# Twtxt is an open, distributed microblogging platform that # uses human-readable text files, common transport protocols, # and free software. # # Learn more about twtxt at https://github.com/buckket/twtxt # # This is hosted by a Yarn.social pod Buccipod running yarnd 0.14.0@2350def754be6164dd8091eeb211ed4ee99c0531 # Learn more about Yarn.social at https://yarn.social # # nick = abucci # url = https://anthony.buc.ci/user/abucci/twtxt.txt # avatar = https://anthony.buc.ci/user/abucci/avatar#u6bggyxullhfycik3skwjuqepo7vydotetepz7vlwtkx2t53gkzq # description = Hi, I'm Anthony and I'm a computer scientist # # followers = 12 # following = 32 # # link = About me https://bucci.onl/about.html # link = EIS Council Website https://www.eiscouncil.org # link = Home page https://bucci.onl/ # link = My GitHub Profile https://github.com/axb21 # link = My Google Scholar Page https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=deHJTNsAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao # link = My LinkedIn Profile https://www.linkedin.com/in/abucci/ # link = My ResearchGate Page https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Anthony-Bucci-3 # # # follow = Phys_org https://feeds.twtxt.net/Phys_org/twtxt.txt # follow = Planet_Jabber_XMPP https://feeds.twtxt.net/Planet_Jabber_XMPP/twtxt.txt # follow = abucci https://anthony.buc.ci/user/abucci/twtxt.txt # follow = adi https://twtxt.net/user/adi/twtxt.txt # follow = akoizumi https://kyoko.nerdpol.ovh/~akoizumi/twtxt.txt # follow = akoizumi@kyoko.nerdpol.ovh https://kyoko.nerdpol.ovh/user/akoizumi/twtxt.txt # follow = apex gemini://rawtext.club/~apex/twtxt.txt # follow = assets https://maya.land/assets/twtxt.txt # follow = carsten http://yarn.zn80.net/user/carsten/twtxt.txt # follow = compudanzas https://compudanzas.net/tw.txt # follow = darch https://neotxt.dk/user/darch/twtxt.txt # follow = eaplmx https://twtxt.net/user/eaplmx/twtxt.txt # follow = ivanruvalcaba https://ivanruvalcaba.cf/twtxt.txt # follow = jlj https://twt.nfld.uk/user/jlj/twtxt.txt # follow = linux_gizmos https://feeds.twtxt.net/linux_gizmos/twtxt.txt # follow = low-tech-magazine https://feeds.twtxt.net/low-tech-magazine/twtxt.txt # follow = lyse https://lyse.isobeef.org/twtxt.txt # follow = mckinley https://twtxt.net/user/mckinley/twtxt.txt # follow = movq https://www.uninformativ.de/twtxt.txt # follow = news https://anthony.buc.ci/user/news/twtxt.txt # follow = nixos-news https://feeds.twtxt.net/nixos-news/twtxt.txt # follow = novaburst https://twt.nfld.uk/user/novaburst/twtxt.txt # follow = ocdtrekkie https://twtxt.net/user/ocdtrekkie/twtxt.txt # follow = prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt # follow = screem https://twtxt.net/user/screem/twtxt.txt # follow = stigatle https://yarn.stigatle.no/user/stigatle/twtxt.txt # follow = support https://anthony.buc.ci/user/support/twtxt.txt # follow = tate https://twtxt.net/user/tate/twtxt.txt # follow = testuser https://anthony.buc.ci/user/testuser/twtxt.txt # follow = tw https://astrid.tech/tw.txt # follow = win0err https://kolesnikov.se/twtxt.txt # follow = xuu https://txt.sour.is/user/xuu/twtxt.txt # 2022-07-22T07:24:36Z This is a test of twtxt 2022-07-22T07:39:19Z This is a test that pre- and post- hooks are working properly 2022-07-22T08:55:58Z Let's try some Unicode™ and an emojus 🤪 2022-07-22T12:48:03Z I'm overhauling my blog a bit because I was having trouble getting the Jekyll Garden theme to work the way I wanted with Obsidian. 2022-07-22T12:48:31Z That was the main reason I chose that theme, so it was frustrating. Anyway, it looks like Jekyll Garden has updated in the meantime. 2022-07-22T12:49:22Z ...and I've modified it locally, so I'm facing a tricky merge problem 😕 2022-07-22T12:51:46Z All of that because I wanted to make a blog post about a class I just finished teaching https://www.bucci.onl/notes/Chaos-managed 2022-07-22T14:17:36Z Tinkering with making my web site comply with IndieWeb recommendations. 2022-07-23T15:51:45Z Buccipod lives. 2022-07-23T16:06:21Z This guy created shadertoy and makes amazing graphics. I just want to save a link here.

