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10/22/2026, 04:52:36 PM
Garmin Revamps and Opens Up Connect Developer API Program
Ooh, this is the least bad internet news I've seen this week. I dabbled with using GPS data in Tilde Friends years ago. My application to use the Garmin API at the time was rejected, because I didn't check all the enterprise boxes thoroughly enough. I ended up using Strava's API for a bit, but they've progressively restricted that, too.
Not sure I'll have the time to play with it anytime soon, but I would love to build something sort of community-oriented around sharing activity data someday.
It always struck me that Strava is the most widespread thing I'm aware of that has the same problem with time as Secure Scuttlebutt, in that people record activities on their watches and upload them hours, days, or weeks later when they are next able to recharge and get a reliable internet connection. It's not unusual to post a batch of activities from a week ago when traveling, and we deal with the feed being oddly ordered.
10/21/2026, 10:59:32 PM
Testing posting from the RSS reader app.
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10/21/2026, 10:58:37 PM
10/18/2026, 01:46:30 PM
I started a little RSS reader in Tilde Friends. You can play with it here, and I'll publish the app in a bit.
It currently just fetches feeds from the client every load (using a CORS proxy on failure). It has some of the old Google Reader j/k/v key bindings. You edit your list of feeds by putting RSS/Atom links in a textbox and clicking save (they're saved in Tilde Friends or localStorage depending on whether you're signed in). That's about it.
But I'm super excited about its potential. I think if I'm a little smarter about caching news, authoring SSB post messages to share or comment on an article, and displaying posts that mention articles, I'm 99% of the way there to feeling like Google Reader. Also my feed parsing needs to be better, but eh. đ¤ˇââī¸ī¸
10/03/2026, 04:40:28 PM
Tilde Friends 0.2026.9
The latest release is out on all of the platforms.
Change notes:
- Improved load times.
- Fix an issue where a canceled autocomplete would truncate messages.
- Better error handling for missing or partial apps.
- Add gui executables on desktop that open a webview like on mobile.
- Recover automatically when app is disconnected when backgrounded.
- Update: CodeMirror, emojis 18.0, libbacktrace, libuv 1.53.0.
The GUI executables are an experiment that I think is somewhat interesting. The Windows tildefriends-gui.exe and Linux AppImages all run like a local app using an embedded browser, very similarly to the mobile version. I couldn't get the MacOS version working in time, but that might be in the cards, too. The Linux version has some glibc / gtk dependencies which make it not guaranteed to just work, but they're pretty old, so I expect they will.
There are also .debs and docker containers available.
As always, feedback is welcome on all things.