Pretty happy with my zs-blog-template starter kit for creating and maintaining your own blog using zs 👌 Demo of what the starter kit looks like here – Basic features include:

• Clean layout & typography
  
• Chroma code highlighting (aligned to your site palette)
  
• Accessible copy-code button
  
• “On this page” collapsible TOC
  
• RSS, sitemap, robots
  
• Archives, tags, tag cloud
  
• Draft support (hidden from lists/feeds)
  
• Open Graph (OG) & Twitter card meta (default image + per-post overrides)
  
• Ready-to-use 404 page
  

As well as custom routes (redirects, rewrites, etc) to support canonical URLs or redirecting old URLs as well as new zs external command capability itself that now lets you do things like:

$ zs newpost

to help kick-start the creation of a new post with all the right “stuff”™ ready to go and then pop open your $EEDITOR 🤞

#awesome #zs

FYI: I’ve re-opened up search for anonymous use. So things like this now work without having to have an account on this pod or login. 👌 #search #twtxt

I’m usually comfortable keeping my hardship to myself, most especially AWAY from the internet; an act of kindness of sorts towards others, “Everyone’s got their own problems to worry about” kind of thing.. But maaan am I starting to believe creating a twitter account would be a healthy decision 🤣🤦 Read nothin’ out there, just a one way echo chamber of sorts to let that shi_ out of my chest. It seem that’s what everyone else’s been using it for all this time.

A Bsky would be even better! 😂 I’d get to shi_ post and yap all I want, allll the way from terminal and never ever have to look back at it or whatever comes out of it. But I digress…

I FU_ing despise this … whatever this is. I wish I could just wake up in some sort of parallel universe where everything is just sunshine and rainbows, alas, life would be just as meaningless.

and sorry you had to read this if you did.

@eapl.me@eapl.me why not https://domain.com/.well-known/twtxt/:domain/:user ?

the business card test is this can you write it on your business card and have someone you give it to be able to figure it out without added context?

• phone number: yes because everyone knows what a phone number is.
  
• email address: yes, everyone knows an email and their aol or prodigy will let them email.
  
• twitter/x/insta/pintrest handle: no, whats a twitter? do i need to sign up?
  
• domain name: yes its simple and you just type it in a browser right?
  
• twtxt url: kinda? its a bit long and is that a forward slash? or a backward slash?

This might be quite unpopular, but I truly dislike Wordle. The reason isn’t rooted on any psychological issue, it is much, much more simple: people share their Wordle result(s)—I figure they feel good about themselves—and for me it is only uneven, unaligned, wasteful noise. I don’t even want to show you an example, but I am sure you know what I am talking about.

Thank gods those posting their hideous squares have finally quieted down. LOL.

@sorenpeter@darch.dk this makes sense as a quote twt that references a direct URL. If we go back to how it developed on twitter originally it was RT @nick: original text because it contained the original text the twitter algorithm would boost that text into trending.

i like the format (#hash) @<nick url> > "Quoted text"\nThen a comment
as it preserves the human read able. and has the hash for linking to the yarn. The comment part could be optional for just boosting the twt.

The only issue i think i would have would be that that yarn could then become a mess of repeated quotes. Unless the client knows to interpret them as multiple users have reposted/boosted the thread.

The format is also how iphone does reactions to SMS messages with +number liked: original SMS

@prologic@twtxt.net @movq@www.uninformativ.de s/twitter\.com/nitter.net/

I have been really impressed with the cool visualizations in pygame that @gereleth over on Twitter has been making. #AdventOfCode

This day one advantage of code was pretty neat looking.

https://twitter.com/gereleth/status/1730495736070938786?s=09

Code here: https://github.com/gereleth/aoc_python/blob/main/src/year2023/day01vis.py

Six Months Ago NPR Left Twitter. The Effects Have Been Negligible - Nieman Reports

EU warns Elon Musk after Twitter found to have highest rate of disinformation | X (formerly known as Twitter) | The Guardian

Not a surprise I guess.

@prologic@twtxt.net Invidious might satisfy these requirements: https://invidious.io

It’s worth noting, though, that Youtube is right now in the process of locking itself down and it might not be long before all third-party frontends stop working. Similar to what twitter and reddit are doing.

There’s all this talk and speculation about Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, Minds and so on. Meanwhile twtxt sits there, forever free and open.

Wondering how long I’ll keep twitter-related feeds (like on fraidycat, or here) before giving up on them as permanently dead.

Whelp. The suckification of social media is continuing to expand. Twitter only allows 600 tweets per day unless you pay and then its 6k per day.

