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Chee Aun 🤔
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Product-1st Front-end Engineer, based in Singapore. On a (long) career break since July 2022. Working on a Mastodon web client https://phanpy.social @phanpy

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cheeaun.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Edent/115599035878316402

"Mastodon-ish instances". Wait, what? 👀👀👀
A paragraph above saying "But, of course, while Mastodon.social is the biggest instance - it is far from the only one. What happens if we slide down the long tail? Here's all the Mastodon-ish instances which sent me over 10 clicks." Two-column table with headers "Total" and "Source." Rows show totals and sources: 193 — phanpy.social; 120 — android-app://org.joinmastodon.android/; 106 — infosec.exchange; 62 — mas.to.
November 23, 2025 at 1:09 PM
cheeaun.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Neat. #phanpysocialdev #alttext

Mastodon issue: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/14903 (2022)
November 23, 2025 at 7:25 AM
cheeaun.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Folks using #phanpysocialdev , there are 2 new features that need a bit of testing:

1. QR code for profiles and shortcuts settings - includes scanner (camera) too
2. Import/export accounts - the export *excludes* access tokens, so need to login again after […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]
Two small blue icons on a white rounded-corner panel over a gray background. First is the QR code icon, second is the "More" icon. Two circular gray buttons on a light background: left button shows a blue QR-code icon, right button shows a blue cloud with an upward arrow (upload) icon. A button with the label "Import/export" on a light background.
November 21, 2025 at 4:53 PM
cheeaun.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@fantinel/115573316684309556

Looks like it’s working 👀

(Posting this from iPhanpy)
Screenshot of an iPhone TestFlight app page for "iPhanpy," showing the app icon, Open and Send Feedback buttons, developer name, version 1.3 Build 4, 90 days until expiration, and release notes about an initial TestFlight release with push notifications unavailable.
November 19, 2025 at 1:23 PM
cheeaun.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Cool. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45963780
Screenshot of Phanpy.social on Mobile Safari, showing Cloudflare’s Internal server error page
November 18, 2025 at 11:51 AM
cheeaun.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Seems like #phanpysocial got mentioned a few times in the past week(s) 😲

1. "Comfort Zone, Episode 75: Klack to the Extreme" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5L0TW-quBo ("Mastodon has been cooking" chapter around 20:59). iPhanpy by @fantinel also mentioned 👍 […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]
Three people wearing headphones and speaking into microphones in a split-screen video call/podcast layout, with closed captions visible at the bottom. Caption shows "Remember Fan B? Oh yeah, of".
November 15, 2025 at 1:58 AM
cheeaun.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
#til there's a server limit on Discord 😅

Joining a new server will show "You must leave a server first to join."

There's a site to get the number of servers you are in: https://github.com/NobreHD/Discord-Server-Count

Subscribing to Nitro plan bump up to 200 servers 🤦‍♂️
Dialog stating "Whoops... You must leave a server first to join." with online/members counts and an "Accept Invite" button. Large heading: "Discord Server Count". Below is a thick red semicircular gauge; centered beneath it in small text is "cheeaun" and "100 servers". At the bottom: "Easily get the number of servers you are in."
November 14, 2025 at 1:36 PM
cheeaun.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Not sure if it'll be useful, but looks good 🤔

Too bad I can't add a Share/Download (image) button due to CORS issue (avatar image and header image). Possibly can fallback to just pure solid-color version but doesn't look as pretty 😆

For context, Mastodon […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]
November 10, 2025 at 3:34 PM
cheeaun.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
RE: n.social/@aslakr/115515062096676837" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">https://mastodon.social/@aslakr/115515062096676837

@aslakr API allows it. Let me test it here 😂
November 8, 2025 at 4:47 PM
cheeaun.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
One of the last changes before v4.5 release.

"Quotes can't be embedded in private mentions". PR: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/36696

- When switching to PM, it appends back the post link when un-embedded.
- When switching back to Public, it doesnt embed it back.
November 7, 2025 at 6:05 AM
cheeaun.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
3 new states: `blocked_domain`, `blocked_account`, `muted_account`.

