@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org still not as bad as the time a fire started in the breaker panel for my building and I had to personally put it out myself with a fire extinguisher.

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Yeah. It’s a peculiar situation.

On one hand, I can count on my fingers (ha! fingers… one hand…) how many power losses we have in a year on the last few decades.

On the other hand, I live in an old part of the town and the infrastructure is equal parts a joke in bad taste, an archeological defiance, and an ugly mistake that needs to be killed with fire. (On second thought, maybe not the last part).

This month we started having power failures only on some apartments, which make no sense at all. When we call the power company, they always promise to send someone to check on it, but the power comes back in one or two hours.

The first time it happened, I suspect it damaged my PC’s mainboard and / or GPU, who are both showing random, subtly erratic behaviors.

Don’t tease me with a crazy idea! I was only half-joking. Less than half, if I’m being honest.

My twtxt instance is under a de-facto attack. Or, at this point, I can’t even differentiate an attack from the other in the constant barrage or malicious requests.

There were so many bots hammering it, in only 3 days, they consumed the ironically significant amount of 666 MB — I kid you not! In the last 24 hours, there were 59,673 hits on this endpoint alone.

I had to put my twtxt web interface behind a password-protected BasicAuth directive. As I’m the only one using it, it’s fine.

Bots, scrappers and Large Laggy Manglers are poisoning the open web.

Third power failure in two weeks. Every time a different apartment loses power at the same time as mine. I hope the power company is able to find the cause.

“Yes… Look at everyone @prologic@twtxt.net is following! Next, look at everyone each one of them is following… Next… Hmm… Build a graph of follows and mentions, it’ll be so FUN and not at all time-consuming”

– My evil ADHD brain

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I find it hilarious that one of the ingredients of homemade yogurt is… yogurt. It seems part of a nonsense comedy sketch. Or some meta-referential recursive concept. Yes, my sense of humor is weird.

@arne@uplegger.eu I’m finding that hubs like https://twtxt.net, as a yarn “pod” that indexes a lot of users, works great as a place to find interesting conversations and people to follow.

Am I talking to the void?

Despite the driving force behind me being here lying in the curiosity and challenge of “let’s check out this new thing and see what it takes to bring get it working”, I’d like to know if there are other people reading me. Or if it’s just like on my gopher site, where around 96% of the visits are from bots.

I mean, it’s still fun to tinker with tech tools for the mere sake of it, but at times I can’t help but feel like Prometheus and Sisyphus at the same time.

Not that I’d stop. Just like my “self-sufficient” sense of humor (read this with a good hint of self-deprecation and irony), most of my electronic exploratory endeavors end up being more about the process than the result.

Or, in other words: I was so focused on building this vessel that I never stopped to think where I want to go!

Six of my last eight posts were about twtxt itself. As much as it’s understandable between all the excitement and confusion with finding out and using a new technology, I really don’t want this feed to become something like this:

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Just found out there’s something called “twtxt registries”. There are at least two of them online and it… aggregates twtxts on a semi-centralized consumable API?

@dce@hashnix.club Does a profound mix of hatred and lethargy for suffering a 40°C+ summer counts as seasonal depression?

@prologic@twtxt.net OMG, the yarn.social creator himself replied, what an honor!

@bender@twtxt.net Oh, look! There are other humans on this place! (looks at avatar no offense intended, sir) ;P

The absence of a “follow” button isn’t enough to stop me! In fact, an even crazier plan is already forming in my mind, where the concepts of “fun” and “pointless, frustrating tech madness for the pure sake of it” a lot of times overlap…

Alright. I have a minimal working instance of a twtxt feed. Now, what’s the first thing we do? Exactly, FOLLOW EVERYONE!

Replies aren’t actually broken, I just… need to add myself to the follow list?! That’s quite counter-intuitive and (IIRC) not mentioned in the docs. But… It seems to be working now, which is nice (I still don’t know how webmentions and webfinger works, so can’t speak about this so far)

@prologic@twtxt.net I can calculate a hash by hand… Or I can cheat and copy the hash when previewing my own feed at https://twtxt.net ;P

YAY! IT WORKS! (…kinda? Mentions and replies seem broken.)

This was posted using Søren Peter’s Timeline.

Weird. My timestamps are all being shown (on https://twtxt.net and https://darch.dk/timeline) one hour ahead of what I expected. Am I manually writing my timestamps wrong? Are the clients interpreting something I’m not aware of? Let me write this one on the “Z” timezone to try to debug it.

Someone on #twtxt or #yarn.social on IRC told me to use a client that supports extensions and replies. Uhh… Client? I’m writing my microblogging by hand! (Hides in a very weird mix of pride and shame)

I just found out this super cool Arkanoid / Breakout style game: Breakout 71!

This protocol / platform / thing seems very interesting! Simple, lightweight, straightforward, decentralized, federated, plaintext, and aligned with the concepts of the “smolweb”. I think I like it!

Hello world!