Woot, thank you! Using a config.json like this:

{
  "host": "localhost:31212",
  "protocols": ["http"]
}

Indeed did the trick! I know it isn’t production ready, but I wanted to see with my own eyes, locally, how did it look. :-) I like where you are going! It is looking very nice, and polished. Can’t wait for an alpha, beta, and release!

Why now might be a good time to upgrade your iPhone
The lineup for 2026 includes an improved iPhone 17 and 17 Pro, plus the skinny iPhone Air, and phones are not likely to go down in price by this time next year. ⌘ Read more

❤️ 🎶: It’s a lie to say that I love you and let you go by Ramit

I have a feeling that learning to play electric double bass through an amplifier was a big mistake.

At the core, this is an acoustic instrument. If you play it through an amp, you will instinctively only do the bare minimum to get some sound going, because the amp does the heavy lifting. But it’s just not right.

This is a very physical instrument. It needs a lot of force and strength – in comparison, an electric bass guitar is almost flimsy and delicate. I need to “feel” what’s going on and that’s just not the case when using headphones.

I feel like I wasted ~3 years. 🫤 But maybe it’ll get better from now on …

Go Language: Productivity for Software Engineering
1 points posted by Everton Marques ⌘ Read more

Hmm, gnu.org is slow as heck. Shorter HTML pages load in about ten seconds. This complete AWK manual all in one large HTML page took a full minute: https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/gawk.html Is there maybe some anti AI shenanigans going on?

In any case, I find the user guide super interesting. My AWK skills are basically non-existent, so I finally decided to change that. This document is incredibly well written and makes it really fun to keep reading and learning. I’m very impressed. So far, I made it to section 1.6, happy to continue.

@zvava@twtxt.net Yes congrats and well done! Keep going! 🥳

Fellow Gophers might find this interesting, too: https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/what-the-go-proxy-has-been-doing

@prologic@twtxt.net I’m doing that now as well, but I don’t think this is a good solution. This is going to hurt “self-hosting” in the long run: I cannot afford true self-hosting where I actually do host everything here at home – instead, I must use a cloud provider / VPS for that. It is only a matter of time until my provider starts doing AI shit as well (or rather, the customers do it) and then what? I get blocked, e.g. I can’t send email to (some) people anymore. This is already bad and it’s going to get worse.

It doesn’t pose a problem for my server’s performance – yet. But if more bots/companies start doing this, my website will go down from the load.

We use all the Microsoft programs at work - Teams and Outlook especially.

After all kinds of technical problems with Teams, that sometimes go unresolved for over a year, Microsoft shifted their priorities away from fixing things and towards adding an annoying AI Copilot button, that just takes up space and all it does, is loads the website in Teams, so I disabled it. Soon they just add it back, but in a different row of icons, therefore it’s now a different button, you have to disable (I think they added yet another one, to the Teams, on my work phone and I had to disabled that too). Not too long after, the desktop one just enabled itself, because of “an error” and I can disable it, but doing so activates a popup, that begs you to turn it back on, every once in a while. You can’t disable the popup and can only click “Yes” or “Not now” on it. I still keep it disabled, out of principle, but yesterday I noticed yet another Copilot button, this time in the top right corner of my Outlook and this one cannot be disabled, on the business version of Outlook and even on the personal one, it’s only possible to do it through hidden privacy settings, by prohibiting the program from connecting to Microsoft servers, for extra “features”.

There’s people complaining about it online, so it’s clear nobody really wants it, but at this point Microsofts position is that you will have at least one useless AI button on your screen, at any given time, and you will be happy. And yes, their AI sucks and if I absolutely have to use AI for something, there’s already 2 better options, we have access to, at work.

@prologic@twtxt.net Enjoy the weekend. 🥳 (I rarely drink these days. I hope my tiny little Whisky collection doesn’t go bad. 😂)

I’ve got a prototype of my hardcopy simulator going. I’m typing on the keyboard and the “display” goes to the printer:

https://movq.de/v/235c1eabac/MVI_8810.MOV.mp4

The biiiiiiiiiig problem is that the print head and plastic cover make it impossible to see what’s currently being printed, because this is not a typewriter. This means: In order to see what I just entered, I have to feed the paper back and forth and back and forth … it’s not ideal.

