I have finished 1-9 on Python. If anyone is interested, I could share the code, or in Reddit many people have shared theirs.
Chapter 9:
Why fastDOOM is fast
How much faster is fastDOOM than regular Doom on a decked-out 486 from 1993? 30% faster without cutting any features! On a demanding map like doom2’s demo1, the gain is even higher, from 16.8 fps to 24.9 fps. That is 48% faster! I did not suspect that DOOM had left that much on the table. Obviously shipping within one year left little time to optimize. I had to understand how this magic trick happened. ↫ Fabien Sanglard What follows is an incredibly detailed exploration of why, exactly, fa … ⌘ Read more
Google Pixel 9 released The Best Time to Upgrade to the Pixel 8 (and GrapheneOS) https://xn–gckvb8fzb.com/google-pixel-9-released-the-best-time-to-upgrade-to-the-pixel-8-and-grapheneos/
Wuuuhuuuu, wie geil! Die neunte Staffel von Feuer und Flamme ist da: https://www.ardmediathek.de/serie/feuer-und-flamme/staffel-9/Y3JpZDovL3dkci5kZS9mZXVlcnVuZGZsYW1tZQ/9 Da muss ich mich dann wohl leider direkt durchsuchten.
Edit #issuecomment-18968
@eapl.me@eapl.me @andros@twtxt.andros.dev here’s another variant as per eapl’s suggestion (#issuecomment-18968)[https://git.mills.io/yarnsocial/twtxt.dev/issues/9#issuecomment-18968]
What would you like the new twtxt logo to be?
Comments: https://git.mills.io/yarnsocial/twtxt.dev/issues/9#issuecomment-18960

Hendersonville - Long run: 7.29 miles, 00:09:56 average pace, 01:12:28 duration
missed the 9 mile target. wrong shoes for the job. had to cut my route short due to flash flooding so turned on tourist mode. did some mud skating and just took everything in
#running
reviewing logs this morning and found i have been spammed hard by bots not respecting the robots.txt file. only noticed it because the OpenAI bot was hitting me with a lot of nonsensical requests. here is the list from last month:
- (810) bingbot
- (641) Googlebot
- (624) http://www.google.com/bot.html
- (545) DotBot
- (290) GPTBot
- (106) SemrushBot
- (84) AhrefsBot
- (62) MJ12bot
- (60) BLEXBot
- (55) wpbot
- (37) Amazonbot
- (28) YandexBot
- (22) ClaudeBot
- (19) AwarioBot
- (14) https://domainsbot.com/pandalytics
- (9) https://serpstatbot.com
- (6) t3versionsBot
- (6) archive.org_bot
- (6) Applebot
- (5) http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm
- (4) http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html
- (4) Googlebot-Mobile
- (4) DuckDuckGo-Favicons-Bot
- (3) https://turnitin.com/robot/crawlerinfo.html
- (3) YandexNews
- (3) ImagesiftBot
- (2) Qwantify-prod
- (1) http://www.google.com/adsbot.html
- (1) http://gais.cs.ccu.edu.tw/robot.php
- (1) YaK
- (1) WBSearchBot
- (1) DataForSeoBot
i have placed some middleware to reject these for now but it is not a full proof solution.
Rediscovering Plan 9 from Bell Labs
During a weekend of tidying up – you know, the kind of chore where you’re knee-deep in old boxes before you realize it. Digging through the dusty cables and old, outdated user manuals, I found something that I had long forgotten: an old Plan 9 distribution. Judging by the faded ink and slight warping of the disk sleeve, it had to be from around 1994 or 1995. I couldn’t help but wonder: why had I kept this? Back then, I was curious about Plan 9. It was a forwar … ⌘ Read more
Holly Hill - Long run: 12.06 miles, 00:09:43 average pace, 01:57:15 duration
did not sleep last night. the bed was not too comfortable and i was burning up for some reason. the run went well. it was a decent temperature and i kept the pace pretty moderate (mainly around a 9:30). hit two bridges going back-and-forth between daytona. i did walk a bit around mile ten to recollect myself but a good run nonetheless.
my daughter got first all-around in her gymnastic meet and did really well on all events, too!
#running
One of the things I love about Plan 9 is how the interfaces make this possible: add snapshots to any block storage, at the kernel level, in less than 700 lines of code. http://9p.io/sources/contrib/blstuart/snap/devsnap.c
Building a (T1D) smartwatch from scratch
If you have type 1 diabetes, you need to keep track of and manage your blood glucose levels closely, as if these levels dip too low, it can quickly spiral into a medical emergency. Andrew Childs’ 9 year old son has type 1 diabetes, and Childs was unhappy with any of the current offerings on the market for children to keep track of their blood glucose levels. Most people suggested an Apple Watch, but he found the Apple Watch “too much device” for a kid, … ⌘ Read more
? operator in Go 👈 No. For so many reasons.
