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I've started presenting replies to posts of mine from accounts opted in to publicWebHosting on my public-facing blogs (ie, https://www.tildefriends.net/~cory/tildeblog/). Let shenanigans ensue.
I continue to fix replication bugs. How did it ever work? Soon I will fix the last bug, and it will be perfect.
The RSS reader is shockingly usable but still pretty minimal. I'm routinely checking it now, and I've shared a handful of links through it and seen a few come through my feeds that have already been mentioned by people here. This makes me quite happy. I haven't had this experience since Google Reader went away. In celebration I added light/dark mode support to it.
I desperately want rldu to be a thing (❤️ Sokoban). If you make and/ share a level, I will play it.
rdlu
From the "I wanted it to exist so I made it" department, I present: rdlu. It's a Sokoban clone. But you can create and share levels on Secure Scuttlebutt. The levels also contain full cellular automata-style rules for the game (@$_ => _@*), so you can modify and add to those, too. Finally, I made it in Tilde Friends, so you can muck with the source as much as you like and make it into your own thing entirely.
It publishes and consumes rdlu-level messages with a source field containing a description of the level and rules as text.
If you just want to see it in action, it lives here, no Tilde Friends account required to play: https://www.tildefriends.net/~cory/rdlu/.
image:rdlu, a puzzle game with a person pushing boxes like Sokoban
#show-and-tell #gamedev
New Windows File Explorer feature coming soon:
New! Address bar now supports ~, making it quicker to navigate directly to your user profile folder and subfolders (for example, ~\AppData).
ssb-validation-dataset question
I'm long overdue testing against the ssb-validation-dataset, so I'm embarrassed to ask, but what's the deal with hmacKey? I've gotten along this far without validating against anything like this in practice, I think. What am I missing?
Garmin Revamps and Opens Up Connect Developer API Program
Ooh, this is the least bad internet news I've seen this week. I dabbled with using GPS data in Tilde Friends years ago. My application to use the Garmin API at the time was rejected, because I didn't check all the enterprise boxes thoroughly enough. I ended up using Strava's API for a bit, but they've progressively restricted that, too.
Not sure I'll have the time to play with it anytime soon, but I would love to build something sort of community-oriented around sharing activity data someday.
It always struck me that Strava is the most widespread thing I'm aware of that has the same problem with time as Secure Scuttlebutt, in that people record activities on their watches and upload them hours, days, or weeks later when they are next able to recharge and get a reliable internet connection. It's not unusual to post a batch of activities from a week ago when traveling, and we deal with the feed being oddly ordered.
I started a little RSS reader in Tilde Friends. You can play with it here, and I'll publish the app in a bit.
It currently just fetches feeds from the client every load (using a CORS proxy on failure). It has some of the old Google Reader j/k/v key bindings. You edit your list of feeds by putting RSS/Atom links in a textbox and clicking save (they're saved in Tilde Friends or localStorage depending on whether you're signed in). That's about it.
But I'm super excited about its potential. I think if I'm a little smarter about caching news, authoring SSB post messages to share or comment on an article, and displaying posts that mention articles, I'm 99% of the way there to feeling like Google Reader. Also my feed parsing needs to be better, but eh. 🤷♂️️
image:barebones feed reader inside Tilde Friends
#show-and-tell #rss
Tilde Friends 0.2026.9
The latest release is out on all of the platforms.
Change notes:
- Improved load times.
- Fix an issue where a canceled autocomplete would truncate messages.
- Better error handling for missing or partial apps.
- Add gui executables on desktop that open a webview like on mobile.
- Recover automatically when app is disconnected when backgrounded.
- Update: CodeMirror, emojis 18.0, libbacktrace, libuv 1.53.0.
The GUI executables are an experiment that I think is somewhat interesting. The Windows tildefriends-gui.exe and Linux AppImages all run like a local app using an embedded browser, very similarly to the mobile version. I couldn't get the MacOS version working in time, but that might be in the cards, too. The Linux version has some glibc / gtk dependencies which make it not guaranteed to just work, but they're pretty old, so I expect they will.
There are also .debs and docker containers available.
As always, feedback is welcome on all things.