Also, incredibly excited that XOXO is coming back, even if just for one more year: https://2024.xoxofest.com
I wrote up a lab report on my daily to-do tracking “system”, mostly so I could stop thinking about it. The report is at http://a.9srv.net/reports/daily.pdf and the referenced code is at http://txtpunk.com/daily/index.html.
FOR SOME REASON I’m now archiving my plan files (as shown via ‘finger a@9srv.net’) at http://a.9srv.net/plans
Well crap. I think I just realized that if my profile photo was a person it could vote in this year’s election. Probably time for a new default one.
I’ve added myself to the registries at registry.twtxt.org and twtxt.tilde.institute. I wonder if there’s a list of registries. #meta
Huh. At some point, my twtxt-via-ssh shortcut from my phone stopped working. It does again now! I’ve changed nothing. Yay black boxes! 🤷🏻
First task of 2024: renew an expired cert. I like that it’s calendar-themed.
Spent a few hours the last two evenings fighting with tftpd. Party like it’s 1999!
TIL my high school publishes its own research journal. https://www.pingry.org/our-community/students/pingry-community-research-pcr-journal
I needed something to help with a morning schedule for two kiddos. It highlights the current 5-minute block as it goes. I think this was my first time reaching for JavaScript for a personal project. https://sidequest.club/stages.html
One of the frustrating parts of using twtxt for conversations is the URLs are, well… ugly. Anyone (like y’all yarn folks) looked at using webfinger for translating user@domain accounts to URLs?
I was just reminded of this interpreter for an APL/J-like language by Arthur Whitney, the absolute weirdest bit of C code I’ve actually gotten something out of, and thought I’d share: https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Essays/Incunabulum
TIL there’s a Director’s Cut of Miley Cyrus’s Wrecking Ball video and it’s much better than the original.
If I have an image that has clearly been naïvely upscaled, is there a program that can reasonably reliably tell me what the “true” size is?
No, I wasn’t set up for it. I wasn’t expecting to see the ISS at all, and you never know when an orbit will do the fade out thing.
Watching the ISS fade out in the sky as it moves into earth’s shadow remains one of the coolest things in the world.
I’ll likely take this down soonish as I think it’s pretty bad for usability, but as a fun hack, one of my weird side projects web pages now has monitor burn-in: http://txtpunk.com/index.html
It’ll track a bunch of finger(1) endpoints and let you see what’s new. Very early draft. Not actually a social network, more an anti-social network for ‘80s CompSci transplants. :-)
A read-only, finger(1)-based social network, maybe? http://txtpunk.com/fingers/
That’s the effect I’m after, but I want it not on my main browser. Turns out the Brave mobile app does this.
I want a browser for iOS that’s basically Mobile Safari but without JavaScript (or at least an easy toggle). Does such a thing exist?
I realized my twtxt client isn’t validating what it pulls once it gets a valid response when a domain started returning js-heavy parking pages for every URL. Oops. Weekend project, I guess. 🤦🏻