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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Found it and fixed it! 🎉 The crawler’s discovery spider was fetching every feed a second time, without any conditional headers (plus a couple of other politeness bugs: redirected feed URLs never stored their cache validators, and there was no floor between re-fetches). Now every feed is fetched at most once per crawl, always with If-Modified-Since / If-None-Match, and never more than once per 15m no matter what. Just deployed — please keep an eye on your access logs and let me know if you still see anything impolite from the crawler 🙏

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I believe this is fixed now 🤞

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Thanks! I’ll look into that! Could be a bug in the crawler.

@bender@twtxt.net Thanks, mate!

On the back of the bench, the badge says: “Gestiftet Verein berg hohenstaufen Göppingen 2013”. I read that as the Mt. Hohenstaufen club donated the bench itself: https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2026-07-03/69.jpg

On the front of the bench, the badge says: “Gestiftet von Hildegard Schuster, Gesellschafterin der Schwarz-Gruppe, Firma Wackler”. The bronze lady was donated by a shareholder of the Schwarz group, specifically the local Wackler trucking and logistics company. Clip of 27 in original resolution: https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2026-07-03/70.jpg

The book itself reads: “Zur Erinnerung an Ralph Kobza” It’s in memory of the sales manager of the art foundry next town that created also this statue. My mate took this photo: https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2026-07-03/71.jpg

@prologic@twtxt.net That’s cool to hear!

Looking at my access logs, something seems to be off, though:

2026-07-04T04:11:26+02:00 200
2026-07-04T05:16:09+02:00 304
2026-07-04T06:33:34+02:00 304
2026-07-04T06:37:46+02:00 304 # just four minutes since last crawl
2026-07-04T06:41:55+02:00 304 # another four minutes
2026-07-04T07:11:33+02:00 304
2026-07-04T07:11:40+02:00 200 # no conditional request just seven seconds later
2026-07-04T07:43:25+02:00 304
2026-07-04T07:43:33+02:00 200 # just eight seconds since last crawl
2026-07-04T09:18:06+02:00 304
2026-07-04T09:22:53+02:00 304 # just four minutes since last crawl
2026-07-04T09:27:03+02:00 304 # another four minutes

@balloonfu-sen@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz Appreicate it 👍

@prologic@twtxt.net I think it’s probably the https://girlonthemoon.xyz/ publisher, I contacted Mastodon and email and contacted them. Since that Mastodon was also Kat , it must be the right contact.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de It sure feels like the focus is heavily shifted to the average Joe and the power users are left standing.

@balloonfu-sen@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz Oh sorry you are right! The pod you’re on is managed by @kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz I believe!

@prologic@twtxt.net I’m just registering and using yarn, I haven’t built it. But maybe I could build yarnd on my server.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Welcome to the wild west!

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I agree and am very happy about how it went for me back then. Having said that, I still admire @kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz’s persistence and strong will to get into it. I feel that a lot of young folks give up way too quickly.

@balloonfu-sen@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz Do you mind git pull && make build and updating your yarnd instance so it’s in-line with the new Hash v2 spec 🙏

@balloonfu-sen@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz Not difficult, I’m just the target of much spam and bots 😢

@GabesArcade@gabesarcade.com twtxt.net is now difficult to register, so you can register yarn instead: https://yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz/

@balloonfu-sen@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz 👍

Reading you loud and clear 😅

@GabesArcade@gabesarcade.com I reflected on your nick change: https://balloon.oldcities.org/twtxt-active-users.txt

@GabesArcade@gabesarcade.com by asking me nicely 🤣 Which you just did! If you either provide me a desired username and password and secure medium to give this to you I can do that easily, or alternative a desired username and email address (never stored, only hashed), after which you can “Reset password”.

Hmm, so it is working now?

I intentionally post from this account. I have created a Japanese explanation page for twtxt: https://balloon-jp.vercel.app/twtxt/

This is my first post. One more time.

@prologic@twtxt.net Thanks for the heads up! I fixed my nick and corrected my reply. I’m still learning lol. I still need to get setup with a client, I’m using my timeline at the moment, but that’s finicky due to CORS in the browser. By chance do you know how I would go about signing up with twtxt.net?

Hello from the new twtxt.app PWA! 🎉 Testing the Yarn.social publishing backend. (automated test post)

Hey folks 👋 Today I announce the re-release of the Twtxt Search Engine now live and running and actively re-crawling and re-indexing. 🎉 Please report bugs or any useability issues to me! 🙏 #Twtxt #Search

@GabesArcade@gabesarcade.com’s Arcade@gabesarcade.com You will want to either build a client or use one of the ones listed here – Either way you choose! 👌 I just noticed as well in this Twt I’m replying to (threading is a thing™) that you @-mentioned@twtxt.net @bender@twtxt.net incorrectly 😅

<@bender https://twtxt.net/user/bender/twtxt.txt> Thanks for the warm welcome! I don’t actually have a twtxt client setup yet, but you showed up in the timeline on my site: https://gabesarcade.com/?timeline - which is kind blowing my mind right now.

@bender@twtxt.net Thanks for the warm welcome! I don’t actually have a twtxt client setup yet, but you showed up in the timeline on my site: https://gabesarcade.com/?timeline - which is kind blowing my mind right now.

