@benaiah@benaiah.me That is a tough call. I guess it depends on if you can find something off the shelf that will meet your needs or not.

@leveck@leveck.us welcome to twtxt!

@tfurrows@grex.org It is certainly not polished but I have made a good start on that php CLI

@mdom@domgoergen.com I get the error: awk: extra ] at source line 35

@nblade@nblade.sdf.org I take a look, it should work with every posix compliant awk, so at least oawk, nawk and gawk should run. What’s the error message? Feel free to add an issue.

@kas@enotty.dk I like the personal touch that we are greeting new users! Hi, @leveck@leveck.us

@benaiah@benaiah.me Thanks I am just fooling around at the moment.

@nblade@nblade.sdf.org welcome!

@pete@petedeas.co.uk that’s a clever solution; I’ll have to set up something like that.

@mdom@domgoergen.comI’m not sure I know how to reply properly with it. I handeded edit this to be right.

@mdom@domgoergen.com I am playing with the txtnish client, all the systems I have available are running an old version of Python

@nblade@nblade.sdf.org What client are you using? Your mentions are somehow broken?

@nblade@nblade.sdf.org Hi, welcome to the party!

I tried to add myself to the Git repos for the twtxt users but I think all I did was create a fork that will not be merged

@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.

@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net that would assume that someone is looking at crawler logs. That is not a given in this day and age…

@quite@lublin.se there is also a unicode symbol in there, maybe that?

@quite@lublin.se oh, txtnish url did that. I guess a pipe symbol does that to you?

@quite@lublin.se which line?

@mdom@domgoergen.com, I have got a smallish patch for you on GH. Maybe it helps others too.

@c-keen@pestilenz.org welcome!

@pete@petedeas.co.uk have you tried the plan9port of awk? Should be close to the original

thanks @pete@petedeas.co.uk. This probably means I should write my yearly blog post ;)

@kas@enotty.dk yes please!

@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.