Sitting in urgent care for two hours… Doesn’t seem too urgent :-)

@andros@twtxt.andros.dev Do edits cause problems? I sometimes make them and didn’t realize it may be an issue

Question to the twtxt veterans, are we experiencing an explosion of clients or is this a regular occurrence?

I have the feeling, that I have come to a dead end with my first version of the TwtxtReader. That’s why I’m stopping the project and starting again.
But of course, everyone is welcome to take a look at https://github.com/upputter/TwtxtReaderMK1

This is a joke product, right? It’s almost €100 for a box cutter…

This is cool but I miss easier interaction O:)

This is cool but I miss easier interaction O:)

This document is the result of a series of discussions between Robert “Uncle Bob” Martin and John Ousterhout, held between September 2024 and February 2025. The text addresses three main topics: method length, comments, and Test Driven Development (TDD).
https://github.com/johnousterhout/aposd-vs-clean-code/blob/main/README.md
This is something to read and reflect on for days.

I read a lot about Clean Code, SOLID, TDD, DDD… now I’m discovering «A Philosophy of Software Design»… but nobody talks about the importance of the project architecture. Do we depend on the framework to do the work for us?
You know I’m a big fan of Clean Architecture, but I feel alone when I share my thoughts on social media or at work.
You have to think outside the framework.

My brain shuts off as soon as and every time it smells the shitGPT in somebody’s response and drops the whole conversation.

Alert | BRAIN CELLS OOM with error message: “Ain’t nobody got time for that!”

I am going to start using this one more, or exclusively, from now on. I need to get used to it, as “quark” will be gone, and “bender”, well, he is kind of tired of getting bent. :-D

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org, @movq@www.uninformativ.de well, there goes my theory. We (the people) keep insisting on fudging things up.

I spent this Monday afternoon back from work, drawing myself as the “you made it to Friday sailors” dog. Totally unrelated to the 3 hours wasted on meetings, pretending to discuss great suggestions from high management, nobody else wants to implement.
Link to OG meme: https://youtu.be/z8x3JS7pP14

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this is my first “post”

this is my first “post”

@prologic@twtxt.net Looks great with the new logo.

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@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Next release will convert markdown to org syntax if you have Pandoc command installed 😎. Mentions are org links, for example.

@prologic@twtxt.net Looks great with the new logo.

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@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Next release will convert markdown to org syntax if you have Pandoc command installed 😎. Mentions are org links, for example.

Heute waren das Ziehkind und ich zwei Stunden lang auf drei Spielplätzen und quer durch die Stadt unterwegs. Ein riesiger Spaß!
Vorab habe ich im hiesigen Spielzeugladen ein Konvolut von Klemmbausteinen erstanden, welche wohl zu einer Polizeistation gehörten!?

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! U2FsdGVkX1/RU/NkTLRBrZGuZMaeIOoVkh7mBigVC/58DW80tKrwx1L3UCj0qWj8dvRU5/uwVh32ujJUr+O8ug==

I really like the concept of “twt”. It’s the perfect blend of txt and twtxt. An abbreviated form. Even though it’s the name given to posts, I personally find it very nice.
#twtxt

I don’t think so, at least the tests I did passed. If you’re pretty sure it’s a bug, please create an issue in the repository with the specific case and I’ll investigate it.
There are 2 buttons to make replicas, one makes a replica in the thread where the twt is located (this is the one that should be used the most, as it serves a thread), the other creates a replica to a specific twt.
I’ll let you know a bit about the status: I’m just now implementing the thread screen. There you can be sure where you are. It’s a bit confusing right now, sorry. I think the client is still in alpha. When I’ve finished what I’m doing, and the direct message system, I’ll freeze development and focus on creating more tests, looking for bugs and making small visual adjustments.

@andros@twtxt.andros.dev is it me or twtxt-el generates a wrong twt hash when I use the [ ↳ Reply to twt ] button?

Test Test… is this Borked too!? 🤔

Okay, I won’t park there.

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I thought hCaptcha was getting off the rails. Try making an X account using a VPN service!

oh cool @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org !! and thanks, got rid of that empty line. ATM I’m using twtxt very much in an experimental way, only manual editing or writing my tools. curious to see how it will evolve. #meta #twtxt

hey @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I’ve seen your mention from uhhmmm 4months ago just now using my crawler -__-’ / curious to know, do you see my mention now? #meta #twtxt

I’m in an article in Quanta Magazine! It’s about the bizarre world of algorithms that re-use memory that’s already full. https://www.quantamagazine.org/catalytic-computing-taps-the-full-power-of-a-full-hard-drive-20250218/ I’m the one with all the snow in the background.

