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I was busy through past week. Today I catch up things in small net. I've sent an e-mail about Gopher, in response to a gemlog article. I've improved my mastodondigest script with ZERO WIDTH SPACE suggested by Alex. I've dug up in my memory Kelbot capsule with his TUI/tmux configuration asked about in Fediverse.
I could do probably a lot more today, but I don't have to much energy. Weather is sunless in the last days. I'm waiting for the spring time.
Nothing sets you up for a good night's sleep like 58,603 deletions in your commit.
I hope everyone's week has started well. Mine certainly hasn't. I was just accused of plagiarism. Their word, not mine.
My tmux text information desk with GTL for Tinylogs, self-made: fingerclub.sh, astrobotanyring.sh and mastodondigest.sh scripts for gathering information from Finger, Astrobotany and Mastodon.
I've tune up my mastodondigest.sh this weekend. It's presenting information as Gemtex now and extract links at the bottom of every toot.
And so it begins. After a few months of eating whatever I like, I’m starting another 3 month period of Time Restricted Feeding. Each year I aim to have at least two 2-3 month stints of strict, daily (17-18h) intermittent fasting. It gives my body a rest from the constant energy input that we’re not really meant to get like we do in the modern world. Not to mention some of the other huge benefits (hey autophagy). Looking forward to enjoying hunger and appreciating food again. 👊
A starry night. A reminder of the shortness of things. We’re all destined for the place we’ve already been for 13.7 billion years. Make it count.
So It's done.
https://github.com/szczja/scripts/blob/main/mastodondigest.sh
Mastodon digest script in Bash, which reads followed accounts list and presents last toot in chronological order.
Pros:
Cons:
Today I was playing with Mastodon API and curl. It's very easy to set up token to access API. And it's easy to go through account and followed information.
But API wasn't helpful to me with pagination of the response to put it into a quick bash script. There is a bigger effort needed to do so.
I'd like to write bash script putting the last toot of every my followed account. I will make a second try in the future.
But I discovered also that in the web preferences of Mastodon account, there is a special tab to check inactive followed accounts. I didn't know about it.
@szczezuja MapSCII is so cool! Thx :)
💡 Idea
Mobile coffee stand. Cups have your name on them. Obvious branding of cup signals: I bought this coffee as I'm open to chatting to a stranger – you already have my name, feel free to talk to me.
Sell it at train + bus stations, subways, places where people spend time waiting and want some human interaction over HTTP requests.
I'm not sure if this is a good idea or a terrible one, but it would at least make a fun experiment.
My first MAN/LON train of the year and I've drawn the "due to a points failure" card. Proceed directly to cancellation. Do not collect £200.
The train system in the UK is shockingly bad. Burn it to the ground and start over.
But in all seriousness, please don't set fire to it. It's so hopeless it'd just make me sad about the tragic waste of fire.
The results of my recent side side project: cadet – a Go library for creating minimal HTTP-RPC servers.
https://github.com/martinrue/cadet
PSA: The OST from the movie The Social Network is a perfect coding playlist. 👍
Since about 2015, smartphones have been getting increasingly user-hostile and locked down. It started with Google Play Services, a permanently running auto-installed, auto-updated service that has full access and control of your device. One a new Samsung Galaxy phone, I found 262 packages pre-installed, which were mainly from Google, Samsung, Facebook, Microsoft, and the cell provider. I tried disabling some of them, and at some point the phone locked with the message: "Your phone is locked because the Device Service was uninstalled without authorisation". Ok, so I enabled all the apps again, but that didn't unlock it. Tried a full factory reset and reboot, and now the phone says: "Phone Locked. This phone can't be used without authorisation." Just, wow! We are no longer allowed to uninstall the surveillance and bloatware on our phones. #smartphones #bloatware #surveillance
Today’s Gemini DiscoGem is full of goods.
gemini://discogem.gmi.bacardi55.io/capsules-of-the-day-2023-01-07/
Last Week News capsule I didn’t know earlier.
