Notices by Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)

@ramsey Yeah, and… https://www.applause.com … eew! :)

@ramsey Yeah, I used to use Bartender but it was apparently sold off under dodgy circumstances. Given the level of permissions an app like this involves, I’d rather go with the solitary indie dev :)

https://www.macrumors.com/2024/06/06/alternatives-bartender-mac-menu-bar/

#macOS is by no means perfect (although, y’know, close). One glaring design error is the menu bar, which doesn’t handle the – uhum ­– edge case where there are too many menu bar icons to display on screen (either because they bump up against the current app’s menu or, on the laptops, the notch… which, well, don’t get me started on the notch…)

Anyway, so a lovely little indie app called Ice fixes the problem the way #Apple should have.

https://icemenubar.app

More tips: https://codeberg.org/aral/gists/src/branch/main/mac-setup.md

@ipg Yay! Please do let me know if you end up implementing it. I’d love to feature sites that do on the homepage :)

@david_chisnall @frechdachs Here’s all I’m doing: I’m saying “dear corporation, you see this thing that I’ve spent the last however many years of my life working on? You can’t take it and enclose it. You can’t privatise it. I mean, you can, and, if you did, I’d likely not be able to afford to pursue you legally but I could maybe do so in the court of public opinion.”

At the very least, I’m making my intent crystal clear.

It’s not an attempt at purity or perfection. Neither exist.

@angietaylor Not a comprehensive one but there was this mini site I wrote up back when Google announced FLoC that still has some general guidelines (nothing that should come as a revelation, really).

@anselmschueler Thanks! Do let me know if you end up using it somewhere :)

@dandandin Basically, if a path is not found on the latest server, it redirects to the same path on the previous server.

Does this help clarify it: https://mapstodon.space/@jorgesanz/113520807453587002

@silvermoon82 Glad you like it. Do let me know if you end up implementing it somewhere.

Maybe we can have a little list of sites that do…

@rubenerd Yay! Please do + let me know when it’s up :)

@aral I don't get it

@chrysn Not sure, first time I’m hearing of it. Will look it up :)

@jorgesanz @ErikUden Nice, I should add that to the docs :)

PS. Did I mention Kitten has built-in support for evergreen web?

https://kitten.small-web.org/reference/#evergreen-web-404-307

#everygreenWeb #Kitten #SmallWeb #web #dev

Hey web devs, not breaking links doesn’t have to be hard…

Heard of the 404 → 307 technique? (Well, now you have!)

https://4042307.org/

🌲

#evergreenWeb #web #dev

@Heitec @giuseppegv <always has been.gif>

@theregister @rewarp Hey, Deepinder, go fuck yourself. (You can have one for free too, you cunt.)

@mdhughes See xclip/xsel for X-based Linux and wl-clipboard for Wayland. Synergy worked well cross-platform as a Universal Control alternative but doesn’t work with Wayland.

@david_chisnall @frechdachs “Share alike” is not a complex concept. It just so happens to be incompatible with capitalism and the privatisation and hoarding that goes with it.

Small Tech isn’t concerned with the needs of corporations and neither is it concerned with achieving vertical scale. And we’re not going around burning every permissive license we find either. Small Tech is its own thing and will evolve in its own way. Slowly. At human scale. Sharing as we go.

You know you can use your mouse and keyboard between different Macs using Universal Control and copy/paste between them (which makes it really easy when manually migrating settings, etc., between machines), but did you know you can also copy/paste whole files using Terminal:

On the first Mac:

cat my-file.txt | pbcopy

On the second Mac:

pbpaste > my-file.txt

Piping to pbcopy is something you’ll likely find useful in general.

(You can also drag/drop files to Finder.)

#macOS #tip #terminal