@ can you pleas fix this line in your twtxt.txt:
```# follow = dbucklin@www.davebucklin.com https://www.davebucklin.com/twtxt.txt?nick=dbucklin```

It is cause this weird effect on my timeline, where you are now called `dbucklin`
http://darch.dk/timeline/?profile=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt

@ Maybe something for you: [7.css - A CSS framework for recreating Windows 7 UI](https://khang-nd.github.io/7.css/)

@ I kinda bounced off learning go properly a few years back. This little toy would be a good thing to try again on, now that you mention it. Maybe.

Started writing something from scratch yesterday using thread(3) and wow do I miss writing in Limbo instead. :-/ #plan9

@ Haha, that sh!t is pure (net)art!

"Magic Clock" for Plan 9 (and p9p). http://a.9srv.net/src/img/magicclock-p9p.png http://a.9srv.net/src/magicclock.c (man and other info at http://a.9srv.net/src/).

@ the difference is that these other servers does not post several times a day with content that are not informative/interesting to people outside your academic context, which can be perceived as noise.

What @ have done is what I would call curation of the service he offers to the world for free (as in beer). It's no one right to have their posts syndicated to the frontpage of twtxt.net, it's simply a gift he gives to the world and he is free (as in speak) to wrap is anyway he sees fit.

@ I hope you stay around 🌞

@ and @ for a start a [single user twtxt/yarn pod](https://github.com/sorenpeter/timeline) could look like this 😉  

I just "published" a #draft on my blog about "How I've implemented #webmentions for twtxt" (http://darch.dk/mentions-twtxt), so I wanted to know from you guys if you see yourself doing a similar thing with `yarnd` @ or others with custom setups?

The wording can be more subtle like "This feed have not seen much activity within the last year" and maybe adding a UI like I did in timeline showing time ago for all feeds 

I agree that it good to clean up the Mastodon re-feeds, but it should also be okay for anyone to spin up a twtxt.txt just for syndicating they stuff from blog or what ever.

The "not receiving replies" could partly be fixed by implementing a working webmentions for twtxt.txt

Just fleshed out the README for timeline at https://github.com/sorenpeter/timeline - Comments/corrections and PRs are welcome:)

My first app on a new, hopefully convivial platform: https://akkartik.name/post/2024-04-13-devlog

@ You need to include the full URL for the audio file for this to work across servers/pods ;)

yes i know @, it's on my to-do

yes i know @, it's on my to-do

@ you can over at http://darch.dk/timeline/conv/ba3xbfa or by looking at the raw txt https://lyse.isobeef.org/twtxt.txt 
I can't help it that twtxt.net only have temporary caching ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Thanks for your feedback @. For some reason i missed it until now. For now I have implemented endpoint discovery for #webmentions as a metadata field in the twtxt.txt like this:
`# webmention = http://darch.dk/timeline/webmention`

I like the self-shot in the mud: https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2024-04-07/43.jpg

And now added #filter for replies too: 

@ (I would not object to someone wanting to throw FFRDC-class money at P9F, if you've got a lead! ☺)

@ No, thinking much bigger than that at the moment: http://a.9srv.net/b/us-osqi

Added support for #tag clouds and #search to [timeline](https://github.com/sorenpeter/timeline). Based on code from @🙏
Live at: http://darch.dk/timeline/?profile=https://darch.dk/twtxt.txt

Just over here writing my Senator's office to see if we can get a new Federally Funded R&D Center created. 😳🤞

Drawing histograms: https://akkartik.itch.io/carousel/devlog/708682/_

[Ben Grosser on Degrowth Aesthetics - Aarhus University, Nov 2023 - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3UJTceKKdk)

Hi @, is it better now?
I have put in a psudo twthash since I did not archive from a specific date/post, but just what I did not find relevant to keep in my main feed.

The simplest possible dither: https://akkartik.itch.io/carousel/devlog/706603/_

you need to send an email @ if you want an account. I know that it might not be very profitable. Maybe Odo can disclose it if I give him a new bucket.