[Inigo Quilez :: computer graphics, mathematics, shaders, fractals, demoscene and more](https://iquilezles.org/) 2022-07-23T16:19:59Z @ hello! I just installed yarn.social and wanted to try sending a twt to an external user! 2022-07-23T17:54:57Z What's the difference between timeline and discover, I wonder. 2022-07-23T18:01:56Z (#rxeepiq) Buccipod being my self-hosted yarn.social instance with exactly one user, me 😃 2022-07-23T18:02:25Z (#rxeepiq) I am gratuitously posting just to see how things look when you do that. Sorry for the noise. 2022-07-23T18:05:04Z (#4fjkgtq) I also wonder what feeds are. I guess I should read the documentation how about that. 2022-07-23T18:43:41Z (#rxeepiq) @ Hi test user. ![kitten](https://www.startpage.com/av/proxy-image?piurl=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.unsplash.com%2Fphoto-1595433707802-6b2626ef1c91%3Fixlib%3Drb-1.2.1%26ixid%3DMnwxMjA3fDB8MHxleHBsb3JlLWZlZWR8MXx8fGVufDB8fHx8%26w%3D1000%26q%3D80&sp=1658601763T77f9d66eb6eb1b9127addec43605c37f8f136c6fc0736cd92a781d6839446dc0) 2022-07-23T19:03:11Z @ (#rxeepiq) dig that goat! 2022-07-23T19:07:46Z (#rxeepiq) @ goat's 2022-07-23T19:28:19Z (#rxeepiq) @ Hmm, a weird thing I don't understand is why that image is not displaying inline. It does on the phone app. 2022-07-23T19:38:05Z (#rxeepiq) Oh I suppose I upload media from my computer. ![](https://anthony.buc.ci/media/d4VAv99cdEjihr9Vp2jz3e.png) 2022-07-23T20:54:15Z (#rxeepiq) from phone ![](https://anthony.buc.ci/media/bzRBXzVZ6nUiAbCkVtvV87.png) 2022-07-24T12:58:04Z I'm always intrigued by new platforms like this one, but they are hindered by a lack of users. Unless you're draw in by an existing community, you end up talking into the void, or to yourself @ 2022-07-24T13:00:07Z (#urcykrq) then again, since I self-host, and since posts are ultimately in twtxt format, it's very easy to to save data and migrate out. 2022-07-24T14:12:19Z Have a computer that keeps dropping off the network and I don't understand why 😠 2022-07-24T14:15:08Z (#gnujfjq) It's nice to be able to read the timeline and write posts from the command line, since I spend a lot of my day there. 2022-07-24T15:01:27Z [The Unison language](https://www.unison-lang.org/)

Looks like a lot of fun. 2022-07-24T18:53:15Z (#oxj5o2a) @ 👍 dig this 2022-07-25T00:39:36Z (#mdu3vsq) @ lol 2022-07-25T01:22:04Z My son chewed the screen of my smart phone into nonfunctionality, so I resurrected a 9-year-old Samsung Galaxy Note 3 that used to be my primary phone. 2022-07-25T01:24:33Z (#gojpmta) Aside from the 3 Gbyte RAM limit, which hurts at times, and occasional stutters, it's perfectly unable. 2022-07-25T01:26:13Z (#gojpmta) I put a new SD card and a new battery in it for about $30 total. One of the reasons I originally mothballed this phone and bought a new one is that at the time replacement batteries were very expensive. 2022-07-25T01:26:46Z (#gojpmta) usable* 2022-07-25T01:28:30Z (#gojpmta) There's a lot to be said for phones where you can replace the battery and SD card. 2022-07-25T01:45:24Z (#gojpmta) The camera is not good, and the battery life could be better. There are definitely some improvements in modern phones. I'm pretty impressed by how usable a nearly decade-old phone is though. 2022-07-25T01:46:18Z (#gojpmta) I don't think I could tolerate a ten-year-old computer, by contrast. 2022-07-25T11:34:38Z (#4y24kla) @ hi! 👋 Thanks for writing back! I wanted to see what interacting with another person was like. And also to meet new people!

