Gregory
@grishka.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Software developer who's almost lost faith in the modern IT. Used to work at VKontakte, then Telegram. Currently building my own fediverse project to save our online […]
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Yay Twitter is down
January 16, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Yay Twitter is down
Apple seems to have given up on Objective C in their newly written API docs
January 12, 2026 at 6:40 AM
Apple seems to have given up on Objective C in their newly written API docs
Now my home timeline is finally readable again.
January 11, 2026 at 4:55 AM
Now my home timeline is finally readable again.
VKontakte has become so unpopular among people I know that I finally no longer keep any tabs with it permanently open.
Can't wait to do the same with Twitter but unfortunately there are enough people still who post exclusively there.
Can't wait to do the same with Twitter but unfortunately there are enough people still who post exclusively there.
January 4, 2026 at 5:48 PM
VKontakte has become so unpopular among people I know that I finally no longer keep any tabs with it permanently open.
Can't wait to do the same with Twitter but unfortunately there are enough people still who post exclusively there.
Can't wait to do the same with Twitter but unfortunately there are enough people still who post exclusively there.
Something went wrong. Somehow. We have no idea what it is or how it happened though, because we somehow don't fully own our product experience.
January 4, 2026 at 3:11 PM
Something went wrong. Somehow. We have no idea what it is or how it happened though, because we somehow don't fully own our product experience.
So someone built an unofficial server for the Mail.Ru Agent, an IM app that was briefly popular in Russia in the late 00s before VK introduced instant messaging. Of course I had to give it a try.
So this is a reminder that *this* is what peak desktop instant […]
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So this is a reminder that *this* is what peak desktop instant […]
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January 3, 2026 at 3:34 PM
So someone built an unofficial server for the Mail.Ru Agent, an IM app that was briefly popular in Russia in the late 00s before VK introduced instant messaging. Of course I had to give it a try.
So this is a reminder that *this* is what peak desktop instant […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
So this is a reminder that *this* is what peak desktop instant […]
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I need opinions on #smithereen API.
For notifications, which format would you prefer more, this https://smithereen.software/docs/api/methods/notifications.get/ or something even more deduplicated with `wall_posts`, `comments`, `photos`, and `board_topics` as separate arrays? Or maybe something […]
For notifications, which format would you prefer more, this https://smithereen.software/docs/api/methods/notifications.get/ or something even more deduplicated with `wall_posts`, `comments`, `photos`, and `board_topics` as separate arrays? Or maybe something […]
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mastodon.social
December 25, 2025 at 1:19 PM
I need opinions on #smithereen API.
For notifications, which format would you prefer more, this https://smithereen.software/docs/api/methods/notifications.get/ or something even more deduplicated with `wall_posts`, `comments`, `photos`, and `board_topics` as separate arrays? Or maybe something […]
For notifications, which format would you prefer more, this https://smithereen.software/docs/api/methods/notifications.get/ or something even more deduplicated with `wall_posts`, `comments`, `photos`, and `board_topics` as separate arrays? Or maybe something […]
I love modern technology... when it works. Which isn't something one should take for granted.
My AirPods stopped working. After some googling I found out that this might be a firmware version mismatch. Unpaired them and then paired one at a time as one […]
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My AirPods stopped working. After some googling I found out that this might be a firmware version mismatch. Unpaired them and then paired one at a time as one […]
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December 20, 2025 at 12:27 AM
I love modern technology... when it works. Which isn't something one should take for granted.
My AirPods stopped working. After some googling I found out that this might be a firmware version mismatch. Unpaired them and then paired one at a time as one […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
My AirPods stopped working. After some googling I found out that this might be a firmware version mismatch. Unpaired them and then paired one at a time as one […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
For once my tweet is unexpectedly getting popular but I'm only glad it is.
December 15, 2025 at 10:23 PM
For once my tweet is unexpectedly getting popular but I'm only glad it is.
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@millie/115719943870742405
I've been saying this for ages yet way too often do I get ridiculed for it.
Smithereen will be finished at some point, by the way.
I've been saying this for ages yet way too often do I get ridiculed for it.
Smithereen will be finished at some point, by the way.
infosec.exchange
December 15, 2025 at 1:44 PM
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@millie/115719943870742405
I've been saying this for ages yet way too often do I get ridiculed for it.
Smithereen will be finished at some point, by the way.
I've been saying this for ages yet way too often do I get ridiculed for it.
Smithereen will be finished at some point, by the way.
