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@deobald@fantastic.earth · Mar 12, 2026

local halifax hacker group has decided angine de poitrine is the most french canadian thing ever. and while perhaps not "most ever" ... man, it's up there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ssi-9wS1so

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i vim /etc/hosts occasionally to let myself onto the youtube. frequently enough that google should know by now: "overly-confident middle-aged white male with big stupid mustache explains things" chann

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@deobald@fantastic.earth · Mar 10, 2026

how is it always a 35-year-old guy with a mustache. how "let me tell you about technology" "let me tell you the best music" "let me tell you about how science works" "let me—" please stop breeding, mustache guy

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i vim /etc/hosts occasionally to let myself onto the youtube. frequently enough that google should know by now: "overly-confident middle-aged white male with big stupid mustache explains things" channels are not of interest, no matter how plentiful they are. i thought this was year of ai

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@deobald@fantastic.earth · Mar 09, 2026

@purpleidea@mastodon.social @swick@hachyderm.io definitely not masking. if you scald the tea in the first half there’s no recovery. that tea auntie article i linked says something about “tam[ing] the tea's tannins” and “the fat globules in milk act to further slow the process down” - i think the fat slowing the process is maybe accurate, but i don’t know the chemistry. i can say for certain that if i add milk too early, the tea barely steeps/brews at all. fwiw, that article also contains the sentence “Covering the chai helps traps volatile aroma molecules in the pot and allows them to infuse back into the milk instead of just allowing them to waft off into the air.” so … uhhh … grain of salt.

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@deobald@fantastic.earth · Mar 09, 2026

@purpleidea@mastodon.social this is precisely why you can't use tea bags or tea with long leaves in it... you actually need cheaper/crappier tea leaves made from the cheaper part of the plant. this is also why tata gold is harder to pull off: it contains 15% long leaf tea, which risks getting bitter. you really don't want to drink this tea black, but you also want to take care not to throw too much tea in there and make it too bitter even for preparation with sugar and milk. it can't be at a rolling boil... more of a simmer. "medium heat" is probably too vague — the water needs to be barely moving while steeping. just hot. you'll never make chai bitter by the process of boiling *after* the milk is added, which is why the water+tea boil is limited to 5.0 minutes. the longer things (low) boil with the milk, the better the chai gets and the creamier the milk becomes... but the milk prevents bitterness. sometimes i'll let the milk simmer for 15 or 20 minutes. doesn't matter. cc @swick@hachyderm.io (in case you want more detail. ha)

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@deobald@fantastic.earth · Mar 09, 2026

@purpleidea@mastodon.social @swick@hachyderm.io yeah, everybody has their favourite masalas. i'm not a fan of lemongrass, cloves, or star anise. when p and i were stuck in kashmir for the first year of covid, our friend's family refused to have *any* masala unless it was cold outside.

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@purpleidea@mastodon.social @swick@hachyderm.io my chai recipe used to be a combo of my friends aarika and akshay's respective recipes. i made a video once: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmcdzcT9XCc

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@purpleidea@mastodon.social @swick@hachyderm.io but my current recipe is my friend punit's milk-heavy "madhya pradesh chai": - N cups of water - boil the water - shred in ginger, high-quality cinnamon

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@deobald@fantastic.earth · Mar 09, 2026

@purpleidea@mastodon.social @swick@hachyderm.io wups, crap... canonical recipe is this one: https://www.seriouseats.com/chai-recipe-8364307 i'll edit the previous post.

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@deobald@fantastic.earth · Mar 09, 2026

@purpleidea@mastodon.social @swick@hachyderm.io warning, in case you don't watch the video: tata gold is the best, but it's fragile and finicky which is why 80% of the non-india world seems to prefer wagh bakri. you can finish your cups off with a sprinkle of kesar (saffron) but it's even more likely that you have fake kesar than it is you have fake/destroyed cinnamon, so a reliable source is good. i guess i could have said (N - 0.5) cups of milk. i'm sleepy. get the fattiest milk you can buy. if non-dairy, i prefer oat => soy => almond but you'll just have to experiment to see what you like. putting the sugar in earlier reduces its sharpness. in the video i put it in at the end... that's generally a mistake, though you can pull it off with demerara because it's got a bit of that molasses taste. if you have an induction stove with real dials, that's as good as gas (for the froth boil)... those are just uncommon. hth - let me know how yours turns out!