I'm liking yarn.social a lot so far, so thank you for this. 

I have not been using twtxt very long. I stumbled on it long ago, but I've never really been into social networks and always found twitter pretty mean-spirited. But I decided to give it a go again and wanted to try to meet some folks so that I'm not always talking to my @ 2022-07-25T11:35:44Z (#ia7tn7q) @ no worries! I find this to be a feature, not a bug. I like asynchronous communication because I can't always check in (busy with life!) but do want to stay connected... 2022-07-25T11:36:04Z (#rxeepiq) @ ahhhh that makes sense. Thank you! 2022-07-25T11:37:19Z (#gnujfjq) @ Both the web app and `yarnc`. I've mostly been using the web app to experiment, but some days I'm mostly in the command line (I'm in tech and code a fair amount) and it's cool to be able to dash off a thought from there. I liked that about `twtxt`. 2022-07-25T11:39:11Z (#urcykrq) @ Yes. I noticed quite a few people used to keep up `twtxt` feeds but then stopped. You can goodl "twtxt.txt" and find lots. Hopefully with a nice web app and phone app and cli tool like yarn.social has enough critical mass will build. 2022-07-25T11:40:30Z (#urcykrq) btw I have no plans to migrate out--definitely want to give this a go for awhile. I've found some interesting feeds to follow, and I'm sure that will continue. However, I do like very much that the post data is not trapped in some corporation's data center. 2022-07-25T11:43:29Z (#2gjshuq) @ I guess it's not to everyone's taste 😆 I've been mostly doing functional programming for awhile now and `unison` seems to address several pain points, and I think their big idea of hashing parse trees and keeping an ever-growing database of code that is easy to marshall over the network if you want is very cool. 2022-07-25T13:50:11Z (#urcykrq) @ I played around with Mastodon for awhile, and while it felt like a bit of an improvement over twitter, say, I didn't like how complicated it was to self-host and federate. Also the developers seem to be pushing Mastodon more and more into becoming a twitter clone. I feel like twitter is pretty mean-spirited in part because of how it's structured, so this worried me a lot. 2022-07-25T15:29:56Z (#urcykrq) @ oh yeah, the outrage cycle is horrible. It almost seems like a public health hazard that ought to be dealt with. idk, I just want to be a nerd online and not have all that in my face day after day after day 🤓 2022-07-25T15:37:34Z (#gnujfjq) @ Will do! Not sure about a PR since I don't know Go, but I can definitely share suggested improvements if I think of any. 2022-07-25T21:09:15Z Once again I am exploring `scala` functional effects libraries 🙄 2022-07-26T00:56:23Z (#hkjnx7a) @ Thinkpads are great. I have a circa 2013 Thinkpad that is still going strong. For my day to day work though I'm doing some heavy coding of a big simulation and need as much RAM, CPU, and GPU as I can fit in a box. 2022-07-26T01:01:29Z (#hkjnx7a) I guess what I do with a phone is pretty tame and doesn't require too many resources but what I do with a computer is pretty intense and does. So maybe that says more about me than anything! 2022-07-26T12:24:40Z (#lxe2kdq) @ nah, this isn't accurate. I'm on the fediverse and the Nazi problem is very real and always in your face. There are hundreds of Nazi instances and new ones pop up every day. Every day I see toots about some new asshole. And I don't know what you're talking about "the radical left"--in the US at least there is no such thing. 2022-07-26T12:52:58Z (#5ekuk6a) @ oh, totally. The fediverse has some of the same dogpiling problems as twitter, and you're often beholden to the administrator of the instance you joined to take care of that for you. There are tools for blocking people and whole instances, which helps, but if a dozen people dive into your mentions to harass you because they decided they didn't like something you said, you're stuck with the labor of identifying each one and blocking them. At some point it'd be easier to abandon your account.

