Hello everyone, I’m back with another update for the #pwa!
I finally planned out how the app will be built.
First I’ll clean the project structure to be standalone and not as a theme, then I will work on every part separately, trying to be contained to let everyone try it out fast.
For the API I’ll be using this as a reference, @prologic@twtxt.net help me if there’s anything missing there apart from what we already said (bookmark, etc.)
The first part will be the Discover view with no auth.
I’m always been a fan of tiny and minimal tools, usually a quick glance is enough for me to understand if something is in my style.
Before replying to you I actually checked the source code of pass as a reference and was welcomed with walls of text that felt pretty unappealing to me.
(#ubj45tq) @novaburst@twt.nfld.uk You call it an actually boring password manager yet It’s really inspiring on how much you can strip down and still have something so versatile that you’ll actually use as an alternative over pass. 😲
Seems like the SSL certificate for tilde.team expired. Maybe twters following my feed from Gemini will have some problems with that. But this should be fixed, soon! ☺️
(#53wqhjq) @prologic@twtxt.net Yeah, I saw gopass and the android client too but I don’t like the fact that I have to take around a gpg key, I prefer having something deterministic of easily replicable even without the original at hand.
(#53wqhjq) @novaburst@twt.nfld.uk Did you fork it from pass or is something completely different? I was thinking of building one myself for a while now.
I don’t even keep my own passwords written anywhere, I just need to remember the username, that’s why I thought of using a stateless approach AND a password manager for the others accounts.
(#puslfoq) @novaburst@twt.nfld.uk I too have to keep track of lot on accounts, I use an org-mode file to know where I have which account.
I even have to keep track of other people’s accounts too, luckily only for storage purpose, since they can’t understand the importance of remembering their own passwords, I can count to over 140 in total. 😭
(#xd6wama) @prologic@twtxt.net Having everything under one endpoint is better for other integration too I think.
I’m missing endpoints because I didn’t see them under the spec page, I should check the repo then, I’m also missing the response structure, but I can directly look it up later when working on the API.
I can’t say much about the theme decision but I think who choose that should know that the NEED JavaScript if they want to change it back and to see anything in the first place, that also means that we need an API for selecting the theme for the #pwa too.
For mitigate the risks we should have a noscript tag with a description and a static link or action to revert the decision, it can be tested via lynx or any other cli browsers, I can’t help there for now through.
For now I’ll try to use what we have already, the API in dev.twtxt.net seems to cover most actions, the only APIs that are missing are one for reporting and the actions on twts (mute, bookmark, etc.) and one with the metadata of the pod too, (version, branch, references, etc.).
I’m not real time by nature 🥴 so I think working with issues and yarn should be enough for now.
(#asegxpa) @mutefall@twtxt.net Yes, i mentioned USB and SD cards because they are what I use for installing nowadays I also have a TinyCore Linux on a old 512Mb SD card with persistence that works flawlessly as a recovery OS.
With my old phone I even used an app to install the live CD and writable in my phone using an app for Android rooted devices to use as a portable recovery or persistent USB hub, I don’t remember the name but I can look it up if you. want.
But this put the texts on two lines, it can be fixed by wrapping them with a plain div or span to convert them to a single child in the flexbox container.
I should make an account soon so i can help directly and start with the pwa too… 😐
I made the switch by setting it up first in VirtualBox, then copied the configuration.nix and used it directly on a new install on my actual PC, the transition wasn’t much trouble either.
(#bg2vtbq) @prologic@twtxt.net Since we’re in topic I would like to ask about the accessibility part for the pwa, I looked at the documentation of the polythene library and it seems well covered on that part, are there any particular additions that might be useful?
Usually there’s not much request at my office so I just focus on having the application decently organized on the HTML structure and allowing a good keyboard navigation but not much else.
(#ttofg7a) @ullarah@txt.quisquiliae.com It’s amazing! I have a friend who is into building with LEGO and have an entire room filled with miniature and not so miniatures. 😉
(#pvohbma) @prologic@twtxt.net I’m not sure, but this is the best I found on a quick search: PeerChat, if I remember correctly OwnCloud offer a chat plugin which is self hosted too.
Fun fact: I thought of making an app like that for fun just two days ago while chatting with a friend, never started since I didn’t really needed and was more of a toy project though. 😄
(#7wdfdva) @off_grid_living@twtxt.net I can’t say this is not much different. In Russia when you goes to public demonstrations made for liberty of minds, stopping the war, making free political prisoners and etc, u can get more then headache. u can get a some years in prison, repression and intimidation of your family (or just stealing family but this is purely Caucasian history). and also, mostly at public events, people are beaten to fractures and severe beatings.