@ I'm over here now. And yes I can send a PR to repo or your are welcome to add it. Credits also to @ for making a working yarn compatible parser.

What? was? that? Music videos in the 90s was just something else. Especially like the guy in the straitjacket on a pogostick

Same, got one more day at the office, but most folks are already away and the city have shifted from locals to tourists 🌞

Merging code on the phone (klunkily): https://akkartik.name/post/2024-03-24-devlog

Gridlines for snap.love: https://akkartik.name/post/2024-03-23-devlog

All the 1-D cellular automata: https://akkartik.itch.io/carousel/devlog/702311/_

It not that easy @ since I implemented webmentions in a different way that how it have been done in yarnd to work with txt-files. You can find the code in [webmention\_endpoint.php](https://github.com/sorenpeter/timeline/blob/main/views/webmention_endpoint.php) and [new\_twt.php at main · sorenpeter/timeline](https://github.com/sorenpeter/timeline/blob/main/views/new_twt.php)

Thanks @, I also just manage to get my own version of webmentions working. Please have a read at [Webmentions vs. Custom Mentions Spec for Twtxt/Yarn - HedgeDoc](https://docs.mills.io/NEOwhHmqTfOejKWiaOw9rw#) and [User Lookup for Twtxt/Yarn - Webfinger or Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) - HedgeDoc](https://docs.mills.io/rRpmdWHRT7Kg7nTYnXleSg#) for how it sorta works

@ Take a look at http://darch.dk/timeline/conv/i4nt3ma

@ For syncing notes between computers and phones I've been very happy with [Simple Text - w Dropbox sync](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=simple.text.dropbox&hl=en&gl=US) for some year, but transitioned to [Joplin](https://joplinapp.org/) around new year. Both sync via Dropbox and for Joplin there are also more free options. I guess you could even use something like [Syncthing](https://syncthing.net/)

Also made a webfinger lookup resolver that works with my own webfinger endpoint as well as yarnd servers:
http://darch.dk/wf-lookup.php  

A sokoban client for your phone: https://akkartik.name/post/sokoban

Just hacked together this small webfinger endpoint to be used as a companion with timeline: [.well-known/webfinger/index.php at main · sorenpeter/timeline](https://github.com/sorenpeter/timeline/blob/main/__webfinger_companion__/.well-known/webfinger/index.php)

Did another write up on #webfinger and DIDs for twtxt/yarn that you can read and edit/comment in: [User lookup for twtxt/yarn - Webfinger or Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) - HedgeDoc](https://docs.mills.io/rRpmdWHRT7Kg7nTYnXleSg?view)

I've gathers my ideas about mentions for twtxt/yarn here: [Webmentions vs. custom mentions spec for twtxt/yarn - HedgeDoc](https://docs.mills.io/s/s-b2CG020#)
You are welcome to edit and comment in the doc, so our ideas are not fragment into a bunch of treads

Also, incredibly excited that XOXO is coming back, even if just for one more year: https://2024.xoxofest.com

I wrote up a lab report on my daily to-do tracking "system", mostly so I could stop thinking about it. The report is at http://a.9srv.net/reports/daily.pdf and the referenced code is at http://txtpunk.com/daily/index.html.

So where do we start wring down the specs/protocol for twtxt2/yarn?



@ What do you mean when you say federation protocol?

- Either use webfinger for identity like mastodon etc. or use ATproto from Bluesky (or both?)

- We can use webmentions or create our own twt-mentions for notifying someones feed (WIP code at: https://github.com/sorenpeter/timeline/tree/webmention/views)

I'm not sure we need much else. I would not even bother with encryption since other platforms does that better, and for me twtxt/yarn/timeline is for making things public

yeah, where and how can we sign up?

