I had a day like that just today, in fact I’ve had one of those weeks, actually no wait, I’ve had one of those months! 🤯

FYI: I’ve re-opened up search for anonymous use. So things like this now work without having to have an account on this pod or login. 👌 #search #twtxt

This is sooo cool, it reminds me of learning QBasic (and then Visual Basic) in the 90s

Easylang story
https://easylang.online/apps/story.html

@bender@twtxt.net Gah! Stay strong. 😩

@prologic@twtxt.net Not sure if the confirmation helps at all. You just condition yourself to immediately press y on a daily basis.

Apart from that, aborting the removal should probably terminate the function with a non-zero exit code, something like return 1.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Same! Another infrastructure apocalypse at work. Who needs reliable shit? Definitely not us.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de having a similar one here, and it is only 11:41. Ugh!

@doesnm@doesnm.p.psf.lt Hahahaha, I heard this one before, but it’s brilliant! :-D

Fuuuuuuucking hell. 😮‍💨 It’s one of “those” days.

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@prologic@twtxt.net Ta! :-)

Fixed.

Confirmed. Fix inbound.

Is it just me or is there a display bug for “Yarn”(s) that are duplicating the root twt? 🤔

This is an example of what I believe every SRE should master and whatever Post Incident Review (PIR) should focus on. Where did the system fail. What are the missing or incomplete Safety Controls.

Then I cleaned up my shell history of all of the invocations I ever made of dkv rm ... to make sure I never ever have this so easily accessible in my shell history (^R):

$ awk '
  /^#/ { ts = $0; next }
  /^dkv rm/ { next }
  { if (ts) print ts; ts=""; print }
' ~/.bash_history > ~/.bash_history.tmp && mv ~/.bash_history.tmp ~/.bash_history && history -r

So I re-write this shell alias that I used all the time alias dkv="docker rm" to be a much safer shell function:

dkv() {
  if [[ "$1" == "rm" && -n "$2" ]]; then
    read -r -p "Are you sure you want to delete volume '$2'? [Y/n] " confirm
    confirm=${confirm:-Y}
    if [[ "$confirm" =~ ^[Yy]$ ]]; then
      # Disable history
      set +o history

      # Delete the volume
      docker volume rm "$2"

      # Re-enable history
      set -o history
    else
      echo "Aborted."
    fi
  else
    docker volume "$@"
  fi
}

This weekend (as some of you may now) I accidently nuke this Pod’s entire data volume 🤦‍♂️ What a disastrous incident 🤣 I decided instead of trying to restore from a 4-month old backup (we’ll get into why I hadn’t been taking backups consistently later), that we’d start a fresh! 😅 Spring clean! 🧼 – Anyway… One of the things I realised was I was missing a very critical Safety Controls in my own ways of working… I’ve now rectified this…

On my blog: Developer Diary, 1994 Rwandan Genocide https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/04/07/rwanda.html #programming #project #devjournal

@prologic@twtxt.net @kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz The worst part is Waiting for the confirmation call and then for the package to arrive 🥲

@bender@twtxt.net Please remind me to fix this after I’m done with this cachet branch and it’s merged 🤞

Okay that’s a bug 😆

Does mentioning @prologic@twtxt.netdoesnm.p.psf.lt not work? 🧐

@prologic@twtxt.netdoesnm.p.psf.lt@doesnm.p.psf.lt 😂😂😂

@bender@twtxt.net I know! 😂 Thankfully I think I fixed most problematic bugs 🤞

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Just keep them for a while.

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz call her Gata. 😂

@prologic@twtxt.net yup yup. Much work to be done, so little time. 😩

@movq@www.uninformativ.de one less dead account! 😅

@bender@twtxt.net Whoohoo! 🥳

Hey, hey, I am back. I lost all my worthless twtxts, but at least I still have the blackjack and hookers!

@movq@www.uninformativ.de well, Bender told me to tell you he will refollow as soon as hos account is rebirth once more.

@prologic@twtxt.net I wonder what this will do to my followers list. I suspect there were a lot of dead accounts out there. 😅

«Miscrosot finally released a product that doesn’t suck. Unfortunately, it’s a vacuum cleaner.» © english word play

This is such an interesting reading

Lessons from open source in the Mexican government
https://lwn.net/Articles/1013776/

GUYS WE GOT A NEW CAT SHE DOESN’T HAVE A NAME YET BUT SHE’S SUPER CUTE AND SUPER SHY AND WARMING UP TO US I’M IN LOVE

@prologic@twtxt.net NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Very nice 😊

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Haha yeah 🤣 And thanks I’ll take a look but honestly it’ll be fine 😆

Pretty sunset from last weekend: https://lyse.isobeef.org/abendhimmel-2025-03-30/

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@prologic@twtxt.net Spring cleanup! That’s one way to encourage people to self-host their feeds. :-D

Since I’m only interested in the url metadata field for hashing, I do not keep any comments or metadata for that matter, just the messages themselves. The last time I fetched was probably some time yesterday evening (UTC+2). I cannot tell exactly, because the recorded last fetch timestamp has been overridden with today’s by now.

