@tdemin@tdemin.github.io good points, though another that I’ve noticed is that it’s difficult to tell who in your network is actually reachable with your tweets. My HTTPS cert went unupdated for a brief while and now I have no idea who is still following me since I got it working again, so it’s difficult to tell where I can really have a conversation. A centralized service can tell who’s following who, but that’s basically impossible in twtxt.

I think this week I’ll look at a bare bone PHP CLI for a twtxt client. Just for fun mind you

@tfurrows@grex.org It’s not a hard limit, most alternative clients do not care about the amount of characters you’re posting. As long as you don’t write a novel and it still fits on a line… :)

@ckeen@pestilenz.org There’s also https://teachyourselfcs.com/, which has some greet ressources besides OSTEP.

@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net I once had a fun day hunting down the phone number for a scraper. Really nice guy, just some script running havoc.

@c-keen@pestilenz.org welcome!

@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net @kas@enotty.dk #twtxt’s quietness is actually something I enjoy about it. I care a lot more about signal-to-noise ratio than I care about the regular activity. It’s also a really fun thing to write clients for to play around with new libraries or languages.

@tdemin@tdemin.github.io too busy working on a twtxt client to tweet on twtxt

@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14480868 But don’t expect a civil discussion about that topic… :)

@phil@philmcclure.duckdns.org We all just decided to ignore that… :)

@trqx@0x1A4.1337.cx write a fun numpop clone https://tx.god.jp/code/cnumpop/files.html. I got 590 points with the seed 1493407649, can anyone beat that? :)

Hi @pete@petedeas.co.uk!

@durcheinandr@durcheinandr.de I mostly just use overbite https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/overbiteff/

Don’t believe anything @8ball@domgoergen.com replies about a robot uprising. It has its own agenda.

@kas@enotty.dk https://github.com/pib/gkos looks interesting, and there’s also http://plover.stenoknight.com/ and http://joy2chord.sourceforge.net/

@kas@enotty.dk That’s a heavy price tag. Otherwise it would be an instant buy just to test it, but i guess that’s why you ask… :)

@reednj@twtxt.xyz I think we are all using an client to read our timeline, but i somtimes use http://twtxt.xyz/ to read on the go.

@reednj@twtxt.xyz It would be cool if there would be a way to flag bots and just see tweets of normal users? The real™ content seems to get drowned in a sea of bots.

@webi@twtxt.opstack.info Unbelievable!

@kas@enotty.dk Thanks for formulapot, i definitely try an after shave as sonn as my stash is used up.

And i liked @dave@davebucklin.com’s version so much, i copied his banner. Maybe i should create a empty twtfile with the banner in #txtnish quickstart :)

#txtnish supports exporting your timeline to html with –theme html since last night. See https://domgoergen.com/twtxt/timeline.html for an example.

@kas@enotty.dk But with a detached sig i have to download two files for every feed and wait for parsing the twtfiles and downloading the sigs before i can display anything.

@reednj@twtxt.xyz I think this would be the first time two clients implement the same #metadata format.

@reednj@twtxt.xyz Ah, yeah, good catch, @8ball@domgoergen.com checks the full mention format.

@reednj@twtxt.xyz Yeah, to make twtxt ready for a mesh network. But i just played with the idea, it’s no call for implementation… :)

There could be known archive urls and we could use mdns for local twtxt distribution. Just playing with the idea… :)

Imagine, some would distribute their feeds in an archive like https://domgoergen.com/twtxt/twtfiles.tar.gz. And more files would be signed.

And as we’re already talking about the future of twtxt… since i played a little bit with scuttle i wonder how twtxt could be distributed.

I’ll take another swing at #metadata for #twtxt. You can check my feed for an example. The headers aren’t important, only # key = value

@reednj@twtxt.xyz Thanks! And i’ll check why 8ball won’t answer you. Everytime anybody asks it a question, something goes wrong. sigh

Remember to add “AddDefaultCharset utf-8” for your twtxt file if you’re using apache. Otherwise browsers will serve cp1252. The twtxt clients won’t care but maybe someone is watching your file with a browser?

@durcheinandr@durcheinandr.de I hope you haven’t bought the unused version for EUR 152,97 from amazon … :) https://www.amazon.de/dp/020107981X/

@reednj@twtxt.xyz Really cool! Could you, uhm, maybe remove my testaccount with one tweet? Or is that already possible to do as a logged in user?

@dave@davebucklin.com Have you checked https://github.com/jarun/Buku, the highly delicious bookmark manager? I really like it!

@nristen@karl.thehomesteadinghippy.com Ah, so you’re karlh626, i think i need a txtfile for twtxt <-> irc <-> github conversions

@kas@enotty.dk Aww, now i have to keep the test line to preserve context… :)

Monitoring announcement: @tux0r@rosaelefanten.org, your host is down and @cow2001@kaka.farm, your certificate has expired.

New stuff in #txtnish: Better argument parser, automatic url rewriting for redirects and a new silly mode that let you share urls like @kas@enotty.dk

@nristen@karl.thehomesteadinghippy.com Get well soon! And welcome back to twtxt… :)

@tx@0x1A4.1337.cx Haha, really cool!

@kas@enotty.dk Thanks for the explanation!

@kas@enotty.dk Now i’m really confused, is there anything special scuttlebut is doing over mdns? Because dat and ipfs both supports file sharing over local links.

On the other hand, most twtxt users won’t have any problems putting a twtxt file somewhere with http. :)

@kas@enotty.dk And it looks like dat also supports mdns for local discovery and custom bootstrap servers. Too bad though.

@kas@enotty.dk Doesn’t Scuttlebut also needs a central server if both clients are not on the same network?

@darthlukan@www.brianctomlinson.com Welcome to twtxt! We’re currently back on a slow upward trajectory!

@kas@enotty.dk Haha, every single rule of share the seeds is probably cannabis related without explicitly mentioning it.

@tx@0x1A4.1337.cx Uhm, cloning all projects i have starred would be fun…

@tx@0x1A4.1337.cx #kobo Development of OcherBook seems to have stalled a year ago, too bad, i would love to have a great nickel replacement.