I got that idea of moving back/forth from Drew DeVault, who – as it turned out – did something similar a few years back. (I tried hard to read as little as possible of his blog post, because figuring things out myself is more fun. But that could mean I missed a great idea here or there.)

But hey, at least this is running on my Pentium 133 on SuSE Linux 6.4, printer connected with a parallel cable. 😍

(Also, yes, you can see the printouts of earlier tests and, yes, I used ed(1) wrong at one point. 🤪 And ls insisted on using colors …)

@thecanine@twtxt.net I sure hope there’s going to be push back. Is it going to happen, realistically? I don’t know.

RIP Android:

https://9to5google.com/2025/08/25/android-apps-developer-verification/

Since nobody is going to push back on this (I don’t even know if that would be possible), this is going to be a reality on every platform sooner or later.

I’d guess in 20, 30 years, there won’t be “PCs” anymore. No more home computing, no more “I just write my own software”. You won’t own devices anymore, it’ll all be rented and the landlord will tell you what you can do with it.

I hope that I’m wrong, but given where we are today, I don’t think that I will be.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Nice picture, this hot air balloon has quite a large basket.

Yes, go for it! :-)

My grandpa went ballooning ages ago and liked it. The balloonist misjudged the height a bit and landed in an open-air pool. Well, not in the water, but on the sunbathing lawn just inside the fence. :-D After the ride, everybody was given a very long personal name that they had to memorize. Decades later, my grandpa still knew his assigned name.

The most important thing to know is that – in German – you don’t fly (fliegen) a ballon, but ride (fahren) it: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballonfahren#Fahren_oder_fliegen Judging by the English wikipedia article, this is not an English thing, though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_air_ballooning

@prologic@twtxt.net Yeah, those POS thingies are similar. There’s “ESC/POS” as a variant of “ESC/P”, if I’m not mistaken.

All I can say is, when I go to big stores like Amazon, then I have trouble finding “traditional” dot matrix printers for use at home. 😅 Epson still sells them, but they’re more expensive than my laser printer was. So yeah, they still exist, just expensive, by the looks of it.

Should I go on a tour with these hot air balloons some day? Not sure if it’s scary as hell. 😂

Go 1.25 is released
2 points posted by John Doak ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de having to go to a gopher proxy to see a text document better served on readily available web servers… 🤭, but I digress. Verbatim text:

What's Missing from "Retro"
~softwarepagan
------------------------------------------------------------------
You know, often, when I say I miss older ways of computing or
connecting online, people tell me "there's nothing stopping you
from doing that now!" and they are technicay correct in most cases
(though I can't, for example, chat with friends on MSN ever
again...) However, let me explain that while this type of thing can
*sort of* fill that hole in my heart, it isn't *the same.*

Say, for example, I wanted to connect with others over a BBS. This
wouldn't offer the same types of connections it used to. While
there are BBSes around with active users, they're no longer there
to discuss movies, Star Trek, D&D, games, etc. They're there to
discuss *BBSes.* The same can be said for Gopher, old-school forums
and all sorts of revival projects (such as Escargot, Spacehey,
etc.) Retrocomputing enthusiasts, while they have a variety of
interests, are often in these spaces to discuss the medium itself
and not other topics. This exists at a stark contrast from how
things were in the past, where a non-tech-inclined person may learn
the tech to connect with likeminded others (as I did as a
Zelda-obsessed kid.)

The same can be said of old media. People will say "well, nobody is
stopping you from watching old shows/movies now!" Again, they are
technically correct. I can go home right now and watch *Star Trek:
The Next Generation* to my heart's content. It will never again,
however, be current, or new. When something is new, it serves as a
shared cultural experience. Remember how "Game of Thrones* felt in
the mid-to-late 2010s? Yeah, that.

It's sad. I sustain myself on a mixed diet of old things, new
things, and new things intended for old millenials like me who like
old things. It can be bittersweet. 

San Francisco Billboards - August 2025
Every time I take a Lyft from the San Francisco airport to downtown going up 101, I notice the billboards. The billboards on 101 are always such a good snapshot in time of the current peak of the Silicon Valley hype cycle. I’ve decided to capture photos of the billboards every time I am there, to see how this changes over time. ⌘ Read more

i’m helping someone get a reverse proxy going on windows and my god this operating system is dogshit

I went for a nice walk to the park this morning and I am quite happy about it. Maybe next week I will go running again!

