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New comment by thecatapps in "Zed Editor Theme-Builder"

thecatapps — Sat, 09 May 2026 21:19:28 +0000

It's been a while, but from what I remember you need that extension for any highlighting at all, and that screenshot is with it installed. Also, if I recall, it's something about that extension using an outdated treesitter parser or something along those lines.

New comment by thecatapps in "Zed Editor Theme-Builder"

thecatapps — Sat, 09 May 2026 18:40:04 +0000

I'm extremely glad to see something like this. I've tried to use Zed so many times, and this might sound neurotic -- but there are just so many little theming things that make a difference to me.

For example, https://imgur.com/a/ia2GCgg -- top is VSCode, bottom is Zed. Both using Svelte, and using a similar theme.

- Angle brackets are a different color

- Capitalized built-in components are a different color

- Boolean props are a different color

- Brackets are colored differently than text.

The inspector is a game changer, clicking into these specific things in the preview they provide is super helpful.

New comment by thecatapps in "Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged"

thecatapps — Fri, 08 May 2026 21:24:59 +0000

App Clips -- very underutilized but also very cool. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appclip

New comment by thecatapps in "Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users"

thecatapps — Fri, 08 May 2026 21:19:42 +0000

I'm failing to see why they didn't just adopt Private Access Tokens (not that they're great either), where they could have at least:

- pretended that it wasn't all about invading peoples' privacy.

- done a good ol' fashioned "but Apple does it"

- pretended to be standards-oriented

- advertised it as something completely transparent to the end-user

Seems like that would've caused a lot less backlash while still achieving the goal of having some form of device attestation -- but I'm guessing that's not the real goal.

New comment by thecatapps in "Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data"

thecatapps — Thu, 07 May 2026 23:27:20 +0000

I remember when I was in high school (2016? 2017?), I found a super simple XSS in the assignment submission form and told the programming teacher. Canvas then proceeded to lock my account and got me my first (only?) detention. Good times.

New comment by thecatapps in "iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet"

thecatapps — Tue, 05 May 2026 16:10:55 +0000

God I hope that's included. As silly as it sounds, having NFC inside passes require a custom entitlement/approval from Apple was my breaking point for ditching iOS development altogether. The form for requesting said entitlement was broken (at the time, at least), and I didn't understand why .pkpass files had to be signed at all - I still don't.