamps. I'm still looking for good examples (involving instants in time) where UTC doesn't fit. Do you know any?

Yes riding the escalator up while this view unveils, is how Antwerp says "welcome".

Sorry, that should be interactive rebasing. Stupid autocorrect.

I like lazygit a lot for letting you compile a commit out of a few lines in the middle of a file. But I never got the hang of how it does interactive regarding.

Happy Christmas in September 😀