@andros@twtxt.andros.dev Zulu said:
what is twtxt for you?
For me Twtxt is just the underlying format that Yarn.social builds upon 😅
@andros@twtxt.andros.dev Ahh cool! I’ll try following it again 🤣 Mind @-mentioning/linking@twtxt.net the feed again? 🙏
@quark@ferengi.one I know! I saw three Hacker News posts on it in a row 🤣
@andros@twtxt.andros.dev Haha 🤣 We’ve explored this idea in the past and we decided that it’s actually a good idea to have an “append-only” feed for various reasons. We’ve also explored the idea of using Range requests, but opted instead to just archive/rotate our feeds periodically 😅 There really isn’t much point in having a feed in reverse chronological order, except (maybe?) so a human read view the new twts at the top of the file?! 🤣
@prologic@twtxt.net “curated” channels (you can see the guide to see the topics it covers), without the ability to fast forward, nor pause. You know, like live television.
@bender@twtxt.net This is just a website that cycles through random Youtube channels? 🤔
I guess mentions with .(s) / dot(s) like @eapl.me@eapl.me are valid? 🤔 Or nicks even? 🤔
@prologic@twtxt.net check this out. It will make YouTube great again. :-P
Fantastic game! Find 5 dates by looking at 5 photos.
https://whichyr.com/
Proposal: Change the order of twts in the feeds
https://git.mills.io/yarnsocial/twtxt.dev/issues/26
I drop the bomb and leave! 💣 🏃➡️
#twtxt
@bender@twtxt.net I use it. It’s not the feature I use the most in the fediverse, but I communicate this way with several friends. For example, it’s the main way I talk to the original creator of the twtxt-el repository, the way people greet me for the first time or the way they notify me of some bugs in the software I maintain. I can even tell you that it’s the main way I talk to some maintainers of the Emacs community. If there are any of you reading my words, speak up!
Why not have the same? There are things I want to say to @prologic@twtxt.net in private, why should I have to send him an email or private IRC? Or an public twt.
Of course, here’s a topic we’ve already talked about: what is twtxt for you? For me it will always be a social network, in microblogging format, but an asynchronous way of communicating. And having a tool to control visibility is basic 😄
I look forward to hearing from you @eapl.me@eapl.me !
dm-only.txt feeds. 😂
After reading you, @eapl.me@eapl.me, I’ll tell you my point of view.
In my opinion, a feed does not have to be equivalent to a timeline. A timeline is a representation of the feed adapted to a user. You may not be interested in seeing other people’s threads or DMs. But perhaps they are interested in seeing mentions or DMs directed at them. It is important not to fall into the trap. With that clarification…
I insist, this is my point of view, it is not an absolute truth: I don’t think extensions should be respectful of customers who are no longer maintained.
We cannot have a system that is simple, backwards compatible and extensible all at the same time. We have to give up some of the 3 points. I would not like to give up simplicity because it will then make it harder to maintain the customers who do stay. Therefore, I think it is better to give up backwards compatibility and play with new formulas in the extensions. I don’t think it’s a good idea to make a hash keep so much load: a hashtag, a thread and also a DM.
si4er3q. See https://twtxt.dev/exts/twt-hash.html, a timezone offset of +00:00 or -00:00 must be replaced by Z.
@movq@www.uninformativ.de @aelaraji@aelaraji.com Yes @david@collantes.us It would be good for me, or new developers, if the documentation were agnostic. And if possible with many example cases. I’m fine-tuning the code as you inform me of bugs, trial and error. It’s a lesson to be learned for the future.
@prologic@twtxt.net Sorry! I have fixed a bug and I edited the feed 🫠
@bender@twtxt.net Ahh yes you caught me 🤣
@prologic@twtxt.net really? Then we have a problem with bulleted lists. Let me see:
- This is one.
- This is two.
- This is three, and final.
@bender@twtxt.net Not copy/paste 🤣 Hand on heart! ❤️ However it was a pretty nice article 😅
@prologic@twtxt.net was this a copy and paste? I am betting $100 it was. DM me for more information. 😅
@prologic@twtxt.net regex is unholy what am i looking at
@prologic@twtxt.net i saw this! so fucked up
Getting Forked by Microsoft • Philip Laine 👈 Yet another pretty sad story of a megacorp (Microsoft) being total assholes 😢
Regex Isn’t Hard - Tim Kellogg 👈 this is a pretty good conscience article on regexes, and I agree, regex isn’t that hard™ – However I think I can make the TL;DR even shorter 😅
Regex core subset (portable across languages):
Character sets
• a matches “a”
• [a-z] any lowercase
• [a-zA-Z0-9] alphanumeric
• [^ab] any char but a or b
Repetition (applies to the preceding atom)
• ? zero or one
• * zero or more
• + one or more
Groups
• (ab)+ matches “ab”, “abab”, …
• Capture for extract/substitute via $1 or \1
Operators
• foo|bar = foo or bar
• ^ start anchor
• $ end anchor
Ignore non‑portable shortcuts: \w, ., {n}, *?, lookarounds.
@bender@twtxt.net No worries 😉
@prologic@twtxt.net your father, and I, will be very happy. Thank you!
@bender@twtxt.net Lemme look at the old backup…
@prologic@twtxt.net I don’t recall; ask prologic! :-D. I know your father has also mentioned it in the past (one thing I know him and I agree with, LOL).
@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz it’s fixed now but lol i’m so good at this stuff aren’t i
good morning everyone. before going to bed last night i accidentally password protected the entirety of my biggest site superlove because i botched a refactor of my caddyfile config. lmao
@prologic@twtxt.net your live posting when something goes wrong is environmental storytelling it’s so funny help
@kingdomcome@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz at least ur hair kicks ass….
I am up to increase the length of a twtxt, though.
Recall what we had this set to for this pod? 🧐
@bender@twtxt.net Really? Wow! 😂
yarnd UI/UX experience (for those that use it) and as "client" features (not spec changes). The two ideas are quite simple:
@bender@twtxt.net Hah 🤣
@prologic@twtxt.net meanwhile we have all Korean shamans busy asking for rain. We haven’t had rain for over a month, and the next possibility is at week’s end, this week. Keeping fingers crossed!
And yes, UPS everything! We even have UPSes on TVs.
😢 Pope Francis has died on Easter Monday at age of 88 - Vatican News: https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2025-04/pope-francis-dies-on-easter-monday-aged-88.html
@prologic@twtxt.net That was a different view: https://movq.de/v/7fb10a825d/picam-small.mp4 🎥