@bender@twtxt.net Thanks for asking!
So, I’ve been working on 2 main twtxt-related projects.
The first is small Node / express application that serves up a twtxt file while allowing its owner to add twts to it (or edit it outright), and I’ve been testing it on my site since the night I made that post. It’s still very much an MVP, and I’ve been intermittently adding features, improving security, and streamlining the code, with an eye to release it after I get an MVP done of project #2 (the reader).
But that’s where I’ve been struggling. The idea seems simple enough - another Node / express app (this one with a Vite-powered front-end) that reads a public twtxt file, parses the “follow” list, grabs (and parses) those twtxt files, and then creates a river of twts out of the result. The pieces work fine in seclusion (and with dummy data), but I keep running into weird issues when reading real-live twtxt files, so some twts come through, while others get lost in the ether. I’ll figure it out eventually, but for now, I’ve been spending far more time than I anticipated just trying to get it to work end-to-end.
On top of it, the 2 projects wound up turning into 4 (so far), as I’ve been spinning out little libraries to use across both apps (like https://jsr.io/@itsericwoodward/fluent-dom-esm, and a forthcoming twtxt helper library).
In the end, I’m hoping to have project 1 (the editor) into beta by the end of October, and project 2 (the reader) into beta sometime after that, but we’ll see.
I hope this has satisfied your curiosity, but if you’d like to know more, please reach out!
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Following on from our previous initiative to improve how Docker Desktop delivers updates, we are excited to announce another major improvement to how Docker Desktop keeps your development tools up to date. Starting with Docker Desktop 4.46, we’re introducing automatic component updates and a completely redesigned update experience that puts your productivity first. Why We’re… ⌘ Read more
Apologies if I’ve been spamming anyone out there in twtxt-land today.
I’ve been working on a couple of twtxt-related projects, and one of them is a reader (tentatively called twtstrm) written in JS. I used dummy data for the first few stages of development, but now I’m at the point where I need some real data, and that meant hitting up my actual following list.
Of course, it didn’t help that I had a typo in my If-Modified-Since headers, but all that has since been resolved.
Anyways, if I accidentally spammed you with requests today, I am sorry, and it shouldn’t happen anymore.
We thank you for your patience, and apologize for the inconvenience.
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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org a content warning is a way to tell the audience the content they are about to see is (or might be) shocking, or unsuitable, or unlikable. The audience can then chose to see it, or not. You know, akin of movies stating:
“Warning: The following film contains scenes that some viewers may find disturbing. Viewer discretion is advised.”
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@zvava@twtxt.net oh duh! Sorry, I promised I read, my brain just didn’t process it right. I shall follow your progress, and offer bits and pieces of unrequested trivialities. :-)
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Aussie apple exports to Canada easier as restrictions relaxed
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** Answering some questions about Baba Yaga **
My previous post found its way to Hacker News; I don’t have an account there, but a commenter asked a few questions that I thought I could answer in a follow up post.
Baba Yaga uses call-by-value evaluation, not call-by-need (aka“lazy”).
From the interpreter,
”`hljs javascript
function visitFunctionCall(node) {
const callee = visit(node.callee);
// Arguments ar … ⌘ Read more”`
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Erlang Solutions: Healthcare Blog Round-Up
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Over the past year, our team has written about some of the most important trends shaping the future of healthcare. In this round-up, we bring together three of those articles: remote patient monitoring, big data, and generative AI.
Maybe you have been following along, or … ⌘ Read more
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@dce@hashnix.club I switched over to following you on Gopher, because why not. 😅
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de Thanks, it’s mostly following the Louis Rossmann thing https://youtu.be/2_Dtmpe9qaQ - a symbol of protest, against the rapid enshitification the Internet is facing, accelerated to the extreme, during this year. It has reached a point where something really has to be done about it all. Obviously not just everyone changing their profile pictures, but also cataloguing all the consumer rights violations, invasion of privacy, censorship,… to shove it in the face of as many government officials, as possible.
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@dce@hashnix.club I don’t use Gemini, but I follow you on the good, old, HTTP(S)! :-)
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@prologic@twtxt.net It’s quite similar to how escape sequences work in a terminal. ASCII text is printed as ASCII text and then an escape sequence can make it bold or underline and so on. Other escape sequences allow you to say “the following $n bytes are part of a bitmap image”, and then this gets printed at whatever the current position is (somewhat similar to SIXEL in a terminal).
It’s just that the units are a bit weird, because this is all done in bloody inch. 😅
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