Back in the land of the federated

During the past month I dedicated my time mostly to working on another project of mine, mpris-scrobbler: a scrobbling user daemon for linux distributions, so there’s no updates for anything related to #GoActivityPub and the rest of the applications.

I did have a couple of updates on my Mastodon account about the frustrations of writing C code as someone that only dabbles with it, and how the Coverity issues were slowly growing in number despite my attempts to write better code.
The main problem that was that debugging asynchronous network code where the bugs manifest inconsistently was quite time consuming, and as soon as it looked as I fixed an issue, it manifested yet again. At the moment, I hope the application is in a good state, but I’ll tag a new version sometime in the near future, after I do another pass to reduce the 66 leftover defects reported by Coverity.

At the moment I have reached a point where this effort is begining to annoy me, therefore I’ll switch back to ActivityPub work for a while. The first issues to investigate are related to ONI and how the attachments are not being displayed correctly. For this specific purpose, this post has a nice foto of a sunset I took from my balcony, with a number of contrails criss crossing in the sky to form a latice.