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Cake day: July 25th, 2023

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  • The icon is a placeholder made from the recolored fediverse icon I threw together in 20 mins. I know what the actual one will be, but it’ll take 6-12+ hours to put together

    The visuals will take at least 5-7 days of tweaking unless I find examples of something similar to reference

    Instead, I fixed bugs, and posted a beta to get feedback on what I should prioritize.

    In that time, I could get a ~15x performance increase, add a dozen random requested features, add kbin and maybe mastodon support, or get halfway through building custom feeds by stitching multiple sorts across accounts and servers.

    I build adaptable code, and so I built a foundation. I’m a photographer, not an artist - making things pretty is pure trial and error for me, because I can’t picture the end result. I haven’t started to try to make it pretty or optimized, I just made it extremely capable and clean enough that I could use it

    Can you give specifics of what you find grating instead of just telling me it’s ugly?



  • Honestly, I wrote it out, it felt awkward and more like a changelog than anything, I ran it through chat gpt and it stripped out enough details that it flowed better. I deleted everything it said that wasn’t what I wanted to say, and we got something that someone read long enough to see the disclaimer

    Also, it’s over the top and flowery as hell even after tweaking it, but I didn’t write it - I got to skip several hours of self consciously agonizing over it before clicking submit and stressing out some more.

    Chat-gpt isn’t any more lazy than using a power saw. I couldn’t have done better by hand, every statement it made was fed to it by me, and I edited down the output in multiple stages so I can stand by the accuracy of the result