XLOV are a really cool k-pop group. i just adore the concept of “gender is a fuck and we are going to do whatever we want” like that’s ballsy and epic and the members 100% sell it

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org check out their song zenbu kakete go!! it’s very sleek and smooth and just so vibe-y!!! also this live performance has an EPIC intro featuring ichika (violin girl) plus one of the members beatboxing and two girls (including my all time favorite idol, dambara ruru!) on vocals! it’s so good

Howdy twtxt! How’s ur morning going?

37C3 and New Year’s Eve 2023
Another one from the vaults. The 37C3 conference took place in
December, 2023. This report was mostly written in January, 2024.
Mostly finished it at night in my cottage between 28 and 29th
December, then edited and added some stuff in July, 2025. So… Only
1.5 years late?

It was a little ironic, and a little sad, that I was finishing the
37C3 report during 38C3. I didn’t manage to get any tickets for me and
#3 for 38C3 and had to make do with watching the stream.

The links to the talks go to [C … ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de According to this screenshot, KDE still shows good old application icons:

Image

And GNOME used to have them, too:

Image

I like the looks of your window manager. That’s using Wayland, right? The only thing on this screenshot to critique is all that wasted space of the windows not making use of the full screen!!!1 At least the file browser. 8-)

This drives me nuts when my workmates share their screens. I really don’t get it how people can work like that. You can’t even read the whole line in the IDE or log viewer with all the expanded side bars. And then there’s 200 pixels on the left and another 300 pixels on the right where the desktop wallpaper shows. Gnaa! There’s the other extreme end when somebody shares their ultra wide screen and I just have a “regularish” 16:10 monitor and don’t see shit, because it’s resized way too tiny to fit my width. Good times. :-D

Sorry for going off on a tangent here. :-) Back to your WM: It has the right mix of being subtle and still similar to motif. Probably close to the older Windowses. My memory doesn’t serve me well, but I think they actually got it fairly good in my opinion. Your purple active window title looks killer. It just fits so well. This brown one (

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This: https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/why-are-we-pretending-ai-is-going

gomdn: Yet another Static Site Generator
Yet another Static Site Generator (SSG), but this one is mine.

It’s a stupidly simple Go program ( wc says 229 lines), more like a
hack, really, but I don’t need something like Hugo. Most of the real
work is done by the goldmark package, of course. This is mostly just a
wrapper, deciding if something needs to be rebuilt.

I’ve been using a Perl script together with cmark (originally
Markdown.pl) since forever. And before that the old [txt2tags](htt … ⌘ Read more

Status 2025-07-21
Morning, computer! Spending my days off trying to figure things out.
Some of them will occur in this post. I think best when I’m writing,
after all.

I’m back from a short vacation since a couple of weeks. I’m still
going to take a few days off every week for a while. I need the break.
It’s been way too many 12-16 hour workdays. I’m nominally working 80%
(~6 hour days), so I figure I’ve been working a lot for free.

Yeah, well, I like the TKey project to succeed. The ideas behind it
have implicatio … ⌘ Read more

@bender@twtxt.net That was one of the inputs into my research 🧐 So that’s already factored in. We bought our new truck (2025 GWM Canon) recently to replace the ‘ol 2nd hand Nissan Navara we bought that just had too many things go wrong with it, and I don’t have time or energy to learn to be a diesel mechanic haha 🤣 – So yes, the SCT-16 has a Tare (unladen weight) of 2150Kg and a maximum legal (ATM) weight of 2,800Kg.

I think I understand now. Americans do not go camping, we do recreational activities. I don’t think campers are a thing here, but RVs (Recreational Vehicles) are. That’s why it would never cross my mind to get anything with fabric, that folds. No mate, we get a house on wheels, with a million miles engine. 🤣

Other than that, it looks nice!

HTTP referrers are quite broken, aren’t they?

Because of that recent storm on my blog, I had a peek at them. There’s a lot of garbage in there. For example, https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/disks-virtual.html is supposed to refer to one of my blog posts …

What’s going on here?