I don't have a clear view of how I'd deal with something like that on yarn.social (not that I think it'd happen), but at least since I administer my own instance I have a lot of power 💪 2022-07-26T12:54:09Z (#5ekuk6a) and they're starting to add features to promote "popular" toots and hashtags, which of course is a recipe for disaster. You'd think people would've learned by now how easy it is for a group of people to game popularity-based systems 🤔 2022-07-26T14:13:38Z (#5ekuk6a) @ The main reason I used "likes" on twitter or on mastodon is as a kind of acknowledgement that I read someone's post. Back when they used to be stars on twitter I did that more often, but likes remind me too much of facebook 🤢 Anyhow I think it's maybe better to cut down on noise by not doing that, and only replying when there's something to say? 2022-07-27T00:05:20Z (#zuvgjia) @ get well soon! 2022-07-27T23:07:27Z Spent a fair amount of time today working on an agent-based modeling framework I've been stewing on for a long time. 2022-07-27T23:28:55Z (#saig7mq) On a related note, I think the `Observable` pattern has caused a lot of damage to how people think about reactive systems. 2022-07-27T23:39:22Z (#saig7mq) As we all know, Earth subscribes to the Sun's gravity `Observable` and that is why its orbit is the way it is 🙄 2022-07-28T00:29:34Z (#saig7mq) Anyhow, in the `scala` world I like the approach the Laminar library takes. Somewhere in the guts of it is an `Observer` pattern but the abstraction presented to the typical library user is a bunch of signals that you wire together, some of which require responses. 2022-07-28T00:31:32Z (#saig7mq) @ 🤷‍♂️ lol 2022-07-28T18:56:15Z OK lovely, I have a little demo of my nascent agent modeling framework thinger that can run 100,000 agents doing non-trivial (but faked for now) computations at about 1/3 of my screen refresh rate, meaning near real-time. I haven't tried optimizing it yet, just tinkering so far. That's pretty promising. 2022-07-28T18:58:09Z (#mzw5ema) for instance, I'm just firing all the agents' workloads asynchronously at the CPU and hoping for the best, where it'd probably be more efficient to batch up the work. I'm using `scala` and haven't done any `jvm` heap of GC tuning yet, so that's another way to improve performance. 2022-07-28T19:20:19Z (#jvmjdoa) @ 😆 2022-07-28T19:37:48Z (#mzw5ema) @ a little experimental framework for helping to build agent-based models. I'm unhappy with the existing frameworks I know about so I'm trying a different tack and so far I'm pretty happy with the results. 2022-07-29T11:03:27Z (#rn5muxa) @ there is only one active user on my pod lol. Someday I may invite friends and family to use it though so we will see. 2022-07-29T11:05:12Z I am a night owl by nature but ever since having kids I almost never sleep past 6:30am and am often awake by 5:30am. 😩 Gone are the days when I'd go to bed at 2am or later. 2022-07-29T18:27:57Z Resurrected some old formal concept analysis code I'd written years ago. It's not great, but it works well enough and now it's dusted off. 2022-07-30T01:55:52Z Android always has seventeen different apps for any particular thing you want to do, where five are so full of ads they're unusable, three are hobby projects, two are paid and cost more than you're willing to spend on a phone app, three haven't been maintained in over two years, and four might possibly work for you. But you can't know any of that till you install all seventeen and try them. 2022-07-30T11:58:37Z (#asw7hqa) @ lol, well I was venting so I had to be creative 2022-07-30T12:07:27Z Firefox Focus is meant to be one of the more privacy friendly browsers on Android, yet after install it has Google set as the default web browser and it collects telemetry. So you still need to hunt through the settlings to find and turn off these things if they concern you (which they should imo) 2022-07-30T12:54:25Z [Charm](https://charm.sh/)

This whole set of libraries looks incredibly neat. 2022-07-30T13:16:35Z (#r6icgfq) it's nice that you can self host the `charm cloud` part of it. Even though they say they end-to-end encrypt anything sent to or stored on their servers, and even though I mostly believe that, there's no way to verify. Reading the source code is not verification because there are no guarantees that what's running on their servers matches what's in the source code. So, it's safest to self host, and I'm glad they provide that option. 2022-07-30T14:02:08Z (#r6icgfq) @ I saw a release announcement for `gum`, which looks like a great way to add interactivity to shell scripts. 

