Apps and Scripts
I've been so preoccupied with things in my life I haven't sat down and really focused much. It's a good preoccupation though! So have a jumble of subjects and links.
First, Apple has been putting the pressure on Tumblr again to 'get rid of the porn' on the app, and it's lead to some of the most frustrating posts and wild accusations of people that clearly don't understand how the whole process works. Luckily, one former dev of Tumblr spoke up about the changes and why things are the way they are and I just love when devs talk about behind the scene stuff.
https://sreegs.tumblr.com/post/671649355334336512/alright-lets-talk-about-apple-and-tumblrs
What I find even more fascinating is one of the dev's older topics about the history of Tumblr's Ads and this really sheds light on just how badly Tumblr was gutted by Yahoo/Verizon.
https://sreegs.tumblr.com/post/670206966670458880/whats-up-with-tumblr-ads
The devs that works on Tumblr genuinely loved their service and they wanted so bad to provide something good but being acquired by Yahoo ate them from the inside. It makes me so angry when I see comments about how 'the staff doesn't care', because they do, they always do. The people that 'don't care' are usually one or two people at the top that aren't even in development, like accounts, shareholders, or the board that only want to know if something will give them money in the end. The people that make the staff posts, that try to manage the sea of tickets that can be anything from valid to reactionary, the people that are on the bottom of the chain, don't deserve the ire that people direct toward them when someone on the board made a decision to add/get rid of/change a feature.
It was honestly very sad to see the volume of people making comments like 'I always forget there are real people behind the site'. Like... How do you forget that!! (I know how, it just makes me sad.)
It makes me think about how most humans really do love to know how things are made and while we have so many videos about how things are physically constructed, there's very little out there that talk about things like, software development. Too many people have this assumption that things are made by popping in a few plugins, or having code auto-fills, and that's just the people that have the barest knowledge of coding but no real experience.
https://medium.com/@krave/apple-s-app-store-review-process-is-hurting-users-but-we-re-not-allowed-to-talk-about-it-55d791451b
Things like this post on Apple's review process from 2015 show that 'just do ____' isn't as helpful a comment as you think it is, since the process of getting an app approved by apple is not a pleasant one.
I really do wish more devs would speak up about the really stupid and inane issues they've had to deal with in changing or adding even the 'simplest' sounding things. Software runs so much of our lives and most people have no clue what all goes into it, giving people the wrong impression of what it is and we really need more accessible information about all of this u_u
Slightly adjacent in the scripting field, going to the subject of making websites.
If you look for 'how to make a website' sources you either run into videos or things like this
https://www.studentartguide.com/articles/how-to-make-an-artist-website
that amount to 'just install wordpress' and not really.. the basic ins and outs of scripting your site.
There's this little search project someone is working on that is a search engine that tries to find text heavy websites to find things that might be ignored by your other search engines these days.
https://search.marginalia.nu/
It is still in the works but I love projects like this so much!!
I searched 'how to make a website' and while there was a lot of unrelated hits as a new experimental service like this is meant to be, but I came across these two charming sites.
https://www.thesitewizard.com/gettingstarted/startwebsite.shtml
http://www.shira.net/web02-start.htm
Still not exactly what I'm looking for but getting closer. They're just nice little spots frozen in time and I appreciate it.
Sometimes I wonder about making a 'how to make a website' documentation but I have no idea if I have the bandwidth for that. But I can at least make a few more fun Moyra's Web Jewels conversion templates for people to learn from because the best way to learn is to get some simple, easy to follow scripts and pull it apart yourself.
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First, Apple has been putting the pressure on Tumblr again to 'get rid of the porn' on the app, and it's lead to some of the most frustrating posts and wild accusations of people that clearly don't understand how the whole process works. Luckily, one former dev of Tumblr spoke up about the changes and why things are the way they are and I just love when devs talk about behind the scene stuff.
https://sreegs.tumblr.com/post/671649355334336512/alright-lets-talk-about-apple-and-tumblrs
What I find even more fascinating is one of the dev's older topics about the history of Tumblr's Ads and this really sheds light on just how badly Tumblr was gutted by Yahoo/Verizon.
https://sreegs.tumblr.com/post/670206966670458880/whats-up-with-tumblr-ads
The devs that works on Tumblr genuinely loved their service and they wanted so bad to provide something good but being acquired by Yahoo ate them from the inside. It makes me so angry when I see comments about how 'the staff doesn't care', because they do, they always do. The people that 'don't care' are usually one or two people at the top that aren't even in development, like accounts, shareholders, or the board that only want to know if something will give them money in the end. The people that make the staff posts, that try to manage the sea of tickets that can be anything from valid to reactionary, the people that are on the bottom of the chain, don't deserve the ire that people direct toward them when someone on the board made a decision to add/get rid of/change a feature.
It was honestly very sad to see the volume of people making comments like 'I always forget there are real people behind the site'. Like... How do you forget that!! (I know how, it just makes me sad.)
It makes me think about how most humans really do love to know how things are made and while we have so many videos about how things are physically constructed, there's very little out there that talk about things like, software development. Too many people have this assumption that things are made by popping in a few plugins, or having code auto-fills, and that's just the people that have the barest knowledge of coding but no real experience.
https://medium.com/@krave/apple-s-app-store-review-process-is-hurting-users-but-we-re-not-allowed-to-talk-about-it-55d791451b
Things like this post on Apple's review process from 2015 show that 'just do ____' isn't as helpful a comment as you think it is, since the process of getting an app approved by apple is not a pleasant one.
I really do wish more devs would speak up about the really stupid and inane issues they've had to deal with in changing or adding even the 'simplest' sounding things. Software runs so much of our lives and most people have no clue what all goes into it, giving people the wrong impression of what it is and we really need more accessible information about all of this u_u
Slightly adjacent in the scripting field, going to the subject of making websites.
If you look for 'how to make a website' sources you either run into videos or things like this
https://www.studentartguide.com/articles/how-to-make-an-artist-website
that amount to 'just install wordpress' and not really.. the basic ins and outs of scripting your site.
There's this little search project someone is working on that is a search engine that tries to find text heavy websites to find things that might be ignored by your other search engines these days.
https://search.marginalia.nu/
It is still in the works but I love projects like this so much!!
I searched 'how to make a website' and while there was a lot of unrelated hits as a new experimental service like this is meant to be, but I came across these two charming sites.
https://www.thesitewizard.com/gettingstarted/startwebsite.shtml
http://www.shira.net/web02-start.htm
Still not exactly what I'm looking for but getting closer. They're just nice little spots frozen in time and I appreciate it.
Sometimes I wonder about making a 'how to make a website' documentation but I have no idea if I have the bandwidth for that. But I can at least make a few more fun Moyra's Web Jewels conversion templates for people to learn from because the best way to learn is to get some simple, easy to follow scripts and pull it apart yourself.
This entry was originally posted at https://armaina.dreamwidth.org/778933.html. Please comment there using OpenID.