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org one time i saw that operator when working with ruby on rails and i was so confused by it that i got stuck on the same code involving it for 9 hours straight
I would like to make another proposal to the community, to discuss it calmly: https://git.mills.io/yarnsocial/twtxt.dev/issues/9 #twtxt
How UNIX spell ran in 64kB RAM
How do you fit a 250kB dictionary in 64kB of RAM and still perform fast lookups? For reference, even with modern compression techniques like gzip -9, you can’t compress this file below 85kB. In the 1970s, Douglas McIlroy faced this exact challenge while implementing the spell checker for Unix at AT&T. The constraints of the PDP-11 computer meant the entire dictionary needed to fit in just 64kB of RAM. A seemingly impossible task. ↫ Abhinav Upadhyay They still managed to … ⌘ Read more
Introduction to GrapheneOS
GrapheneOS (written GOS from now on) is an Android based operating system that focuses security. It is only compatible with Google Pixel devices for multiple reasons: availability of hardware security components, long term support (series 8 and 9 are supported at least 7 years after release) and the hardware has a good quality / price ratio. The goal of GOS is to provide users a lot more control about what their smartphone is doing. A main profile is used by default (the owner … ⌘ Read more
Pinellas County - Long Run: 9.22 miles, 00:10:03 average pace, 01:32:43 duration
this was tough. just low on energy and my legs are really tired. aerobically i was okay and the conditions were not bad. just bad head space and energy levels. tired.
#running
Israel and Hamas agree to ceasefire + 3 more stories
Scientists showcase new antimony atom method in quantum computing; UK leader signs treaty with Ukraine enhancing security; Israel and Hamas agree on ceasefire and hostages; SpaceX launches Falcon 9 with lunar landers for commercial missions. ⌘ Read more
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Woah, that’s insane! Yeah, I wanted to take it easy as well, but then suddenly got 9:30 hours on the clock… :-/
Vacations were great, it took me five attempts this morning to enter my disk encryption password. :-D
Pinellas County Running: 5.06 miles, 00:08:58 average pace, 00:45:20 duration
5 miles at marathon pace. what is marathon pace? i do not know yet but was trying to start around 9:10 and see how that felt. it was good but maybe not good for a full marathon at this point.
#running
@movq@www.uninformativ.de That’s neat, good old $\sum_{i=1}^{9} i^3$ (let’s see if yarnd’s markdown parser has LaTeX support or not ;-)).
Mention from https://darch.dk/twtxt.txt in 2024-12-08T20:01:08Z
@sorenpeter@darch.dk test 4.9
Pinellas County - Long Run: 9.54 miles, 00:09:24 average pace, 01:29:36 duration
typical 5km easy then 5km comfortable-uncomfortable followed by another 5km easy. local weather and signs said it was around 48F, very low humidity (the sweat salt stains prove that bit), and just a really nice day out with a breeze. stopped the run after the planned session to get some extra walking in for a stupid garmin challenge.
#running
Termux same thing @doesnm uses and it worked 👍 Media
@doesnm@doesnm.p.psf.lt No it’s all good… I’ve just rebuilt it from master and it doesn’t look like anything is broken:
~/GitRepos> git clone https://github.com/plomlompom/htwtxt.git
Cloning into 'htwtxt'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 411, done.
remote: Total 411 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 411 (from 1)
Receiving objects: 100% (411/411), 87.89 KiB | 430.00 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (238/238), done.