And Kypan capsule which lead me to the main prize for all text-only folks:
telnet mapscii.me
More on the gemlog post:
gemini://kypan.me/posts/getting_a_map_outline_of_my_country_with_mapscii.gmi
"Almost every idea you have is downstream from what you consume." 💡
Several days ago I spotted an answer to my everlasting question:
- How you were using the Internet?
gemini://ja2.one/gemlog/20221115-myinternetpast.gmi
Thanks!
Just found out that someone else found the "gemlog response" concept interesting! Funny to read that literally the day I removed the gemlog mention at the bottom of each articles… But Maybe I'll put it back then :)
gemini://gmi.derschwarzestrahler.at/en/gemlog/gemlog-responses.gmi
New year's fireworks atmosphere themed ASCII-art. ;-)
gemini://szczezuja.space/join-the-small-net.txt
It's a new year – a nice time to reflect and focus on goals for 2023, and I'm wondering what's on everyone's agenda.
So, what's your main focus for 2023? What do you want to achieve? Let's share our plans/ambitions/dreams and create a little thread full of inspiration and encouragement. Bonus: we can review it next year in 2024 :)
I've updated kiln (capsule generator) and my gemlog / blog config without that many tests, please let me know if you find anything broken :]
Wish you a lot of plain-text information and a renaissance of text protocols in the new year!
New Year's cleaning.
I've put all tinylog's entries for 2022 in a separate file, the same way as for 2021.
You can navigate that files through links in the header of tinylog page.
I'm preparing a new gemlog entry, but it's still in progress. This holiday season I spent mainly outside the net.
But in the last days I've got several mails from people around small net and I replied for them. It was satisfying because it's nice to use plain text mail for conversation. It's seems to be a forgotten way of communication nowadays.
My New Year's resolution is 5120 x 2880.
👋 2023. Looking forward to another year of setting goals, meeting them, spending time with friends, making new friends, going on new adventures, finding new inspirations, failing, laughing. Happy new year, folks. ☺️
What a lovely surprise!
I just received a copy of the book my novella is published in. During the pandemic, a friend inspired me to enter a writing competition to write about the pandemic experience (fiction or non) and I wrote a fictional story called The Hug Club (la brakumklubo) which was selected and included in the final book. 🙏
https://social.martinrue.com/system/media_attachments/files/109/609/420/273/262/378/original/64f20e2b182f45d9.jpeg
Got My Time at Portia a few days ago. It has soaked up all my free time since then. It often happens that I spend the holidays playing more video games than usual, and this year seems to be no exception.
Pretty happy with this little interaction. 👏Con
Context: as readers progress through my app's interactive language-learning books, this component lets them collect flashcards for key things they've learned.
https://social.martinrue.com/system/media_attachments/files/109/602/013/633/560/869/original/b3228153180d8cf4.mp4
Anyone else code in their head while doing something else, such as walking home? I catch myself doing it fairly often.
I like to think about what I need to do next, how I might go about it, potential issues I’ll run into. I find it really helpful to keep the context, and sometimes the entire program, in my head.
My house got struck by lightning *again*, taking out the alarm system *again*. This time I decided to #diy my own alarm system with an #arduino. It's a bit of a rat's nest right now (prototype), but it works! Controllable via Telegram and standard remote. Gotta solder it up on a board next and add some lightning isolation/protection. There's surprisingly little info on the internet about replacing a commercial home alarm system with custom Arduino one. The biggest challenge is that the long wires to sensors can pick up noise/EMF so I had to do some filtering in software to avoid false triggers.
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Merry Christmas everybody. 🎄
Shamelessly stolen from Mastodon (because it's an important question):
[POLL Is Die Hard a Christmas movie?] Yes | No
Happy Festivus to those that celebrate it :)
Bert Wagner's "jurn" ("A Command Line Tool for Keeping Track of Your Work") is pretty cute.
Do any of you do any live coding via Twitch? I'm tempted to do some for my current project, and I'm curious about people's experiences. 🤔
Until now I didn't get time to play with Lagrange on iOS, but after only a few mins it's easily my favourite mobile iOS Gemini client. Awesome work, as always, @skyjake. 🙏
For fellow iOS'ers who haven't checked it out yet, grab the TestFlight release here: https://testflight.apple.com/join/UjdtSEhu
Does anyone else start new projects by writing out a readme detailing how you want the tool to work? I think I've come to depend on this technique to help me clarify what exactly I want to build.
