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Cake day: March 17th, 2026

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  • I’m not sure limiting customization is actually a good thing… There are legitimate customizations and innovative inputs that people like.

    For example, Logseq has a fancy text field that can bring up a submenu if you type two left brackets. Something like this is pretty specific to Logseq (or at least certain notes apps) and this would be much harder to replicate in a native app.

    Or are you saying Logseq shouldn’t do that? And it should assume that the notes area is just a plain text field? I guess that would be considered more “expected”.

    At least in my experience with Vala and GTK, this would take significantly more effort. Not impossible. Just way more effort.


  • Most native apps collect far more data than their website equivalents ever could. They request permissions to hardware, sensors, and background processes that browsers deliberately restrict.

    On March 27, 2026, the Trump administration released an official White House app for iOS and Android. … Apple requires apps to submit a privacy manifest disclosing what data they collect. The White House app declared an empty array. Zero data collection. Meanwhile, the actual binary contained ten analytics frameworks, including the full OneSignal SDK with a sub-framework specifically for location tracking

    Hm. Didn’t think about it like that.












  • SailfishOS is a (non-Android) Linux phone that may be viable right meow!

    SailfishOS runs fine (well?) on the Sony Xperia or the Jolla C2.

    I just bought one a few weeks ago, but I haven’t had time to fully set it up yet (my house has been falling apart). I’m in the US with Mint Mobile and calls and SMS work. Camera works. Battery life is pretty decent. They have an Android compatibility layer that integrates pretty well into Sailfish. I was able to install F-Droid on it and then Bitwarden and Molly (Signal client) so far.

    One of the more trickier apps I may need to install is Tailscale… but I’m thinking maybe I can switch to Netbird and use their reverse proxy and remove the need to install a VPN client on the phone altogether.

    I’m not a heavy smartphone user, so for me I’m thinking this might be a viable path to take.

    p.d. Yes, you can bring up a terminal. :)



  • Yeah, 100% agree.

    While not the ideal right now, I think Codeberg shows promise.

    They’re working on federation: https://codeberg.org/forgejo-contrib/federation

    Although, sure, it doesn’t seem to be their #1 priority. However, compared to GitHub this is a great step.

    Also, again compared to GitHub or GitLab, Codeberg gives me more confidence because they don’t seem to be a commercial organization: https://docs.codeberg.org/getting-started/what-is-codeberg/#what-is-codeberg-e.v.?

    So “getting bought” or having to “please investors” seems less likely.

    We need federation and open standards, 100% agree. GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, etc are on the opposite side of that mission. SourceHut’s answer to federation is email… which I think most people will not like.

    I’d love to hear about a source forge that is:

    • non-commercial, non-VC backed to avoid enshittification
    • FLOSS, self-hostable
    • has federation today (or is even open to working on federation)
    • doesn’t have awkward federation UX (like email)

    No, really, I’d like to know. Codeberg is the only I know that approximates that list.

    Waffling on moving to Codeberg because it’s not 100% perfect means supporting GitHub and drops the possibility of federated forges to 0%. Moving to Codeberg makes the future of federated forges go up to greater than 0%.



  • I’ll share more details about where the Ghostty project will be moving to in the coming months. We have a plan but I’m also very much still in discussions with multiple providers (both commercial and FOSS).

    • GitLab -> too enterprisey, danger of enshittification, if not already there
    • SourceHut -> too different
    • BitBucket -> lol
    • Codeberg -> GitHub without the bullshit