@mdom@domgoergen.com That’s interesting. So does txtnish read that metadata? or would an end user just look at the file to see it? Is the meta data going to be the standard?

New feature for txtnish: After setting add_metadata to 1, txtnish will, uhm, add metadata to your twtfile. Currently i only add followings, client and your gpg fingerprint. See my file for an example.

@mdosch@mdosch.de: Yes, #txtnish uses curl and can therefore handle all curl supported protocols.

This tweet was written on an iphone. (via http proxy to gopher to txtnish)

@mdom@domgoergen.com: I’m using txtnish on FreeBSD and I had to switch it to gawk (not sure why BSD awk fails) and disable color. Just fyi. I didn’t look into it any further.

fmt removed my escape sequences on openbsd. txtnish now defaults to fold -s, which makes even more sense as it is specified by posix.

txtnish people can follow me via gopher! @ gopher://codevoid.de/0/tw.txt

Damn, colors are not working on openbsd! #txtnish

Still trying to get it working right tho. txtnish is great.

Maybe without a new command? txtnish follow mdom http://new_url.com would just work and add a alias? And unfollow http://new_url.com would remove it?

What do you think about adding aliases to txtnish’ follow file? So mentions could be collapsed for different urls of the same twtxt file?

Small feature for txtnish: You can now unfollow multiple accounts in one call, so i’m ready for the next stream of 404.

@tdemin@tdemin.github.ioThis is the good entry that happens after I hand edit. I am sure there is just a problem with my txtnish I get an odd awk error

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

So, what a month, a new home and a new daughter! And slightly less important, txtnish was featured on The Changelogs weekly newsletter.

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.

The latest #txtnish will check the url key to change the twturl you’re following. Like an inline 304.

I shouldn’t use @foo in git commits https://github.com/mdom/txtnish/commit/42f9715b7d136393a2665566ee96b61bd1a20a87

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

#txtnish now supports long options! It’s not easy to implement all cases, but it wasn’t as hard as i though it would be.

@kas@enotty.dk Yeah, i though about adding it for the future ncurses frontend. Maybe i could also add the urls as comment in txtnish reply.

#txtnish now accepts ws as seperator and timestamps without T

@phil@philmcclure.duckdns.org I don’t just throw away lines i can’t parse, but try to fix as many errors as possible. But eventually you have to give up. https://github.com/mdom/txtnish/blob/master/bin/txtnish#L368

What about benaiah first idea for #issue48? It would be easy to parse, looks very unixlike and doesn’t clash with the current syntax? I would implement it for txtnish, if it wouldn’t be the only implementation… :)

@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net Or we resort the timline to have the newest entries on top, then you could just request the first x bytes of every feed. But archiving is definitly the pragmatic solution. Get back to me if you want to have that in txtnish. Or maybe someone want to submit a PR?

#txtnish can send new tweets per mail to you with txtnish mail bob@example.com … the only missing step is to tweet via mail. #mobile

@tx@0x1A4.1337.cx Is you page publicly accessable? Maybe i should add exporting to html to #txtnish, seems like a thing many users wan to to?

Behold! color_nick=“red on_yellow blink” is now a thing! #txtnish

#txtnish now requests gzipped pages if possible and you can call timeline with a single url to view the twtfile of someone you don’t follow.

@dave@davebucklin.com It’s probably https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=195792, should be fixed for #txtnish

@dave@davebucklin.com Welcome to twtxt, i take a look at txtnish on mac os x, should be easy to fix

Okay, i dumped the wget backend from #txtnish, curl works better and providing the same interface with both was hard.

@kas@enotty.dk Ah, #txtnish just dumps the latin-1 on your terminal. Not sure what i should do about that, but it’s probably okay. But it’s a good idea to test that!

#txtnish now reports about redirects or error codes on stderr.

@kas@enotty.dk The path starts with /Hund. Collapsing mentions is harder than i thought. #txtnish does now lowercase the hostname to handle 0x1A4.1337.cx vs 0x1a4.1337.cx in mentions.

@durcheinandr@durcheinandr.de Sure, thanks for pointing out the problem. I’m very happy somebody is testing txtnish!

@durcheinandr@durcheinandr.de, @freemor@freemor.homelinux.net Okay, following one self seems not so obvious as i thought. With commit 4b9b067 #txtnish displays the local twtfile.

How should #txtnish handle permanent redirects? Prompt the user to change url? But what if timeline is run in cron? A flag like -I for non-interactive? Mhh…

txtnish should handle 301 and rewrite urls accordingly, then i can just redirect to my canonical url. #somuchtodo

And #txtnish is now on the one hand more lenient and tries to fix the feed, but if it can’t it will skip the misformed tweet.

Big improvement for #txtnish. It converts the timestamps to unixtime and displays relative dates!

Welcome to twtxt, @trevor@destroyed.today! Your timestamp looks like your’re using txtnish? :)

@tx@0x1A4.1337.cx Reusing twtxt config is probably the easiest way for new clients. Although i’m really happy that i can now use comments in txtnish… :)

@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net Can you check with sh -x? Do you use gpg_sign? This will create a new file in a temp dir. https://github.com/mdom/txtnish#sign_twtfile Maybe you upload your twtfile and not the tempfile?

#txtnish is still on the start page of hn! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13742949

So, last #txtnish update for today: It supports subscribing to ipns:// and can publish your twtfile to ipfs. puh

Signing the twtfile with pgp is now built into #txtnish. I hopy my #txtnish accouncement are not annoying anyone?

#txtnish supports ftp and scp upload and prompts users about it in quickstart.

#txtnish now ask the user in quickstart if she wants to import we-are-twtxt.