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In a recent phlog entry, Jirka
mentioned that he couldn't find any
SDF members with a .plan file. That
got me thinking about the purpose of
finger: to convey contact information
and provide something along the lines
of status updates.
For a while now, I have been
considering running a gopher-based
(and gemini-mirrored) microphlog. I've
seen a few people with Twitter-esque
gopher feeds around the smolverse.
But finger is really the perfect tool
for ephemeral smolnet microblogging.
So I wrote up a quick bash script to
create a feed for finger "microblogs."
Copy the script below to a file, make
it executable, and add new addresses
to poll, each on their own line, in
the addresses section.
Run the script to read other users'
finger-blogs -- and of course, just
add your current status or whatever
random commentary you see fit to your
.plan or .project file to post!
#!/bin/bash
addresses="
visiblink@zaibatsu.circumlunar.space
someuser@server.org
someotheruser@server2.net
"
separator () {
echo >> readerfile.tmp
echo "===================================================================" >> readerfile.tmp
echo >> readerfile.tmp
}
echo "===================================================================" > readerfile.tmp
echo " FingerFeed" >> readerfile.tmp
echo "===================================================================" >> readerfile.tmp
echo >> readerfile.tmp
for address in $addresses
do
finger $address >> readerfile.tmp
separator
done
less readerfile.tmp
rm readerfile.tmp