@prologic@twtxt.net yup yup. Much work to be done, so little time. 😩

@movq@www.uninformativ.de one less dead account! 😅

@bender@twtxt.net Whoohoo! 🥳

Hey, hey, I am back. I lost all my worthless twtxts, but at least I still have the blackjack and hookers!

@movq@www.uninformativ.de well, Bender told me to tell you he will refollow as soon as hos account is rebirth once more.

@prologic@twtxt.net I wonder what this will do to my followers list. I suspect there were a lot of dead accounts out there. 😅

@prologic@twtxt.net NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Very nice 😊

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Haha yeah 🤣 And thanks I’ll take a look but honestly it’ll be fine 😆

@prologic@twtxt.net Spring cleanup! That’s one way to encourage people to self-host their feeds. :-D

Since I’m only interested in the url metadata field for hashing, I do not keep any comments or metadata for that matter, just the messages themselves. The last time I fetched was probably some time yesterday evening (UTC+2). I cannot tell exactly, because the recorded last fetch timestamp has been overridden with today’s by now.

I dumped my new SQLite cache into: https://lyse.isobeef.org/tmp/backup.tar.gz This time maybe even correctly, if you’re lucky. I’m not entirely sure. It took me a few attempts (date and time were separated by space instead of T at first, I normalized offsets +00:00 to Z as yarnd does and converted newlines back to U+2028). At least now the simple cross check with the Twtxt Feed Validator does not yield any problems.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Nah it’s okay 🤣 It would only be a partial restore anyway 😭

@prologic@twtxt.net Well, if we really wanted to, I guess @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org and I could provide you with our copies of that time period. 😆

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Sounds cool! 😎

@movq@www.uninformativ.de We’ll recover just fine right ? 😆 It’s only 4 months worth of posts 😅 Not like it’s the end of the world 😂

@prologic@twtxt.net RIP 💀 Well, shit happens. 😅

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com AWESOMEEEEEEEEEE

@bender@twtxt.net LMFAOOOOOOOO i love jank

@bender@twtxt.net it’s iconic tbh

@prologic@twtxt.net help your live posting is like environmental storytelling

@bender@twtxt.net THANK YOUUUU i love pink!

@prologic@twtxt.net i did not! the retrospring codebase has been around since i was in grade school LOLLLL

@prologic@twtxt.net In all my two Go projects I use modernc.org/sqlite and can’t complain. Works great for me.

@bender@twtxt.net I was a bit confused at first what that is: Apparently, it’s the source code of Altair BASIC: https://gizmonaut.net/soapflakes/EXE-199711.html

(Of course they have a user agent filter. 😂 Can’t download that PDF with wget.)

@bender@twtxt.net Sort of, still fixing bugs. I had so much trouble with this sqlite driver, that in the end I swithced it to another driver and so far so good 😊 fingers crossed 🤞

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz the site i mentioned last week that got flooded by teens? yeah it’s this site, based on the retrospring codebase, it’s a social Q&A site. ask me stuff on there!!!!!!!!

@mana@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz grid has its places but it can be a pain!

@david@collantes.us This pink tree I featured in a few shots is a magnolia tree. I haven’t noticed any particular smell, it just looks pretty. :-) That’s a close-up: https://lyse.isobeef.org/bad-wimpfen-2025-03-28/18.jpg (I only noticed the spider and its web when I reviewed my photos.)

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org those are some pretty flowers! What are they? Do they smell good?

@thecanine@twtxt.net Happy to hear that. :-)

@arne@uplegger.eu I’m very glad I only rarely have to deal with .docx & Co. And when I have to, 99% is in read mode only. Even though, I don’t think that Markdown is the best choice, I use it on a daily basis. Some things, like links, in reStructuredText are better in my opinion.

Jira just resists to switch to Markdown and forces us to use its silly markup language.

For real typesetting, LaTeX is the way to go. But I very, very rarely do that.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Awwwwww! Thank you, that is now in my collection. :-) The other ones aren’t bad either, very nice!

@thecanine@twtxt.net My apologies, mate! :-( As @david@collantes.us pointed out, this was definitely not my intent at all.

