What is twtxt for me? It is a community of users sharing plain text following a specification that can be readable by both humans and machines.

For some it is a microblogging platform, for others it is a social network, others see it as an enhanced RSS feed and a few consider it a hacker’s toy. I use it as a learning platform. And as collateral damage, I’m meeting some very interesting people.

And for you?

@prologic@twtxt.net

Chapter 7:

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Chapter 8:

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@movq@www.uninformativ.de nice!!! i wanna try snac it looks sooo fun

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz Oh, yes, it’s probably going to be something like gotosocial or snac. It’s got to be as lightweight as possible. (I call this whole thing “Mastodon”, but you’re right, that’s not quite correct. 😅)

I have released new updates to the twtxt.el client.

• New feature: Notifications.
  
• Updated: Improved user interface for new posts.
  
• Updated: Documentation.
  
• Updated: Some UI elements and included information about shortcuts in each buffer.
  
• Minor fixes.
  Source code: https://codeberg.org/deadblackclover/twtxt-el
  In the next version: You will be able to send direct messages.
  Enjoy!
  #emacs #twtxt #twtxtel

@movq@www.uninformativ.de mastodon is probably the worst fedi software to self host tbh, you might wanna check out gotosocial? not to like pull you in another direction but idk masto is just suuuuper heavy lol

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Doing the devil’s work:

https://movq.de/v/b895c14411/los86-shell-cursor-history.mp4

Better than nothing. 😅

@thecanine@twtxt.net It suits your site very well, but I find this font hard to read. In any case, keep on pixeling.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Haha! Yeah, I really don’t know if that’s the best translation.

@xuu@txt.sour.is How’s traveling the stars going? :-)

@prologic@twtxt.net @andros@twtxt.andros.dev

more examples:

2020 Jan1 New Year's Day @yearly
2020 jan 3Mon Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr Day @yearly
2020 feb 3Mon President's Day @yearly
2020 may -1Mon Memorial Day @yearly
2020 jun19 Juneteenth @yearly
2020 jul1 Independence Day @yearly
2020 jul24 Pioneer Day @yearly
2020 sept 1Mon Labor Day @yearly
2020 oct 2Mon Columbus Day @yearly
2020 nov11 Veteran's Day @yearly
2020 nov 4Thur Thanksgiving Day @yearly
2020 dec25 Christmas Day @yearly

2025-01 Fri [ ] Take out Trash @weekly
2024-10-17 Thu [x] (A) Did this and that completed:2024-10-18
2025-10-18
	[ ] (A) Submit important papers
	[ ] (B) Work on +ProjectB
	- some note
2024-10-21 
	- some notes about things to remember for Monday
	[ ] Do that
[ ] Travel the stars

@prologic@twtxt.net Chapter 6:

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@prologic@twtxt.net chapter 5:

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@prologic@twtxt.net SUUUPER CATCHY it’s been stuck in my head all day

Bit of an update, there is now a general licence for all my stuff:

“Unless projects are accompanied by a different license, Creative Commons apply (“BY-NC-ND” for all art featuring the Canine mascot and “BY-NC” for everything else).”

It’s even included on my website, where most of the demand for a clear licence originated from:

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In practice this changes nothing, as I was never enforcing anything more than this anyway and given permission for other use too. Now it’s just official that this is the baseline, of what can be done, without having to ask for permission first.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Ha, “imps”, when I read imps, I think of these guys: https://dungeonkeeper.fandom.com/wiki/Imp 😂

@prologic@twtxt.net I created a script for your book. i have only done the first two chapters. have to do some adjustments to the text so it sounds ok and that takes time..

https://git.sour.is/xuu/piper

@movq@www.uninformativ.de :-D

In the meantime, I tried to add English subtitles, so the international audience has a chance of enjoying some of them, too. There are a bunch of puns, so translations don’t work at that great.

I went to an exhibition of my fine arts teacher who passed away last year. He was a pretty cool dude and good teacher. I reckon I had him in 7th and probably also 8th grade. His Schelme (imps) were very famous here in this county and presumably well beyond.

Unfortunately, picture frame glas doesn’t mix all that great with a fairly dark light and my camera. So, sorry in adavance for the poor quality. Anyway, I photographed a few funny paintings. Watch out, it may contain saucy contents: https://lyse.isobeef.org/siegfried-wagner-farrenstall-2025-03-15/.

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz this is how i find out the videos are capped at a minute

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org „Kann … enthalten“? 🤣 Ein Schelm, dieser Schelm.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Hahaha, nice! :-D I had to check the solution to get it. It’s a good one.

@prologic@twtxt.net LSAgIFE6IFdoYXQgZG9lcyBhIGhlbiBkbz8KLSAgIEE6IEl0IGxheXMgZWdncy4K 😅

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz this is also why most of my sites are pink

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org That is pretty impressive indeed. 😳

@prologic@twtxt.net @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Time to win the lottery already! Damn, how hard can it be. 😂

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz I know her from iZombie, which is also pretty good. 😅 Have it on DVD, even.

@xuu@txt.sour.is Yeah looks like an edge case. Because of the way he announces his preferred nick in the feed the “Reply” button spits out @eapl.me@eapl.me@eapl.me for me, which then gets eaten as two mentions, probably matching twice against my following list?

@prologic@twtxt.net how come when you reply to eapl.me it doubles up? bug?

