Interesting. I will check these out.
I’m finally using ChatGPT some, but it’s not for code generation. About 3 weeks ago Google Search completely broke for my programming questions. I thought they probably had a bad release and would get if fixed quickly, but they haven’t. I use Duck Duck Go for non-programming queries but it has never been able to pull up the right StackOverflow post, and neither can StackOverflow’s own search. Well ChatGPT is like 3/3 this week on understanding my very specific programming questions and giving me the right answer.
Oh I thought you did it. It wasn’t me. It must be some kind of default setting. I checked and Planetary doesn’t have the same option. I bet it’s because we are a SwiftUI-first app whose root view is a WindowGroup instead of a UIWindow.
Some stuff will definitely break if you open a lot of tabs. Especially because most relays only let you open 10 concurrent subscriptions and most of our views use 1 or 2.
They have done a few tests of the upper part, but this was the first time they tried launching the whole thing to space. It was the largest and most powerful vehicle humans have ever launched!
SpaceX is going to try to launch their Starship in 10 minutes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1wcilQ58hI
Wait, what?
I’m dying for Nos to support mentions and reposts too. Hopefully both next week.
Build 35 of Nos is out with new translations and a host of bug fixes! Here’s the full list:
- Added French translations. Thank you #[0]!
- Added Chinese (Traditional) and updated Chinese (Simplified) translations. Thank you #[1]!
- Improved scroll performance on the Home and Discover feeds
- Added a logout button in the Settings menu.
- Fixed some notes saying "posted" at the top when they should say "replied".
- Added code to load the note being replied to if we don't have it.
- Added a button to share the application logs in the Settings menu
- Automatically attach debug logs to support emails
- Fixed a bug where muted authors would show up on the Discover tab.
- Scrolling performance improvements
- Fixed a bug where notes would be truncated but the Read More button would not be shown.
- Added a button to view raw event JSON in the options menu on notes.
Note:
- In this build you have to pull-to-refresh if you want to see new notes on the Home or Discover tabs.
Known Issues:
- The Discover tab still has some performance problems, especially on macOS. Fix coming soon!
The reason I didn’t add it there in the first place is that we show a warning to make sure the user backs up their key, and from the side menu it’s less obvious where to do that than in Settings (where it is right next to the logout button).
Would love to see pics of the work you do with these.
Spent another day trying to optimize scroll performance in Nos. I was able to cut the hitch rate from 60ms/s to 35ms/s, but it’s very slow and tedious work.
One problem I keep bumping into is images. Some aren’t compressed or don’t have a supported color format and iOS has to convert them on the CPU before they can be passed to the GPU for rendering causing dropped frames. Then some are so big that they spend too long getting rendered and cause dropped frames. We display a lot of little avatar images in Nos in addition to the images linked in notes. Are other clients doing any tricks to help with this?
Hah, I’ve spent the last week in Instruments as well trying to fix all the scroll hitches in Nos. Best of luck, it can be tedious work.
Oh yeah, the client was Iris
Ok oops. Whatever client I was reading your message in #[4] didn’t render the mention and I thought you were requesting that I use the new nostr: mention format, not actually mentioning someone else 🤦♂️
nostr:npub1acg6thl5psv62405rljzkj8spesceyfz2c32udakc2ak0dmvfeyse9p35c it looks like Gossip isn't handling my unfollows from other clients, even after going to the People tab and tapping "Pull (overwrite)".
Thanks for the shout out, I've been working on setting up the first DecentNostr call but don't have anything to announce quite yet. I think the days of reading the global feed and interacting as more or less one community are numbered sadly. But with Nostr we can build the tools people need to make their own small communities with the rules and customs that suite them, which I hope will lead to thousands of friendly and welcoming communities instead of one.
Yeah counting them on the client side is absurdly expensive. But reactions are super valuable in my book!