Also, what a douchebag using the title “Dr.” in his twitter handle. As a general rule, a white dude who isn’t a medical doctor putting “Dr.” in their social media title is a gigantic flashing red flag.

for context, Peterson and a bunch of other know-nothing men are reacting on twitter to an article in The Atlantic co-authored by Applebaum, who has quite a bit of expertise on the subject she’s writing about. That doesn’t seem to matter at all to Peterson, who knows nothing of these subjects but opines about them anyway. She’s been tweeting about these reactions and the screencapture I posted previously is one of hers about Peterson.

Looks like they edited the headline, but here’s a receipt from twitter (well, nitter):

Image

Sam Altman on Twitter: “a new version of moore’s law that could start soon: the amount of intelligence in the universe doubles every 18 months” / Twitter

The more I read from this guy, the more I come to believe he is a gigantic douchecanoe. What a profoundly stupid thing to say.

@prologic@twtxt.net https://twitter.com/ardenthistorian/status/1625653951776292864?lang=en

an interesting observation in a post twitter reality is how services that are sprouting up to claim some of the refugees are setting themselves up as closed gardens. without the option to federate with other services. like spoutable, counter.social, post, clubhouse and such.

Trying to wrap my head around webfinger..

my first thoughts about it were that a subject of acct:me@sour.is would have a listing of rel’s for the different accounts that are related to me (ie. yarn, salty, twitter, mastodon, etc…)

but maybe my thinking is at the wrong level.. that each of those accounts would be on a subject level and the rels are describing different aspects of that account. so i would have salty:acct:xuu@sour.is, twitter:acct:xuu, mastodon:acct:xuu@chaos.social, yarn:acct:xuu@ev.sour.is and then i could have a main acct:me@sour.is that links them together as aliases.

I found okta will do something similar with its accounts to show as okta:acct:user@domain so maybe I am on to something?

On my blog: Tweets from 12/26 to 12/30 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/12/30/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump

On my blog: Tweets from 12/19 to 12/23 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/12/23/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump

On my blog: Tweets from 12/12 to 12/16 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/12/16/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump

On my blog: Tweets from 12/05 to 12/09 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/12/09/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump

On my blog: Tweets from 11/28 to 12/02 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/12/02/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump

On my blog: Tweets from 11/21 to 11/25 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/11/25/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump

While I’m all for people moving away from platforms like Twitter and embracing more freedom- and privacy-centric systems such as Mastodon, I do worry that many of them might be doing it purely for ideological reasons and may have no interest in maintaining the respectful atmosphere Mastodon is well-known for.

PSA: DMs on social media sites are not truely PMs. This is why we have a separate tool for private messaging from yarn. Always remember, if you don’t own the infra (or the parts at the ends of e2e encryption) you don’t own the data. and the true owners can view it any way they want!

https://twitter.com/TinkerSec/status/1587040089057759235?t=At-8r9yJPiG6xF17skTxwA&s=19

@tkanos@twtxt.net Yep. https://twitter.com/jack/status/1510314535671922689

@prologic@twtxt.net if we do adopt this one it is CC-BY from twitter. https://twemoji.twitter.com

@adi@twtxt.net Also, I noticed you followed me on Twitter, but you might enjoy @anths if you want techie stuff instead of Oregon politics. 🤣

@prologic@twtxt.net former CEO of Twitter and countless ETH/NFT scammers

On the blog: Tweets from 11/08 to 11/12 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2021/12/03/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump

Thanks to @TANTlab@twitter.com and @birkbak@birkbak.neocities.org for havning me today at AAU CPH🙏 Presentation notes can be found at: http://darch.dk/aau-tool-talk/

On the blog: Tweets from 11/22 to 11/26 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2021/11/26/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump

On the blog: Tweets from 11/15 to 11/19 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2021/11/19/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump

Hah. It’s an edit of a “be gay do crimes” meme, in response to this: https://twitter.com/Cor3ntin/status/1460614695564496901

On the blog: Tweets from 11/08 to 11/12 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2021/11/12/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump

On the blog: Tweets from 11/01 to 11/05 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2021/11/05/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump

On the blog: Tweets from 10/25 to 10/29 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2021/10/29/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump

On the blog: Tweets from 10/18 to 10/22 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2021/10/22/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump

We live in a world where the Taliban has a huge presence on Twitter, yet your favorite American President has been silenced.

LOL! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

On the blog: Tweets from 10/11 to 10/15 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2021/10/15/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump

@prologic@twtxt.net Also: https://twitter.com/luthvarian/status/1439216862924058624 😜

On the blog: Tweets from 10/04 to 10/08 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2021/10/08/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump

On the blog: Tweets from 09/27 to 10/01 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2021/10/01/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump

On the blog: Tweets from 09/20 to 09/24 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2021/09/24/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump