Once again I glimpsed at my twtxt feed access log. Now I’m wondering: is there a twtxt client named xt out there? Does anyone know? I did not find anything for “xt/0.0.1”.

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz Oh nice, I’d love to see some progress photos. :-)

Gesundes Neues, @arne@uplegger.eu! Was machst Du mit den Raketenstecken? Bastelst Du damit tolle Dinge? Ich hab damit zwei kleine Regälchen zusammengeleimt: https://lyse.isobeef.org/tmp/tischbohrmaschinenregal/10.jpg

Der Wind hat mir soeben einen neuen Stecken beschert, lag er doch plötzlich vor der Tür. Muss wohl vom Dach runtergekommen sein. Damit hab ich ganze zwei dieses Jahr. Hier wird sehr stark auf Böller gesetzt, ein absolutes Unding!

Thank you, @kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz and @ionores@twtxt.net! Yeah, number four looks like a forest fire.

It was supposed to start raining this afternoon, but a rain cloud hit us in the morning just when we approached the foot of our backyard mountain. With the dark sky above us and wind speed picking up, we decided to take the next turn and head back. Luckily, the rain didn’t last long, so we paid the tadpole pond a visit to prolong our stroll. My mate told me that it was frozen a few days ago, but there was not much of the icy cover left today. https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2025-01-02/

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We had a faint yellow-orange-redish sky this evening. Only subtle, but it was actually one of those rare 360° sunsets. Just when I thought, that was it, it’s now over, the colors took off like crazy: https://lyse.isobeef.org/abendhimmel-2025-01-01/

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A much nicer start into the year than all the hell yesterday. However, just as I type this, there come also the next round of explosions as darkness falls. Those bloody fuckers, please blow yourselves up!

@ionores@twtxt.net Opening the windows is the worst you can do with all that crazy smoke out there. But the music ain’t too bad. :-)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de This is indeed very cool! :-) Unfortunately, I do not have a proper hot glue gun. Would have to rig something up from timber.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Implementing my own TUI rendering in the tt rewrite, I know what a headache this can be. :-)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de It’s not any better on the “ground” with trees and buildings around. They don’t dampen at all, in fact the houses just cause reverb and amplify the bangs. Rest assured, I did not hear any people laughing or anything in that nature. Just grenades going off. Talking to my mates, it appears that I live in an especially bad shithole, they reported a noticable reduction of explosions around 00:20. Over here, there was constant fire till around 02:00.

Yep, that’s exactly how I imagine a war zone, too.

Whoops, this of course should have read “other than on the last three days”. Yeah, people give a fuck, @movq@www.uninformativ.de. And police doesn’t care either. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feuerwerk#Bundesrepublik_Deutschland_(Gegenwart)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Wow, quite an elaborate editor you’ve programmed there!

Healthy new world war!

@bender@twtxt.net For sure, we have isolated bangs since at least 12th December, too. That day I also noticed piles of cracker garbage in the forest. What assholes. Luckily, it’s illegal to sell fireworks other than after the last three days in the year. However, people can still import them and they do. :-(

@movq@www.uninformativ.de How cool! So, that’s the last thing for the year, eh? :-)

It must already be New Year here. Full continuous fire for ten minutes.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Beautiful! Well, today is also a rather foggy gray soup here.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de No, that was a wide open field, absolutely nowhere to hide. I reckon it was just a very brave individual. We somehow managed to radiate a sense of calm. :-) It might have been the same heron I saw the other days a few hundred meters west.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de All my cameras have an optical zoom. The current one even reaches 18x optical magnification. This feller was very relaxed as we snuck up on him. We didn’t want to scare him off, so we stopped at around four meters. Still, some zoom factor was used to caputure him. :-)

The last few days were very sunny, so is today and the next couple days. One just has to keep moving, or it gets too cold.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de That sounds really great! :-) Happy hacking!

3°C today, it was quite nice in the sun. A lot of hunting and tree felling going on in the forest. And we met the heron again, that was very cool: https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2024-12-28/

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And now some stupid fuckwits are burning firecrackers again. Very annoying. Can we please ban this shit once and forever!?

I don’t know, the entire wald.ovh site always times out for me.

Sorry @prologic@twtxt.net, I’ll take advantage of the sunny weather tomorrow. So, I won’t make it to the call.

We both first thought there is an old helium balloon in the meadow downhill next to the narrow path. However, it was actually a heron against the light. Bloody cool! We passed it at just four meters distance, it didn’t even care about us. I definitely broke my last record from the day after yesterday. Heck, yeah!