A quick and dirty charting library for your computer or phone: https://akkartik.itch.io/carousel/devlog/686788/lots-of-charts

Cool news from: https://signal.org/blog/phone-number-privacy-usernames/

A paper computer inside a silicon computer: https://akkartik.itch.io/carousel/devlog/685707/a-little-programming-game

It already works: https://webfinger.net/lookup/?resource=xuu%40txt.sour.is
but it not very well described afak

An equation plotter I can pan and zoom: https://akkartik.itch.io/carousel/devlog/678890/new-version-after-51-days

I like this one the most

I'm also more in favor of #reposts being human readable and writable. A client might implement a bottom that posts something simple like: `#repost Look at this cool stuff, because bla bla [alt](url)`

This will then make it possible to also "repost" stuff from other platforms/protocols.

The reader part of a client, can then render a preview of the link, which we talked about would be a nice (optional) feature to have in yarnd.

What about using the blockquote format with `>` ?

> Snippet from someone else's post
> by: @

Would it not also make sense to have the repost be a reply to the original post using the `(#twthash)`, and maybe using a tag like #repost so it eaier to filter them out?

FOR SOME REASON I'm now archiving my plan files (as shown via 'finger a@9srv.net') at http://a.9srv.net/plans

Well crap. I think I just realized that if my profile photo was a person it could vote in this year’s election. Probably time for a new default one.

I've added myself to the registries at registry.twtxt.org and twtxt.tilde.institute. I wonder if there's a list of registries. #meta

Huh. At some point, my twtxt-via-ssh shortcut from my phone stopped working. It does again now! I've changed nothing. Yay black boxes! 🤷🏻

First task of 2024: renew an expired cert. I like that it's calendar-themed.

danke schøn, yes the idea was that it should work for all feeds

An equation plotter in 90 lines, written on my phone: https://akkartik.itch.io/carousel/devlog/656473/building-an-equation-plotter

The Lua Carousel productivity suite: 4 apps in 150 lines you can mix&match on your phone. https://akkartik.itch.io/carousel/devlog/653245/_

A voice recorder you can tweak the source code for, right on your Android phone: https://akkartik.itch.io/carousel/devlog/652184/_

Lua Carousel: for creating little programs on desktop and mobile devices. Can be modified as it runs. https://akkartik.itch.io/carousel

Newest app was a nice test of my recent debug infrastructure: https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/111422018573320117

@ (#ieox7kq) Sounds interesting. It is only for reading or also posting?

I think is part of the code by @ that I have based my project on. So try to ask him.

Gracias. Also the [git repo](https://github.com/sorenpeter/timeline) now contain code that should actually work

Testing posting for my new http://darch.dk/timeline/

I've been building little custom debug UIs for my programs. Here's a good one: https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/111356122874372588

Spent a few hours the last two evenings fighting with tftpd. Party like it's 1999!

More easily build/run little LÖVE apps on Android: 1) https://love2d.org from app store 2) https://love2d.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=94852

Quickly make any app hackable -- as long as it's built in LÖVE. https://forum.malleable.systems/t/adding-malleability-to-any-love-app/90

The most insightful talk I've seen in recent memory: https://archive.org/details/finding-meaning

Hands-on with my Freewheeling Apps: https://youtu.be/aD6vmbmzdBo (demo; 20 minutes)

Preparing visuals for #Kune2023 by coding some new #shaders in #GLSL       

New talk: "Using computers freely and safely" http://akkartik.name/freewheeling

TIL my high school publishes its own research journal. https://www.pingry.org/our-community/students/pingry-community-research-pcr-journal

A little app for drawing graphs: https://git.sr.ht/~akkartik/snap.love

This might be the most mind-bending 20 minutes of my life: https://www.ted.com/talks/donald_hoffman_do_we_see_reality_as_it_is

I needed something to help with a morning schedule for two kiddos. It highlights the current 5-minute block as it goes. I think this was my first time reaching for JavaScript for a personal project. https://sidequest.club/stages.html

Managing tests (breaking them, fixing them) in my map for code: https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/109742488349122478

A map for code: https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/109656512985323270

One of the frustrating parts of using twtxt for conversations is the URLs are, well... ugly. Anyone (like y'all yarn folks) looked at using webfinger for translating user@domain accounts to URLs?

