Notices by Bruno Philipe (brunoph@mastodon.technology)

Managed to get the same macOS Catalina installation to boot natively and from Parallels :3

I can’t call that dual booting. It’s more like duplex booting.

I’m excited for buying a washing machine next month. Is this how you know you’re an adult??

Did you backup your important documents today?

But more importantly: Did you try recovering the data from your backups today? A backup is useless if you can't extract data back from it!

And if you add rich text, where do you draw the line next? The line is supposed to exist somewhere. But if you push it once, there’s no stopping pushing it again. In 2 years Mastodon could have a Medium-like composer. It will literally be hell.

Regarding rich text specifically, it’s terrible for a tool like Mastodon. It is meant to be quick and simple. Mastonaut’s HTML parser is 250 lines long including comments. Which means it can parse HTML on the fly. This provides for a great UX and quick scrolling.

I’ve implemented tools with rich text before. It’s ugly and slow. The text layout is expensive. It doesn’t provide the usefulness people think it will add.

"Alexa, order laptop camera cover stickers"