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@deobald@fantastic.earth · Mar 09, 2026

@purpleidea@mastodon.social @swick@hachyderm.io but my current recipe is my friend punit’s milk-heavy “madhya pradesh chai”:

N cups of water
boil the water
shred in ginger, high-quality cinnamon, elaichi (cardamon) pods … NO POWDERS! only use cloves if you love the taste of soap.
as water comes to a boil, turn it down to medium
add brown sugar, demerara, or jaggery … i prefer jaggery for chewy feel, p prefers brown sugar, we split the difference with demerara. white sugar bad… makes it sour. i put one heaping teaspoon per cup of water, but you do you
add one rounded tablespoon of chai powder per cup of water (teaspoon if you want less caffeine, taste, and joy)

aside: your tea options are -

tata gold
wagh bakri (not pre-spiced!)
taj mahal
tata premium
red label
tata agni …in that order. no bags. other options are fine as long as the tea looks like little black balls and not leaves.

medium heat 5.0 minutes
add (N * 2 - 1) / 2 cups milk
medium heat … some minutes
“broth boil” x3
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@deobald@fantastic.earth · Mar 09, 2026

@purpleidea@mastodon.social @swick@hachyderm.io my chai recipe used to be a combo of my friends aarika and akshay's respective recipes. i made a video once: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmcdzcT9XCc

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@deobald@fantastic.earth · Mar 09, 2026

@purpleidea@mastodon.social @swick@hachyderm.io wow, that is an off-the-map chai recipe if i've ever seen one ... i am very curious to try. fwiw, i think this lady's chai recipe is canon for a lot of my indian friends: https://www.tarladalal.com/how-to-make-indian-tea-recipe--perfect-homemade-chai-recipe-42492r ... ymmv, this isn't the recipe i use. will reply in another message. just don't make chai with bags for indians... you will get a murder.

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@deobald@fantastic.earth · Mar 08, 2026

yum 2.3 litres of the best chai you’ve never tasted

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@deobald@fantastic.earth · Mar 07, 2026

@crmsnbleyd@hachyderm.io i also hate … the eyes are just … why

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@deobald@fantastic.earth · Mar 07, 2026

@crmsnbleyd@hachyderm.io im curious how the online world part translates to audiobook. she did a great job of creating a stilted online world in text … i didn’t actually enjoy reading that part, but it was well done.

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@deobald@fantastic.earth what's your opinion on wxWidgets. I have used a program (TreeSheets) on Win, Mac and Linux and it worked well on all three.

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@deobald@fantastic.earth · Mar 07, 2026

@samebchase@fantastic.earth i think wxwidgets is nice. the problem, in my case, is a mix of things:

i want it to look nice or native or both
wxwidgets still looks kind of dated, as far as i can tell
i have platform deps: libsecret (or equivalent), http, a pdf viewer, an image renderer, etc.
i would /like/ to keep this code in typescript … partly because it’s well-known and partly because i’d like to get comfortable with it

that said, it does have ruby bindings. if i get tired of maintaining a wpf port of my gtk app… it’s a real option, i suppose.

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@deobald@fantastic.earth · Mar 06, 2026

@andrew_chou@toot.cafe worth noting that i was building spidermonkey 128esr not 140esr ... maybe the latter fixes the bug(s) that were causing my ui freezes, but i'd already burnt two days on it so i gave up. if you attempt ts on gtk on windows, grab the latest and greatest instead of old and stable, i think.

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@deobald@fantastic.earth · Mar 06, 2026

@andrew_chou@toot.cafe yeah, gjs on windows was quite a hassle to get up and running. it's *very* possible i was doing something wrong. i haven't been a real programmer for over a decade, and i haven't built desktop apps since 2008. still, i wouldn't recommend typescript if you're hoping for a quick and easy windows build.

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@amolenaar@fosstodon.org @tbernard@mastodon.social thanks! i'll plug away and see if i can get a windows build up and running ... pretty happy with the macos build thus far.

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@deobald@fantastic.earth · Mar 06, 2026

@amolenaar@fosstodon.org @tbernard@mastodon.social update in my mega-thread with screenshots. honestly, i didn't feel any rough edges with gtk itself. also: SO PRETTY because i'm (foolishly?) doing this thing in typescript, that seemed to be my major headache with the windows build. ultimately, i gave up on winders. linux and macos can be gtk and windows can be an ugly-as-sin blind wpf port. windows is just too foreign unless you're sticking to well-trodden paths (c, c++, python), i think.