- PR: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/36619
- Doc PR: https://github.com/mastodon/documentation/pull/1749

Also documented here: https://github.com/cheeaun/phanpy/discussions/1294
October 30, 2025 at 1:51 AM
cheeaun.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
And lastly, "Supported MIME Types".
Table titled "Supported MIME Types" listing media MIME types with counts and percentages. Top rows show image/gif, image/jpeg, image/png, video/mp4 each with count 2294 and 100.00%, followed by many audio and video types with counts around 2293 (99.96%) down to rare types like audio/opus (22, 0.96%) and video/mkv (1, 0.04%).
October 27, 2025 at 4:13 AM
cheeaun.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Might as well check the others too.
Chart titled "Video Frame Rate Limits" showing frame rates 60 (139, 6.06%) with a short bar, 120 (2153, 93.85%) with a long bar, and 144–240 (2, 0.09%) with a tiny bar. Chart titled "Status Character Limits" showing counts and percentages of max-character categories; a large bar at 500 chars (72.01%, 1652 instances) and a smaller bar at 5000 chars (7.85%, 180), with many other ranges listed as small percentages. Chart titled "Poll Options Limits" showing poll option limits (4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13–15, 16, 17–19, 20, 25–50, 60–1024) with counts and percentages; 4-option polls dominate (1,941; 84.65%), 5 options next (140; 6.11%), and smaller bars for other values. Chart titled "Status Media Limits" showing Max Media categories (4, 8–12, 16–64) with counts 2271 (99.00%), 12 (0.52%), 11 (0.48%).
October 27, 2025 at 4:11 AM
cheeaun.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
RE: https://mastodon.social/@cheeaun/115415146417702654

After looking at this, got curious to know the limits in most servers.

So I did a little data analysis. Servers list from @fediverseobserver , filtered to only Mastodon & MAU > 3. A reduced dataset […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]
Chart titled "Image Matrix Limits" showing a table lists matrix MP values (2, 17, 33, 38–195) with counts and percentages and bar graph: 33 MP dominates (2145, 93.50%), 17 MP (139, 6.06%), and small entries for 2 MP and 38–195 MP. Chart titled "Image Size Limits" showing counts and percentages of image sizes (MB) with a horizontal bar graph. The 16 MB row dominates (2,081 items, 90.71%) while other size buckets (4–5, 8, 10, 15, 19, 20, 24–32, 38–48, 50–99, 100–1354 MB) show much smaller counts and percentages. Chart titled "Video Matrix Limits" showing matrix sizes 2MP (138, 6.02%), 8MP (2149, 93.68%) and 9–36MP (7, 0.31%) with horizontal bar graph. Chart titled "Video Size Limits" showing size bins (10–20, 40, 50–80, 86–98, 99, 100, 128–160, 200, 250–800, 990–2048 MB) with counts and percentages; the 99 MB row dominates with count 2086 (90.93%).
October 27, 2025 at 4:07 AM
cheeaun.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Testing uh… iPhanpy.

Built on my machine, running this on my iPhone 13 mini. @fantinel

Repo: https://github.com/matfantinel/iphanpy
Composer on iPhanpy, showing a prompt asking user if would like to access the Camera. iPhanpy app in the iOS app switcher. Phanpy PWA is behind it.
October 27, 2025 at 1:27 AM
cheeaun.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Finally saw this. @phanpy (and me 🙇‍♂️) featured on @_elena 's talk "The Future is federated" in #fediday2025 (3-5 Oct 2025)

