crows call me breadlady @garbados@friend.camp

i love meeting new crows.

they've heard the stories about me, who leaves peanuts and never harms a crow, and so they swoop down to the ground thinking they know the deal. breadlady gives peanuts when she sees you, right?

and then she SEES YOU and you're a tiny black bird only so much larger than this giant's hand, and its eyes are TRACKING YOU, its TEETH are SHOWING. the crow thinks OH MY GOD, AM I GOING TO DIE

so they back off to about thirteen feet and i toss them a peanut

might play rimworld and make a big cyborg commune hm

but this goes for all sorts of software, too. making it safe and easy for users to own their own data without becoming a sysadmin is crucial to advancing matters like user privacy and respectful data management.

but right now i’m just writing a diary.

i believe this replication story is very good for federated software. systems like mastodon don’t have good backup or export options for users, in part because there isn’t a standard export format that would make sense to provide to users. hell, facebook exports your data as static web pages.

but i’m not just talking backups. imagine a multi-instance masto client that centers your data in the browser, making it faster, more stable, and available offline. plus, encrypted backups!

why i am i writing a diary? well,

i want to demonstrate an app that treats the user’s device as the authoritative source of the user’s data, while providing a self-hosted encrypted backup option for generic app data — which in this case is provided through couchdb. basically you can replicate your data to a backup service without that service knowing anything about your data :D

a slice of privacy; a piece of mind.

testing for the frontend is instrumented and everything, i just haven’t bothered to test anything because the app architecture is still rapidly evolving. nobody ever tests frontend code which is fucking mind-boggling, so i insisted i do it this time.

i am using preact which is like this fucking weird barnacle on the react ecosystem. it’s syntactically similar, and usually compatible with stuff, but nobody tests for preact compat so sometimes i have to downgrade to make stuff work. if this sucks long enough i’ll just use vue for my next project

so i know i was hyped about the test suite but then i got lost writing app code and none of that has tests, lol. lmao actually

it feels so good to debug my shitty code ahead of time

i’m writing a diary app with pouchdb and preact that can use couchdb to store encrypted backups, but so far i have been most hyped about its test suite

people are asking a lot of questions about my lack of a shirt that would be answered if i had an appropriate shirt

astral projecting my consciousness out of an awkward situation

astral projection is just mystic dissociation send toot

have you ever wanted to just wear a sheet at all times, for all occasions? i got you buddy