Today in “trying to use other people’s code”, debug build deps, entrypoints and entire pyproject.toml contents, made a PR so the next person has a better time (maybe): github.com/thatlarry… NB: I don’t usually #python so this required much doc reading #programming

Yesterday in " Use #Opensource or write my own" I have been trying out goskyr instead of maintaining my own event data fetchers. It didn’t cope with event pages listing multiple dates, so I patched it. github.com/jakopako/… how is #myfirstgo ? #programming #mobilizon #golang

Yesterday in WTF #Perl:

DB<1> use Event::Scraper::Website::SwindonFestLiterature;
double free or corruption (fasttop)
Aborted

This is perl 5, version 32, subversion 1 (v5.32.1) built for x86_64-linux-gnu-thread-multi

Whaaat?

Picked up last weeks work on the Fool’s Dog iOS app, almost immediately found the issue I couldn’t find in an hour of looking last week, why is this always the way!? #programming #ios #foolsdog

Debugging #Perl #UTF8 #JSON #API issues on an Easter Sunday morning, why do I do this to myself.. ? #programming

#closingtabs Guess what I’ve been working on lately..

In the weird world of app dev, an SDK invite: Our innovative solution works silently in the background, indexing public websites by utilizing unused resources from devices. This unique approach not only boosts your revenue but also significantly enhances user experience and retention. #foolsdog

Yesterday: Deployed #perl db-to-api tool metacpan.org/pod/WebAP… once for a project where folks now don’t have the “I don’t write Perl” excuse to contribute, and once against #Mobilizon, cos I just give up with #graphql. Now I have to deal with the it’s db schema instead #programming

Yesterday: “Just” going to migrate my dev db from SQLite to Postgres, shouldn’t take long. Now I know that pgloader exists, that it’s written in lisp, that there’s no gentoo package for it, that a sbcl package exists, that mapping field types is fun, that my db had erroneous data #programming

Thoughts from the coding mines: Never work with animals, children, or.. old stripe implementations.. Dear #Stripe, how many f’in ways are/were there to do the same thing? I need a flow chart to determine how to migrate. opens 16th possibly 17th tab into the Stripe docs #programming

Today’s “fun” was attempting to understand how to talk to a GraphQL server, and despite umpteen tabs, 2 examples (in different languages) of existing code using the same server, I gave up. Is there a decent/simple explanation on how to write the queries somewhere? I have a schema even. #programming

Today in iOS app writing fun: did you know you can just - declare not to dark mode at all? (Yes we should fix it at some point!) Also fixed, loops over the actual length of an array (index 0 beyond bounds for empty array), plists that weren’t valid XML (xcode doesn’t complain!?) #foolsdog

Today was a ‘twiddle with all the things’ day, fix inconsistent website links, add paging to API rest clients (revenuecat and the app store), add more IAP decks, debug strange errors in the beta app maybe due to products loading slowly? Maybe I should cache those.. #foolsdog

Rare in programming that one can do a 5-minute fix to a problem (that I thought was way more broken than it was), openbox obmenu-generator now also lists my flatpak(d) applications github.com/trizen/ob… #perl #programming

Yesterday I gave up trying to get the AppStoreConnect API to give me prices for existing apps (trying various endpoints and parameters), and manually copied the data out of the ASC ui instead. The goal here is to deploy one app with In-App-Purchasing for the variants, instead of ~90+ apps.

Plan this morning: Update my AppStoreConnectAPI code to pull prices for apps from the app store. Actually done so far: ranting confusedly at Three/My3/chatbot/support team (can’t login to my account), peering at Tesco Bank maths.