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@lyse Oh wow, we’re talking about such a detailed level. 🤔
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yeah, that would also be fine with me. I certainly do like the “arbitrary” in your comment.
While writing the article, I also thought about something like that:
date := time.Date(2026, 6, 19,
17, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC)
Or possibly:
date := time.Date(
2026, 6, 19,
17, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC,
)
But it’s four lines for a damn timestamp. I also contemplated whether a comment acting as a separator is all that’s needed:
date := time.Date(2026, 6, 19, /**/ 17, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC)
I might like that the most. Not entirely sure yet. It kinda feels like a hack, but still a little elegant. Add your comment on top and we’re golden. Maybe?
I deliberately excluded them as this only distracted from the points I wanted to make. And I also realized that this example was just not ideal at all. Perhaps I should add them nevertheless?
If I ever invented a programming language, a much more human readable timestamp representation of some sort, RFC 3339 or very close to that would be part of that language. Something along the lines of /pattern/ for regexes in certain languages.
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In the light of current events, I will first consult my pillow and only then write an article about readable code.
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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Oh wow, we’re talking about such a detailed level. 🤔
I agree with most of what you said.
I probably would have written it like this:
// Arbitrary reference date.
// Y m d H M S nano
date := time.Date(2026, 6, 19, 17, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC)
Would this be better or worse? 😅
Oh come on! Why such a stupid anti-feature!?
WARNING: Your yt-dlp version (2026.03.17) is older than 90 days!
It is strongly recommended to always use the latest version. You cannot update when running from source code; Use git to pull the latest changes. To suppress this warning, add --no-update to your command/config.
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I went to check on the fireflies this season. But I didn't see any. Instead lots of moths. At first, I thought it might have been still too light, but it was already dark enough for me to miss and destroy a snail shell. Bummer. Maybe it was too wet tonight. Although, it's probably just another or two weeks until my glowing friends will finally show up.
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@bender@twtxt.net Hell yeah, we’ve seen the first fireflies of the season! \o/ \o/ \o/ How cool! Maybe 50-70 in total. Gotta check every evening now. :-)
The sunset wasn’t too bad when I left the house to pick up my mate: https://lyse.isobeef.org/abendhimmel-2026-06-17/
It’s Venus over the moon. And Jupiter is further diagonally down between the clouds.
In Magic today, the Phyrexian Invasion failed in the first game, but the second game was EPIC!
I played my (unlisted) Dragons 2: Draconic Boogaloo deck, and…
Turn 1: Nothing special
Turn 2: Miirym (when a dragon enters, copy it)
Turn 3: Tiamat (choose 5 dragons from deck, put in hand)
Turn 4: Klauth (when dragons attack, create mana equal to their total power)
I attacked with all 5 dragons, which made 28 mana x2 = 56(!) mana.
Then (still turn 4) I played Scourge of Valkas (when a dragon enters, deal damage to target equal to number of dragons) + 5 other dragons, dealing 6 + 2 x (7+8+9+10+11+12+13+14+15+16+17) = 270(!) direct damage (more than double enough to kill the other 3 players).
Damn fine win, if I do say so myself.
The weathermen just cannot be right with their 20°C today, it must have been more. It was awfully hot, the light breeze was not enough and even absent most of the time. In the shade, it was alright. Other than that, the walk to the dairy farm and back was really beautiful. Very lovely scenery.
Somebody spilled their paintbox at sunset. Unfortunately, I missed to reinsert the SD card into my camera, so I could not take more photos of Azabache and his new mate. They quickly disappeared. He even landed right next to my window, so that would have been a killer shot.
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Just a couple of shots from our trip to Bald Rock—finally got reception so I can share them!
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@prologic@twtxt.net Awwwwwwww! I love these stripes, very cool!
Oh, I bet these inclines are no joke. I also know one about 200 meters long terribly steep dirt path up a hill around here. Climbing that is super exhausting. I just looked it up on a map. And it’s just ~17° or ~30% incline. Okay, that’s absolutely nothing compared to your adventure. :-D
But you got your exercises for the day then. Which will make for an even greater sleep tonight. ;-)
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@lyse Thanks for the heads-up.
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@itsericwoordward@itsericwoodward.com @bender@twtxt.net Well, even hard-reloading doesn’t change anything. I also just noticed that hovering over the tab title makes it completely invisible. In contrast to the buttons, here, the text color is exactly the same as the background color:
https://lyse.isobeef.org/tmp/screenshot-2026-03-31-17-22-51.png
Since I prefer the light theme, that’s no big deal for me. 8-)
There was an endless coming and going of sun, clouds and rain. Not to forget about the wind. I called it quits a bit earlier and went into the woods.