Links to video:
- https://c-tube.c-base.org/w/sFSzvrMMbx1sU5yjoM1cyh
- https://fair.tube/w/86BBbCqx7sGXM8tY1uEst4
A speaker at a podium on the left and a presentation slide on the right titled "PHANPY.social" with a screenshot of Phanpy's Catch-up interface and a screenshot of @cheeaun's profile page. Slide from a presentation titled "MOBILE APPS" showing a speaker on the left and an iOS app folder with several Fediverse app icons on the right; showing Ice Cubes, Ivory, Mastodon, Mona, Phanpy and Surf.
October 24, 2025 at 11:08 AM
cheeaun.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Just submitted my entry for https://badux.lol/ (Bad UX World Cup) 🤞

The other entries are just too good. Mine: https://cheeaun.github.io/clockwork-date-picker/

#badux #datepicker
October 24, 2025 at 1:03 AM
cheeaun.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Got bored. Made this. https://codepen.io/cheeaun/pen/OPMvRJO

Seems to work best on Firefox. Weird bottom margin on Chrome. Laggy on Safari. #css #marquee #codepen
October 22, 2025 at 10:37 AM
cheeaun.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
RE: n.social/@tootapp/115399857014625427" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">https://mastodon.social/@tootapp/115399857014625427

Despite not using much as my main app, @tootapp has always stood out to me like nothing else 🙇‍♂️
October 19, 2025 at 8:41 AM
cheeaun.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
It's time for ✨Decal Patterns✨

Reference from Apache ECharts https://echarts.apache.org/handbook/en/best-practices/aria/#decal-patterns — Github issue here https://github.com/apache/echarts/issues/13263 (2020)

#phanpysocialdev
Grid of before-and-after UI mockups showing a “Last 20 posts in the past 2 days” horizontal bar chart with color-coded legend (Original, Replies, Quotes, Boosts). Left column labeled “Before” shows original design without patterns. Middle column labeled “After” shows redesigned, patterned bars. Right column shows "Emulate vision deficiencies. Force vision deficiency emulaiton" with a select field of 5 values: - No emulation - Protanopia (no red) - Tritanopia (no blue) - Deuteranopia (no green) - Achromatopsia (no color)
October 17, 2025 at 11:26 AM
cheeaun.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
My GitHub notifications now look like this every few days 😅

Random bots keep creating repos (not forked) and one of the commits mention me.

Original repo and commit here […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]
Screenshot of a list of repository entries with usernames and the message "Add karan/joe to list - thanks to @cheeaun" repeated for each notification entry.
October 16, 2025 at 10:10 AM
cheeaun.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Let's see if 💫✨Scheduled Quote Post✨💫 works next week 🤞
Phanpy composer showing text "2 weeks ⌛", a quoted post saying "3 weeks" quoting a post from Mastodon Engineering, and a scheduled posting date (22/10/2025, 11:47 PM).
October 16, 2025 at 2:16 AM
cheeaun.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
@stefan I think it's quite uh "mainstream"-ish design; FB just show everything at once 😂

I've thought of doing this on Phanpy multiple times; folks mentioning that they "forgot" to set the visibility or language setting after posting, and had to "delete & […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]
X's post composer with profile avatar, audience set to "Everyone," placeholder text "What's happening?", reply setting "Everyone can reply," and icons for media, camera, live, GIF, and post actions. Facebook's "Create post" screen showing profile photo and name "Chee Aun Lim," privacy and post settings (Friends except…, Album, Off, AI label off) and placeholder text "What's on your mind?"
October 16, 2025 at 1:56 AM
cheeaun.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Wondering if this would be useful?

(I messed up while screen recording this & accidentally mentioned everyone 😂 — now deleted, sorry 🙇‍♂️)

#phanpysocialdev (still on my local, not on dev site)
#design #ux #mastodev
October 11, 2025 at 2:18 PM
cheeaun.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
25 files for different unicode ranges 😮 #phanpysocialdev

Though they're only loaded when required (displayed on the page).

Just for *one* weight (400), though I don't get why need so many weights for emojis. Italics too?

Files from Fontsource https://fontsource.org/fonts/noto-emoji
A screenshot showing a list of font files with names starting with "noto-emoji", file extensions .woff and .woff2, and their sizes in kilobytes.
October 9, 2025 at 2:20 AM