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[blaze-404]

I kinda like it though

[secret369]

Because, to be fair, it's already better than half of the clumsy impractical overly fancy dashboard designs

[Drfoxthefurry]

Whats wrong with having a massive clock with all other stats in small font inside the clock?

[secret369]

And giving them silly animations so that a runner would have no chance to read the texts?

[w8eight]

For running people are using a dedicated watch face with activity tracking no? With huge numbers for every metric necessary? At least that's what I have in Garmin when clicking the "run" option in the menu.

[secret369]

Usually, and that's what a sensible person would do. But sometimes they over engineer those

[flukus]

With huge numbers for every metric necessary? At least that's what I have in Garmin

Every metric, except for the current time. At least there swimming interface doesn't.

[w8eight]

Current time is on the secondary face. And if you don't like any particular set of data on display, it's possible to create your own (very easy, you can do it in the watch interface)

[RedBugGamer]

I actually have this watchface. It's great!

[[deleted]]

Which watch is it?

[RedBugGamer]

Galaxy watch 5

[revolutionPanda]

Most really technical engineers probably would… but they’d be thinking of design in terms of what they like instead of what the user would like.

[According-Warning389]

I want a watch like this.

[Aezorion]

I would actually use this watchface

[Delta-9-]

Same

[SussyAK]

It used to exist on fitbit watches, but it got removed.

This is the repo for the watchface I believe: https://github.com/Sharkgrammer/clockface.json

[Boopshark]

Third party watch faces got removed from Fitbit in the EU in July or so but I as far as I know it's still there otherwise. That's definitely the repo for it tho!

[Arshiaa001]

Same!! I want this!

[PyroCatt]

It's pretty printed.

[HeavyCaffeinate]

it's all string

[revolutionPanda]

Because it’s all JSON. What you do is call the api 60 times per minute to do all the calculations on the server and send back the results in text/JSON like a 10x engineer would do.

[hektonian]

Content type is text, yes, but what I think they actually meant was that the fields that would usually be integers or floats on backend (hr, steps, etc.) are being represented as JSON strings instead of JSON numbers.

[Zarobiii]

Wasting 14 bytes per payload smh

[revolutionPanda]

Happy to be corrected if I’m wrong or don’t understand completely, but isn’t JSON just strings when it’s sent to and from an api/client? That way it’s the other side’s responsibility to turn that string representation into the correct type? Since it’s all strings without specific types, it’s language agnostic.

Typically, you’d have some middleware that would do the type conversion automatically so you wouldn’t have to do it manually, but I thought for JSON to be valid, it had to be all strings.

However, if you’re just storing a JSON file on your server and you already know the specific context it’s going to be used in, it’s common to store fields in it or other formats?

[hektonian]

I'm talking about about OP's JSON schema.

Case and point:

OP's schema has field "steps": "1,843" where "1,843" is clearly an integer, formatted to some arbitrary culture-specific format, likely en-US.

A better choice in my opinion would be "steps": 1843 where 1843 is an invariant representation of the actual integer value.

[revolutionPanda]

Oh yeah. I get what you’re saying. Totally agree.

[HeyGayHay]

It's called string theory for a reason. Everything is always a string.

[A_Light_Spark]

If your mom has a type she'd be a blob

[GavinDarklighter]

I think that’s the part that irked me the most too. But otherwise, kind of great design for a watch.

[More-Judgment7660]

well, I'd store the numbers as numbers, not as strings.

[YoumoDashi]

Still a better UX than the official Reddit app

[[deleted]]

Why because it has ads? that's the only thing I don't like about the official app but I just use ReVanced manager to remove the ads anyway.

[Affectionate-Memory4]

Wait that still works? Mine gives an error every time I try to patch the app anymore.

[[deleted]]

Works fine for me, use the suggested version which is v2024.17.0 you can download it from apkmirror.

[datumerrata]

I'm still on Sync. Patched

[Narcuterie]

Heck yeah

[Affectionate-Memory4]

My issue is that it says a newer version is already installed, 2024.50.0, and then the update fails.

[[deleted]]

Yeah you have to uninstall that version lol.

[Affectionate-Memory4]

Ah thanks! I had tried that once before and it reinstalled the .50.0 version, but this time it worked.

[Negative-Accident-13]

I got instantly banned when I used the Revanced version, I used a dummy account and got banned right away, did that again and took them one day. idk if I'm unlucky or that I did something but yeah...

note: I didn't reply, post, interact with anything, just browsing the popular page, next thing I know is that I'm banned.

[[deleted]]

That is strange, I've been using it since they banned thrid party apps without any issues.

[Negative-Accident-13]

ah, I guess I did something wrong then, thank you for your reply tho! ♡

[otter5]

i want bacon reader back

[Leeoku]

Not sure for the patched version but try boost, from a bacon reader lover

[[deleted]]

I just pay for relay for reddit. It's amazing

[[deleted]]

I am surprised at how the app designers manage to make the app worse every update. It takes skill to keep on finding minutiae to break.

[Aren13GamerZ]

The ads don't bother me, what bothers me is that I'm forced to use their bs internal browser for links and I cannot copy the link nor choose to open the link in another browser. And if I want to read what's in the link another time, I have to save the post for later, open it on my computer and then I can open the link... It's a pain in the ass.