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@deobald@fantastic.earth · Mar 06, 2026

@andrew_chou@toot.cafe typescript is definitely an odd choice, on my part. there's plenty of gtk apps that work beautifully on windows: gimp, inkscape, etc. those things are also infinitely more complex than anything i'd ever build. :) gtk with c, c++, or python will be a solid experience even on windows, i think.

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@deobald@fantastic.earth · Mar 06, 2026

@cassidy@mastodon.blaede.family sorry cassidy, i didn't even notice. i have dark reader on all the time for this precise reason... most websites still don't respect the system theme and i get a headache within a couple seconds of seeing a white background. i just assume web #a11y is broken and don't even take the risk. dropping niki from the cc because i was on the fence about tagging him in the first place and your message is probably sufficient here, if it's a thing he wants to fix.

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i know there's winui3 and maui and rnwin and... whatever. but they have their own problems and the fact that microsoft has 4 or 5 gui frameworks in 2026 and not a single one of them is blessed as the future of windows app dev is psychotic. so my windows users get the most boring thing i can manage.

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@deobald@fantastic.earth · Mar 06, 2026

we all know how macos and swift ui are broken. i was *shocked* by how broken wpf is in 2026. dotnet 9 gives you native light/dark theming... except for the titlebar? that still has to be custom. oh, and the default about dialog, too. wat.

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i'm grateful gtk works well on mac; i'd choose qt or slint or flutter or something over maintaining 2 ports. but i agree with @nikitonsky@mastodon.online - we've lost 2/3 of native: https://tonsky.me/blog/fall-of-native/ the only platform that isn't a trainwreck is linux. qt is good. gtk is good. the devs care, and it shows.

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@deobald@fantastic.earth · Mar 06, 2026

yes, i know python + gtk plays nicely on windows. i don't know python well enough to choose it over typescript for this. however, i do know c#. at a certain point, it was less effort to build (and, hopefully, maintain) a braindead c# + wpf port.

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@deobald@fantastic.earth · Mar 06, 2026

gtk + gjs on windows took me *days* to get building. i had to build gjs from source, fiddle with msys2 packages, and generally try to grok the mismatch. this silly little app kept locking up the ui, somehow. every time i thought i had it fixed, the ui locked up somewhere else. gjs issue, i think.

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@deobald@fantastic.earth · Mar 06, 2026

this past week has been a weird experiment of seeing how far i can take a tiny xplat gtk app written in typescript.

here's how it looks. i must say, gtk on mac and windows is *damn* pretty. untweaked. kudos, gtk devs. ❤️

but ultimately, i ported to c# and wpf on windows, even though it's hideous.

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@deobald@fantastic.earth · Mar 03, 2026

@amolenaar@fosstodon.org @tbernard@mastodon.social thanks! i'll plug away and see if i can get a windows build up and running ... pretty happy with the macos build thus far.

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@deobald@fantastic.earth · Mar 03, 2026

RE: https://mastodon.design/@modal/116161421427145292 if you're looking for work and have the skills, i've heard nothing but good things about working with the modal folks from people i respect (from both sides: folks who awarded contracts and contractors themselves). give them a shout. #fedihire #gnome

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@deobald@fantastic.earth · Mar 02, 2026

@ju@chaos.social @haeckerfelix@mastodon.social i just did a sample build of my old gtk app on my mac and it already looks/feels less weird than my flutter spike ... down the rabbit hole i go. :) gtk definitely looks pretty good in foreign lands, these days. i was saying to @nirbheek@hachyderm.io that it looks/feels less foreign than 5/7 of the apps i'm currently running ... and the 2 apps that have it beat are settings and finder, which are both hideous, thanks to tahoe.

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@deobald@fantastic.earth · Mar 02, 2026

@tbernard@mastodon.social i’m not blocked, per se. but my goal here is to release a thing quickly and call it a day, more-or-less. i don’t have a lot of energy for uphill battles in side projects, at this age. ;) it’s still tempting, even if there will be rough edges … it seems there are few (if any) xplat toolkit options without rough edges anyway.

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@deobald@fantastic.earth · Mar 01, 2026

@rgm@cosocial.ca i'm a fan, but the readme still has a status of: "Work in progress. No docs, and everything changes every day." so i think i have to pass on humble, still. good call, though. i actually hadn't looked at it in ages.

