“I got moths. Big, mutant, junkie moths!”

@david@daiwei.me @prologic@twtxt.net IDK, some people like to use their social media feeds as soapboxes or megaphones, others as public(-ish) speaker phones (I know I tend to oscillate between these two extremes myself).

Speaking for myself, I tend to be more of a lurker on most social platforms, but something about twtxt makes me want to engage with the people here. Maybe it’s the quality of the individuals (❤️), or the relatively laid-back pace here compared to the attention economies of other platforms…IDK what it is, but I like it. 🙂

Thanks, it was a good time.

I was actually talking with my mate this evening and he mentioned that this was the 3rd disc he’s lost at that hole. 🫨

The next time we play there, I may suggest that we just skip it (or start just beyond the “bad zone”).

@prologic@twtxt.net Everywhere I look. 🙃

@prologic@twtxt.net Nice choice!

I was always partial to those 194x-style “bullet hell” games. 🛩️

Seen on the Fediverse:

“The tragedy of the Internet is that it has promoted the village idiot to the level of bearer of truth.” - Umberto Eco

I finally managed to get back out disc golfing today at Vietnam Veterans Park and had a good time despite losing a brand new disc on hole 3 (on its 3rd throw ever, my glow-in-the-dark Lynx disappeared into an overgrown creek-bed and was swallowed by the underbrush). After my buddy lost a disc on hole 4, we were kinda demoralized and both threw for crap the rest of the course, but it was still a nice day to be slingin’ in the sun…

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🎶 “Triple Double” - Girl Talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0yY0zxk-18

@david@daiwei.me I don’t know what you mean, we never bribe our photo subjects with treats. 😁

She usually keeps most of them on all night, although her rear-end is prone to escaping.

From back in October, this is the Princess Peaches showing off some of her “Pibble-Js”.

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I’m still on a deckbuilding kick, so I was thrilled that we managed to get 3 games of Magic in last night.

In game 1, my Marvel Villains deck couldn’t stand up to Doctor Who’s Missy and her army of Cybermen (and Daleks). Since someone else was playing a dark lord Sauron deck, I guess that means she’s even more “villainous” that anything Marvel or Tolkien could offer.

For game 2, I ran my Guardians of the Multiverse deck (formerly known as The B-Vengers or Marvel Heroes 2: Electric Bugaloo). It was working well, and I had quite an army going, but I was still one turn from a win when an opponent’s tribal elf deck went off, killing everyone with 19 19/19 forest-walking elves. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Then in game 3, I ran my Avengers deck, and finally got the win thanks to a Heroes’ Podium, a pair of Hawkeyes, and a flying, shield-wielding Captain America. Assemble, indeed.

Last night will likely be my final Marvel-only game night for a while. I still need to test the decks out some more, but they’re basically complete (I don’t currently plan on adding any more cards to them). Plus, while I’m on this kick, I’d like to finally finish my Sauron deck, and I’ve got some cards on order for both a Dune-themed deck and a couple of decks inspired by the old-school Beatdown Box.

Although I was initially concerned that adding modern Marvel superheroes to the high-fantasy worlds of “Magic: the Gathering”” would be too aesthetically dissonant, instead it’s gotten me back into deck building in a big way.

Since the set was released last month, I’ve built: a 5-color Super Villains deck, two 5-color Superheroes decks, plus a 5-color tribal Mutant Ninja Turtles deck (built from the best cheap singles from the TMNT set from earlier this year, a set that was a bit more dissonant, but still weird enough to be fun).

And then there’s the proxies…

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@javivf@adn.org.es Oh, I like the looks of that.

GTD was undoubtedly the best developed task-management system I ever got into (and I tried a bunch in my time), but even it wound up being too much work for me to keep up with. An app like that might streamline it enough to make it usable. Thanks for the link!

For this week’s #Caturday, I have an image that requires a bit of backstory…

Shortly after Emperor Maximilian I retained us as his caretakers (over 8 years ago), we would often return home from our travels to find a handful of pairs of socks scattered around the floor, typically taken from our son’s sock drawer (which was usually overflowing and therefore often left slightly open). We weren’t sure if it was Max (as he was not the only cat in the house) until the day we came home to find this:

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@prologic@twtxt.net Congrats! 🤘 That sounds disturbingly low-level to me, but I know that it’s no small feat.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org @movq@www.uninformativ.de @klaxzy@klaxzy.net @david@daiwei.me I’m in a similar boat, they pushed us to use it, then pushed us to keep our usage below a certain threshold (although they do allow certain “power users” go beyond the limit, LOL). I dragged my feet at first, but they finally broke my spirit about a month before the limits were put into place. Unfortunately, I’ve been doing more managing than coding lately, so I mostly just use it for creating JIRA tickets (I find it to be very good at producing “Agile artifacts”).

@prologic@twtxt.net Copyright infringement is still your best entertainment value.

@david@daiwei.me Thanks, and affirmative. The cats are Bowie, Bugsy, Emperor Maximilian (Max), and Shadow. The dogs are the Princesses, Astrid and Peaches.

‘Tis a zoo, sometimes.

Since I missed another #Caturday, I thought I’d introduce the 6th (and most recently arrived) mammalian quadruped with whom we share living space, a young lady known as The Princess Astrid.

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She’s technically our grandpuppy (being our daughter’s “daughter”), but we considered the pibbles to be sisters, and they truly do love each other.

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@movq@www.uninformativ.de Thanks for that. I’d been hearing about this in the context of browser plugins turning computers into residential proxies for web scrapers, but I hadn’t considered that a TV could be used the same way. ☹️

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I’m with @prologic@twtxt.net on this one… I spent nearly a decade as an “enterprise” Java developer (servlets and JSPs and Spring, oh my!) before I finally swore it off, and I’ve been Ora-clean ever since (8 years and counting).