Towards the end I was completeley surrounded by rain curtains in all directions. This looked super cool. I thought I might make it home just in time without having to use my umbrella, but the rain clouds were way quicker than I anticipated. Just after the rain hit me, I met an acquaintance who just started his walk. The wind picked up hard and rain hammered down, mixed with snow. Holding the umbrella was a workout. Shortly after I returned, the rain stopped again.
I didn’t notice the kestrel sitting on the tree when I took the last photo. That was a nice surprise when I sorted through the nearly 300 pics.
My mate and I went on a hike earlier. Yesterday, we had lovely 12°C. But today, it was down to at most 4°C. Oh well. At least the sun was out and and there was just a tiny bit of wind. We knew upfont that scarf, beanie and gloves were mandatory. Especially at the more windy sections like up top the hills. The view was absolutely terrible, but we made the best of it.
With the sun shining on us during our lunch break at a forest edge bench, we still enjoyed the lookout in 01. I brought some old carpet scraps to sit on and was happily surprised that they isolated even better than I had hoped for. Some hot tea helped us staying warm.
After five hours we returned just after sunset. I’m quite tired now, completely out of shape.
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I had no meetings this arvo, so I made an appointment with the woods in my extended lunch break. The 6°C warm sun was out all day long and there was only a very light breeze. So, a very nice autumn day.
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17, 21, and 22 are my favourites. Thank you for sharing! On 17, the pulley might be dangerously hanging, but if you manage to make it work, you will have a couple of nails to use! :-D
We had some gray soup with the occasional fine rain with strong wind gusts. Despite the bad forecast we took the train to Geislingen/Steige and strolled up to the Helfenstein castle ruin. All the colorful leaves were so beautiful, it didn’t matter that the sun was behind thick layers of clouds.
We then continued to the Ödenturm (lit. boring tower). By then the wind had picked up by quite a bit, just as the weatherman predicted. We were very positively surprised that the Swabian Jura Association had opened up the tower. Between May and October, the tower is typically only manned on Sundays and holidays between 10 and 17 o’clock. But yesterday was Saturday and no holiday. The lovely lady up there told us that they’re currently experimenting with opening up on Saturday, too, because there are some highly motivated members responsible for the tower.
We were the very first visitors on that day. Last Sunday, when the weather lived up to the weekday’s name, they counted 128 people up in the tower. Very impressive.
The wind gusts were howling around the tower. Luckily, there are glass windows. So, it was quite pleasant up in the tower room. Chatting with the tower guard for a while, we got even luckier: the sun came out! That was really awesome. The photos don’t do justice. As always, it looked way more stunning in person.
Thanks to all the volunteers who make it possible to enjoy the view from the thirty odd meters up there. That certainly made our day!
After signing the guestbook we climbed down the staircase and returned to the station and headed back. The train even arrived on time. What a great little trip!
https://lyse.isobeef.org/wanderung-auf-die-burgruine-helfenstein-und-den-oedenturm-2025-10-25/
Playing Troy Pierce - Tresor Berlin 3.3.17 at home.. just good music and #NixOS
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@itsericwoodward @bender this is vaguely concerning...does yarn refresh feeds every minute or two? or is there some special "notify twtxt.net to refresh my feed" that i don't know about
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@zvava@twtxt.net yarnd fetches the feeds roughly every ten minutes:
grep twtxt.net www/logs/twtxt.log | cut -d ' ' -f1 | tail -n 20
2025-10-04T07:00:45+02:00
2025-10-04T07:10:26+02:00
2025-10-04T07:22:43+02:00
2025-10-04T07:30:45+02:00
2025-10-04T07:40:48+02:00
2025-10-04T07:52:59+02:00
2025-10-04T08:00:07+02:00
2025-10-04T08:13:33+02:00
2025-10-04T08:23:13+02:00
2025-10-04T08:31:22+02:00
2025-10-04T08:41:29+02:00
2025-10-04T08:53:25+02:00
2025-10-04T09:03:31+02:00
2025-10-04T09:11:42+02:00
2025-10-04T09:23:11+02:00
2025-10-04T09:29:49+02:00
2025-10-04T09:36:17+02:00
2025-10-04T09:46:33+02:00
2025-10-04T09:58:40+02:00
2025-10-04T10:06:54+02:00
I suspect that the timing was just right. Or wrong, depending on how you’re looking at it. ;-)
@aelaraji@aelaraji.com, I mean to follow up here on the brief exchange we had on irc.mills.io, but I forgot. Never too late, so here it goes:
18:16 <aelaraji> quark 🙏 much appreciated but it won't be necessary, since there isn't much to miss out on in most of where I hang out, so I could just disconnect and spare everyone else the noise
18:17 *** aelaraji (aelaraji@776014f5a3edd32f1ed19658b7b85c8c655945b0feacaedd92fe60e61a3c0ae2) has quit (/ME goes "yeeeeet..!")
