Fair warning: this is a blog post about automated cat feeders. Sort of. But bear with me, because I’m also trying to make a point about software. If you have a sudden urge to click the back button on your browser now, I don’t blame you. I don’
Your ‘App’ Could Have Been a Webpage (so I fixed it for you…)
I was asked to install a mobile app to get access to the itinerary of a trip to Disneyland I'm taking with the kids. Fuck that noise: couldn't it have just been a Web page? An hour of reverse-engineering later, it is, and it's superior in virtually every way to the "app" that it replaces.
Apps are too complex so maybe features should be ownable and tradable
Posted on Friday 29 Apr 2022. 1,955 words, 12 links. By Matt Webb.
Nobody Wants Your Damn App
Nobody wants another app cluttering their phone—so why does every website keep begging us to install one? The web already perfected the experience: click, load, done. Maybe it’s time we stopped trying to ruin it.
This ‘Privacy Browser’ Has Dangerous Hidden Features
The Universe Browser is believed to have been downloaded millions of times. But researchers say it behaves like malware and has links to Asia’s booming cybercrime and illegal gambling networks.
Permissioned Data Shapes: Notifications - Nick's Blog
A self-keyed space gives notifications a home you control: every app gets an append-only sink to write into, you pick the reader that turns them into pushes and emails, and allowing or revoking an app is an access control you already have.
What Do We Really Know About the Back Button?
4 Design Patterns That Violate “Back” Button UX Expectations – 59% of Sites Get It Wrong – Baymard
Our large-scale usability testing reveals that users expect the "Back" button to take them back to what they perceive to be their previous page, which often differs from site behavior.
Here’s What Your Browser is Telling Everyone About You
Your browser sends a lot of information with each website you visit. That can be used to track you across the internet.
What is it? - NoScript: consensual browsing!
The NoScript Security Suite is Free Software protecting Firefox (on Android, too!), Chrome, Edge, Brave and other web browsers. Install NoScript now!
Checking your browser - reCAPTCHA
Isolated Web Apps · Issue #842 · w3ctag/design-reviews
こんにちは TAG-さん! I'm requesting a TAG review of Isolated Web Apps. This proposal provides a way to build applications using web technologies that will have useful security properties unavailable t...
So this is one of the cool things about apps in the Atmosphere. They have to declare what stuff in your account they're going to touch.
ATStore
You find a cool new Atmosphere app. You click sign in. And then... a wall of permission requests you didn't expect. 😬 ATStore fixes that. Every app listing now has a "scopes" badge, tap it to see what the app will request before you ever log in. ⚠️ Requesting dangerous scopes? Get warned.
New project I built last week: a kind of "isblueskydownforeveryoneorjustme.com" dashboard, so I can stop wondering "is it my PDS or is it the AppView" when the app isn't loading - bookmark it for the next time something doesn't work but you're not sure what 🙂 status.feeds.blue
Atmosphere Status
status.feeds.blue@toni.bsky.team @alexbenzer.com i think yall need to wrestle with the fact that the app’s most distinctive feature (“custom feeds”) is something only (relative) nerds use and benefit from. normal people won’t swipe between many algorithms or whatever. have a look at past designs for “communities”