I dumped my new SQLite cache into: https://lyse.isobeef.org/tmp/backup.tar.gz This time maybe even correctly, if you’re lucky. I’m not entirely sure. It took me a few attempts (date and time were separated by space instead of T at first, I normalized offsets +00:00 to Z as yarnd does and converted newlines back to U+2028). At least now the simple cross check with the Twtxt Feed Validator does not yield any problems.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Nah it’s okay 🤣 It would only be a partial restore anyway 😭

@prologic@twtxt.net Well, if we really wanted to, I guess @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org and I could provide you with our copies of that time period. 😆

I need to get Peering working again on this branch! That will drag in many Twts Twts I now no longer have 😭

At least I’ve fixed many bugs with the new SQLiteCache 🤣

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Sounds cool! 😎

@movq@www.uninformativ.de We’ll recover just fine right ? 😆 It’s only 4 months worth of posts 😅 Not like it’s the end of the world 😂

@prologic@twtxt.net RIP 💀 Well, shit happens. 😅

Oh well, let’s just start over! 🤣

Oh well. I’ve gone and done it again! This time I’ve lost 4 months of data because for some reason I’ve been busy and haven’t been taking backups of all the things I should be?! 🤔 Farrrrk 🤬

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com AWESOMEEEEEEEEEE

@bender@twtxt.net LMFAOOOOOOOO i love jank

@bender@twtxt.net it’s iconic tbh

I’ve just ordered a new toy! A ProDesk 600 G4 Mini with a Core i5-8500T, 32Go of DDR4 RAM and 256Go SSD storage. A cheaper alternative to an 8GB RPi5 + Argon one v3 m.2 RPi case kit (NVME not included) 🤷. It should be here by Friday 🤞

And now, let’s finish it off with Besigheim’s old town. Only when we left, the sun peaked through the clouds. That was a bit unfortunate, but what can you do? It has some nice buildings. https://lyse.isobeef.org/besigheim-2025-03-30/

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Today, we had a cleanup day with the scouts. I estimate that we ended up with about half a metric ton of rubbish. Despite the heat it was really great fun.

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@prologic@twtxt.net help your live posting is like environmental storytelling

i feel so powerful deleting records via rails console

@bender@twtxt.net THANK YOUUUU i love pink!

@prologic@twtxt.net i did not! the retrospring codebase has been around since i was in grade school LOLLLL

@prologic@twtxt.net In all my two Go projects I use modernc.org/sqlite and can’t complain. Works great for me.

@bender@twtxt.net I was a bit confused at first what that is: Apparently, it’s the source code of Altair BASIC: https://gizmonaut.net/soapflakes/EXE-199711.html

(Of course they have a user agent filter. 😂 Can’t download that PDF with wget.)

I’ve been using GIMP 3.0 for a few weeks now and it’s great. New features and I got rid of two custom plugins because they’re in core now. Literally nothing broke for me. And I really appreciate that they kept the familiar UI (instead of changing things just for the sake of change).

Thank you! 🥳

On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Nose Ears, part 2 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/04/05/nose-ears-2.html #freeculture #bookclub

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz the site i mentioned last week that got flooded by teens? yeah it’s this site, based on the retrospring codebase, it’s a social Q&A site. ask me stuff on there!!!!!!!!

@mana@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz grid has its places but it can be a pain!

YEAH THATS ME LOLLLL I HAVE NO CLUE WHAT IT IS….. me haunting ur clients or whatever with my funky version string

uuuugh been so inactive because of stupid site moderation it’s SO EXHAUSTING

DOUBLE SUBJECT’D’D!!!

On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 03/31 to 04/04 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/04/04/week.html #linkdump #socialmedia #quotes #week

@david@collantes.us This pink tree I featured in a few shots is a magnolia tree. I haven’t noticed any particular smell, it just looks pretty. :-) That’s a close-up: https://lyse.isobeef.org/bad-wimpfen-2025-03-28/18.jpg (I only noticed the spider and its web when I reviewed my photos.)

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org those are some pretty flowers! What are they? Do they smell good?

@thecanine@twtxt.net Happy to hear that. :-)

The photo series covering old stuff continues. This time, Gundelsheim. Actually, mostly the castle hotel Horneck, I hardly took any photos from the town itself. I really should have, though. Let me just blame… aehm… yeah, the rain! It’s totally the rain’s fault!! When it started to drizzle, I actually took the first photos, so it’s a total lie. https://lyse.isobeef.org/schlosshotel-horneck-in-gundelsheim-2025-03-30/

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webmention test: https://turner.enemyterritory.org/shared/repo/user/carrvo/profile/webmentions.html

Plz i need to know if it was still April fools day someplace when the Tariffs were announced.

On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, The Chase https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/04/03/chase.html #scifi #startrek #closereading

@arne@uplegger.eu I’m very glad I only rarely have to deal with .docx & Co. And when I have to, 99% is in read mode only. Even though, I don’t think that Markdown is the best choice, I use it on a daily basis. Some things, like links, in reStructuredText are better in my opinion.