~/GitRepos> cd htwtxt
master ~/GitRepos/htwtxt> go mod init htwtxt
go: creating new go.mod: module htwtxt
go: to add module requirements and sums:
go mod tidy
master ~/GitRepos/htwtxt> go mod tidy
go: finding module for package github.com/gorilla/mux
go: finding module for package golang.org/x/crypto/bcrypt
go: finding module for package gopkg.in/gomail.v2
go: finding module for package golang.org/x/crypto/ssh/terminal
go: found github.com/gorilla/mux in github.com/gorilla/mux v1.8.1
go: found golang.org/x/crypto/bcrypt in golang.org/x/crypto v0.29.0
go: found golang.org/x/crypto/ssh/terminal in golang.org/x/crypto v0.29.0
go: found gopkg.in/gomail.v2 in gopkg.in/gomail.v2 v2.0.0-20160411212932-81ebce5c23df
go: finding module for package gopkg.in/alexcesaro/quotedprintable.v3
go: found gopkg.in/alexcesaro/quotedprintable.v3 in gopkg.in/alexcesaro/quotedprintable.v3 v3.0.0-20150716171945-2caba252f4dc
master ~/GitRepos/htwtxt> go build
master ~/GitRepos/htwtxt> ll
.rw-r--r-- aelaraji aelaraji 330 B Fri Nov 22 20:25:52 2024 go.mod
.rw-r--r-- aelaraji aelaraji 1.1 KB Fri Nov 22 20:25:52 2024 go.sum
.rw-r--r-- aelaraji aelaraji 8.9 KB Fri Nov 22 20:25:06 2024 handlers.go
.rwxr-xr-x aelaraji aelaraji 12 MB Fri Nov 22 20:26:18 2024 htwtxt <-------- There's the binary ;)
.rw-r--r-- aelaraji aelaraji 4.2 KB Fri Nov 22 20:25:06 2024 io.go
.rw-r--r-- aelaraji aelaraji 34 KB Fri Nov 22 20:25:06 2024 LICENSE
.rw-r--r-- aelaraji aelaraji 8.5 KB Fri Nov 22 20:25:06 2024 main.go
.rw-r--r-- aelaraji aelaraji 5.5 KB Fri Nov 22 20:25:06 2024 README.md
drwxr-xr-x aelaraji aelaraji 4.0 KB Fri Nov 22 20:25:06 2024 templates
@bender@twtxt.net + a 9 years old container image by the good ol’ buckket himself … not sure what to expect from that but will give it a quick spin and report back
SPRF Half Marathon: 13.24 miles, 00:09:44 average pace, 02:08:59 duration
started off slow partly due to congestion but also not wanting to push too hard early on after some good sessions the previous day. kept it pretty constant around 9:45-10:00 miles. starting at mile 7 i felt like i had enough in me still to keep it casual but at a slightly faster pace around 9:30. breathing was great, nothing ached, and just pushed through for a great long run session. honestly, this weekend was great.
#running #race
@bender@twtxt.net I now read the German Wikipedia article on fog. These are some really beautiful pictures:
- https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a9/Nebelbank_in_der_W%C3%BCste_Namib_bei_Aus_%282018%29.jpg
- https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/Space_Shuttle_Challenger_moving_through_fog.jpg
- https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/96/Fog_Bow_%2819440790708%29.jpg
- https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ac/360_degrees_fogbow.jpg
Tempo: 4.56 miles, 00:08:55 average pace, 00:40:38 duration
so different without the humidity. everything felt light. 9:31 warm-up and cool down and 8:34 on
#running #treadmill
I demand full 9 digit nano second timestamps and the full TZ identifier as documented in the tz 2024b database! I need to know if there was a change in daylight savings as per the locality in question as of the provided date.
Interesting.. QUIC isn’t very quick over fast internet.
QUIC is expected to be a game-changer in improving web application performance. In this paper, we conduct a systematic examination of QUIC’s performance over high-speed networks. We find that over fast Internet, the UDP+QUIC+HTTP/3 stack suffers a data rate reduction of up to 45.2% compared to the TCP+TLS+HTTP/2 counterpart. Moreover, the performance gap between QUIC and HTTP/2 grows as the underlying bandwidth increases. We observe this issue on lightweight data transfer clients and major web browsers (Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera), on different hosts (desktop, mobile), and over diverse networks (wired broadband, cellular). It affects not only file transfers, but also various applications such as video streaming (up to 9.8% video bitrate reduction) and web browsing. Through rigorous packet trace analysis and kernel- and user-space profiling, we identify the root cause to be high receiver-side processing overhead, in particular, excessive data packets and QUIC’s user-space ACKs. We make concrete recommendations for mitigating the observed performance issues.
Pinellas County - Base: 9.12 miles, 00:09:41 average pace, 01:28:21 duration
nice run. kept it pretty chill albeit humidity was a bitch. before ending my first loop another runner cruised by me and i resisted the urge to join (not that i could have maintained the pace or anything).
#running
@prologic@twtxt.net, does this rings a bell to you? 159-196-9-199.9fc409.mel.nbn.aussiebb.net
Base: 9.33 miles, 00:09:45 average pace, 01:31:02 duration
legs were stiff again for the first four miles, but everything felt relatively easy.
#running #treadmill
Base: 9.15 miles, 00:09:51 average pace, 01:30:05 duration
tired legs. felt overall a bit easy but still feel like i am getting over something.
#running #treadmill
Threshold - 10’ (9:41) 24’ (8:06) 10’ (9:41): 4.79 miles, 00:09:12 average pace, 00:44:03 duration
felt rested but a bit unmotivated. garmin told me to do this and glad i did because it was a big confidence and morale boost. did not feel rough at any but definitely produced buckets of sweat.