Wow, you can no longer even mention other social media platforms on Twitter or it’ll be a considered a violation and they’ll suspend your account. Twitter is definitely in a death spiral at this point, no? It’s now by far the least free platform I still (for now) have an account on.
I don't even know how this happens, but I just discovered:
In Braille each rectangle of up to 6 raised dots encodes a character (so 2⁶ values).
So "just do it" is the following sequence of 10 blocks (unraised gaps acts as spaces to separate words):
⠚⠥⠎⠞⠀⠙⠕⠀⠊⠞
However, Braille Grade 2 supports special free-standing single-character combinations to stand in for common words.
"Just do it" consists entirely of such special words, so it can be written like so: ⠚⠀⠙⠀⠭
⠧⠀⠉⠕⠕⠇
`>/dev/null 2>&1` is my new best friend as I set up cron jobs for backups, gemfeed updates etc.
I've been reading a bunch of RSS feeds recently for the first time in years, using Newsboat on the command line. So calming: keyboard-only, single-tab, visually minimal, speedy loading if I do visit a page directly in Lynx.
Most people don't know this but completely removing caffeine from your diet, at least in some cases, can give you up to an impressive 80% boost in your will not to live.
Moving my mid-noughties music writings on to Gemini. Decided this wasn't quite the right project with which to learn sed (just wanna get it done), so sticking with trusty Python.
Woop! A new milestone! Station just reached 900 users. Who'd have thought this micro community would stick around long enough to even reach 1/10th this number. I wonder if/when we'll hit 1000. 👏
Feliĉan Zamenhofan tagon al vi ĉiuj. Kia ĝojo esti parto de tiu ĉi monda, mojosa komunumo de frenezuloj (vi ĉiuj – ne mi, kompreneble). Kaj dank' al Esperanto, ĉiuj aliaj lingvoj nun ŝajnas multe tro pezaj, do vi neniam forigos min.
Happy Esperanto (Zamenhof) day! What a joy to be part of this global, cool community of crazy people (you all, not me of course). And thanks to Esperanto, every other language is just way too weird and demanding, so you're stuck with me now.
LOL, `man hollywood`.
Figured out installing gtl from source and adding to my path.
Having conducted much research on the subject lately, it appears that Kevin seems to know an awful lot about temperature and has achieved fame online for his knowledge.
Bought this ESP32-based Esplay Micro V2, and it is sweet! Not only is it a great form-factor and fairly priced, but it comes fully assembled with an SD Card loaded with some music and cool retro games. It's a #DIY #maker dream as I can turn this into almost any device I can think of! #esplay #esp32 #retrogaming #diy
ESPlay
https://www.robotics.org.za/MES32PRO
Shout-out to Podgrab, an excellent self-hosted podcast manager/downloader written in Go. #selfhost #podcast
Podgrab
https://github.com/akhilrex/podgrab
CW: ChatGPT
I asked the OpenAI GPT-3 chat bot about Gemini:
I'm sorry, but I'm not aware of any protocols or technologies called "smol net" or "Gemini" that have nothing to do with cryptocurrencies.
Looks like the Eye of Sauron still averts us…
I then proceeded to ask about my other project, the Doomsday Engine (a Doom port), and it promptly gave a brief description and named me as the author, using my real name. 😱
Of course, as a long-term project it must have been picked up into the training set from some wiki, but still feels weird to be part of the AI’s data model.
Could be fun to develop a micro TUI app to display status from people via the finger protocol… If there were enough finger users to even do so.
Sometimes engaging the discipline to “follow the plan” is really tough. Today most certainly is one of those days, but despite every reason not to train today, I’m on the way to the gym! The harder it is to get into motion, the more being in motion feels good. 💪
I was out with two Esperanto friends having dinner last night and a couple sat next to us interrupted to ask us which language we were speaking. They had actually heard of Esperanto but thought it was dead. Nope. Definitely not dead.
The new satisfies operator in TypeScript 4.9 is pretty neat. I'm a fan. Demo here: https://gist.github.com/martinrue/95934a12a18fb0816c62bfb6424c2692
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