Today is an important day. We have a new extension: Direct message 🪇🗨️🚀🥳❤️
https://twtxt.dev/exts/direct-message.html
#twtxt

What would you like the new twtxt logo to be?
Comments: https://git.mills.io/yarnsocial/twtxt.dev/issues/9#issuecomment-18960

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What would you like the new twtxt logo to be?

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What would you like the new twtxt logo to be?

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Some satisfying icicle-breaking in our backyard: photos.falsifian.org/video/sM7G3vfS6yuc/VID_20250217_203250.mp4

I couldn’t resist taking home a prize:

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It’s been snowy here in #Toronto.

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(I tried formatting the images in markdown for the benefit of yarn and any other clients that understand it.)

#photo #photos #winter

Something interesting to think about for twtxt, the microblogging for hackers and friends…

The biggest challenge of ActivityPub is that it’s too technical to easily explain to regular people. Nobody is interested in a jargon-laden diatribe about servers and federation. When simple questions have overly complex answers, people tend to switch off.
https://activitypub.ghost.org/your-thoughts-on-onboarding/

You have a microwave oven at home, right?

You can type 3 and 0 for 30 seconds, 100 for a minute (shown as 1:00), or 200 for two minutes (2:00).

What would happen if you type 777 and Start?
A) Nothing
B) Self-destruction
C) Will run for 7 minutes and 77 seconds (boring!)

What about 7777 ?

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com You can update the package 😀

Have you ever had to refactor a project that was not documented? Any suggestions?

I think it is not easy to implement, you need a database. Timeline is an elegant solution: read and sort.

Testing the limits of our new 5G internet connection at home with pushing 1.5GB docker images into the cloud a bunch of times day…

Linear feeds are a dark pattern - A proposal for Mastodon
https://tilde.town/~dzwdz/blog/feeds.html

I’ve polished the CSS style a bit, you can try it here: https://eapl.me/treed/

Definitely something going on with replies. This one was replying to the wrong twt and even when I got clever and pasted the right hash it didn’t work.

(#4tn7x4q) @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I accidentally hit “post” on a twt I was drafting from days ago and it wouldn’t let me delete it so I replaced it with “a” and I hoped nobody would notice. I guess that backfired.

<eapl> Hi everyone!

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I have uploaded a new version of #twtxtel 🥳. It’s now possible to view profiles, either your own or others. #twtxt #emacs

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@prologic@twtxt.net @xuu@txt.sour.is

reviewing logs this morning and found i have been spammed hard by bots not respecting the robots.txt file. only noticed it because the OpenAI bot was hitting me with a lot of nonsensical requests. here is the list from last month:

• (810) bingbot
  
• (641) Googlebot
  
• (624) http://www.google.com/bot.html
  
• (545) DotBot
  
• (290) GPTBot
  
• (106) SemrushBot
  
• (84) AhrefsBot
  
• (62) MJ12bot
  
• (60) BLEXBot
  
• (55) wpbot
  
• (37) Amazonbot
  
• (28) YandexBot
  
• (22) ClaudeBot
  
• (19) AwarioBot
  
• (14) https://domainsbot.com/pandalytics
  
• (9) https://serpstatbot.com
  
• (6) t3versionsBot
  
• (6) archive.org_bot
  
• (6) Applebot
  
• (5) http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm
  
• (4) http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html
  
• (4) Googlebot-Mobile
  
• (4) DuckDuckGo-Favicons-Bot
  
• (3) https://turnitin.com/robot/crawlerinfo.html
  
• (3) YandexNews
  
• (3) ImagesiftBot
  
• (2) Qwantify-prod
  
• (1) http://www.google.com/adsbot.html
  
• (1) http://gais.cs.ccu.edu.tw/robot.php
  
• (1) YaK
  
• (1) WBSearchBot
  
• (1) DataForSeoBot
  

i have placed some middleware to reject these for now but it is not a full proof solution.

@andros@twtxt.andros.dev The article is a good reminder of the true blogging mindset. But let’s try to think beyond. 2 ideas: (1) writing “forces clarity, structures your thoughts, sharpens your perspective”. But it also generates thoughts in the sense of Heinrich von Kleist (1805). (2) You’re writing for “the future you, one right person, one day” but you are also writing for the AI. The idea of AI as an audience.

Excellent article where you reflect on why it is important to write in your blog, even knowing that nobody will read it.
https://andysblog.uk/why-blog-if-nobody-reads-it/
At least this article does.

When I woke up today we had already disconnected from the Russian power grid. I checked the uptime of my servers: no reboots, no outages. Not that I was very worried. You can have a nice live view at cross border electricity flow here: https://dashboard.elering.ee/en We’ll connect to the rest of continental Europe on Sunday.

I’m realizing that my performance bottleneck is @prologic@twtxt.net ! It is actually calculating the hash to make the replicas, and specifically users with very long feeds 😂 . I’m seriously thinking about enabling replies via configuration.