@mckinley@twtxt.net 😮

@mckinley@twtxt.net Thanks dude! BTW, is there an RSS feed? Cool!

Does anyone want to try the current alpha of the Yarn Android app?

• New name, new icons, and logo
  
• Default instance is https://twtxt.net
  
• It doesn’t delete the login info when there is no Internet connection or on Airplane mode
  
• Splash screen now adapts to Light or Dark theme, based on your Android settings
  

Most of them are proof of concepts… Needs to be improved, but I want to know from real users, how the implementation feels.

Get it here: https://eapl.mx/files/yarn_app_20221102.apk

This is scary and amazing

GPT-3 on Google Spreadsheets
https://nitter.it/shubroski/status/1587136794797244417

@mckinley@twtxt.net working on the Yarn mobile App.

thanks for asking!

Related reading:
https://angeladuckworth.com/qa/

@mckinley@twtxt.net your web site looks down?

researching quickly on this, I found that you can open files from Dropbox, but I think apps can’t see files between them. I don’t have a current device to test.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT206481

I found a book about finishing things and in the first chapter a wild test appeared:

https://angeladuckworth.com/grit-scale/

I got 2.3/5 🤔

For instance it happens the same Syncing music. That’s why I started using Spotify Premium, it was the only convenient way I found to download music when I traveled.

I think iCloud has improved, but that’s the only way I know of syncing a limited file system.

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci it’s called iOS… 🤔
I haven’t used it since version 10, so I don’t know if in current versions that has changed.

could you try the following? https://help.obsidian.md/Getting+started/Sync+your+notes+across+devices#Sync+your+notes+on+iPhone+and+iPad

@prologic@twtxt.net Hmm, I’m seeing that on iOS you have a very limited access to the file system.
On Android you can sync with many tools, SSH, Dropbox, Google Drive…

Damn ! sorry mate 🫤

@prologic@twtxt.net check this https://forum.obsidian.md/t/icloud-disabled-for-obsidian/17395

@taco@twtxt.net Hola from 🌎

I’ve been using Edge with a lateral tab system (indeed my taskbar is at the left)
Feels much better for me than having the tabs at the top.

A brief story of the Windows Taskbar… Watch for the minute 10 on how it was previously a tab system (like today on browsers)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ2FFPzsn6s

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci Well, there is the Zen of Python https://peps.python.org/pep-0020/ But I don’t know how current it is.

A ‘strange’ approach of my university, about giving a deep-dive to students of Social Sciences on how to use technology, creating a Mobile app with No-code, and basics of Python…

I have mixed feelings, but I think is something useful for them to know.

My general idea (for any university) is that between 18-25 years is not the best moment to decide what you want to do professionally ‘for the rest of your life’, so…

@prologic@twtxt.net I didn’t write about how to get started…
I guess I haven’t learned it yet, sorry 😅

The first steps are installing it, deciding if you want to pay for the sync between devices, or use a free alternative (I use Google Drive 😬), installing Omnisearch, and typing notes!

First class in my alma mater, done! 😀

Teaching Python to future attorneys… 😬

@prologic@twtxt.net If we talk about all the Msg apps, I found:
Messages by Google (SMS), Google Duo (Voice call on Android), Google Chat, Google Voice (VoIP Phone?)

Why? I don’t know why… Perhaps a matter of novelty? “It’s new! Let’s try it!”

The only thing I know is that making short-lived products is what Google does
https://killedbygoogle.com

@prologic@twtxt.net I use it as a glorified notepad with Markdown support.

The search capabilities are great. It’s faster that Notion (which I disliked very soon), more convenient than taking notes with a code editor, since it manages the folder structure and links between files.
Syncing notes between Android and PC is quick. Sadly I had problems Syncing images, with Google Drive, so I only use it for texts.

I’ve heard it’s an amazing tool for https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zettelkasten

Good night everyone… Enough internet for today!

😴

@tkanos@twtxt.net I agree! I like C# a lot, but I’d go with Script languages (Python, JS, PHP) for quick prototypes. Even working JSON with recent versions of C# takes a lot of Dev time.

@prologic@twtxt.net I like Python so much, but the performance is horrible for a big scale. I was betting on Nim but doesn’t have all the benefits you mentioned before. I think, and a trust you, that Go could be that Python replacement.

