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A quiet Sunday, with family, my dog 🐶, house cleaning, preparing for a travel tomorrow…
That’s all the twt
I added an Atom feed to ‘7 links of the day’. Find some curated links (a few in spanish and french) every morning.
https://eapl.me/links/feed.php
This is interesting allowing to access a Web with SSH, although a bit complicated for the ‘regular’ user
https://pico.sh/tunnels
I’d expect some one-time password, or some challenge to copy and paste. Anyway, it always makes mi think of alternatives to passwords.
I came across Google Summer of Code
This one looks interesting, I’ll apply soon, and perhaps is interesting for you as well
https://kiwix.org/en/google-summer-of-code/
Would ‘twtxt’ be a good project for the next one? 🤔
eapl.me jumped to Ruby League 🔻
185/140 calories burned this week!
After getting used to it, I’m loving this date format:
2024-02-06
I liked ‘6feb2024’, although isn’t as international as the former.
And… ‘06/02/24’ is awful, don’t use it!
Ha, this is cool. Has its flaws, although is easy to remember.
An RNG that runs in your brain
Interesting analysis on how to shuffle playlist with different artists
How to shuffle songs?
https://engineering.atspotify.com/2014/02/how-to-shuffle-songs/
Would this work to read better? 📚
https://www.jiffyreader.com
Let’s try out!
I was hibernating my digital life since last few weeks, anyway if you are reading this thanks for doing so, and I wish you a nice new life cycle!
“Congratulations. You solved the challenge 1 successfully! You have obtained 100 points. You now have 100 points!”
Wasn’t aware of this Salty Chat app for Android (I assume there’s one for iOS)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=salty.im.saltychat
I like trying new chat apps, although I need more hipster friends using more than Whatsapp and Discord 👀
Hey twxters… I’m looking for a freelancing on Python/C#/PHP, backend… I you are in a cool project or know one, let me know!
Ha, this is gold!
Raymond Chen Interview (19:31)
https://youtu.be/HDicLHBvQQM
I’ll be migrating my twtxt Web client from twtxt-php to timeline
https://eapl.me/twtxt_timeline/?profile=https://eapl.me/twtxt.txt
The idea is to move back to /twtxt/ when the migration is finished (and I’m able to read and publish from there)
I think a better looking web would be helpful to bring more people, even when the old black view is functional and hacky…
Yesterday I the #SuperHappyDevHouse there were a lot of cool projects.
This is a simple service to listen to music on YouTube
https://wosmy.com/discover
I’ve been reading “Shareware Heroes: The renegades who redefined gaming at the dawn of the internet” learning of games developed before I was born, or when was too small.
I’m finding old gems to play and understanding that we have the same problems developing games 30+ years after, although with some obvious differences.
Currently playing:
https://www.classicdosgames.com/game/Kentris.html
Which reminds me of another Tetris I don’t know how it came to my PC in the 90s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaK7v8UNjo0
I’ve been thinking of how to notify someone else that you’ve replied to their twts.
Is there something already developed, for example on yarn.social?
Let’s say I want to notify https://sour.is/tiktok/America/Denver.txt that I’ve replied to some twt. They don’t follow me back, so they won’t see my reply.
I would send my URL to, could be, https://sour.is/tiktok/replies?url=MY_URL and they’ll check that I have a reply to some of their twts, and could decide to follow me back (after seeing my twtxt profile to avoid spam)
Another option could be having a metadata like
follow-request=https://sour.is/tiktok/America/Denver.txt TIMESTAMP_IN_SECONDS
that the other client has to look for, to ensure that the request comes from that URL (again, to avoid spam)
This could be deleted after the other .txt has your URL in the follow list, or auto-expire after X days to clean-up old requests.
What do you think?
My bookmark list is growing more and more (currently 600+ links)
https://eapl.me/links/all_links.php
Whilst there are some gems, there are also links I haven’t read, and perhaps never will.
I’m thinking of having some way of fade away them over time, and if I don’t do anything with a link in, let’s say, a year, it will vanish forever.
Something similar I do with contacts. If I don’t talk with someone for more than I year, why do I have them in my list?
Due to the Daylight Saving Time, I recall a quick clock I made where it adjust daily so sunrise is at 7am in your place.
https://eapl.me/solar/
Luckily in my country DST is no more, although it could be good and boring to always wake up with the same position of the sun.
After work I should write about this experimental (and unfeasible?) clock 🤔
No dogs were harmed in the making of this app
https://shmck.substack.com/p/no-dogs-were-harmed-in-the-making
What do you think of invite-only systems, like forums?
I’m finally paying 5 USD/month to use https://kagi.com
Thinking of it as a tool to work better, let’s see how it feels
I made a web view of all my bookmarks/links sorted by domain. It’s a text file synced with the web server.