18:18 <quark> No noise for me.
18:18 <quark> It’s all good.
18:18 <quark> What would IRC be without on/offs?
18:19 <quark> Preeeety boring!
18:19 <quark> Ah, he was gone.
18:19 <quark> Well, I will twtxt this to him. LOL.
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nicks? i remember reading somewhere whitespace should not be allowed, but i don't see it in the spec on twtxt.dev — in fact, are there any other resources on twtxt extensions outside of twtxt.dev?
@zvava@twtxt.net @movq@www.uninformativ.de I’m not entirely sure about the spaces, but maybe they were omitted to simplify parsing of mentions in the form of @<nick url>. If the next token after the @<nick does not look like a URL, it’s not a mention but regular text. This is just wild guessing, though.
Looking at the regex and tests in the original twtxt reference implementation seems to confirm that theory in the sense as it relies on whitespace as the delimiter:
https://lyse.isobeef.org/tmp/screenshot-2025-09-17-21-30-25.png
Another thing about nicks is that the original twtxt reference implementation converts nicks to all lowercase:
https://lyse.isobeef.org/tmp/screenshot-2025-09-17-21-20-39.png
You probably know this already, the original twtxt file format specification can be found here: https://twtxt.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user/twtxtfile.html
As for extensions, I don’t know of anything outside of twtxt.dev that has actually been (partially) implemented. However, there is also the issue tracker of the official reference implementation. You might wanna dig through that. For example, there is an alternative suggestions of multiline messages: https://github.com/buckket/twtxt/issues/157
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i went to a rilo kiley concert the other day and it was so special to me... i teared up at some of the songs but when "a better son/daughter" came on, i full on cried. what an amazing experience.
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@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz Ten stories or more are already very tall in my books. Not sure at which height I would start calling high rise buildings sky scrapers, but Wikipedia suggests around 150 meters, depending on region.
Oh, I just found https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f1/Pier_17_2018-03_jeh.jpg and this really does not look all that high. I thought that this would be at least 50 or 100 meters up. I was completely wrong. :-D
Good morning. Driving the dot matrix printer from my little real-mode toy OS. 🖨️
(This is just a wrapper around BIOS INT 17. I love it nonetheless. 😅)
A mate visted me and we went on a few hours long hike. We came across a mythical creature in its natural habitat:
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OpenBSD has the wonderful
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pledge() and unveil() syscalls:
On today’s research journey on pledge(…)/unveil(…)/landlock/capabilities I came across the great EWONTFIX blog, in particular this article here: https://ewontfix.com/17/ Super interesting.
Saw this on Mastodon:
https://racingbunny.com/@mookie/114718466149264471
18 rules of Software Engineering
- You will regret complexity when on-call
- Stop falling in love with your own code
- Everything is a trade-off. There’s no “best” 3. Every line of code you write is a liability 4. Document your decisions and designs
- Everyone hates code they didn’t write
- Don’t use unnecessary dependencies
- Coding standards prevent arguments
- Write meaningful commit messages
- Don’t ever stop learning new things
- Code reviews spread knowledge
- Always build for maintainability
- Ask for help when you’re stuck
- Fix root causes, not symptoms
- Software is never completed
- Estimates are not promises
- Ship early, iterate often
- Keep. It. Simple.
Solid list, even though 14 is up for debate in my opinion: Software can be completed. You have a use case / problem, you solve that problem, done. Your software is completed now. There might still be bugs and they should be fixed – but this doesn’t “add” to the program. Don’t use “software is never done” as an excuse to keep adding and adding stuff to your code.
this week im going to turn 17, thats a bad news.
São da Universidade do Porto 29 das “Mulheres na Ciência” 2025: https://noticias.up.pt/2025/04/17/sao-da-u-porto-29-das-mulheres-na-ciencia-de-2025/
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Today's stroll was really nice. Just around 11km in total I'd reckon. We had a barbie at a mate's garden where everybody went on a hunt for an easter basket. Oh boy, what a preparation that must have been! Baking the bunnies, dying the eggs, mixing the bear leek butter and so on. That's dedication, let me tell you. :-)
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@bender@twtxt.net Thanks! The rain rapidly cooled off the 17°C to just 10°C. I certainly appreciated that. The weather is coming from the west here, so I thought you’ve sent it our way. Let me try to return it. :-)
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@lyse It wasn’t our building, yeah, luckily. But I’m pretty scared it might happen some day. I think I’ll put more effort into preparing for that. But whatever I do, it would be horrific to lose all your stuff and the memories attached to it …
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de That is a good question, I’ve been on v0.17.3 for some time. In the past there has been one scheme update that I remember and the there was no issue. Maybe this next week I will try out v0.18 and post back.
