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Cooklang (Alexey)
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mastodon 4.7.2Markup Language for Recipes and Tools https://cooklang.org
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Share a recipe with a friend via QR code in iOS app.
iOS app now can import recipes form the browser
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I have cook.md web-site where users can convert recipes from other sites into Cooklang format. And someone complained that import from Serious Eats doesn’t work.
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There are critical notifications that can cut through DND and are plenty loud. That would be the ideal solution, but we got rejected when we requested that capability.
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The server returned HTTP 402. Had to google what that even is. "Payment Required." Bro what
Seems like that status code has been sitting there doing nothing since like 1999. And now someone turned it on.
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So apparently Cloudflare decided the internet needs a toll booth now. They teamed up with Coinbase and built this thing called x402 where your browser has to pay stablecoins just to load a webpage. Like actual crypto. To read a chicken tikka masala recipe.
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Remember when the internet was about sharing information? Now it's: bot detected → pay $0.003 in USDC on the Base blockchain → here's your casserole recipe.
They sat on this 402 code for 26 years waiting for the right moment and apparently the right moment is "make everything cost money"
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First it was paywalls. Then cookie banners. Then cloudflare captchas. Now your recipe clipper needs a crypto wallet.
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There are hacks of corse. Some suggest playing an empty music file and triggering an alarm sound when the timer is up. But that can lead to a ban since it's against App Store rules.
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iOS 26 changes that: apps can now use AlarmKit — the same system your morning alarm uses. These timers cut through DND and silent mode. Good luck ignoring them now.
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We immediately jumped on this and reworked timers completely. Beyond AlarmKit, we added visibility across other parts of the system: Live Activities and Dynamic Island, so you can access your timers quickly and easily.
Another highly requested iOS feature is a mise en place screen, which highlights all ingredient prep upfront—so you don’t discover halfway through cooking that the onions were supposed to be chopped.
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@andypiper @oggcamp this would be really cool, because ActivityPub gives much more options to consume these recipes. What I don’t understand is how to roll this out, need clients to implement support for this and seems like a massive undertaking…