2022: A year of freewheeling apps http://akkartik.name/post/roundup22

A Lua-based markup language: https://codeberg.org/akkartik/luaML.love

I was just reminded of this interpreter for an APL/J-like language by Arthur Whitney, the absolute weirdest bit of C code I've actually gotten something out of, and thought I'd share: https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Essays/Incunabulum

Live-coding using LÖVE: https://spectra.video/w/wkDB5fsjBNBbsqKXGhGzwT (video; 5 minutes)

TIL there's a Director's Cut of Miley Cyrus's Wrecking Ball video and it's much better than the original.

A 4-minute video about my project to replace debuggers with print statements: https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/108895837561334218

If I have an image that has clearly been naïvely upscaled, is there a program that can reasonably reliably tell me what the "true" size is?

My entry for Wheel Reinvention Jam: rethinking debug by print, and therefore source code. https://handmade.network/p/283/bifold-text

Command palette and commands for managing a graph of notes: https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/108766067153506592

No, I wasn't set up for it. I wasn't expecting to see the ISS at all, and you never know when an orbit will do the fade out thing.

Watching the ISS fade out in the sky as it moves into earth's shadow remains one of the coolest things in the world.

Preview of a note-taking app I've been working on: https://archive.org/details/akkartik-pensieve-2022-07-27 (video; 5 mins)

Should I complicate the UI of my app or just say no? Best of both worlds: new app. https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/108580451364837131

I'll likely take this down soonish as I think it's pretty bad for usability, but as a fun hack, one of my weird side projects web pages now has monitor burn-in: http://txtpunk.com/index.html

I built an editor for plain text where you can also seamlessly insert line drawings. http://akkartik.name/lines.html

It'll track a bunch of finger(1) endpoints and let you see what's new. Very early draft. Not actually a social network, more an anti-social network for ‘80s CompSci transplants. :-)

A read-only, finger(1)-based social network, maybe? http://txtpunk.com/fingers/

That's the effect I'm after, but I want it not on my main browser. Turns out the Brave mobile app does this.

I want a browser for iOS that's basically Mobile Safari but without JavaScript (or at least an easy toggle). Does such a thing exist?

I realized my twtxt client isn't validating what it pulls once it gets a valid response when a domain started returning js-heavy parking pages for every URL. Oops. Weekend project, I guess. 🤦🏻

drops+ring #shaders #GLSL #shadertoy - https://www.shadertoy.com/view/NlsBD4  

#event Upcomming Meetup in Copennhagen: [algolab(the_art_of_live_coding) @ Støberiet / Computer Klub](https://gath.io/uVA3cAckHXsRppB0sf551) 

@ Also, I noticed you followed me on Twitter, but you might enjoy @anths if you want techie stuff instead of Oregon politics. 🤣

Lots of personal preference, but I disagree on Acme: it's far and away my preferred editor on unix-like systems, too.

#makeartnotwar #GLSL #shaders code at https://www.shadertoy.com/view/fs2fRm if you want to use it  

A "hunt group" is a phone number you can call which will ring some set of other phones and whoever answers first gets the call, and the others stop ringing.

Thanks, I'd forgotten about that. I'd rather avoid Google Voice, and I'm okay paying (reasonably). Looking like Twilio might have most of what I want natively.

Given that we don't have a "home phone", what's the best way to create a "hunt group" for my partner's and my cell phones? My first thought is Asterisk on a VPS, but my knowledge of such things is years out of date. Is there a better way?