Much as I'd love to help, I have my hands full right now! Job+kids takes up 200% of my time! I've been meaning to play with salty chat just to see how it looks but so far I haven't even had time to do that! 2022-07-30T15:26:24Z [Recursive Drawing](http://recursivedrawing.com/draw.html) is really fun to play with. You can make spirally-looking things like 
 ![](https://anthony.buc.ci/media/QVVH8fg5hvRXa2DgJQ7Tk3.png) 

and

 ![](https://anthony.buc.ci/media/suC4LmQBAjhHQviwZvcraS.png) 

(which is a minor variation that looks more feathery). Or you can make more organic looking shapes like

 ![](https://anthony.buc.ci/media/Tusy5KuywSFQyeZYTHPAaE.png) 

or

 ![](https://anthony.buc.ci/media/YfqLCBeVTp7CypfvvrRkNM.png) 

This tool was a student's degree project and doesn't have all the bells and whistles you'd expect from a mature drawing program, but the one thing it does well, the recursive drawing, is super cool. 2022-07-31T01:14:21Z (#krcubia) @ Oh yes, this isn't my student and he has a video on [this page](http://recursivedrawing.com) about how it works. So simple but amazing. 2022-08-01T13:22:23Z Oof, looks like I have a corrupted SD card in my phone 😨 2022-08-01T13:25:47Z (#glnw53q) @ the Ubuntu "minimal" cloud images are like 195 M! What the hell is in there? 2022-08-01T15:50:44Z [Punch Card Programming - Computerphile - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KG2M4ttzBnY)

Absolutely fascinating. 2022-08-01T15:51:07Z (#byhhtuq) @ luckily i have backups! 2022-08-03T12:00:43Z (#5unwita) @ Do you see any regularity in the origins of the registrations? You might be able to ban a few IP ranges at the server level for awhile until it calms down. I've done that on the VPS I manage. 2022-08-03T13:48:49Z It is 2022 how the heck are you emailing someone login credentials including a password in plain text and then not even providing them the ability to change that password? 2022-08-03T17:10:23Z (#5unwita) @ You may already do all this stuff, but here's my 2 cents. 

One thing you can do is a use a site like https://myip.ms/browse/blacklist/Blacklist_IP_Blacklist_IP_Addresses_Live_Database_Real-time to download a list of blacllisted IP address in a format suitable for whichever firewall you're using. Then you can hard ban those IPs.

Another thing you can use is install `fail2ban` and set up rules appropriate to `yarnd`. I'm not familiar enough to say what those should be, but blocking http POST floods is a good idea. You can also manually add IP addresses to `fail2ban` jails, or semi-automate that where you read the IPs you want to ban from a list that you update regularly.

Finally, you could use something like [akismet](https://akismet.com/development/) to automatically detect spam posts and block ones that fail their test. I'm not sure if you're able to self host if you're dependent on a call to their servers. Maybe there's something similar that you could host locally if nto. 2022-08-03T17:12:16Z (#mycmapq) @ I was so appalled I filed a ticket with their tech support and with the tech supportof the client of theirs who sent me to their service. Unbelievable to me that such things still exist, but I sure as hell am not going to keep quiet. 2022-08-03T19:38:45Z (#mycmapq) @ I mean, all they have to do is ask, I'll gladly tell them through a megaphone while driving through the city center! 2022-08-03T19:39:00Z (#mycmapq) @ I hope these people change their ways because c'mon! 2022-08-03T21:04:04Z [Analog Computer Museum](http://www.analogmuseum.org/english/) 2022-08-04T16:22:51Z I wonder a lot about how much bad in the world can be ascribed to some variation of Hotelling's Law. 2022-08-04T16:27:46Z (#wrnehna) 34°C where I am 🥵 2022-08-04T16:29:02Z (#4pfl45a) @ hmm, it looks interesting and I can't say I disagree with their points, but I'm also skeptical of anything called a "manifesto", and they sound somewhat combative. 2022-08-04T16:51:17Z I wish every web site would offer IndieAuth. 2022-08-04T16:57:14Z (#5pugzka) Speaking selfishly, of course, as someone who controls a domain. 2022-08-04T18:40:22Z (#zrbqxza) @ wow that's so bizarre. I viewed the page in Firefox (103.0.1 on Ubuntu) and those arrows look normal! ![](https://anthony.buc.ci/media/kKPWffgZfBVQJ28Pt2CDrN.png) 2022-08-04T18:46:31Z I wanted to tinker with webmentions so I'm going to needlessly link to a blog post about a class I taught last month.

