Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

@GeeksLoveDetail Apparently it's a live visual programming environment. :P

Yeah, not sure *what* I'm doing, but it almost looks like something?

@technobaboo Wow that looks fancy as hell. What are they actually using this stuff for?

Honestly, I just want to do my usual programming but using flow based stuff on a touchscreen instead of a mouse and keyboard.

@alexwykoff I haven't tried it yet, but it's on the TODO list.

Honestly, it's very much scratch-like. Personally I found those flavors a lot less visually appealing, but I should really give it a go before knocking it.

Found a list with a bunch of these things. Gonna go through and check them out. https://github.com/wbkd/awesome-node-based-uis

The coolest looking and least understandable one is https://ioun.it/ so far. :P

For some reason they decided to use their own software defined keyboard instead of allowing the Android keyboard to pop up.

Just tried a bunch of the web based ones. They didn't work well at all on my phone or tablet.

🤷 All of them are assuming mouse and keyboard support. (or are just super out of date and broken or unfinished)

@quinn@octodon.social Oh yeah! I forgot about this. It was only for ipads right?

Anyone know of programming environments geared towards visually assembling logic on a touchscreen?

Kinda like scratch or one of those flow hased editors they have in game engines?

Finally, I can doomscroll again. 🥰

Although this migration was a huge pain in the ass, at least now I have the experience and will be able to do more migrations in the future. 😁

Hopefully I'll set up a small server rack somewhere I own and get everything migrated over down the line.

@darius I actually wrote up a blog post about it as I was going. :P

The fidelity gets a bit rough as I got more frustrated and tired.

Tl;dr I migrated data to a DO volume and symlinked the live/postgres/redis data onto it. Then set up a new VM with less storage to save costs and wired up the DBs to it.

https://blog.mauve.moe/posts/migrating-mastodon

Hello world! I'm back from migrating my Mastodon server to new (and hopefully cheaper) infra. 🤪

Tried out FLTK for #rust #gui development. The API seems decent enough but it seems like it doesn't use the OS's theme which makes me question whether it's actually using "native" UI elements.

Also anyone wanna buy me a mac and windows box for testing cross platform stuff? 🤪

Thinking of adding a new web API to add the ability to add to native context menus. 🤔 It'd be nice if it could be made declarative, too. Like "Attach a context menu to this UI" and give it events for show/hide.

Similar to how the web currently has a native "modal" component with some functionality. I think this was tried before? I'm sad it didn't end up sticking.

What's cool is you can polyfill it with a browser extension since that's an ability they have.