Zettelkasten app built in Teliva, a platform for sandboxed, hackable text-mode apps: https://archive.org/details/akkartik-teliva-2022-02-10

Why everyone needs to know some coding: last-mile sandboxing (FOSDEM '22) https://archive.org/details/akkartik-2022-01-16-fosdem

One year ago __to the date__ I made the lastest update for #phpub2twtxt to [github](https://github.com/sorenpeter/phpub2twtxt) and now 365 days later I have published #pixelblog as its successor - lets see where things are going for trip around the sun 


Good weekend for random tech projects: this rackmount server I got free boots Plan 9 without issue, and my ttl adapters and wii nunchucks just arrived. Now where can I find a serial modem?

New darchness coloursceme 

testing public path copy/pasted from code: 

More #pixelblog'ing - today wotking on fixing all the semi-hardcoded paths an moving them to config.php 

#pixelblog is slowly coming together with support for posting images and simple theming  

I have only just discovered this and need to dig in more, but so far it looks like a really nice reference for electronics pinouts: https://pinouts.org/

Okay, I've updated my examples page and shared the more complex ssh example. http://a.9srv.net/shortcuts

iOS has had a "Shortcuts" app for a while now which is very useful for scripting things on the device, and at some point grew the ability to run things via ssh, including piping input/output. It's how I've done twtxt from my phone for a while now. I'll clean up these two examples and post to the examples I've shared. http://a.9srv.net/shortcuts

Only 1 day of activity so far, but I've started a new project log for whatever the heck I end up doing to this Monroe 425 I got. http://a.9srv.net/monroe425

About two years late, but I finally finished setting up an iOS Shortcut so I can post to my blog via ssh. http://a.9srv.net/b/

Anyone seen a pixel-addressed display (any tech; lcd, eink, oled, whatever) in the range of 8"x1"?

I think y'all are missing something. I never used ftp as a schema; I'm saying the "ftp" hostname part with the "http" schema is amusing.

Check the raw file. ;-) Yes, "http colon slash slash ftp".

I'm not sure! It feels similar to seeing "~username" in a URL. Part nostalgia, part... impressed at the persistence?

Seeing "http://ftp" in a URL makes me happy.

Nominally, my seen/read list for 2021, but I missed a *lot* of short readings. I may try to write more about these things this year. http://a.9srv.net/media/2021

Web3 being "democratic" makes perfect sense if you can't tell the difference between a dollar and a person.

I just went to type the phrase "I avoid Linux like the plague" but then remembered that we've all learned that most people won't actually go much out of their way to avoid the plague.

Running untrusted apps more flexibly and simply: https://archive.org/details/akkartik-teliva-2021-12-25 (video; 2 minutes)

Thank you @ - yeah they are kinda crazy color wheels

#improviz #paintOver #randomColors 

Building links in a Gemini browser app -- from within the app: https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/107489728557201145

As a postmaster, Gmail remains the most irritating domain to send to. Soooo many false spam hits, such little information provided, so many hoops to jump through.

Agreed on "aggressive" — as a general rule, I don't think most folks are acting like we're in the kind of crisis we are.

There's still an editing/proofreading pass to do before it becomes official, but the content is done.

It's the (roughly) bi-annual platform convention. I think the new platform does a good job of holding to progressive values (even if I wish it went farther in places). I got an amendment in to improve our stance on encryption-related issues, which was nice.

Spent the weekend with the state Democrats at our platform convention. Good work and glad to have participated, but 20 hours of zoom over 60 hours is a lot of zoom.

Killing time in Goodwill, I picked up a desk calculator from a pile. Dude standing next to me goes "what's that for?". 😳💀

This pi will now boot directly to ed if the gpio pin is grounded at boot time. ed(1)term v1. :-) http://txtpunk.com/edterm/

I am not launching it with a specific file right now, but I'll likely have it default to my daily work log shortly.

@lyse This was basically a trial/proof-of-concept for the real goal: a switch which, if on at boot time, causes the pi to boot straight to ed.

@lyse ed(1) is the standard editor. ;-)

I made a gpio button on my raspberry pi which opens a new window running ed. I screwed up while testing it and launched maaaaany ed windows.