I got the The Oracle archetype!
https://mastodon.social/@grishka/wrapstodon/2025/e1d0c608bfde0a97
#wrapstodon2025
https://mastodon.social/@grishka/wrapstodon/2025/e1d0c608bfde0a97
#wrapstodon2025
Wrapstodon 2025 for Gregory
See how Gregory used Mastodon this year!
mastodon.social
December 15, 2025 at 10:12 AM
I got the The Oracle archetype!
https://mastodon.social/@grishka/wrapstodon/2025/e1d0c608bfde0a97
#wrapstodon2025
https://mastodon.social/@grishka/wrapstodon/2025/e1d0c608bfde0a97
#wrapstodon2025
Everything one needs to know about the current state of internet access in Russia, in one screenshot
December 15, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Everything one needs to know about the current state of internet access in Russia, in one screenshot
Modern macOS still supports type and creator codes from classic Mac OS, even on APFS. I wonder if it's possible to use them to differentiate between .ts as a TypeScript source and .ts as an MPEG-TS video file.
December 11, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Modern macOS still supports type and creator codes from classic Mac OS, even on APFS. I wonder if it's possible to use them to differentiate between .ts as a TypeScript source and .ts as an MPEG-TS video file.
From the creators of the stupidest "oh no you clicked a link that leads to THE INTERNET, are you sure you want to do that" warnings, a tooltip that points to a text field to explain you that you can, in fact, type your message there. With a superfluous […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
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December 11, 2025 at 8:09 AM
From the creators of the stupidest "oh no you clicked a link that leads to THE INTERNET, are you sure you want to do that" warnings, a tooltip that points to a text field to explain you that you can, in fact, type your message there. With a superfluous […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
It blows my mind that a real person has written the code that does this and never once did they pause and ask themselves "what the actual fuck am I doing, maybe this should not be done"
December 10, 2025 at 6:41 AM
It blows my mind that a real person has written the code that does this and never once did they pause and ask themselves "what the actual fuck am I doing, maybe this should not be done"
Lol, VKontakte is becoming even more Facebook. Or Twitter.
They removed the docs for half the API methods (that mysteriously stopped working for third-party app IDs a while ago anyway), and for half of the remaining half, they did this.
Translation […]
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They removed the docs for half the API methods (that mysteriously stopped working for third-party app IDs a while ago anyway), and for half of the remaining half, they did this.
Translation […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
December 7, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Lol, VKontakte is becoming even more Facebook. Or Twitter.
They removed the docs for half the API methods (that mysteriously stopped working for third-party app IDs a while ago anyway), and for half of the remaining half, they did this.
Translation […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
They removed the docs for half the API methods (that mysteriously stopped working for third-party app IDs a while ago anyway), and for half of the remaining half, they did this.
Translation […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
Ugh the web archive is down at the worst possible moment
December 7, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Ugh the web archive is down at the worst possible moment
As often? AS OFTEN?!?!
December 7, 2025 at 3:58 AM
As often? AS OFTEN?!?!
So I made a list of remaining API methods that I need to implement. Probably an incomplete one. It turns out there are 105 of them. One hundred and five 🫠
#smithereen
#smithereen
November 29, 2025 at 1:49 AM
So I made a list of remaining API methods that I need to implement. Probably an incomplete one. It turns out there are 105 of them. One hundred and five 🫠
#smithereen
#smithereen
With classes like ScriptValueGsonTypeAdapterFactory, it feels like I'm finally writing "proper" Java
#smithereen
#smithereen
November 26, 2025 at 7:25 PM
With classes like ScriptValueGsonTypeAdapterFactory, it feels like I'm finally writing "proper" Java
#smithereen
#smithereen
Sometimes, when reading an article, I find myself looking at its publication date just to see if it could have possibly been tainted by AI...
November 20, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Sometimes, when reading an article, I find myself looking at its publication date just to see if it could have possibly been tainted by AI...
If mobile OSes had the feature of modern game consoles where it records the screen continuously into a buffer in memory and then saves that recording of the past when you ask it to, it would make figuring out some bugs so much easier.
Brought to you by a bug report that had me question my […]
Brought to you by a bug report that had me question my […]
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mastodon.social
November 17, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If mobile OSes had the feature of modern game consoles where it records the screen continuously into a buffer in memory and then saves that recording of the past when you ask it to, it would make figuring out some bugs so much easier.
Brought to you by a bug report that had me question my […]
Brought to you by a bug report that had me question my […]