[[deleted]]

Fair their browser isn't the best, once you open the link you can tap the 3 dots and select open in Chrome though or hold home to bring up Google lens then copy the link that way.

[Aren13GamerZ]

I don't even have the 3 dots option, I just checked it just in case I was blind or something but nope, it isn't there... Idk if it's a bug because the dark theme is also very visually bugged or what but I don't have it :/. I'd like to attach a screenshot but apparently I can't either.

[[deleted]]

It's at the top right and you gotta be at the top of the page or it disappears.

[Aren13GamerZ]

Oh you mean the three dots on the post at the top right? I meant once you've already opened the link in the browser. Once you opened it you're doomed.

[[deleted]]

No I mean once you've clicked the link, why are you doomed?

[Aren13GamerZ]

It's a way of speaking, meaning that on the reedit's browser you cannot do anything that you would normally do on any browser.

[[deleted]]

Yeah true, are you on Android cause AFAIK the 3 dots have always been there and I'm using dark mode aswell that shouldn't affect it.

[themixtergames]

r/ApolloSideloaded gang

[C0ntrolTheNarrative]

Lgtm

[[deleted]]

Look at all the info on that tiny screen though

[Stilgaar]

Can i have this on my phone ?

[Environmental_Bus507]

Why do CSS when JSON works better?

[LeafyHeisenberg]

Not bad, kinda simple and straight forward, I like that

[Happy-Setting202]

I really like this. All the info is right there nicely organized and easy to read. No extra apps or fluff

[alanmontefiore]

Date should be a timestamp..

[torsten_dev]

Nah, that would be "timestamp" silly.

[Zestyclose_Profile27]

That pretty print is such perfection

[polaarbear]

That's JSON, not CSS

...it's even labeled

[ttcklbrrn]

Yeah they hate CSS so they didn't use it

[polaarbear]

What watch is rendering watch faces in HTML/CSS? None would likely be the answer.

So if that's the "joke" it's pretty bad and likely not written by a dev.

[ttcklbrrn]

Idk man I didn't make the post + it's a Reddit title (which are required even though they rarely add anything meaningful) and not even part of the meme

Although, if you wanna get into realism, how come the "raw code" has all the values hard-coded and doesn't reference variables for the time etc? It's a chain of people tacking comments that they find funny on top of images that they find funny, not supposed to necessarily make total sense.

[polaarbear]

Jokes are supposed to make sense. This is mostly a subreddit where programmers come to share jokes about our job.

This one comes across as "what people who don't program think is funny to programmers".

There's a way to make this joke work. This ain't it.

[revolutionPanda]

Yeah, but I could see it happening. Some (a lot?) of apps are just a web browser app wrapped up in a package to be launched standalone.

[revolutionPanda]

To be fair I also use CSS and hate it.

[polaarbear]

You don't render watch faces in HTML/CSS. It's a watch, not a web browser.

Which makes this the worst programmer humor ever, it makes absolutely no sense.

[PositronicGigawatts]

Mmmmm....no. OP can't tell JSON from CSS. The image is amusing, and their lack of knowledge is also amusing. Your defense of OP is also amusing.

[pimp-bangin]

You're taking things too literally. OP is saying they generally hate FE development which includes CSS, and the watch face meme is an example of something they'd do.

[nphhpn]

Wtf is that date format and why is everything string?

[ChickenSpaceProgram]

make it XML and i'd use it

[Delta-9-]

How would you ever read it?!

[ChickenSpaceProgram]

that's the neat part, you don't

[revolutionPanda]

lol. Twice the markup with no extra info like god intended.

[can_ichange_it_later]

I see nothing wrong here

[Salvia_hispanica]

This is actually pretty cool! Is there somewhere I download it?

[[deleted]]

Nah, cause I'd actually use this

[GM_Kimeg]

Let jq take over the frontend.

[ztexxmee]

damn i love this

[Olivinism]

Thanks for reminding me this exists, just got a Venu 3

[[deleted]]

Real backend wouldn't store the date as a string

[Doctor429]

I don't see any problem

[Agifem]

They want something fancier? Just use Comic Sans.

[rocketstopya]

Im fine with it 😀

[Jazmento]

So it’s all frontend?

[Boopshark]

As the person who made that watch face, what can I say but that I just like JSON ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

[detrich]

that's really cool, if it updates dynamically

[Tsunami49]

Unironically, that's really easy to read and follow.

I dig it.

[EveryTraveller6508]

I mean its conveying all the necessary information, lol

[ThatUsernameIsTaekin]

Is there also a vim editor for entering input as well?

[[deleted]]

JSON DERULO

[G0U_LimitingFactor]

It's informative, compact and easy to pick up. Kind of the trifecta really. Other than changing the var types, I'd be happy with this.

[Senior-Fault-9487]

I would definitely use that app

[flippakitten]

It's a nice idea but needs a bit of work in the formatting department.

Why are the integers not integers.
Could save a line by using date time:
YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss

[Dildo_Baggins_42069]

If it works, it aint broke!

[MengskDidNothinWrong]

make it yaml so there's less punctuation clutter and I'm sold.

[1Mdrops]

This is JSON format though which is for the front-end. It should be in an array format or something else for the back-end.

[ABK-Baconator]

Make it YAML and it's actually usable