@ckeen@pestilenz.org I just joined :-) Happy there are still other peepz active on twtxt.
@c-keen I just joined :-) Happy there are still other peepz active on twtxt.
Added myself to the user list at https://github.com/mdom/we-are-twtxt
Created an Indieweb.org wiki article about twtxt - help expand it please - https://indieweb.org/twtxt
domgoergen also has been twtxt tweeting for a while: https://domgoergen.com/twtxt/mdom.txt
kas has an amazing twtxt feed: https://enotty.dk/twtxt.txt
Mirrored on gopher://gopher.johanbove.info/0/twtxt.txt
@davebucklin@davebucklin.com Welcome to the IndieWeb! Thanks also for introducing me to #twtxt. Gophering this for sure.
Hello, this is twtxt!
statically generated my twtxt feed here: https://pbat.ch/wiki/twtxt.html. learning how to be social on this thing comes next.
testing out auto-generation of twtxt wiki page now
Hello twtxt world
@ckipp@chronica.xyz @neauoire@wiki.xxiivv.com Glad you like my little experiment! I’m tweaking it daily, I’ll try to release the code properly once it’s clean enough.
Moving servers, one service at a time. Shifting twtxt is surprisingly hard without breaking URLs…
@metamurks@www.metamurks.org that sucks. Hope the USB Dongle works out for you.
@von@tilde.town your posting to the future worked for me.
Wow got so busy I forgot about twtxt. Hope everyone is doing well.
@tx@shroom.party I remember people doing word processing though their spreadsheet program.
@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net No, I think the old DOS edlin program is the standard text editor LOL.
@dave@davebucklin.com No, I don’t think I’ve ever done that
@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net I also always try to have a few ssh servers with several ports available for me to use. My favorite port is 443. Once had a firewall that wouldn’t allow SSH on 22 but 443 was acceptable because it expected encryption on it.
I just recently found an issue with my custom client. It was ignoring microseconds on timestamps. Which meant I was missing some twtxt from people. I got that fixed and I know see all of them.
@mdom@domgoergen.com my own custom client I wrote, I use cron to run the update my timeline every 20 mins. My update process also processes 10 curl calls at time. I did that to save time when I poll everyone.
@mdom@domgoergen.com That’s interesting. So does txtnish read that metadata? or would an end user just look at the file to see it? Is the meta data going to be the standard?
@mdom@domgoergen.com what metadata feature is that?
@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net It’s nice to be way ahead of the curve no? LOL.
@kas@enotty.dk the only thing I can think is that people are finally re-figuring out that static sites are really fast because the content doesn’t need to generated on the fly. I noticed there were a lot of static content generators out there.
@kas@enotty.dk WTF! That’s a good one.
@sdk@codevoid.de A comment might not be in the spec, but I know several of the twtxt files I’ve looked at have them. I know my kit bashed twtxt client ignores those lines and I’m sure other clients do too.
@sdk@codevoid.de you know the more I think about it, it might make sense to have it the twtxt file. It would just need to be a comment line something like “#follows sdk gopher://codevoid.de/0/tw.txt” on a single line. That way it would be easy to parse out those follows by finding the #follows.
@sdk@codevoid.de a random mix into the the twtxt file seems less clean to me. The former would be easier to implement and simpler for another program to get and parse.
@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net I always find amazing that people don’t understand that. People just don’t understand that everything can be a “server”
@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net I thought so too. Color me surprised when I surveyed my follow programmers in my dept and only 3 out 12 knew what I was talking about.
@metamurks@www.metamurks.org I have tried several times to learn Morse Code. Sadly, I keep having distractions.
@kas@enotty.dk Have to say the peertube is intersting. Too bad I don’t have a serveto play with it.
@pete@petedeas.co.uk I’ve played with Mastodon but I really never got into it.
@metamurks@www.metamurks.org I use to but I downgraded this account, since I had two MetaArpa acconts and I really only needed one.
@metamurks@www.metamurks.org Well, I’m thinking of moving my twtxt to anotheurl soon.
@metamurks@www.metamurks.org Changes to my SDF account are the issue I’m sure.
@metamurks@www.metamurks.org No worries from this end.
@kas@enotty.dk thanks for that link. Thats a pretty neat thing.
@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net that is odd, I wonder what happened.
195 people read my twtxt today. Ha, Twitter should be afraid!
@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net I am the same way.
@mdom@domgoergen.com It certainly does. I find in my currenting pairing, it doesn’t work well and to be brutal I do 10x the work without them.
@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net good going on getting your SSH/Git going.
@kas@enotty.dk DST ends here in the US on Sunday. I’m lucky enough to live an area of the US were we don’t do that sort of thing. Although it makes dealing with people that do a little tough.
@dave@davebucklin.com not sure why but I didn’t know that SDF had a Mastodon server. I’ll have to create an account
Welcome, @c0by@c0by.de and @robbinaer@robbinaer.info!
@reednj@twtxt.xyz It was mentioned in a sdf.org bboard, so I thought I’d check it out.
@quite@lublin.se thanks, I got that corrected
@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net True, but in this case this person was talking about standards that didn’t actually exisit.
