It’s been awhile since I’ve posted here. For anyone that was interested in Blorp in the past, but it was missing that one feature you needed, chances are that feature has been added/fixed.

My favorite features

• The best multi account support in any Lemmy or PieFed app, guaranteed!
  • Started your post on the wrong account? No problem! Switch accounts and pickup where you left off
  • Trying to moderate a post from the wrong account? Switch accounts without needing to find your way back to the post.
  • Blorp was meticulously designed from the ground up so none of the links in the app break when you switch accounts. If the content federates with your instance, you’ll see it no matter what account you open the link on!
• Draft posts
• Light box feed, beautiful for browsing photography communities or cute cat/dog photos
• PieFed specific features
  • Post flairs
  • Post poll voting
  • Comment thread locking
  • More to come!
• Lemmy V1 support
• Edit text as raw markdown or rich text!
• Many hours fixing little bugs and annoyances

Please give Blorp a try if you haven’t already ❤️

Download

• Web - blorpblorp.xyz
• iOS
• Android
  • Google Play
  • F-Droid
• macOS

The original image was edited by myself for a reply to another comment on Lemmy. But now I can’t see the original without thinking about this. I felt that more people needed to see this more accurate version of the statue.

Side note: I finally understand the purpose of the warp tool/brush.

I can’t wait to get Reddit banned for this lol

I enjoy going to local markets and buying art from the artist. I would love to be able to shop online with the same confidence that the art is actually made by a human. Any places where I can buy posters, photos, or other art that is by humans? Is Etsy safe, or are there better places?

I'm looking to buy some cat toys that will last. I'm looking on Amazon – though I would love to avoid Amazon – and everything is terrible quality. Even if I sort by rating, everything still seems like junk.

There are some pretty sick toys, like this automatic motion activated laser that will move around the room when it senses motion. Or one of those balls that will role itself around the room. But neither seems to hold up.

I suppose I could stay away from the electronic stuff and just get some good old fashion manual cat toys. I'm looking to adopt a kitten, and I wanted to give him as much play time as he needs. I figured a few automatic toys for while I'm working could be good.

I’ve been working full time as a frontend developer for about 3 years now. I also have a bachelors degree in computer science.

I really feel like I leveled up this past year, and I wanted to share two things that stand out to me that I learned.

Keeping git work organized

It doesn’t really matter how small/large your commits are, but what matters is keeping it focused. Write a good description for your commit and don’t make unnecessary changes that aren’t related to the commit message. If you see something unrelated that needs fixing, don’t mix it in with your current work. Same goes for pull requests, which I always squash commit.

The goal is if you want to revert your commit/squashed pr later, it should only revert what’s described in the commit message. It will cause problems if the revert also brings a bunch of unrelated changes.

When to abstract

There’s a lot of opinions about DRY or WET code bases, but I think that’s confusing. When you have A and B, and you’re wondering if you should bract the shared code (let’s call this shared abstraction C), ask yourself this. Do I want it so a change to C affects A and B, or do I want changes to A to not affect B and B not to affect A?

It’s like your building knobs/dials into your codebase, and it’s up to you if you want a single dial to affect one thing or multiple things. You know you built the right dials when product asks for something later, and it’s as simple as turning the dial you created.

On the other hand, if you build something as two dials that should have been one, you may find you turn dial A and forget to turn dial B. This sounds simple, but your codebase may have thousands and thousands of dials, so the right consolidation can help with managing large projects.

In summary

Idk if that made any sense, but as I progress in my career, I’m finding I’m able to manage larger projects with less overwhelm.

!blorp@lemmy.zip

Blorp is a multi account, cross platform (web/iOS/Android) client for Lemmy and PieFed. Perfectly if you want to quickly jump between your Lemmy and PieFed accounts.

Try Blorp

• Blorp for Web
• iOS
• Android
  • Google Play
  • F-Droid
• macOS
• GitHub

Try this community on Blorp

• https://blorpblorp.xyz/home/c/newcommunities@lemmy.world

There will be a lot of lemm.ee/p/123 links around. As far as I understand, any server that federated with lemm.ee (e.g. lemmy.world) will continue to host the federated communities and posts forever.

