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Feedback to author: The diagram and explanation took a beat longer than normal to scan, since this buries a bit that it's not about the beautiful source contro
by Terretta 3y ago
Feedback to author:
The diagram and explanation took a beat longer than normal to scan, since this buries a bit that it's not about the beautiful source control system called fossil shipped as a composition of modules:
https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki
Great diagrams, so of course that's the first thing a reader will skim. Reader thinks people build things based on git all the time, the diagram looks like it's based on fossil, cool, scan more...
Making it take a bit longer when scanning upwards from the diagram, the Mastodon client is introduced without naming it until an aside at the end of the paragraph:
> Before the New Year I decided to hack on an idea. I wanted a social media client for Mastodon that displays my feed in a way that suits me ... I call it Fossil.
If you missed that at the end and scan back down to the arch section, it mentions fossil without really saying it's the social media app:
> With fossil plugins, it’s become straightforward to work on any part of the stack:
- UI elements — write verbatim HTML or Jinja templates, packaged into a plugin
- API endpoints — register them via a decorator API
- DB tables — Create them during plugin initialization
- AI algorithms — register them via the API
- fossil
> That’s neat. The whole stack.
I'd edit three things:
+ "...social media client for Mastodon I call ‘Fossil’ that displays my feed..."
+ "With plugins for my Fossil app..."
+ "- fossil mobile app"