@eapl.me@eapl.me@eapl.me@eapl.me I replied in the fork, but essentially there’s no reason we can’t support two different models here. We already do this anyway with numerous single-user, single hosted and managed feeds + a bunch of multi-user yarnd pods that form a “distributed network”.

My twtxt feed is now also available at gemini://roccodrom.de/twtxt.txt

I’d like to know more about what andros and prologic are talking about, I feel lost.

“This will be managed by Registries.” Are we talking about these registries?
https://twtxt.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user/registry.html

@prologic@twtxt.net thank you! no clue what’s causing it for me but it’s probably something stupid

@movq@www.uninformativ.de rose mciver!!!!!!! i know her from power rangers lol

@movq@www.uninformativ.de @prologic@twtxt.net Dito. Even though I only had four day weeks and three days of weekend the last month, I feel very exhausted as well. Back to five days next week. :-(

@movq@www.uninformativ.de That’s cool! I just can’t justify the amount of space it permanently takes. But it fits nicely with the other gauges you have. And with that in mind, it actually is super tiny.

@eapl.me@eapl.me Interesting, I wasn’t aware that other parts of the world consider them to be a German thing :-)

@prologic@twtxt.net yes! Of course. However give me some time, I want to define a small proposal for the Registry (v2?)

@arne@uplegger.eu Das ist ein recht zuverlässiger Wetterbericht. Wenn die Bauern mit ihren Güllefässern hier vorbeifahren, weiß ich sofort, dass Regen angekündigt ist. :-)

Ha, das Lied gefällt mir außerordentlich gut! \o/ Mit Abstand das beste Güllelied. Ich kenn noch ein paar schwäbische, aber die gehen lang nicht so ab wie dieses hier.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Ah, yes, a calendar that shows the past $x months is great! I have this as a widget in my bar:

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Before that I also used something like cal. It works, but it’s a bit cumbersome.

@eapl.me@eapl.me @bender@twtxt.net @prologic@twtxt.net Not including a photo was a stupid move, sorry. There you go:

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This particular one is 95mm wide and 185mm high. Fairly compact.

I can only use it figure out distances to other dates and to do some basic calendar math. I’m not able to actually schedule anything. But I grew up with a month calendar like you have there where all appointments of the entire family was recorded.

By far most of my paper use is drawing random stuff on scratch paper during meetings. :-D

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@arne@uplegger.eu Ah, witzige Geschichte! Ich fürchte, der Eberhardt wird sich nun bei mir auch festsetzen. ;-)

@prologic@twtxt.net @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I like to listen to you.

@prologic@twtxt.net If it develops, and I’m not saying it will happen soon, perhaps Yarn could be connected as an additional node. Implementation would not be difficult for any client or software. It will not only be a backup of twtxt, but it will be the source for search, discovery and network health.

I’m sharing a short tutorial, in Spanish, for self-hosting #twtxt with Docker:
https://programadorwebvalencia.com/twtxt-desplegar-tu-feed-con-docker/

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Nein nein, nichts plattdeutsches. “Eberhardt Eichhörnchen” ist eine nette Alliteration und kommt aus einem Urlaub von vor ein paar Jahren. Auf dem Campingplatz gab es ein Eichhörnchen und der Eberhardt war durch eine Handwerkerwerbung präsent.

@andros@twtxt.andros.dev If something fits in a CSV file, it typically doesn’t require a database. I agree with that. Depending on the application, more complicated queries might benefit from a database, though. I don’t know awk very well, but I could imagine that grep, sed and cut reach their CSV processing limits rather quickly when you have to deal with escaped (multiline) fields.

I only very rarely have to deal with CSV files or databases in my day to day life. Maybe, these classic Unix tools offer some tricks I’m not aware of. When I have some more complicated CSV input, I generally reach for Python.

@eapl.me@eapl.me @arne@uplegger.eu @andros@twtxt.andros.dev Thanks mates!

Hmmm, Eberhardt. Ist das eine plattdeutsche Sache? Dass ich den flinken Nagern so lang zuschauen konnte, war ein seltener Glücksfall. Normalerweise sind die nach fünf oder spätestens zehn Minuten wieder aus dem Sichtfeld verschwunden.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yeah, horizontal scrolling is an invention right from the devil himself. :-D It’s awful, I can’t stand it.

pls elaborate on a ‘p2p database’, ‘all story’ and ‘Registries’.

My first thought takes me to something like secure-scuttlebutt which it’s painful to sync data using clients, and too slow compared to downloading a text file.

Also I’d like for twtxt to avoid becoming an ActivityPub. Works well but it’s uses too many resources IMO.
https://kingant.net/2025/02/mastodon-the-cost-of-running-my-own-server/

I’m defending being able to self-host your Web client (like you’d do with a Wordpress, twtxt is a micrologging, at the end), instead of federated instances, so in a first thought I’d say Registries have many disadvantages being the first one that someone has to maintain them active.

What does the #twtxt community think about having a p2p database to store all history? This will be managed by Registries.

@prologic@twtxt.net We often turn to a database when we can use a plain text file, such as a CSV. With sed or awk, you can run simple queries without using a database.
Did I get the context right? 😀

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Bei mir heißen Eichhörnchen immer “Eberhardt” (unisex). Den Tierchen könnte ich stundenlang zuschauen.
Trotz “Zoomschwäche”: Tolle Bilder.