[Chaos managed • Anthony Bucci](https://www.bucci.onl/notes/Chaos-managed) 2022-08-04T18:59:33Z (#bafz6tq) I *think* it worked? I need to read more about microformats2 I think. 2022-08-04T19:04:26Z (#bafz6tq) think think 2022-08-04T19:16:20Z (#zrbqxza) @ @ Ah, that was the problem! W3C wants you to have a charset defined within the first 1024 bytes of the HTML, which that comment exceeded. I just moved the comment below the charset and the charset validates correctly now (though a bunch of other warnings and errors appear now lol). I am using a Jekyll theme I adapted from someone else and I guess they never encountered this issue. Thanks for finding it!

It's interesting, though, that some web browsers don't care about that. I've viewed that page in Vivaldi, Falkon, Opera, and Firefox and the unicode arrows showed up fine. 2022-08-04T19:24:51Z (#bafz6tq) I'm discovering that setting up in the IndieWeb will take a non-trivial amount of work. But since I don't want to ever be stuck in a social media silo again, I think it's worth it. It's interesting to tinker with, too. 2022-08-04T20:00:35Z [Google’s video chat merger begins: Now there are two “Google Meet” apps | Ars Technica](https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/08/googles-video-chat-merger-begins-now-there-are-two-google-meet-apps/)

OMG girl, stoppppp! 2022-08-04T20:21:49Z (#zrbqxza) @ it's new to me too! I can't pretend to know a whole lot about web tech, but anyway 🤷 2022-08-05T00:59:59Z (#zrbqxza) @ I didn't do anything special to make my web browsers default to utf-8. I just installed and used them. 2022-08-05T09:52:07Z (#ywvhfda) @ it's a bit before 6am where I am, so, tired. How about you? 2022-08-05T10:51:49Z (#ywvhfda) @ the pictures you posted the other day are amazing! 2022-08-05T11:51:50Z I wish that this experimental [Capture Checking](https://dotty.epfl.ch/docs/reference/experimental/cc.html) feature in scala 3 were available in the official distribution so that I could play with it in a project i'm working on now. 2022-08-05T11:54:50Z (#75vfpva) you can handle effects in the manner of algebraic effects using this feature, which I find way more palatable than living in monad hell. 2022-08-05T12:01:25Z (#75vfpva) this is a weird analogy I guess, but I find programming in a monadic style to be analogous to how you used to install software back in the days before reliable package managers. You'd be like "oh I want to do X so I need to install SpecialSoftware." So you'd download the source code for SpecialSoftware, try to compile it with `make`, and it'd explode. After reading the weird errors, you finally figure out that SpecialSoftware depends on libFoo. So you'd download the source code for libFoo, try to compile it, and it'd explode. 2022-08-05T12:03:02Z (#75vfpva) after hours of doing a depth-first search through the lib* tree and compiling as you go, eventually you'd start to succeed, but by that point you totally forgot about X and SpecialSoftware and you have made your computer into a mess of libraries you compiled. Isn't it nice that nowadays you can choose to trust a package maintainer to do that work on your behalf, and only take on the burden if you have a special reason to do so? 2022-08-05T12:04:59Z (#75vfpva) anyhow, that's what programming with monads is like, to me. Oh, I want to do X. OK I'll try using SpecialEffectsLibrary. But to do that I have to wrap my code in FooMonad. OK. But then to use FooMonad with this other monad I like using, I need a FooMonadTransformer. OK. Oh but now that doesn't compile because I didn't wrap such-and-such in a call to FooMonad.pure. OK. Oh and since I'm using monads I can't do this other thing recursively. Hmm what now. By the time I sort out all the compiler errors I forgot about X. 2022-08-05T12:08:39Z (#75vfpva) and all of that to protect yourself from the possibility of leaking a resource? A little programming discipline can achieve the same!

