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@adi I kinda bounced off learning go properly a few years back. This little toy would be a good thing to try again on, now that you mention it. Maybe.
2 weeks ago
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anth
Reply to #poq3aqq
@adi I kinda bounced off learning go properly a few years back. This little toy would be a good thing to try again on, now that you mention it. Maybe.
2 weeks ago
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anth
Started writing something from scratch yesterday using thread(3) and wow do I miss writing in Limbo instead. :-/ #plan9
2 weeks ago
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"Magic Clock" for Plan 9 (and p9p). http://a.9srv.net/src/img/magicclock-p9p.png http://a.9srv.net/src/magicclock.c (man and other info at http://a.9srv.net/src/).
2 weeks ago
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anth
Reply to #ndaoqya
@adi (I would not object to someone wanting to throw FFRDC-class money at P9F, if you've got a lead! ☺)
1 month ago
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anth
Reply to #ndaoqya
@adi No, thinking much bigger than that at the moment: http://a.9srv.net/b/us-osqi
1 month ago
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Just over here writing my Senator's office to see if we can get a new Federally Funded R&D Center created. 😳🤞
1 month ago
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Also, incredibly excited that XOXO is coming back, even if just for one more year: https://2024.xoxofest.com
2 months ago
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anth
I wrote up a lab report on my daily to-do tracking "system", mostly so I could stop thinking about it. The report is at http://a.9srv.net/reports/daily.pdf and the referenced code is at http://txtpunk.com/daily/index.html.
2 months ago
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FOR SOME REASON I'm now archiving my plan files (as shown via 'finger a@9srv.net') at http://a.9srv.net/plans
3 months ago
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Well crap. I think I just realized that if my profile photo was a person it could vote in this year’s election. Probably time for a new default one.
3 months ago
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anth
I've added myself to the registries at registry.twtxt.org and twtxt.tilde.institute. I wonder if there's a list of registries. #meta
4 months ago
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Huh. At some point, my twtxt-via-ssh shortcut from my phone stopped working. It does again now! I've changed nothing. Yay black boxes! 🤷🏻
4 months ago
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First task of 2024: renew an expired cert. I like that it's calendar-themed.
4 months ago
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Spent a few hours the last two evenings fighting with tftpd. Party like it's 1999!
6 months ago
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TIL my high school publishes its own research journal. https://www.pingry.org/our-community/students/pingry-community-research-pcr-journal
1 year ago
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I needed something to help with a morning schedule for two kiddos. It highlights the current 5-minute block as it goes. I think this was my first time reaching for JavaScript for a personal project. https://sidequest.club/stages.html
1 year ago
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One of the frustrating parts of using twtxt for conversations is the URLs are, well... ugly. Anyone (like y'all yarn folks) looked at using webfinger for translating user@domain accounts to URLs?
1 year ago
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I was just reminded of this interpreter for an APL/J-like language by Arthur Whitney, the absolute weirdest bit of C code I've actually gotten something out of, and thought I'd share: https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Essays/Incunabulum
1 year ago
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TIL there's a Director's Cut of Miley Cyrus's Wrecking Ball video and it's much better than the original.
1 year ago
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anth
If I have an image that has clearly been naïvely upscaled, is there a program that can reasonably reliably tell me what the "true" size is?
1 year ago
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anth
Reply to #jvgedja
No, I wasn't set up for it. I wasn't expecting to see the ISS at all, and you never know when an orbit will do the fade out thing.
1 year ago
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Watching the ISS fade out in the sky as it moves into earth's shadow remains one of the coolest things in the world.
1 year ago
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anth
I'll likely take this down soonish as I think it's pretty bad for usability, but as a fun hack, one of my weird side projects web pages now has monitor burn-in: http://txtpunk.com/index.html
1 year ago
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anth
Reply to #rxq7g5q
It'll track a bunch of finger(1) endpoints and let you see what's new. Very early draft. Not actually a social network, more an anti-social network for ‘80s CompSci transplants. :-)
1 year ago
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A read-only, finger(1)-based social network, maybe? http://txtpunk.com/fingers/
1 year ago
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anth
Reply to #tjtdc2q
That's the effect I'm after, but I want it not on my main browser. Turns out the Brave mobile app does this.
