@anth /dev/null sounds like a good file to use for work items.

@anth Ah, okay!

@thecanine Oh, that’s quite a big calf indeed! I see where you’re going there.

@anth Yes, I assumed so. :-) Do you launch it with a specific file?

@movq I think that you just need to change the avatar URL by appending an anchor or query string. Then this will get picked up once your feed is fetched and parsed. You probably don’t even have to post a new twt for that. I reckon updating the avatar metadata field is enough. But that’s all just from vague memories.

@movq Hahaha, I can confirm that. :-D

Chlorophilia #12 from May: This photo always reminds me of the Orion Nebula by the Hubble space telescope or something like that. Not quite, my lovely friends the tadpoles and some very little fish are swimming around in a nearby pond. More shots from this hike into the woods can be found over here. If I’m not mistaken, that day my mate and I also encountered our first slow worm of the year.

@stigatle Whooow, that’s quite a traffic jam! O_o

@prologic Very nice! :-) Have they ever experienced snow for real?

@movq Haha, yeah! Very well explained. :-D Can’t add anything to that. It’s just weird. But the sound is good, that’s all that counts for music in my mind.

@fastidious @yarn_police LOL! :-D And if they deploy their K9, @thecanine?

@fastidious Hahaha, true! :-D

@anth Hahaha, nice one! So I reckon a single letter alias like e for ed and a second key stroke for Enter is too much, that’s why you now have a dedicated hardware button to launch ed? ;-D

@prologic Thank you!

@fastidious One of the positive things indeed. :-)

But the cover by Turisas is better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdkBs0VCSX0 I also like the first comment a lot:

So we have a Finnish folk metal band covering a German produced disco tune originally sung by a group of Afro Caribbean singers about a Russian monk on an American website. God bless globalization, for without it we wouldn’t have this.

Hahaha, speaking of falling into YouTube holes, how about Boney M.’s Rasputin!? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16y1AkoZkmQ Now, is that something or what!? I believe that was a German band.

Hahahahahaaa, @movq, immer wieder gern zu Diensten! :-D Well, @fastidious, I think most European bands don’t make it over the Atlantic or even spread in Europe itself. Especially if they focus on their mother tongue. Which is not a bad thing in my opinion.

@fastidious Alright, I didn’t say anything. :-) Ta!

@movq Thanks, it’s right on the edge I’d say.

Ah, I completely forgot that EAV also made an English version of Ba-Ba-Bankrobbery! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gSEhNPKT9g The Austrian band name EAV, Erste Allgemeine Verunsicherung, German for First General Confusion/Uninsurance, is a pun on the name of an Austrian insurance company. Fun fact: A resident loadly played this song when a bank in Vienna was robbed in 2007 until the police intervened. :-D

@fastidious Phew, at least you’re not bothered by shitty music all night long.

We had the tiniest bit of snow in the morning, but 99% melted over the day. However, as expected our local mountain acted as a good snow storage. My mate and I called it a day quite early and went up there. The main path was closed off with a simple sign, that recommended to use the sneaky trail on the other side instead, so we followed that suggestion. Going uphill we noticed, that there had not been a lot of traffic and we ended up being the only two people up there. On the way back we just went down the main path without issues. My fingers froze a bit in the end, I need to get better gloves. Sorry, the images are a bit blue. https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2021-12-07/

@movq @fastidious This should be illegal.

@fastidious The installation would freeze over if you were lucky. ;-)

@prologic Very good.

@fastidious @prologic :-)

@fastidious WTF! That’s several magnitudes over the top.

@thecanine Oh yeah, very nice! :-) Welcome @fox!

Chlorophilia #11 from July shows a robin.

@movq No, my enthusiasm is limited. Right now I think we should not go down the Unicode nickname rabbit hole. I cannot be done in a real backwards-compatible fashion as far as I can tell.

@fastidious ;-)

@movq To complete, the Referer isn’t a problem I’d say, since it’s a URL and Unicode can be URL-encoded.

@movq Good question, I didn’t think of the User-Agent header! So according to this answer it’s a fragile thing, we probably need to implement MIME encoding in the clients ourselves.

Alright, I didn’t try it, but in Go regexes one should be able to just replace \w with \p{L} and in Python regexes \w just needs the re.UNICODE flag. At least, that’s the theory. Now, before actually implementing this, we should carefully think about all the implications we’re creating with that. Also, I don’t know whether this is enough for scripts like Japanese or the like where there are no letters but “syllables”. (And now you know, that I don’t a clue about Asian scripts.)

So I can’t register a new username in yarnd using the lovely nick äöüß. Let’s see, how Unicode and regex marry. Need to read up on that topic.

Oh yeah, worky, worky! \o/

Let’s see, how tt’s parser and lextwt behave. Nothing better than using PROD to do some experiments: @äöüß. Looks like at least tt will accept it as a nick. I have to admit, I’m quite surprised. Would have bet against it.

@fastidious @prologic At first I thought, that the original Twtxt Specification limited the nicks to be ASCII-only, but I was wrong. I couldn’t find anything in that regard. The reference implementation also allows it:

$ twtxt follow äöüß https://example.com
✓ You’re now following äöüß.

@xuu :-D

@fastidious Nice, a little bit of brown in the leaves! :-)

@off_grid_living That timber floor is really beautiful!

@ullarah Technically you could use more special characters in the local part, but good luck getting this mail through other mail servers. Even nowadays e-mail address validation is completely broken on lots of websites and rejects even simple characters like +. A mate is constantly complaining about that, when he tries to sign up somewhere and wants to use a dedictated address for it to automatically move it into a certain folder. So you better limit yourself to alphanumeric, dot, minus und undercore. :-(

@ullarah Ahhh!. I always thought this is a play on Uluru.

@movq It pops you modal message boxes with compilation errors in your face right while editing even though you didn’t press save. I had to use it once at my former employer. For this alone somebody should have been hung, drawn, quadrisected, revived, drowned, stabbed…

@ullarah Ah, right! Thanks.

@movq Yes, the date is also quite important in my opinion since I will most likely go with a date based rotation. I need to check the numbers but maybe quarterly or in high-traffic months even monthly. Not sure yet.

@prologic I always thought that the “logic” refers to the logic or logical thinking in programming and the “pro” could stand for “programming”. Quite close. :-)

@darch Cool! Up until now I went with the German “ch” instead of the “k”. Simplifies the pronounciation in my head a bit.

@xuu Quite evolved, cool story! I always pronounced it in my head as “xuu” with an actual “x”. Now I know better.