Jira just resists to switch to Markdown and forces us to use its silly markup language.

For real typesetting, LaTeX is the way to go. But I very, very rarely do that.

Hirschhorn also offers a nice old town. The castle with all its many buildings up the mountain is very beautiful. This is my absolutely favorite one, it just looks soo great:

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Walking back down the narrow stairs with all the crooked, well-worn steps of different heights and lengths was quite challenging.

https://lyse.isobeef.org/hirschhorn-2025-03-30/

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Awwwwww! Thank you, that is now in my collection. :-) The other ones aren’t bad either, very nice!

@thecanine@twtxt.net My apologies, mate! :-( As @david@collantes.us pointed out, this was definitely not my intent at all.

For the easter egg hunt, I first looked for a hidden image map link on the pixel dog in the right lower corner itself. Maybe one giant pixel just links to somewhere else, I figured. But I couldn’t find any and then quickly moved on. Hence, I naturally viewed the HTML source. Because where else would be a good hiding place for easter eggs, right?

Next, I noticed the <font> tags. I thought I had read quite some time ago that they are not an HTML5 thing, but wasn’t entirely sure about it. So, I asked the W3C HTML validator. Sure enough. I thought I let you know about the violations. If somebody had found a mistake on my site, I’d love to hear about it, so I could fix it. I’m sorry that my chosen form of report didn’t resonate with you all that well. I reckoned you’ll also find it a bit funny, but I was clearly very wrong on that.

I actually followed the dog cow link to the video, so I ended up on the easter egg. However, I didn’t recognize it as such. ¯_(ツ)_/¯ Oh well.

Regarding my message about the browser quirks: I read your answer that you were arguing against the HTML validator findings. Of course, everybody can do with their sites whatever they likes.

@xuu@txt.sour.is Nice one! 👍

Markdown and the Slow Fade of the Formatting Fetish - a nice article about Markdown VS proprietary formatting. With quotes like “Microsoft Office works in an office where you pretend to work until you can finally go home.” 😄

@xuu@txt.sour.is hmmm, maybe I deleted myself.

i can see your twts here: https://watcher.sour.is/?uri=https://eapl.me/tw.txt

@david@collantes.us.. i see this one but it says its dead. https://watcher.sour.is/?uri=https://ferengi.one/twtxt.txt

it adds users by finding them in feeds mentioning or following. Your URL is already added.

Hmm i am not sure how you got the URL with users at the end..

yep, it looks nice! How could add my URL?
Is it following the same endpoints than https://registry.twtxt.org/swagger-ui/#/users/addUser ?

BTW, I think that the usage section has a wrong base URL or something.

For example if you enter here: https://watcher.sour.is/conv/4rx5iyq
It says to look for this URL: https://watcher.sour.is/conv/4rx5iyq/api/plain/users

Which seems to return the content from https://watcher.sour.is

@thecanine@twtxt.net I came by to see it. I liked it! I think it all matches quite well the pixel style you are well-known for.

@xuu@txt.sour.is that’s mighty cool! Add me to it? Add @quark@ferengi.one too! How often does it run?

Hi, So i made a little MVP registry crawler tool for twtxt. It now has a basic UI to play with. It has a somewhat full history back to about 2018-ish. Plus some interesting bits that were timestamped to earlier.

Find it here: https://watcher.sour.is

Code base is found here: https://git.sour.is/sour-is/xt

@thecanine@twtxt.net for what is worth, I don’t think @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org intention was to insinuate your website sucked (though it may well do, but again, not his intent, I am sure). I see it more like a technical jest, and a good one at it. It was fun! Isn’t that the intent of April Fools’, after all?

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org The bird in the wallpaper? That’s a photo from a trip to a local zoo. 😃 This little guy was sitting in one of the bushes and didn’t mind people getting rather close. Full version and more from that day.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Sorry for being completely offtopic, but that’s a really cute bird! :-)

In Mexico you couldn’t register the word Sonora (state), nor Taqueria (kind of restaurant) as there are two common words, but perhaps the combination of both is trademarkable, I’m not sure, so many ‘taquerias’ here don’t file a trademark request. It’s usually “Taquería

A hike to the highest mountain in the Odenwald, the Katzenbuckel, lit. cat hillock. It was very windy and the sun very rarely showed its face, so it was quite chilly. Nice scenery, nevertheless. Surprisingly, this ski-jumping hill is still in operation. I’ve never expected this in a hundred years, judging by its state. https://lyse.isobeef.org/katzenbuckel-2025-03-29/

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@arne@uplegger.eu ;-)

An interesting episode about naming stuff, and some implications of the “Trademarks”

https://radioambulante.org/en/translation/who-owns-the-taqueria-translation

@eapl.me@eapl.me Amazing! 👏

@bender@twtxt.net Hahaha, YMMD! :-D

Nem é preciso ir espreitar as notícias da #nintendo, a Ciberlândia é a minha fonte

(aguardando pelos takes dos correspondentes @seyon, @RuteRadio e @ines@ines)