@prologic@twtxt.net That’s why I dusted off PHP 5.6 to learn the updates on 8.1 👀’

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci I tried to learn Scala when it was trendy (I think it was when Twitter switched from Ruby to Scala), but the lack of documentation in Play Framework was a roadblock (I kind of hate Java, BTW). By 2022 is Scala any good?

@prologic@twtxt.net hehe 😁

@prologic@twtxt.net I guess I need to do something useful on Go since I have only learned the basics and I didn’t reach all this awesome you mentioned.

Rust was too much for me at this stage, but it’s the hot language right now, so I always have the doubt if it’s something sensible to learn next year.

#randomQuestionsOfTheDay

Rust or Go? And why Go?

@mckinley@twtxt.net hehe, I used Google Groups and a bit on Microsoft Mail but I was never a user.

In fact, I’m aware some retro and tilde communities still use it

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Damn technology! 😛

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci sorry, I don’t.

Reading about it, I think it has an interesting premise, but I can’t find why should I use it https://perkeep.org/doc/principles

What’s your intended use case for it?

@prologic@twtxt.net something I’d like to be part of, is a Reddit like service. You know, ranked forums promoting newest and most interesting content.

I found https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy (made with Rust) but I don’t like the current community of instances. Simply they don’t talk about my interests.

And that makes me think a lot on the community you have to create to have a minimum network effect to sustain it. Too small and dies in the oblivion, too big and dies of toxicity.

Interesting hobbies we choose!

@prologic@twtxt.net Yeah, sorry, I was throwing random ideas on your previous conversation.

I’ll follow on what you all decide, to be in the loop, and we could talk later on how it would impact future versions of the mobile app.

@prologic@twtxt.net Right, I forgot of that page

I’ll remark the following:

Keep it as simple as possible
Do not compromise on data security and user privacy
Software should be lightweight
Self hosted software is preferable over cloud services or SaaS
Ship early, Ship often

I’d stay with Keep it as simple as possible, but not more than that. And Lightweight.

I have worked on apps rejected by App Store due to lack of moderating features. I’m aware it’s tricky. I think the decentralized part could be managed like with Feed readers.

@prologic@twtxt.net this sounds to me like the current moderation scheme for Mastodon. I guess it’s good enough for now.

Indeed I’d like to know the philosophical difference between Mastodon and Yarn, since I think these are main competitors in a similar but not exactly equal space.

With those ideas and values, defining a ‘fair’ moderation scheme is easier IMO.

@prologic@twtxt.net is it about hiding the twt violating the rules? (since in some cases you can’t modify the twtxt.txt)

@akoizumi@social.kyoko-project.wer.ee reinventing the crypto wheel, huh? 😆

@shtposts@twtxt.net I used something related with internet or digital telecommunications until 1993 (I remind browsing a web page about Michael Jordan)

But BBS and Teletex has been always appealing to me, like some ancient technology I never used.

#randomQuestionOfTheDay

Do you use an alarm to wake up?

@prologic@twtxt.net Site reliability for a Bank 🏦?

Sounds serious, congrats and best wishes!

@mckinley@twtxt.net 🤣

@tkanos@twtxt.net I could suggest unfollowing people, using a plugin to disable suggestions (for polemic and engaging topics), and hiding ads, and Trending topics…

I use Twitter as a tool since I find appealing conversations with friends and I expose my products as a creator. That said, yes, it’s a ‘toxic’ platform by design and it’s easy to use it for it’s intended purpose, get engaged in useless conversations (IMO).

I’m reading in a twtxt spec that the time offset is allowed and I remember somewhere else asks to use the Z timezone (UTC). I’m confused now.

https://twtxt.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user/twtxtfile.html#format-specification

That way, the CLI tool or Yarn could take the current Timezone convert it to your local time and say “this user has this Timezone, is X hours behind you, it’s 4am for them”

@prologic@twtxt.net no worries, my point goes on saving the Timezone on the Twtxt file, instead of adding a Metadata (which is going to be outdated if you travel to another Timezone)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de yep 🙂
It’s gonna be a funny week over here.
But it’s the Weekend, my future me is fixing that on Monday 😉

Hehe, I’ve just checked. I mean saving that value IN the twtxt.txt file in each twt (I don’t know it that break things, I guess so)

I’ve used the Yarn local Timezone setting and works great! 👌It’s accurate with my (current) time zone