用好 pprof，徹底搞懂 Go 併發性能瓶頸優化
在日常的 Go 開發中，性能問題常常令人頭疼。尤其是併發場景中，CPU 飆高、響應變慢，明明用上了 goroutine，卻沒得到預期的性能提升。這時候該怎麼辦？本文將手把手帶你用 pprof 工具定位性能瓶頸，找出根源並完成優化。通俗易懂，純實戰乾貨！一、什麼是 pprof？pprof 是 Go 自帶的性能分析工具，可以用來查看 CPU、內存、goroutine 等的運行情況。它的核心能力是生成程 ⌘ Read more

用好 pprof，徹底搞懂 Go 併發性能瓶頸優化
在日常的 Go 開發中，性能問題常常令人頭疼。尤其是併發場景中，CPU 飆高、響應變慢，明明用上了 goroutine，卻沒得到預期的性能提升。這時候該怎麼辦？本文將手把手帶你用 pprof 工具定位性能瓶頸，找出根源並完成優化。通俗易懂，純實戰乾貨！一、什麼是 pprof？pprof 是 Go 自帶的性能分析工具，可以用來查看 CPU、內存、goroutine 等的運行情況。它的核心能力是生成程 ⌘ Read more

Go at american express today
1 points posted by madflojo ⌘ Read more

實用指南：使用 Go 語言實現分佈式鎖
分佈式鎖，作爲現代後端架構中維持資源一致性和避免混亂的關鍵基石，在電商搶購、任務調度和分佈式事務等場景中扮演 “隱形英雄” 的角色。當多個節點需要協同訪問某一資源時，分佈式鎖正如交通信號燈，維持秩序、保證一致。本文面向已具備 Go 語言基礎、熟練掌握 goroutine 和 sync.Mutex，但對分佈式系統仍感迷惑的開發者。本文將由淺入深，帶領大家瞭解分佈式鎖的原理，並用 Go 實現高效可靠的 ⌘ Read more

實用指南：使用 Go 語言實現分佈式鎖
分佈式鎖，作爲現代後端架構中維持資源一致性和避免混亂的關鍵基石，在電商搶購、任務調度和分佈式事務等場景中扮演 “隱形英雄” 的角色。當多個節點需要協同訪問某一資源時，分佈式鎖正如交通信號燈，維持秩序、保證一致。本文面向已具備 Go 語言基礎、熟練掌握 goroutine 和 sync.Mutex，但對分佈式系統仍感迷惑的開發者。本文將由淺入深，帶領大家瞭解分佈式鎖的原理，並用 Go 實現高效可靠的 ⌘ Read more

如何優雅的使用 GORM 進行分頁？
GORM[1] 是 Go 中使用最廣泛的 ORM 包，但儘管如此，它缺少一些 “基本” 功能。其中一個缺失的功能就是分頁（Pagination）。分頁是管理應用程序中大型數據集的一個重要功能。它是一種限制和顯示數據庫中部分總數據的方法，這樣就不需要一次性檢索整個表，這樣可以極大的提高接口性能，降低超時失敗的概率。雖然 GORM 提供了關於如何使用 scopes[2] 進行分頁的文檔，但在靈活性和可 ⌘ Read more

如何優雅的使用 GORM 進行分頁？
GORM[1] 是 Go 中使用最廣泛的 ORM 包，但儘管如此，它缺少一些 “基本” 功能。其中一個缺失的功能就是分頁（Pagination）。分頁是管理應用程序中大型數據集的一個重要功能。它是一種限制和顯示數據庫中部分總數據的方法，這樣就不需要一次性檢索整個表，這樣可以極大的提高接口性能，降低超時失敗的概率。雖然 GORM 提供了關於如何使用 scopes[2] 進行分頁的文檔，但在靈活性和可 ⌘ Read more

Go 無侵入實現讀寫分離
在高併發的現代應用中，數據庫往往成爲系統的瓶頸。讀寫分離作爲一種有效的數據庫優化策略，能夠顯著提升系統的性能和可用性。本文將深入講解讀寫分離的核心概念、實現原理，並通過 go-zero 框架提供詳細的實戰示例。讀寫分離的使用場景和必要性—————-1.1 什麼是讀寫分離讀寫分離是一種數據庫架構模式，它將數據庫操作分爲兩類：• 寫操作：INSERT、UPDATE、DELETE 等 ⌘ Read more

Go 無侵入實現讀寫分離
在高併發的現代應用中，數據庫往往成爲系統的瓶頸。讀寫分離作爲一種有效的數據庫優化策略，能夠顯著提升系統的性能和可用性。本文將深入講解讀寫分離的核心概念、實現原理，並通過 go-zero 框架提供詳細的實戰示例。讀寫分離的使用場景和必要性—————-1.1 什麼是讀寫分離讀寫分離是一種數據庫架構模式，它將數據庫操作分爲兩類：• 寫操作：INSERT、UPDATE、DELETE 等 ⌘ Read more

