Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

I think my philosophy when making software is that it should work for people with zero money or no bank account / credit card.

I know it's not a popular mindset to be in since money and profit is everything in the tech world.

I think it comes from growing up as a kid with no disposable income or access to anything but my shitty computer.

I'd rather support people with almost nothing than people with latest and greatest tech gizmos and spare cash for subscription services. 😅

Thread of stuff I wanna buy. Will "like" my own toot if I get it.

I'm gonna use this yhread as a way to keep track of links to read and like my own posts when I get around to them.

I really *want* to love Matrix, but their data model and approach to data storage is so annoying from a performance perspective. They pretty much mandate doing full text searches with decryption on every single row which just *does not* scale as you grow your message history / room count. 🤢

I'm begging developers to please index the data they're storing locally in their apps so that it can be fast. I get IndexedDB users are kinda cooked if you also want encryption at rest, but folks using Sqlite have no excuse.

I've been thinking about this video once every few months since it first came out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1Og5Tg_Jyo

Endearing myself to new people by rambling about surveillance companies making "automated kill chains" on my first meeting. 🤪

My current tech strat is to deinfluence startups from what's trendy and point them to "boring" tech that will get the job done and be more stable.

Should I abandon all my social connections for a pararomantic relationship with a chatbot?

Womp womp, turns out this refactor is taking more tinkering than anticipated.

I currently don't have an easy to use matrix client. 😵

My setup is weird enough now that I might as well switch to NixOS.

https://github.com/gnull/nixos-rk3588

Womp womp, I need to rethink this system because JSON-RPC can't handle binary blobs. Might end up using the same shape but with length prefixed cbor packets.

(joking) AI has taught me that you can do a "planning phase" before you write your code to avoid having to rewrite it a bunch of times. 🤪

Managed to order a shawarma in My broken French

It's tough out there.

This ass backwards subsystem is impossible to fucking test for failure conditions. 😭 Adding anything means touching half a dozen classes in really hacky and gross ways.