I won’t go back.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de That’s crazy… Do not want!

@david@daiwei.me @prologic@twtxt.net No worries, I was just trying it on for size.

I played it again today (10/12 on first try), but I can’t say that I love the format of the “share link” (the unnecessary yellow and green circles).

I think if I did want to post daily scores or something (for posterity), I’d likely setup a separate feed just for my “achievements”. 😁

Free daily 3D mini golf in the browser? I smell a new obsession…

putt.day #62 ⛳ 10/12 Eagle
🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟢
https://putt.day/s/1VAFIDIxqpbT

@prologic@twtxt.net 🧨🎉✨

@prologic@twtxt.net 🔥🔥🔥

@david@daiwei.me @GabesArcade@gabesarcade.com Thanks.

The cats don’t actually care much (since they’re cats), but Princess Peaches is prone to bouts of extreme jealously, and has been giving me the side-eye for sharing pictures of the cats rather than her.

I say the world needs both more princesses and more Peaches! 😄

Since I keep missing #Caturday, I figured I’d change it up today with pics of our pibble, The Princess Peaches, framed by the light of the window.

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@prologic@twtxt.net TBH, I was just going to try and reverse engineer it from the Go source files, but any other docs you can provide would be helpful, for sure! 🙏

@prologic@twtxt.net 🤩

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com @david@daiwei.me @prologic@twtxt.net It looks like tab stops to me, every 8 characters, and the tab character jumps to the next stop (hence different tab widths based on where the tab occurs in relation to the next tab stop).

@prologic@twtxt.net I really like how these two apps pair-up. Seeing as I’m still tweaking TwtKpr, I’m considering adding support for the same APIs as twtd (so maybe it can be used as another backend for Twtxt.App). 🤔

I hadn’t really planned on spending the evening fighting with RegEx…

I guess sometimes you eat the bear, and sometimes the bear eats you.

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Greetings!

It looks like that post is dated for 2027:

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I can see it in your twtxt.txt file that way as well:

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@prologic@twtxt.net Why, thank you. We’re quite pleased with him as well. 😊

For today’s (belated) #caturday, here’s a recent pic of our chunky-buddy Bowie in his house at the bottom of the cat tree in the kitchen.

Enjoy!

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For game 2, everyone else brought out bigger guns - tribal dragons, tribal giants, tribal spiders (led by the completely broken Cosmic Spider-Man), and Atraxa (equipped with Captain America’s shield, no less), while I ran my new (also unlisted) 5-color tribal Super Villains deck (fronted by the Super Skrull). Although I got off to a slow start, it kept me mostly under the radar, allowing me to ultimately win with the Villains by goading everyone else’s creatures into attacking each other on one turn (via Maximum Carnage), and then killing off the remaining players over 3 combat phases on the follow-up turn (Full Throttle).

Boo-yah!

Perhaps unsurprisingly, last night’s Magic games were dominated by the new Marvel set.

In game 1, I was running my new (unlisted) 5-color tribal Super Heroes deck (led by Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD) against a lightly-modified Avengers Assemble deck, a tribal Super Villains deck (fronted by Thanos, the Mad Titan), and 2 “classic” magic decks (Fractals and Artifacts). The heroes held their own quite well, but that game went way too long (thanks to Thanos snapping away half the board every other turn). It finally ended when everyone quit after yet another board wipe (giving the wiper her first win).

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I can’t take credit for that word, that was a @bender@twtxt.net original. However, I did hashtag it on Masto in hopes of possibly inspiring someone to learn about what truly decentralized social media looks like (and maybe even come join us). 😊

What a week!

It looks like I mostly missed the #twtxthashgeddon (so happy belated twtxthashgeddon day, to those who celebrate), although I’m glad that twtxt-lib appears to have come through it more-or-less unscathed.

Also, today is (was) July 4th, so happy US Independence Day (to those that celebrate). I didn’t feel much like celebrating, myself, so instead I went and played Magic (results tomorrow).

Finally, today is (now) July 5th, so happy X-Day (to those that celebrate). I can’t help but feel like this would be a great time for the saucers to come…. Just sayin’. 👽

BTW - welcome to twtxt @GabesArcade@gabesarcade.com!

@prologic@twtxt.net Twtxt App looks great and is dead-simple to use. You’re on fire! 😅

@prologic@twtxt.net Excellent, thank you for this!

@movq@www.uninformativ.de It varies… We tend to prefer bowtie collars for all of our little boys, but they like to wrestle sometimes, and since they’re indoor-only, they can go for months without collars at all.

Apologies for the late #caturday post, but I figure it’s more of a state of mind, like that time Shadow temporarily “borrowed” the dog bed (and discovered how comfy a blanket pile can be)…

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Great, another privacy-destroying bill in the name of “child safety”… Must be a Thursday.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/kids-act-would-require-age-checks-get-online

@prologic@twtxt.net Very cool! 😎

Just one question: when do you sleep? 😁

Happy Summer Solstice and/or Father’s Day, to those who celebrate.

I spent mine setting up a gift from my wife, a Govee TV Backlight 3 Lite, and then watching a couple of movies that really brought the colors out: Flash Gordon (1980) and Dune (2021) (with Rifftrax commentary).

I’d call that a good day.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de @prologic@twtxt.net 💯

Nothing scales so cheaply. 😁

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Thanks…? 😄

I credit my subjects for how good they look. 😍

For this week’s (slightly delayed) #caturday post, we catch Bowie as he contemplates whether to play Arkham City (again).

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Spoilers: he opted for a nap instead (as is his way).