#dev 2026-03-22

2026-03-22 UTC
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[Al_Abut] [tantek] this one's for you - I'm trying out a mobile browser where you can turn off javascript for all websites by default and have a one click button to turn it back on as needed. Just barely started trying it out and I'm already addicted to the speed.
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[Al_Abut] https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/03/20/quiche-browser
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[Al_Abut] I'm trying out the heaviest and most unreadable sites I can think of just for the fun of it. Haven't tried loading the nytimes home page in years.
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BlogRolly very techy but i'll research it and jump on it if it suits thanks for the recommendation
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[Michael_Kupiet] I use iCabMobile, you can turn off JavaScript with one click, plus a ton more and a responsive developer who actually answers his email. Been using it for years.
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[Al_Abut] Nice, that looks spiritually very similar.
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[Al_Abut] The search defaults to the html-only version of DuckDuckGo, so fast
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[Al_Abut] And setting up the UI the way you want makes it feel even faster. I've got a single one tap buttons set up on the tool bar for turning on JS or reader mode
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[Al_Abut] https://chat-uploads.indieweb.org/files/2026/03/dev-20260322-175514-image_from_ios.jpg
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[Al_Abut] You can even customize the tap-and-hold secondary link menu.
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[Al_Abut] https://chat-uploads.indieweb.org/files/2026/03/dev-20260322-175610-image_from_ios.jpg
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[Al_Abut] There's no tab groups but that's the only minor detail I miss
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[Michael_Kupiet] Yeah, iCabMobile is similar… all tool bars and menus are customizable, even pop-up or contextual menus. +1,000,000 other customizations, like I use custom user agents per sites in some cases, it’s got a ton of plug-ins and things that it comes with, it’s pretty sweet. In fact, it’s so customizable it’s a little bit of a pain… I got one profile set up the way I want, but occasionally I need to switch profiles to switch bet
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[Michael_Kupiet] and personal contexts, and it works completely differently because I haven’t gotten around to setting up all the same customizations as my main profile.
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btrem How long has it been since I've done any php? So long that I didn't put in line delimeters (i.e., semi-colon), and couldn't figure out why Drupal was complaining! Exacerbated by the fact that in js, the semicolon is optional. :-/
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btrem There are *so* many php extensions for VS Code. Any recommendations? (Or ones I should avoid?) For me, syntax highlighting, good; constantly popping up "intellisense" modals that I have to escape out of, bad. ;-)
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[Michael_Kupiet] Perpetually flipping between several languages, there’s three things that have perpetually become mush in my mind: whether lines need semicolons, whether logical AND is “and” or “&&”, whether string concatentation is “+”, “&”, or “.”. Runner up: assignment “=“ vs equivalence “==“ vs reassignment “:=“
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btrem [Michael_Kupiet]: yes to all that. Also, I learned (read: had to learn) a new concatenation. In twig, it's `~`. Crazy!
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