#running
Base: 9.33 miles, 00:09:41 average pace, 01:30:21 duration
felt alright. the legs were tight and the knees felt a little weak. note to self: need to be careful and pay attention to any signals from the body.
#running #treadmill
watch -n 60 rm -rf /tmp/yarn-avatar-* in a tmux because all of a sudden, without warning, yarnd started throwing hundreds of gigabytes of files with names like yarn-avatar-62582554 into /tmp, which filled up the entire disk and started crashing other services.
@prologic@twtxt.net I’m still getting this crap:
abucci@buc:~/yarnd/yarn$ ls -lh /tmp/yarnd-avatar-*
-rw------- 1 abucci abucci 863M Jul 25 14:19 /tmp/yarnd-avatar-1594499680
-rw------- 1 abucci abucci 7.8G Jul 25 14:19 /tmp/yarnd-avatar-2144295337
-rw------- 1 abucci abucci 9.8G Jul 25 14:19 /tmp/yarnd-avatar-2334738193
-rw------- 1 abucci abucci 10G Jul 25 14:14 /tmp/yarnd-avatar-2494107777
-rw------- 1 abucci abucci 9.5G Jul 25 13:59 /tmp/yarnd-avatar-2619243454
-rw------- 1 abucci abucci 11G Jul 25 14:04 /tmp/yarnd-avatar-2922187513
-rw------- 1 abucci abucci 7.5G Jul 25 14:14 /tmp/yarnd-avatar-349775570
-rw------- 1 abucci abucci 10G Jul 25 14:09 /tmp/yarnd-avatar-3640724243
-rw------- 1 abucci abucci 901M Jul 25 14:19 /tmp/yarnd-avatar-3921595598
-rw------- 1 abucci abucci 9.5G Jul 25 13:59 /tmp/yarnd-avatar-609094539
-rw------- 1 abucci abucci 9.3G Jul 25 14:04 /tmp/yarnd-avatar-755173392
-rw------- 1 abucci abucci 7.9G Jul 25 14:09 /tmp/yarnd-avatar-984061000
Something like 100 Gbytes of this junk has accumulated since I updated and re-started the server. I’m now running the latest version of yarnd, so the update did not fix the problem. Something else is going wrong.
How are temporary files growing to 10 Gbytes in size? The name of the file is “yarn-avatar”, but why would avatars be so large?
Threshold: 8.00 miles, 00:09:15 average pace, 01:14:00 duration
9:50 for warm-up and cool-down then 8:00 on and 11:30 off three times.
#running #treadmill
Base: 9.00 miles, 00:09:44 average pace, 01:27:34 duration
smooth run. a bit tired since i had to get it done before heading out to weeki wachee for the day.
#running #treadmill
Base: 9.00 miles, 00:10:07 average pace, 01:31:08 duration
this was a fun one. it was suppose to rain and thunder this morning so i was pretty psyched to get out there. but the storm never came. either way it was a good run.
#running
Long run: 9.33 miles, 00:10:21 average pace, 01:36:32 duration
easy run on the treadmill today since we have a lot going on and i had to watch the kiddos. split into three 5kms with first and last at about 10:55 pace, and the middle 5km at about a 9:14 pace. nothing crazy, felt good, kept it in the blue and finished it strong.
#running #treadmill
Base: 9.24 miles, 00:09:45 average pace, 01:30:02 duration
just zoned out and watched some nightmare on elm street
#running #treadmill
I run Plan 9 on my server and my main home workstation (a raspberry pi). My “daily driver” time is basically split between that and a Mac (excluding time on my phone, i suppose). I think it looks elegant, too. :-)

nextvi for plan9 beta (https://adi.onl/nextvi.tgz), if interested please consider donating to my future https://openbsd.amsterdam/ Plan 9 virtual machine. (target is 127 €)
https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=7QXC2F3ANCDC2
Ça va couper chérie : Enedis me prévient, ils vont élaguer. Mon serveur sera donc éteint les mardi et mercredi 9 et 10 juillet. (si je m’en rappelle d’ici là…)
Easy: 9.00 miles, 00:09:44 average pace, 01:27:35 duration
just a long easy run
#running #treadmill
VO2 Max: 5.00 miles, 00:08:56 average pace, 00:44:40 duration
was suppose to be a VO2Max workout… 9:50 warm up and cool down for 10 minutes a piece, then 5 times :20 on and 11:30 off, actually didn’t feel too rough but that may have been a different story if i was not on the treadmill.
#running #treadmill