Anyhow, I'm interested in algebraic effects because they look a little more natural to me. You can sorta kinda write code the way you want, and then supply "handlers" for the effects like I/O or database access or whatever. Which is a not-unreasonable way to structure things anyway. And the compiler barks at you with helpful errors like "you're not handling effect Foo" instead of "there is no implicit view from FooMonad to Option" that make little sense unless you've already stewed your brain in monads. 2022-08-05T12:11:27Z (#hpcp5oq) @ yes but where's the fun in that! 2022-08-05T21:08:17Z (#4uh5gvq) @ what happens when I do this? 2022-08-06T11:58:35Z (#gqqqwca) @ @ I only ranted about monads that one time! 😂 2022-08-06T13:46:09Z Stumbled on WebID today. Besides being confusing, it doesn't work on the site I tinkered with and it seems to be mostly abandoned? 2022-08-07T01:19:10Z (#gqqqwca) @ oh interesting. I might try to make that next time. When does it happen? 2022-08-07T11:13:03Z (#gqqqwca) @ ouch that would be 1am where I am 😬 2022-08-07T13:28:28Z (#gqqqwca) @ Don't change a good thing on my account! 2022-08-07T14:32:28Z The vast majority of visits to my web server are:
- Me
- People or bots looking for vulnerabilities
- Web crawlers

with about 0.5% of traffic being legitimate, not-me visitors. 2022-08-07T22:59:40Z (#gqqqwca) @ @ I couldn't make it at 6am UTC either fwiw 2022-08-07T23:56:15Z (#gqqqwca) @ haha oops! As you can see I'm very good with time 🤪 2022-08-07T23:59:27Z (#gqqqwca) @ apparently I don't get it either lol 2022-08-08T11:24:40Z (#gqqqwca) @ @ Sunday 21:00 UTC is about the only window that works for me--I have the baby most of that day. I can steal a bit of time during the work week on Mon-Thu between 13:00 and 21:00 UTC. Fridays are a little too tough schedulewise to think about 🤯 2022-08-08T11:25:23Z (#gqqqwca) @ very handy! 2022-08-09T10:57:49Z (#4xxgkfq) @ @ @ I use very sophisticated tools such as `grep` and `wc` 2022-08-09T13:34:08Z (#6lytfga) @ @ here's mine, if it helps:
```
[Unit]
Description=Buccipod yarn.social
After=syslog.target
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=simple
User=abucci
Group=abucci
EnvironmentFile=/etc/default/yarnd
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/yarnd -d /var/local/lib/yarnd/data -s bitcask:///var/local/lib/yarnd/data/yarn.db --admin-email "abucci@bucci.onl" --admin-name "Anthony Bucci" --admin-user "abucci" --descriptio
n "Buccipod, a yarn.social pod" --lang "en" --name "Buccipod" -u "https://anthony.buc.ci"

TimeoutSec=300

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
``` 2022-08-09T20:41:50Z (#6lytfga) @ I just created a PR. The `systemd` unit isn't great, but it works to start `yarnd` and restart `yarnd` on reboot. 2022-08-10T11:20:10Z (#wf37oda) @ @ what do you think of caddy? 2022-08-10T11:30:17Z (#wf37oda) @ `caddy file-server` is meant to do this. If you add `-- domain foo.TLD` at the end it magically does https for you too. 2022-08-10T15:13:35Z (#nik3c4a) @ this talk reminded me how much I like Forth/concatenative languages! 2022-08-10T15:17:18Z (#nik3c4a) @ it wouldn't be so bad if you could use any date instead of just their magical 2006 date. I loathe the way date formats work--I never remember them and always have to look them up in the docs, like every single time I deal with dates. What I really want is to say "ugh, just make the date look like this: EXAMPLE DATE" and have it just work. 2022-08-10T16:02:59Z (#nik3c4a) @ the only way I ever "remember" it is to keep a cheat sheet of the date formats associated with an actual date printed in that format, for all the different formats I commonly use. It's annoying. If I'm building a lookup table like that, the compiler could do it for me. That's what they're for! 2022-08-10T16:53:24Z I think I don't understand how threads work on here! I keep replying to threads involving multiple people but there are not in the @ list. 2022-08-11T11:46:42Z (#zcz4kua) @ That makes sense. It has me thinking that maybe there is a user interface question of whether to "subscribe" a user to a topic, so that they can see notifications/mentions/what have you if they choose, but can turn that off too if they want. The thing that worries me is:

1. There's a topic I'm interested in that several people are discussing
2. I hit "Reply" and post my reply
3. The result of 2. is to only cite the topic and the person I "replied" to, so that all the others involved may not see my reply

Making this an option for the user can help with the noise problem--if a topic becomes too noisy they can turn off notifications.