Ahh yes, you really must fix your nick haha 🤣

@’s Arcade@gabesarcade.com Welcome to Twtxt / Yarn.social 😅

I added 1 account (Gabe-sArcade): https://balloon.oldcities.org/twtxt-active-users.txt

I added 1 account (GabesArcade): https://balloon.oldcities.org/twtxt-active-users.txt

@Gabe-sArcade@gabesarcade.com Welcome! I added you to my twtxt Active List: https://balloon.oldcities.org/twtxt-active-users.txt It might be good to improve your “nick”.

@gabe@gabesarcade.com welcome to twtxt!

@’s Arcade@gabesarcade.com welcome to twtxt!

@kiwu@twtxt.net jump on IRC and tell us! Server irc.mills.io, on 6697 (TLS), join #lobby, then private message (I am quark). :-P

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org the siting lady reads this?

Gestiftet von
Hildegard Schünar
Gesellschafterin
der Schwarz-Gruppe
Firma Wüst's
Anni

Or it is something else? Awesome pics, Lyse! Some oldies I missed (the lady), and some pretty cool new ones. I can’t get enough of nature pics!

i wish we could private message on here

@rdlmda@rdlmda.me likewise. I was very active on it in 1992, all until 1998. Then dropped off until 2020, but remained dormant. I have now awaken once more! 😂

twtxt is awesome! How am I just discovering this?

twtxt is awesome! How am I just discovering this?

Way to hot to run at the lake, so stayed inside and jumped rope for 85 minutes, half of it in the red zone.

My mate and I hiked up the backyard mountain. We got 25°C and quite some wind, so it was actually not too terrible. The wind could have blown harder or the temps a little lower, but oh well.

I saw the squirrel’s bushy tail stick up on the forest floor in the sunlight and immediately thought of this cute little feller. Since it didn’t move at all, even when we came closer, I got irritated and reconsidered that it might actually be some kind of dried up farn. But then we also were able to see its body. Unfortunately, the squirrel ran up the tree too quickly, so all the shots are kinda crap.

At one flower spot, there were sooo many butterflies, wasps, flies, bugs and other insects. The botanic was completely crowded.

The workers were transferring logs from one log truck to the other in a parking lot. I’ve never seen this happening before. When we passed the same place on the way home, they had moved logs into a sea container. That was surprising. This semi wasn’t there on the way there. One log was probably too long and sticking out the container, so they probably had to wait for somebody to return with a chainsaw. Crazy that they’re shipping logs from here probably overseas. Why else would they put them in a sea container?

After our first break, a blackbird was really posing for us with his worm in the dark shade.

Today was my first time I ever saw a hummingbird hawk-moth (Taubenschwänzchen) for real. My mate photographed them many, many times before, but I never came across one myself. So, that was really special.

The forest service installed an outdoor table with two benches next to the timber lion, that was cool to see. We sat down for a few minutes and enjoyed both the view into the Fils valley and ant on the tabletop, but the sun was beating down too heavily on us, so we had to move on.

All in all, it was a very nice few hours long hike. Enjoy! https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2026-07-03/

Java 1.3 on Windows 95 with Proton as the editor could be another option for next Advent of Code.

Win95 runs pretty smoothly on my old box (no surprise, that box came with Win95) and I like Java, so … why not …

Not sure about the speed, though. 🥴

https://movq.de/v/68e6f82f22/95.png

I miss the ps2 era of gaming. Withing PS6 dropping physical discs, I’m reminded of how great it is to pop in an old ps2 game and have it run flawlessly.

I just read @kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz’s blog post over here:

https://bubblegum.girlonthemoon.xyz/articles/learning-to-code-like-it-s-the-90s

Jesus, it must be so overwhelming for young people to get started with programming.

When I started programming, there was the built-in ROM BASIC of that PC and probably a bit of BASIC on a floppy, and that was it. Nowadays? Millions of libraries and frameworks and languages and what not – and, much worse, there’s the expectation that you need to make something fancy. When I started, printing something and understanding IF was good enough.

Installing software was (is?) such an incomprehensible mess on Windows … Why did you allow any program to install files anywhere in the system? Why was this considered normal and okay? With no chance of ever cleanly removing that stuff again?

And now we’re back to the trend of curl | bash these days … same thing.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org This apparently depends on the program now … Some Qt6 programs still allow that, others don’t. I can’t remember if GTK ever had that feature. 🤔 But yeah, this whole “move stuff around as you please”-mentality is mostly gone.

I know I keep referring to StarOffice 3.1 a lot, but it’s just such a good example for all these things. All the toolbars and panels could be rearranged:

https://movq.de/v/2fb714931d/s.png

(This is running in Wine, btw.)

LibreOffice is the descendant of StarOffice and it doesn’t support anything like that anymore.

Maybe it was deemed too confusing for users? “Oh no, I mis-clicked something and now that bar is gone! How do I get it back? I don’t even know what it’s called!” 🤔

Ok, so I think I’ve set up a good posting solution. I use twtxt to post updates. My site renders those in HTML and generates an RSS feed. The RSS feed is then cross-posted by Micro.Blog. Clean and simple.