Now that there are 500+ I think a good cleaning is needed
Now that my finances are going better with my ‘stable’ job from 9 to 5, I’m thinking back (unconsciously) to playing with a pet project for a few hours a week.
Would it be something related with microblogging and twtxt? A video game? A board-game? Or maybe something related with sports? Or maybe it’s better just allowing the free time to pass and not doing anythin’…
Just thinking 🙂
“People get tired of hosting stuff for $8/month plus whatever the domain registration takes per year. Or they reinstall the OS on their Raspberry Pi machines, and forget that they were running Jetforce or something like that.”
gemini://rawtext.club/~winter/gemlog/2023/10-02.gmi
Well, yes… self-hosting is nice until you face problems or unexpected costs for something not appealing anymore.
There are many technical alternatives, although I think the main problem is human. Our fears, expectations, desires and such.
FastGPT… Input a question, and get a quick answer.
Would it be soon a replacement for search engines?
Cool UI! 😮
Finally I can share a not so broken version of the Web tool to record your burned calories every week 🔥🏃
Try to burn more than in previous weeks and climb to the next league against yourself from the past
As usual, any feedback is welcome 😀
Today I was fighting against a TOTP library in PHP, since it works for 6 and 8 digits, but for 10 it was giving inconsistent values, due to a conversion to a 32 bits int.
It felt amazing when, after a few hours, I found what was causing the error…
And found that many libraries have the same problem.
Now I get why TOTP is limited to 8 chars. It’s a 2FA but not a Password. Perhaps another algorithm will be needed to support 16 digits.
What a rough day 😣
I had forgotten how to mix a full job with everything else. I my 20s I studied, worked from Mon to Sun and spent time with my (now) wife.
I think it’s just a matter of getting used to it again. (In a healthy manner, of course)
Got a nice hand this weekend!
Aaaand officially the weekend has started 😀
I’m creating the default twtxt.txt file for twtxt-php, and I made a pause to think of the introductory text 🤨
Twtxt is an (open/distributed/decentralized) microblogging platform
for hackers and friends that use (raw text files/easy to read by humans), with common protocols, and (free/open) software
Although I know it’s a hard discussion, I’d like to hear your thoughts on what twtxt is and what twtxt-php should be.
Main points:
- Distributed or decentralized?
- Free or open source?
- Human readable formats or raw text?
I think explaining that to a first-time user, would require a link to a whole explanation, but I think having the foundations for the remaining of the development would be helpful for the project.
Last week on Gemini there was a discussion about Text-based (TUI) audio and music players.
Do you use any?
I’m quite happy with musikcube on Win10, and Minimalist on Android.
Today I’m reading about how to save a copy of your secret keys outside a computer, using analog media, or sharing it by voice. For instance, for TOTP authenticators.
I found BIP39 coming from the crypto-wallets world:
https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0039.mediawiki
The user has to write down this passphrase
fragile mimic expect ketchup truth between thunder visit expose output powder derive process disagree razor
Which is carefully designed to be checksummed and it’s easy to say on a call
Finally deriving it into a set of bytes like
da39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709
Do you know some alternatives not related to cryptocurrencies? 🤔
What would be a good icon for twtxt?
I choosed the hash emoji #️⃣, which has many variations: https://emojipedia.org/keycap-number-sign/
and I liked the tweoji one, I think it has a good license: CC-BY 4.0/MIT
https://github.com/twitter/twemoji#license
It would be nice to choose an Emoji/Image/Icon as a convention. What do you say?
What would be a good icon for twtxt?
I chose the hash emoji #️⃣, which has many variations: https://emojipedia.org/keycap-number-sign/
and I liked the tweoji one, I think it has a good license: CC-BY 4.0/MIT
https://github.com/twitter/twemoji#license
It would be nice to choose an Emoji/Image/Icon as a convention. What do you say?
Enough of controversial topics for today. Let’s go back to the garden. 🌱
Have a good weekend everyone!
Yeah! This thing is loading Markdown links and images now 😄
Finally Friday! What are you doing this weekend?
I’m reading “Everything is F*cked: A Book about Hope” again. An uncomfortable reading on why we need hope and how we try to achieve it.
It makes me think a lot about my biases, public and private…
Well, I think it’s moment to start finishing the work week and prepare for the weekend. 🤨
Today I found new -isms: Decentralism, federalism, centralism, distributism…
Interesting how information collides with politics and ideology 🤔
Buuut, that’s nothing to worry about (yet).
Could we replace traditional passwords with One Time Passwords?
We should start switching from 6 digits to many more, 10 at least or 16.
TOTP and lookup secrets as first factor authentication
https://github.com/ory/kratos/issues/2979
What was the most surprising thing you found this weekend?