For the easter egg hunt, I first looked for a hidden image map link on the pixel dog in the right lower corner itself. Maybe one giant pixel just links to somewhere else, I figured. But I couldn’t find any and then quickly moved on. Hence, I naturally viewed the HTML source. Because where else would be a good hiding place for easter eggs, right?

Next, I noticed the <font> tags. I thought I had read quite some time ago that they are not an HTML5 thing, but wasn’t entirely sure about it. So, I asked the W3C HTML validator. Sure enough. I thought I let you know about the violations. If somebody had found a mistake on my site, I’d love to hear about it, so I could fix it. I’m sorry that my chosen form of report didn’t resonate with you all that well. I reckoned you’ll also find it a bit funny, but I was clearly very wrong on that.

I actually followed the dog cow link to the video, so I ended up on the easter egg. However, I didn’t recognize it as such. ¯_(ツ)_/¯ Oh well.

Regarding my message about the browser quirks: I read your answer that you were arguing against the HTML validator findings. Of course, everybody can do with their sites whatever they likes.

@xuu@txt.sour.is Nice one! 👍

@xuu@txt.sour.is hmmm, maybe I deleted myself.

i can see your twts here: https://watcher.sour.is/?uri=https://eapl.me/tw.txt

@david@collantes.us.. i see this one but it says its dead. https://watcher.sour.is/?uri=https://ferengi.one/twtxt.txt

yep, it looks nice! How could add my URL?
Is it following the same endpoints than https://registry.twtxt.org/swagger-ui/#/users/addUser ?

BTW, I think that the usage section has a wrong base URL or something.

For example if you enter here: https://watcher.sour.is/conv/4rx5iyq
It says to look for this URL: https://watcher.sour.is/conv/4rx5iyq/api/plain/users

Which seems to return the content from https://watcher.sour.is

@thecanine@twtxt.net I came by to see it. I liked it! I think it all matches quite well the pixel style you are well-known for.

@xuu@txt.sour.is that’s mighty cool! Add me to it? Add @quark@ferengi.one too! How often does it run?

Hi, So i made a little MVP registry crawler tool for twtxt. It now has a basic UI to play with. It has a somewhat full history back to about 2018-ish. Plus some interesting bits that were timestamped to earlier.

Find it here: https://watcher.sour.is

Code base is found here: https://git.sour.is/sour-is/xt

@thecanine@twtxt.net for what is worth, I don’t think @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org intention was to insinuate your website sucked (though it may well do, but again, not his intent, I am sure). I see it more like a technical jest, and a good one at it. It was fun! Isn’t that the intent of April Fools’, after all?

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org The bird in the wallpaper? That’s a photo from a trip to a local zoo. 😃 This little guy was sitting in one of the bushes and didn’t mind people getting rather close. Full version and more from that day.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I do agree “the rules of the web”, are far too loose - at least the syntax ones. I do think backwards compatibility is necessary.

As for my website, it might be visually very similar, to how it looked since its creation, many years ago, but it is frequently improved. Features that originally used JavaScript, changed to HTML and CSS components, code simplified, optimised to withstand browser updates and new screen resolutions,… Even a good chunk of the errors on your list, were already addressed and I plan to address the rest soon.

Just find it a bit depressing, that my attempt to bring back some of the old Internet spirit, by making a hidden easteregg page page for this years April 1st, was met with people complaining about April fools day jokes and you insinuating my website sucks.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Sorry for being completely offtopic, but that’s a really cute bird! :-)

@arne@uplegger.eu ;-)

@bender@twtxt.net Hahaha, YMMD! :-D

@prologic@twtxt.net you mean, “I’ll ix this oon 😂” ™

@prologic@twtxt.net @eapl.me@eapl.me I want to highlight another social problem: People don’t read. Paper industry is a bad moment because people don’t pay for books; it does not matter if it is a physical or digital platform. I have this information because I have a good friend who left the industry after publishing a magazine, books and working in an editorial. DRM is a try to give some more money.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I’m allways on the frontline! 🙃

probably this one https://yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz/user/kat/twtxt.txt

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz

@movq@www.uninformativ.de @xuu@txt.sour.is That sounds like kat! :-)

Is there some Makefile shenanigans going on maybe? $V and $C being swallowed by the Makefile. I fell in that trap again the other day.