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@deobald@fantastic.earth · Mar 01, 2026

@ojonnysilva@fosstodon.org i had not... looks neat! i should probably be steering away from rust rather than toward it, though. ;)

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@deobald@fantastic.earth · Mar 01, 2026

@lepisma@mathstodon.xyz this is a behaviour you're welcome to engage in, since all this stuff is open source and the data model is "just files" but wow will i not ever intentionally support this. haha

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@deobald@fantastic.earth · Mar 01, 2026

ok, well isn't *this* funny timing: https://help.obsidian.md/sync/headless my (very) dumb immutable + local-first bookmarks thing currently has a headless sync daemon. i was just about to kill it off. would you want a headless daemon to sync your bookmarks (between devices) all the time for you?

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tauri came up. for desktop apps so far, i only have linux (gtk + adwaita, typescript) and it's already gone pretty bitrotten since I've been focused on the mobile apps and browser extensions. i'm....

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@deobald@fantastic.earth · Mar 01, 2026

ghostty (semi-random example) is mostly zig with thin(ish) native ui wrappers on top. it's stupid-but-tempting to do something similar with a rust core. (very stupid, given that i don't really know rust.) i would really like someone to talk me out of that by telling me what a great cross-platform native desktop hacking experience they had recently in... something that's not a browser.

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@deobald@fantastic.earth · Mar 01, 2026

tauri came up. for desktop apps so far, i only have linux (gtk + adwaita, typescript) and it's already gone pretty bitrotten since I've been focused on the mobile apps and browser extensions. i'm.... torn. electron works. i hate absolutely everything about it, from the bloat to the security model. but I'm typing these words into an electron app, and for good reason. i'm not sure i'm quite brave enough to knuckle down on tauri, since i've heard it's still got a way to go in terms of maturity.

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@deobald@fantastic.earth · Feb 28, 2026

@swick@hachyderm.io hmm?

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@deobald@fantastic.earth · Feb 28, 2026

@jorge@hachyderm.io ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

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@deobald@fantastic.earth · Feb 28, 2026

@tragivictoria@mastodon.catgirl.cloud @alice@mk.nyaa.place on my default, no less. guess i should just be grateful there’s a switch at all. 🙄

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@deobald@fantastic.earth · Feb 28, 2026

@pojntfx@mastodon.social it’s pretty handy! i’m not a fan of gha in general but it’s free and this view is at least satisfying once all the little dots turn green. ☺️ i am not a devops, though. i’m very glad this phase is over. haha

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@deobald@fantastic.earth · Feb 28, 2026

@alice@mk.nyaa.place yeah, it’s yet another “i guess we just ride whichever brand of chaos wave comes next” kind of year. again. i’d like to say i’m learning how to surf but i’m pretty sure i’m just drowning.

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@deobald@fantastic.earth · Feb 28, 2026

@sgued@pouet.chapril.org yeah… i can scoop the dog poop off my lawn. i just wish it wasn’t there in the first place. :(

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@deobald@fantastic.earth · Feb 28, 2026

praise be.

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@deobald@fantastic.earth · Feb 28, 2026

i'm not sure *how* but i guess all the hubbub about the new ceo didn't seem "real"? this caught me off guard thankfully the other box is debian stable and by the time forky is released the industry will be over this garbage ✨

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@deobald@fantastic.earth · Feb 27, 2026

RE: https://mastodon.online/@nikitonsky/116142765529679570 this is really nice. every test double dissoc i've written cries out for sweet deliverance now

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@deobald@fantastic.earth · Feb 26, 2026

@pojntfx@mastodon.social my solution is to build open source that no one cares about and no one will ever try to contribute to, even with a robot. ;)

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@deobald@fantastic.earth · Feb 25, 2026

ok, so 3 alpha testers have requested oauth2 *on a phone* this week... including my mom. ;) oauth2 people: is this a thing you do? you want to log into an app on your phone with the same oauth provider you use for a service? i never use oauth2 unless a website forces me, so i'm ignorant.

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@deobald@fantastic.earth · Feb 24, 2026

@Suzie97@indieweb.social ok, rad. thanks for pointing this out! i definitely want to get rid of the blue tint now... presenting a real grayscale image requires ugly hacks, but it's worth it to make the icon less confusing.

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@deobald@fantastic.earth · Feb 24, 2026

lofi/34 was possibly the best #lofi meetup i've attended yet. great set of speakers. brendan's talk, in particular, was an absolute firehose of information. very fun and makes me even more excited about iroh. ❤️ recording is here: https://www.youtube.com/live/e3bsA2AK0Vw thanks @Yonz@mastodon.social for putting this together!

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