Go 服務註冊與發現筆記
概述–朋友們好啊，這篇筆記我們圍繞 Go 來記錄一下服務註冊與發現概述與流程，如註冊中心的機制 (心跳、時間間隔)、gRPC 接入註冊中心 (resolver 實現、etcd 租約、消費者服務發現等等)，以etcd作爲註冊中心將上篇userservice grpc 服務註冊、自動續約，以 gin 作爲客戶端調用服務。服務註冊與發現概述———在分佈式架構中爲什麼需要服務註冊與發現？服務 ⌘ Read more

Go 服務註冊與發現筆記
概述–朋友們好啊，這篇筆記我們圍繞 Go 來記錄一下服務註冊與發現概述與流程，如註冊中心的機制 (心跳、時間間隔)、gRPC 接入註冊中心 (resolver 實現、etcd 租約、消費者服務發現等等)，以etcd作爲註冊中心將上篇userservice grpc 服務註冊、自動續約，以 gin 作爲客戶端調用服務。服務註冊與發現概述———在分佈式架構中爲什麼需要服務註冊與發現？服務 ⌘ Read more

告別混亂的 init–：Go 語言中更清晰的初始化策略
如何駕馭啓動複雜性並編寫更可測試、更顯式的 Go 代碼。相信許多 Go 開發者都曾遇到過這樣的場景：加入一個新項目，克隆代碼庫，開始探索代碼結構。打開一個包，映入眼簾的便是那個熟悉卻時而令人頭痛的函數：init()。緊接着，在另一個包裏又發現一個。再打開一個，赫然又是一個。很快，你便意識到，應用程序的核心啓動邏輯——數據庫連接、配置加載、服務註冊——分散在多個隱式的 init() 函數中。你不由得 ⌘ Read more

告別混亂的 init–：Go 語言中更清晰的初始化策略
如何駕馭啓動複雜性並編寫更可測試、更顯式的 Go 代碼。相信許多 Go 開發者都曾遇到過這樣的場景：加入一個新項目，克隆代碼庫，開始探索代碼結構。打開一個包，映入眼簾的便是那個熟悉卻時而令人頭痛的函數：init()。緊接着，在另一個包裏又發現一個。再打開一個，赫然又是一個。很快，你便意識到，應用程序的核心啓動邏輯——數據庫連接、配置加載、服務註冊——分散在多個隱式的 init() 函數中。你不由得 ⌘ Read more

golang 每日一庫之磁盤鍵值存儲 diskv
diskv你有沒有想過，在某些時候，內存不是萬能的——比如你要存的東西多得像個大水庫，又或者你就想放心大膽地關掉程序然後下班回家。而這時你需要一個靠譜的、基於磁盤的鍵值存儲庫。所以你用 sqlite 嗎？筆者第一想法就是 sqlite.來，認識一下主角：diskv，一個簡單、強大、零依賴、沒有數據庫暴脾氣的 Go 鍵值存儲庫。它的核心理念很簡單：用磁盤做字典，鍵是路徑，值是文件內容。設計哲學— ⌘ Read more

golang 每日一庫之磁盤鍵值存儲 diskv
diskv你有沒有想過，在某些時候，內存不是萬能的——比如你要存的東西多得像個大水庫，又或者你就想放心大膽地關掉程序然後下班回家。而這時你需要一個靠譜的、基於磁盤的鍵值存儲庫。所以你用 sqlite 嗎？筆者第一想法就是 sqlite.來，認識一下主角：diskv，一個簡單、強大、零依賴、沒有數據庫暴脾氣的 Go 鍵值存儲庫。它的核心理念很簡單：用磁盤做字典，鍵是路徑，值是文件內容。設計哲學— ⌘ Read more

go-nanoid：Go 短 ID 生成庫
“An amazing level of senseless perfectionism, which is simply impossible not to respect.“go-nanoid (github.com/matoous/go-nanoid) 是 JavaScript 知名庫 ai/nanoid (github.com/ai/nanoid) 的 Go 語言實現版本。原版 nanoi ⌘ Read more