(#sa2paaq) At least in Germany, there is a massive surge of QR codes at the moment. Everything is a QR code now. For example, I went to a doctor today, they handed me a piece of paper and told me: “To see your result, scan this QR code on your phone!” (It decodes to a simple URL that I can open on a real computer as well.)

(#sa2paaq) (On a similar note, everything is being mashed together now. “App”, “web site”, “program”, it’s all a blur. Since I do know what a smartphone app is, it often goes down like this: “You can use an app on your phone to do $foo!” – “Sorry, I don’t have a smartphone.” – “Oh … Well, you’re out of luck then, sorry.” When in reality they just want to me visit a web site. But nobody knows the difference anymore. 🙄)

@movq (#sa2paaq) Previously, everything was "the internet". Now it's apps.

@movq @lyse (#sa2paaq) It’s all sad but true! 😥 Also I did build a web app that scans QR code’s with a bit of client-side JS and WebRTC 😂

(#sa2paaq) QR codes frustrate me. I don't think we should be teaching people that it's okay to scan an unintelligible barcode with their camera and instantly be transported to some arbitrary site. On the other hand, vanity QR codes are really cool.

@mckinley (#sa2paaq) I agree! 👌 Where did you find that QR? 🤔

(#sa2paaq) @prologic You think that's cool, I just found the one in color. Try scanning them, they both go to I generated them with a web tool that's now offline. Here's a good explanation of what's going on:

@mckinley (#sa2paaq) That is really cool 🤣

@mckinley (#sa2paaq) Uuuhh, beautiful! Quite a long anchor name. :-P

@mckinley (#sa2paaq) Oh I see source for this in Go 🤔 I’m going to refactor the code and put this service up for all 😁