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Oh yeah, that’s really nice! :-)

I finally watched “C++17: I See a Monad in Your Future” and it was rather nice (at least in 1.8 times speed): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFnhhPehpKw I finally also learned why the auto syntax exists (to allow specifying a return type that depends on the argument).

@doesnm@doesnm.p.psf.lt Hahaha! :-D

@bender@twtxt.net @prologic@twtxt.net Reminds me of: https://img.ifunny.co/images/d07b9a2014e3b3901abe5f4ab22cc2b89a0308de8a21d868d2022dac7bb0280d_1.jpg :-D

@sorenpeter@darch.dk @bender@twtxt.net @prologic@twtxt.net Right. Also, generally speaking, if you come across a new feed URL, it’s probably either via some mention in another feed or the User-Agent in your access log. Both cases typically advertise also a display name. So, you just reuse whatever you’ve seen there.

I saw a paraglider after sunset. Must have been super cold up there in the sky, we just had 1-2°C on the ground. And I passed a heron at just 5-6 meters distance. I think that’s a new record low. The sunset itself wasn’t all that shabby either. Hence, a very good stroll.

I don’t get why displaying nick@domain is preferred over just @nick in the first place. The twtxt world here is so small (and hopefully will always be) that duplicate nicks are just not an issue from my point of view. And even if there are several feeds with the same nicks, one probably does not follow both of them. Yes, there’s the birthday paradox, but I’d guess we have a slightly larger nickname space than days in a year.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Absolutely! Truly amazing work and excellent explanations.

I’m pretty sure they didn’t tell us this in school either.

I don’t remember what topic it was, but some of the maths lectures at uni were heaps better in linking several matters together. In school we were always told: And now for something completely different, we start a new topic, so when you kids haven’t understood the previous one, worry not, now you got the chance to maybe get this one and improve your maths grade. Only at uni we were actually taught that it’s in fact basically exactely the same thing as something else, just with some slightly tweaked rules. If I only were told this a decade earlier or so. It would have made stuff sooo much easier.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Hmm, works here. Maybe some temporary problem that has been fixed by now?

In case somebody needs a calculator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0pJST5mL3A

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Hahaha, no worries. :-)

You are clearly a time traveler, @xuu@txt.sour.is!

@prologic@twtxt.net That also has the downside of fitting right in the write-only code category. :-D

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Ha, that’s cool, I wasn’t aware of 2024 being one of these years.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Oh, a movqOS, that’s super cool! :-)

Yeah, glossy screens are straight from hell. :-D What’s this spooky wind chime background music?

Anyway, have great fun learning more and experimenting with this low level stuff!

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Unfortunately, there is no shortage of terrible UI designers. To be fair, I’m probably one of them when it comes to the point.

Danke, @arne@uplegger.eu. Ich werde berichten.

@prologic@twtxt.net Haha, nice! :-D This is the real one today: https://lyse.isobeef.org/abendhimmel-2024-12-20/01.jpg It was a bit more intense some minutes ago, though.

Moin @arne@uplegger.eu, herzlich willkommen! Ich bin gerade auf https://uplegger.eu/blog/popelfinger gestoßen und war sofort sehr begeistert. :-D Mal sehen, ob ich die anderen an einem der Feiertage davon überzeugt bekomme, das mal auszuprobieren. :-)

Sunset:

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No, of course not. This is the gingerbread in the oven with my digicam’s sunset program. The second photo shows the colors more like they are in reality. It surprises me every year how absolutely sticky this dough is. Holy cow! Close to impossible to spread it evenly in the baking tray. https://lyse.isobeef.org/tmp/lebkuchen-2024-12-20/

Glad you like them, @aelaraji@aelaraji.com. Anytime!

In the short horizontal rain stroll a few minutes ago I noticed that my rain trousers leak around the right knee.

This is a very nice article from 20 years ago, probably still valid: The Command Line – The Best Newbie Interface? https://www.osnews.com/story/6282/the-command-line-the-best-newbie-interface/

@movq@www.uninformativ.de @prologic@twtxt.net Thank you! Yep, 14 is a house martin tower: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwalbenhaus There are a few around here, although most of these nesting boxes are actually not on dedicated towers, but attached at the roof overhangs of private houses.

It was a nice sunny arvo: https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2024-12-18/

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@mckinley@twtxt.net No, no, it’s not dead, it’s resting! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vuW6tQ0218)