1 year ago
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anth
I want a browser for iOS that's basically Mobile Safari but without JavaScript (or at least an easy toggle). Does such a thing exist?
1 year ago
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I realized my twtxt client isn't validating what it pulls once it gets a valid response when a domain started returning js-heavy parking pages for every URL. Oops. Weekend project, I guess. 🤦🏻
2 years ago
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@adi Also, I noticed you followed me on Twitter, but you might enjoy @anths if you want techie stuff instead of Oregon politics. 🤣
2 years ago
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anth
Reply to #5chf2va
Lots of personal preference, but I disagree on Acme: it's far and away my preferred editor on unix-like systems, too.
2 years ago
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anth
Reply to #dp3ixba
A "hunt group" is a phone number you can call which will ring some set of other phones and whoever answers first gets the call, and the others stop ringing.
2 years ago
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anth
Reply to #dp3ixba
Thanks, I'd forgotten about that. I'd rather avoid Google Voice, and I'm okay paying (reasonably). Looking like Twilio might have most of what I want natively.
2 years ago
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Given that we don't have a "home phone", what's the best way to create a "hunt group" for my partner's and my cell phones? My first thought is Asterisk on a VPS, but my knowledge of such things is years out of date. Is there a better way?
2 years ago
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Good weekend for random tech projects: this rackmount server I got free boots Plan 9 without issue, and my ttl adapters and wii nunchucks just arrived. Now where can I find a serial modem?
2 years ago
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I have only just discovered this and need to dig in more, but so far it looks like a really nice reference for electronics pinouts: https://pinouts.org/
2 years ago
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anth
Reply to #trfdoxq
Okay, I've updated my examples page and shared the more complex ssh example. http://a.9srv.net/shortcuts
2 years ago
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anth
Reply to #trfdoxq
iOS has had a "Shortcuts" app for a while now which is very useful for scripting things on the device, and at some point grew the ability to run things via ssh, including piping input/output. It's how I've done twtxt from my phone for a while now. I'll clean up these two examples and post to the examples I've shared. http://a.9srv.net/shortcuts
2 years ago
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Only 1 day of activity so far, but I've started a new project log for whatever the heck I end up doing to this Monroe 425 I got. http://a.9srv.net/monroe425
2 years ago
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About two years late, but I finally finished setting up an iOS Shortcut so I can post to my blog via ssh. http://a.9srv.net/b/
2 years ago
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Anyone seen a pixel-addressed display (any tech; lcd, eink, oled, whatever) in the range of 8"x1"?
2 years ago
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anth
Reply to #ppt5eja
I think y'all are missing something. I never used ftp as a schema; I'm saying the "ftp" hostname part with the "http" schema is amusing.
2 years ago
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anth
Reply to #ppt5eja
Check the raw file. ;-) Yes, "http colon slash slash ftp".
2 years ago
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anth
Reply to #ppt5eja
I'm not sure! It feels similar to seeing "~username" in a URL. Part nostalgia, part... impressed at the persistence?
2 years ago
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Seeing "http://ftp" in a URL makes me happy.
2 years ago
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Nominally, my seen/read list for 2021, but I missed a *lot* of short readings. I may try to write more about these things this year. http://a.9srv.net/media/2021
2 years ago
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anth
Web3 being "democratic" makes perfect sense if you can't tell the difference between a dollar and a person.
2 years ago
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anth
I just went to type the phrase "I avoid Linux like the plague" but then remembered that we've all learned that most people won't actually go much out of their way to avoid the plague.
2 years ago
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anth
As a postmaster, Gmail remains the most irritating domain to send to. Soooo many false spam hits, such little information provided, so many hoops to jump through.
2 years ago
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anth
Reply to #fx74tha
Agreed on "aggressive" — as a general rule, I don't think most folks are acting like we're in the kind of crisis we are.
2 years ago
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anth
Reply to #fx74tha
There's still an editing/proofreading pass to do before it becomes official, but the content is done.
2 years ago
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