I fork bombed my computer! With ed(1)!!! Haven't done that in a while.

Thanks to @ and @ for havning me today at AAU CPH🙏 Presentation notes can be found at: http://darch.dk/aau-tool-talk/

Hej AAU CPH

Review Jam, day 2: try a short task in Teliva. https://buttondown.email/reviewjam/archive/advent-of-foc-day-2-brutalist-convivial-computing

Preparing for Advent of Code in Teliva: https://archive.org/details/akkartik-teliva-2021-11-30 (video; 15 minutes)

A 556 IC is functionally the same as two 555 ICs, but I've decided the 555 is better because search engines don't confuse it for ammunition as much.

A chess viewer in Teliva, demonstrating networking capabilities: https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/107319684018301051

Uh, I think you are taking every line of that *way* too seriously.

Hah. It's an edit of a "be gay do crimes" meme, in response to this: https://twitter.com/Cor3ntin/status/1460614695564496901

Use C do crime! https://cdn.masto.host/pdxsocial/media_attachments/files/107/294/565/215/390/680/original/1d29c85c0aa4c9a5.png

@prologic Sorry I only just saw your note from almost a year ago: http://twtxt.xyz/update/21b5925b16b9a793

2-minute video: https://archive.org/details/akkartik-2021-11-14

End-user programming: modify apps while running them. https://github.com/akkartik/teliva

💉3️⃣✅ Thank you, Dolly Parton!

National Novel Writing Month; see https://nanowrimo.org/

I want NaNoWriMo but for tech writing.

Oh, me too: FreeBSD, macOS, and Solaris in server environments extensively, and Linux, AIX, HP/UX, Irix, probably others I'm forgetting. Plan 9 is a whole other class of thing.

Lots of downsides, too, but overall I still find it the most comfortable environment for anything that doesn't need a web browser. :-)

Lots. 🤣 The system is small, coherent, and understandable in a way no modern unix is. The namespace operations remain incredibly powerful. And several of the tools built on it, like the way network listeners and the mail server are built, are just much nicer to use, modify, and build on.

Dug out my old usb audio device and now my Plan 9 raspberry pi can play music. 💯

This week I turned 16,000 days old.

#event Tomorrow, Saturday October 2nd, I'm gonna be hosting a workshop at Processing Community Day CPH about Live Coding Visuals in Improviz. Only 5 spots left, so sign up now at: [https://pcdcph.com](https://pcdcph.com)

To be clear, it isn't that it doesn't provide a valuable service; it's just that there are more convenient ways of doing it. But screw convenience!

Yup, and my answer's the same: very little. But it's fun! Have fun with computers!

It seems like something *especially* all the tilde-inspired things should have on.

You need better pen test scripts. :-) Seriously, the protocol is absurdly simple. Turn it on! Don't trust any of the implementations? Write your own!

@ I like your website's look, but i was disappointed to find that 'finger' doesn't seem to actually work. ;-)

I think I was some many years ago? They are neat and so some good stuff.

Based on spam logs, I am (again) considering banning a bunch of TLDs at the server level. Has anyone ever gotten legitimate email from a .work, .casa, or .today domain, for example?

His argument hung on Soviet-era experiments with centrally-planned farming. 🙄 The man did not seem well.

I was on a call this evening discussing various redistricting proposals. Some dude seriously asserted that over-representation by Multnomah county in regional politics might lead to... *genocide*. 😳

“I’m afraid I don’t have time at the moment to defend positions you’ve made up for me. Have a nice day.”

Yesterday's surprising find: a little Gochu Jang (~tsp) does a nice job of improving uninspiring Italian tomato sauce. Nothing dramatic, but good.

