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Cake day: March 17th, 2026

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  • I’m not sure limiting customization is actually a good thing… There are legitimate customizations and innovative inputs that people like.

    For example, Logseq has a fancy text field that can bring up a submenu if you type two left brackets. Something like this is pretty specific to Logseq (or at least certain notes apps) and this would be much harder to replicate in a native app.

    Or are you saying Logseq shouldn’t do that? And it should assume that the notes area is just a plain text field? I guess that would be considered more “expected”.

    At least in my experience with Vala and GTK, this would take significantly more effort. Not impossible. Just way more effort.


  • Most native apps collect far more data than their website equivalents ever could. They request permissions to hardware, sensors, and background processes that browsers deliberately restrict.

    On March 27, 2026, the Trump administration released an official White House app for iOS and Android. … Apple requires apps to submit a privacy manifest disclosing what data they collect. The White House app declared an empty array. Zero data collection. Meanwhile, the actual binary contained ten analytics frameworks, including the full OneSignal SDK with a sub-framework specifically for location tracking

    Hm. Didn’t think about it like that.