Idk maybe you all thought this through already and I'm just catching up! 2022-08-11T13:38:45Z The real meaning of "meaningful whitespace" is that you're constantly replacing tabs with spaces or vice versa to make the compiler stop complaining even though the code looked fine to you the entire time. 2022-08-11T20:00:39Z ```bash
~ $ adb connect
adb: usage: adb connect [:]
~ [1]$ adb connect 10.0.0.234
missing port in specification: tcp:10.0.0.234
```

Hello `adb`, those square brackets around `:` are supposed to mean it's optional. 2022-08-12T12:12:47Z I've been heads down working on a user interface in `scalajs` for a few weeks now. I rarely write user interfaces, so I'm not exactly learned. But I can say that the combination of `scalajs` and the `laminar` library is really nice to work with. 2022-08-12T12:16:46Z (#rre4uoq) It's the first time I've worked on a non-trivial web-based UI and not wanted to jump into the sea and float away 2022-08-12T17:17:49Z (#rcurxoq) @ 
- Lots of opinions, many of which aren't cited and probably not super accurate (e.g., that Java is the reason for the rise of OO programming, when Xerox PARC, Sun Microsystems, Smalltalk, Alan Kay, etc etc led to Java and other things)
- His rant about OO programming is really about Java (and its variants). Smalltalk is quite a bit different. Objective C is too. 
- The Actor model more or less fits his notion of what OO programming is, yet is hugely successful
- He imposes a bunch of arbitrary rules on OO programming based on a rigid understanding of what objects, states, and encapsulation mean. He then uses this to argue that messages can only be copies of state, not real state; that for one object to send a message to another object it must hold a reference to that object; that objects aren't allowed to have references to anything; etc. 
- "The Most Important Programming Video You Will Ever Watch" <--- no, never say this about your own stuff it makes you sound like a crackpot 2022-08-12T17:19:37Z (#rcurxoq) Got about halfway through, but speaking as an Old guy™ my high-level takeaway is that this sounds like a 30-something programmer who's starting to grapple with some of the warts of programming that they wish they'd known in their 20s. 2022-08-13T12:29:19Z (#kglknja) @ hello! 2022-08-13T12:48:41Z (#rcurxoq) @ yes, I listed the things I didn't like and forgot to put the things I did like! I agree with you, and him, about encapsulation, especially at the low level. I switched from java to scala about ten years ago and one of the first things I did was stop writing in the java OO style. But I never switched to the full-on disciplined functional style of code ala Haskell, because I find that almost as bad. scala's nice in that it runs on the JVM and you can use OO, FP, imperative, or some cobbled-together hybrid of all three styles as you see fit. 2022-08-13T14:21:54Z I've been using [obsidian](https://obsidian.md) for about a year now, and I really like it. However, since it's an electron app, and since most plugins for it are written in some variant of Javascript, and since I put semi-important stuff in there, I'm constantly checking plugins to make sure they don't make unwanted network connections. I find it pretty horrifying that web-based technologies tend to just make network connections freely, without first checking with the user that they're OK with it. 2022-08-13T14:23:20Z (#aj4dnjq) I point that out because I just saw a new plugin that can run code snippets in an Obsidian note for several programming languages. Which is handy--I have a `jupyter` plugin that makes calls out to a local `jupyter` notebook and puts the results in your note, and it's great. However, this plugin had a peculiar set of supported languages, which made me suspicious. It turns out it makes network calls to some server to do the code compilation and running, and then grabs the results and puts them in your note. 

No way!!! 2022-08-13T15:25:23Z (#moqdvoq) @ bizarre! 2022-08-13T15:33:04Z (#moqdvoq) @ I use KDE/plasma but don't even have KMail installed lol. I got used to Thunderbird years ago. It's mostly OK for what I need it to do. 2022-08-13T16:35:00Z (#moqdvoq) @ How else are we supposed to get corporate branded emails with logos and images and single pixel trackers and ... 2022-08-13T16:42:59Z (#75vfpva) putting the MAD in MonAD lol 2022-08-14T11:22:59Z (#hfr4myq) @ oh wow these are great! I love the effect of the exhaust