I really don’t mess with it being on a cron so tend to forget until I need it :-)
U.S.-born man from Georgia held for ICE under Florida’s new anti-immigration law
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I wonder if my current Linux installation will actually make it to 20 years:
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$ head -n 1 /var/log/pacman.log
[2015-10-16 17:08] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -r /mnt -Sy --cachedir=/mnt/var/cache/pacman/pkg base base-devel'
Mine is 4,5 years behind!
This is a reminder to have a look to S.M.A.R.T. data I guess O:)
Test:
this is a code block
[2025-04-08 17:50:00] with a timestamp in brackets
The end.
@andros@twtxt.andros.dev Can you reproduce any of this outside of your client? I can’t spot a mistake here:
$ curl -sI 'http://movq.de/v/8684c7d264/.html%2Dindex%2Dthumb%2Dgimp11%2D1.png.jpg'
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Length: 2615
Content-Type: image/jpeg
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2025 19:53:17 GMT
Last-Modified: Wed, 19 Mar 2025 17:34:08 GMT
Server: OpenBSD httpd
$ curl -sI 'https://movq.de/v/8684c7d264/gimp11%2D1.png'
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Length: 131798
Content-Type: image/png
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2025 19:53:19 GMT
Last-Modified: Wed, 19 Mar 2025 17:18:07 GMT
Server: OpenBSD httpd
$ telnet movq.de 80
Trying 185.162.249.140...
Connected to movq.de.
Escape character is '^]'.
HEAD /v/8684c7d264/.html%2Dindex%2Dthumb%2Dgimp11%2D1.png.jpg HTTP/1.1
Host: movq.de
Connection: close
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Connection: close
Content-Length: 2615
Content-Type: image/jpeg
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2025 19:53:31 GMT
Last-Modified: Wed, 19 Mar 2025 17:34:08 GMT
Server: OpenBSD httpd
Connection closed by foreign host.
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Pinellas County - Long run: 17.05 miles, 00:10:54 average pace, 03:05:47 duration
the first 14 miles felt good, the first 10 felt great. then the humidity and yesterday’s run got me i think and the last 3 miles were killer
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calendar.txt: Keep your calendar in a plain text file
https://terokarvinen.com/2021/calendar-txt/
It's a lot of fun to have a calendar system.
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@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
Heute ging es einmal wieder ins Kino. Zu “Mickey 17”. Ein SciFi Comedy Drama über einen armen Retorten-Teufel, mit einem kritischen Blick auf die Gegenwart. Der Film hat mir viel Spaß gemacht.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=osYpGSz_0i4
lang=en @xuu@txt.sour.is gotcha!
From that PR #17 I think it was reverted? We could discuss about metadata later this month, as it seems that I’m the only person using it.
I’ve added a [lang=en] to this twt to see current yarn behaviour.
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@eapl.me There are several points that I like, but I want to highlight number 7. https://text.eapl.mx/a-few-ideas-for-a-next-twtxt-version #twtxt
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TwtAttrs
https://git.mills.io/yarnsocial/go-lextwt/pulls/17
Actually it was your old feed on eapl.mx
TwtAttrs
https://git.mills.io/yarnsocial/go-lextwt/pulls/17
Actually it was your old feed on eapl.mx
Pinellas County - 3 mile run: 3.18 miles, 00:09:17 average pace, 00:29:34 duration
Pinellas County - 3 mile run: 3.17 miles, 00:09:12 average pace, 00:29:07 duration
legs are soooo tight. felt light though.
#running
Pinellas County - 3 mile run: 3.17 miles, 00:09:10 average pace, 00:29:04 duration
Pinellas County - 6 mile run: 6.06 miles, 00:09:18 average pace, 00:56:17 duration
good run. calves tight but kept it lightish.
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Pinellas County - 3 mile run: 3.17 miles, 00:08:59 average pace, 00:28:30 duration
Pinellas County - 3 mile run: 3.17 miles, 00:09:08 average pace, 00:28:57 duration
kept it what felt easy. my right chest is still hurting a bit when i breathe. really hard to get out of bed these last two days.
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