Marek Gibney

@manualdousuario@mastodon.social I see.

Well, I think it's time to leave this instance.

Blocking Threads and keeping a hidden blocklist both are not in line with how I think federation should work.

My last toot about AI search trends is a year old now:

https://masto.ai/@mg/111414288462306181

One year later ...

AI: I did it! I finally surpassed Reddit!

ChatGPT: Haha, I'm already ahead of you!

Bing: Wait, I'm still trying to figure out how to make a simple web interface!

Bard: I'm Gemini now! Wait for me!

I just discovered that with nested CSS and :has(), you can now restyle any aspect of a page based on whether a certain checkbox is set.

Pretty useful.

Last year, I created an Instagram account to serve as a calendar for art events at small galleries in Hamburg that interest me:

https://www.instagram.com/kleineorte/

Some people started following it and the growth even looks exponential.

I moved to a different Mastodon instance:

@marekgibney@mastodon.social

@manualdousuario@mastodon.social I'm surprised domain level blocking is a thing at all.

The way I think of ActivityPub is that it is like email. Email is for 1:1 communication and ActivityPub is for n:n communication.

In the email world, I have never encountered domain based blocks. Just user level defaults. So while a mail from domain xzy might go to spam by default, the user can still see it in their spam folder. And decide to move it to their main folder.

@manualdousuario@mastodon.social Wow, that sounds bad. Is there a public blacklist that an instance uses, so I can see what is blocked?

I can't find the profiles of threads users here on masto.ai, while I can on mastodon.social.

Is that a problem with masto.ai?

The html-editor with instant preview is still my favorite tool to do HTML/CSS/JS experiments on the go.

https://no-gravity.github.io/html_editor/

So I added a some more features today to make it more convenient.

SQLite makes for a really nice document store with the json arrow functions. Assume you have a "book" column that is a json blob, then selecting the names of all books is just:

SELECT book->>'name' FROM books;

The only thing I miss is auto increments.

Without an additional "id" column, inserting a new book with a unique id becomes cumbersome.

I started adding additional infos on the https://www.productchart.com item pages when hovering the data fields with the mouse.

The iPad Pro has a nice aspect ratio of 1.33. Most tablets are at 1.6. I think the more squarish, the better for coding.

It is also nicely lightweight at 578g for the 13 inch version.

Experimenting with a tablet based development workflow.

#buildinpublic

My favorite test prompt for AI coding tools:

Make a simple HTML page which uses the VideoEncoder API to create a video that the user can download.

So far, not a single AI has managed to create a working solution.

I usually learn about new technology by listening to podcasts or YouTube videos.

But I have not found one about the AT Protocol that powers Bluesky.

Any tips?

I'm going to make my dream starter pack: A starter pack for indie makers who build web projects.

If ...

✅ You have a web project online
✅ It is something people can try (no signup pages)
✅ You post about it regularly, not about unrelated other stuff

Then send me a message and I'll put you on it!

I thought about how the logo of the list-app could look like and came up with this.

The idea is that it means "Lists of lists and lists of lists of lists - lists all the way down".

I wonder if this is a logo design that is already in use somewhere?

I made a custom fitness app for myself recently:

https://x.com/marekgibney/status/1813171595264799221

I got so accustomed to the interface that I consider making a to-do list app in the same style.

The sorting functionality is already sorted.

Every time I have a cold, I tinker with a project that I call "Medichart". It's a bit like Product Chart, but for medical studies.

The idea is to retrieve all studies related to a topic, categorize them via AI, and then produce an overview of the current state of research.