Why is that? Is that just bad coding habits?

All of this is bad coding habits. That's why we're here.

It's Rails!

i believe Sahil mentioned they’re moving away from Rails soon, as he sees it as technical debt.

Drama creation for marketing?

Technical debt, so hot right now.

I mean that choice of framework has very little to do with technical debt. So you claim something like this to create attention.

That, and they also added the "time" command in the config with the scratch base image.

When I enabled RCS on my Android, I started getting ads with rich media. So I disabled it. And moreover WhatsApp is the dominant messaging app in my country. So this doesn't matter.

Ads? Where? There's no spot in Google Messages for them.

Rampant spam has forced Google to turn off RCS ads in India[0]

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/1/23150243/google-rcs-ads-in...

It's not RCS that was turned off, just "Business Messaging", meant for trusted companies to communicate with their customers.

Not on the Google Messages app itself, but inside the messages. Just like spam promotional emails.

Emails??

Rampant spam has forced Google to turn off RCS ads in India[0]

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/1/23150243/google-rcs-ads-in...

I see you're serving a GTS certificate. Does GCP allow you to download TLS certificates? I honestly didn't know. I thought just like AWS, you get them only when using their services like load balancers, app runners etc.

Not OP but the site sits behind Cloudflare and Cloudflare uses Google Trust GTS and LetsEncrypt for Edge certificates.

https://developers.cloudflare.com/ssl/reference/certificate-...

I use ToffeeShare. It also uses WebRTC for p2p transfer. But it fallbacks to a central server if p2p can't be established (just like a TURN server)

If the infra goes down, you fix it while alive, otherwise the snooze timeout on the PagerDuty incident will expire and that will trigger the configured tasks. If PagerDuty goes out of business before that, then that's a different discussion.

My point was - if you're going to rely on a SaaS (Pagerduty), why not just use one that includes health check monitoring (ie cronitor) and cut out this self hosted webhook service?

Deadcheck handles calculating the snooze durations for you. It could be a library as well.

Exactly. At Moov we rely on PD, so if they’re down we have bigger issues anyway. I plan to support additional integrations so a check-in could update multiple

Come on! Google Photos is not confusing at all. It is very clear on what it does, but I may be biased.

Try enabling Google Photos to automatically upload images from multiple devices to the same account.

If Google Photos is low on space, try deleting from Google Photos without causing it to delete from all other devices. Seems to require manually copying all those files to an untracked folder, then deleting from Google Photos.

Try managing which folders Google Photos syncs:

When it asks to add a newly found folder, the app doesn't give any way to find out where that folder is or what's in it, unless the folder's name only occurs once on the device.

Try removing folders from the app ("Whups, didn't mean to backup all the graphic assets of a random app that foolishly doesn't use 'nomedia'!"), where the folder name is not unique. It again gives nothing more than folder names and no indication of where they are or what's in them.

Try getting Google Photos to list where every file first came from, so you know where the originals are (for various reasons).

I take photos on my phone, and they are automatically backed up. I can access them on all my devices, and I have them even when I change my primary phone, so I am happy. I only backup my camera photos, so I guess my needs are simple. So it suits my needs. I can disable it from backing up any other folders, so random photos don't end up in my library. I never needed to find out where a photo was backed up from, because I only care about my camera photos.

Awesome project. But a somewhat irrelevant suggestion. OP could have shared the video via YouTube for better user experience (adaptive bitrate streaming) and also not had to worry about paying for S3.

I wouldn't do it permanently, but I use the feature sometimes myself.

Some sites disabled pinch zooms (massively frustrating for images). Some sites exclude information in mobile view. I'm sure there's other reasons too.

Facebook, Reddit and Amazon all have terribly made mobile versions of their sites, for example.

Reddit's is comically bad, like they hired interns to make it who tried trendy stuff but didn't understand how to implement any of it properly.

I recently found an option in mobile Chrome "Settings > Accessibility > Force enable zoom" which overrides a website's request to prevent zooming in. Highly recommended

Yes, very useful. You can do the same on Firefox for Android: "Settings > Accessibility > Zoom on all websites."

> Reddit's is comically bad, like they hired interns to make it who tried trendy stuff but didn't understand how to implement any of it properly.

I think it's intentionally bad. They just want to force you to use the app instead. Hence the 5 times a minute "Reddit is better in the app" popups too. Unfortunately the real reason of course is "Reddit can collect much more information about you if you use the app". It's not about "being better". That's a choice, if they wanted to provide a phenomenal web app experience they could easily do so.

sure, but all the time? You guys must have ant vision or something :) . Sometimes I use it but it's pretty rare.

I recently hit that 40's age where short sight vision is now stuffed. I foresee a future of phone use frustration.

Amusingly, I use my phone to magnify the labels for food ingredients to make sure myself or my kid aren't eating problem foods.

It is amazing how many years people live after their 40's and so much stuff is now "hard" and yet no one will design for it. Even when they themselves will inevitably suffer from it one day.

Aging and death is an abstract concept to youth, for the most part. Source: I've been there.

There are some apps which you can use to scan labels with and it will tell you which allergens does it have.

I use Opera because it perfectly scales the text when I zoom in, as opposed to other browsers.

> I wouldn't do it permanently, but I use the feature sometimes myself.

Exactly my thought. I too use it sometimes, but "always" is a bit too much.

> Some sites disabled pinch zooms (massively frustrating for images).

Best are the blogs that have embedded images of graphs or something and they are as large as you can make them (edge to edge). Try pinch to zoom... nope. Tap on image... Here is a smaller version of the image (not edge to edge). Oooookay... Can I zoom now? Hahahhahah....nope!

> Some sites disabled pinch zooms

I've always wondered why sites do this. What's the point of it? What does the web designer get from it?

double tap zoom is annoying. it is easy to imagine inexperienced users getting lost because of it.

Because it's objectively better. I also exclusively use desktop mode, and I can tell when a site's designer can't comprehend this choice.

>site's designer can't comprehend this choice.

I've built responsive sites that work as you'd expect in desktop mode, and I'm not 100% certain how other sites that don't are built.

They seem to degrade into some odd hybrid between desktop and mobile. It's like the worst of both worlds.

So, for example, you get hamburger menus, instead of the full desktop nav. And you get a different layout with an increased PPI, but it's not quite mobile and not quite desktop.

I can only assume that they are looking at the agent string in addition to implementing media queries / breakpoints. But there's also something weird going on with the PPI.

Whatever it is, seems like it takes more effort to create a poorer design.