So here's my proposal. We build a simple tool that says, when you visit lemm.ee/p/123, we check if that post exists on lemmy.world and forward you there. Doesn't necessarily have to be lemmy.world. We could even present the user with multiple instances to resolve the post from.

If you're interested in how this would work, it would utilize the resolve_object endpoint, which both Lemmy and PieFed implement.

Here are some examples of how you can still look up lemm.ee posts via the API of other instances:

• https://lemmy.world/api/v3/resolve_object?q=https%3A%2F%2Flemm.ee%2Fpost%2F65824884
• https://lemmy.world/api/v3/resolve_object?q=https%3A%2F%2Flemmy.world%2Fpost%2F31931507
• https://lemmy.world/api/v3/resolve_object?q=https%3A%2F%2Flemm.ee%2Fpost%2F37715
• https://lemmy.zip/api/v3/resolve_object?q=https%3A%2F%2Flemm.ee%2Fpost%2F68181403
• https://lemmy.zip/api/v3/resolve_object?q=https%3A%2F%2Flemm.ee%2Fpost%2F67260380
• https://piefed.social/api/alpha/resolve_object?q=https%3A%2F%2Flemm.ee%2Fpost%2F58774156
• https://piefed.world/api/alpha/resolve_object?q=https%3A%2F%2Flemm.ee%2Fpost%2F65568521

For this to really work smoothly, whoever owns the domains of the shut down instances would have to host this tool (e.g. lemm.ee would have to host it at lemm.ee). I have no idea how to get in touch with whoever owns the domain, but I would be happy to help build this.

I've been working on a Threadiverse frontend for almost a year called Blorp. Originally it was Lemmy only, but now it also includes PieFed. (source code) (try web version)

I just Dockerized the frontend and started publishing the Docker image, and I would love your feedback!

• REACT_APP_DEFAULT_INSTANCE (e.g. https: //lemmy.zip no trailing slash)
  • Changes the default instance
• REACT_APP_LOCK_TO_DEFAULT_INSTANCE set this to "true" or "false"
  • When true, this prevents the frontend from logging into other instances. Perfect if you host your own Lemmy instance and want this frontend to exclusively be used with your instance. You can still log into multiple accounts on the locked instance
  • When false, you can log into as many accounts across as many instances as you want. You can even mix and mach Lemmy and PieFed

# pull the latest Blorp image
docker pull christianjuth/blorp:latest

# run it on port 8080 (host → container), passing any runtime env‑vars you need
docker run -d \
  --name blorp \
  -p 8080:80 \
  -e REACT_APP_DEFAULT_INSTANCE="https://lemmy.zip/" \ # BUT without the trailing slash!
  -e REACT_APP_NAME="Blorp" \
  -e REACT_APP_LOCK_TO_DEFAULT_INSTANCE="false" \
  christianjuth/blorp:latest

Edit: I cannot get the trailing slash in https://lemmy.zip/ to go away, but make sure you exclude it. Idk what sorcery is going on with Lemmy, but it seems impossible to link a domain without a trailing slash. I'll make the docker image more forgiving in the next update.

I’m from a US state where we don’t pump our own gas. Since I don’t pump my own gas regularly - only when I’m out of state - I’m not exactly sure when this happened, but all gas pumps seem to play ads now while the pump runs. At least the states adjacent to mine. Like can I not even pump gas in peace? Stop trying to manipulate my purchasing decisions 24/7.

Edit: ok I get it, there’s a mute button. I appreciate the tip, but people are already reporting that it only sometimes works. Knowing there’s a mute button that sometimes functions doesn’t make me less infuriated

Someone posted in r/waymo a video of someone covering all the cameras with tape, which apparently immobilizes the self driving car. I interpreted that as non dangerous to actual people since it keep the car from moving at all.

Anyway, everyone in the comments was a circle jerk saying Waymo should come after the person legally. I suggested that big tech like Google and Uber may do more unethical things than this person putting some tape on a self driving car. Never did I once threaten violence lol.