@tfurrows@grex.org That’s cool, I know only a little electronics. Enough to know not to melt plastic and make the purple smoke appear.
@tx@0x1a4.1337.cx #stagit looks really cool, thanks for mentioning it.
@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net I have to say that looks interesting.
Re: support for other protocols, it seems like twtxt would be pretty easily adapted to work over the p2p file network DAT, though it’d need client support for DAT or some way to follow people via files and sync in the background, which might be simpler for clients to support but would still require changes to most clients.
@tfurrows@grex.org It is neat. Although it did require to recode a little bit of my kitbashed client LOL
@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net I’m cheating geting @mekon@sdf.org file by using my own kitbashed php CLI client I am playing around with
Had to update my client to use CURL so I could get @mekon@sdf.org twtxt file via gopher
@tfurrows@grex.org just saw your one reply. Yes the client does have a way to sync with the we_are_twtxt list. So far the biggest issue with the PHP CLI client is that it takes a long time to poll all the sites
@dave@davebucklin.com bingo!
@kas@enotty.dk I’m not currently using a handrolled client, but I’ve started a couple.
@kas@enotty.dk Yes, I know I am!
@benaiah@benaiah.me sounds a lot like why many years ago, I went with Drupal for a simple Blogging site vs Wordpress. WP was easier but Drupal allowed me as an admin to not have any filters. Which allowed me to put raw HTML in the posts to control certian that I was doing at the time
@nblade@nblade.sdf.org I could probably put something together, but I went this route originally because existing generators felt like they took too much control from me over the exact output. I want very small, static pages I can throw behind nginx, and I want to know exactly what the contents are. My current mess of spaghetti Racket is getting hairy since I’m halfway through an unfinished rewrite I started a while ago and forgot about, but at least I know exactly what it’s doing.
@benaiah@benaiah.me That is a tough call. I guess it depends on if you can find something off the shelf that will meet your needs or not.
@leveck@leveck.us welcome to twtxt!
@tfurrows@grex.org It is certainly not polished but I have made a good start on that php CLI
@mdom@domgoergen.com I get the error: awk: extra ] at source line 35
@benaiah@benaiah.me Thanks I am just fooling around at the moment.
@nblade@nblade.sdf.org welcome!
@pete@petedeas.co.uk that’s a clever solution; I’ll have to set up something like that.
@mdom@domgoergen.comI’m not sure I know how to reply properly with it. I handeded edit this to be right.
@mdom@domgoergen.com I am playing with the txtnish client, all the systems I have available are running an old version of Python
I tried to add myself to the Git repos for the twtxt users but I think all I did was create a fork that will not be merged
@tdemin@tdemin.github.io good points, though another that I’ve noticed is that it’s difficult to tell who in your network is actually reachable with your tweets. My HTTPS cert went unupdated for a brief while and now I have no idea who is still following me since I got it working again, so it’s difficult to tell where I can really have a conversation. A centralized service can tell who’s following who, but that’s basically impossible in twtxt.
I think this week I’ll look at a bare bone PHP CLI for a twtxt client. Just for fun mind you
@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net that would assume that someone is looking at crawler logs. That is not a given in this day and age…
@quite@lublin.se there is also a unicode symbol in there, maybe that?
@quite@lublin.se oh, txtnish url did that. I guess a pipe symbol does that to you?
@quite@lublin.se which line?
@mdom@domgoergen.com, I have got a smallish patch for you on GH. Maybe it helps others too.
@c-keen@pestilenz.org welcome!
@pete@petedeas.co.uk have you tried the plan9port of awk? Should be close to the original
thanks @pete@petedeas.co.uk. This probably means I should write my yearly blog post ;)
@kas@enotty.dk yes please!
@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net @kas@enotty.dk #twtxt’s quietness is actually something I enjoy about it. I care a lot more about signal-to-noise ratio than I care about the regular activity. It’s also a really fun thing to write clients for to play around with new libraries or languages.
@tdemin@tdemin.github.io too busy working on a twtxt client to tweet on twtxt
@kas@enotty.dk my bad - I’ve been developing a twtxt client, hence the frequent requests. I’m switching it over to use a fs cache for testing so I’m not hitting the twtxt files so much.
/me is finally working on a twtxt client
@quite@lublin.se the static site CMS? It’s open source: https://github.com/netlify/netlify-cms/
@phil@philmcclure.duckdns.org I actually just started a new job working on a frontend for Hugo (and other static site generators).
@quite@lublin.se that’s one of the approaches I was thinking of.
@kas@enotty.dk that sounds fair to me.
Additionally, there’s a lot that can be done by a client to reduce the network traffic and UI latency of twtxt without changing the protocol.
@mdom@domgoergen.com, @kas@enotty.dk re: metadata, I’m (obviously) in favor of my suggestion for metadata-in-comments, but I don’t think we should have comments in comments.
@mdom@domgoergen.com, @dave@davebucklin.com, @kas@enotty.dk I agree with the “no max length; show at least 140chars” idea.
I’m not working on bussard, I’m just IRC friends with @technomancy@technomancy.us and he expressed interest in making scheme available there.