#processing #moire #RGB #midi #creativecoding #videoart    

A network-less, read-only browser built up from machine code: https://archive.org/details/akkartik-mu-2021-08-15

Whole lot of false statements here. The vaccines are well-tested & well-studied, and are safe and effective. Breakthrough cases exist with every vaccine. If you are able and the vaccine is approved for you, choosing not to get it puts everyone around you at risk, including risk of additional variants developing.

Get vaccinated if you are able. At this point, if you are able and choosing not to, you are being incredibly selfish, full stop.

Rendering arbitrary images on the 256-color Mu computer: https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/106671394323266954

#event Upcoming Workshop / [algolab: Music and Live Coding @ CPH Music Maker Space](http://algorave.dk/musicmakerspace) / [facebook event](https://www.facebook.com/events/543980796625853)

#event Upcoming Workshop / [algolab: Visuals and Live Coding @ CPH Music Maker Space](http://algorave.dk/musicmakerspace/) / [facebook event](https://www.facebook.com/events/319557353174855)

Well I'm happy to accept patches to linebanner if you'd like to add characters. :-) http://txtpunk.com/banner/index.html

"ç", I think. Anything above 7-bit ASCII would've done it, though.

And yes, I was able to reproduce the "test" input. It wasn't a complicated test, she just beat me to it.

Move your code. Copilot is just one more reason. I maintain an account to work with other projects, but won't host my stuff there.

It did! And I fixed the bug last night. And now I'm curious how your pod deals with spam. 👆🏼

My kid just uncovered a bug in a program I wrote by grabbing my laptop and smacking the keyboard a bunch. Biological input fuzzing; a real-life chaos monkey.

No, I'm still doing them manually. 🤣🤦🏻 But I do think they are a good idea and will be adding them, I just haven't gotten around to finding a compatible implementation of the hash yet.

I feel like this could be borderline useful if I stuck a web UI on it. 🤔

Cleaned up a bit, with installation instructions for Plan 9 and p9p, tiny character tweaks, and a change log.

I wrote a 'banner'-like program for Plan 9 (and p9p) that uses the Unicode box drawing characters: http://txtpunk.com/banner/index.html

Potentially. What environment/language(s) are you working in? I'd dump fuse for 9p, personally :-)

As of about an hour ago, I'm the chair of the Columbia County Democrats. 😳🎉😱

Yeah, what'd you have in mind?

  and the some text and a #tag

Syntax sugar in the Mu shell: https://archive.org/details/akkartik-mu-2021-06-23

Today I swapped out our water heater for a new hybrid one. It took twice as long as it should have and 3 extra trips to the hardware store, but it doesn't seem to be leaking and is producing hot water, so 🎉🎊🎇

Honestly, probably not directly, but that's mostly because of my weird environment. I'd love to see it as a reference!

First pass at sticking my twtxt in a web page. It's not escaping all the html properly, and generally needs work, but it's a start: http://a.9srv.net/tw/following.html

My toddler just figured out "hey Siri".

i'm not really advocating that anybody should be on *more* networks, but FWIW libera.chat has been very nice, the staff has been doing a great job, and it's the nearest "spiritual successor" to what we all liked about Freenode.

Yes, this all matches my experience as someone connected to "classic" Freenode, right up until they killed the server (after the last step that page describes).

Sumeet Agarwal solves an Advent problem with Mu: http://akkartik.github.io/mu/html/linux/advent2017/1a.mu.html

You've basically already left, whether you know it or not. Yesterday they nuked their services database. I'd been there ~20 years, but it's dead. Libera.chat has been lovely.

[20:22:00] -tower.freenode.net- Server Terminating. Received SIGTERM

Entirely sensible, & no reason for file storage to match the wire format. I'm just really curious what's going on on macOS! I can test on hfs+ later.

macOS doesn't care, at least on apfs; just tested. How are you hitting this?

Why can't you have : in file names? What file system is this?

Live-coding Fizzbuzz on the Mu computer's prototyping environment: https://archive.org/details/akkartik-mu-2021-06-09

Fixed another bug in my finger client: rfc1288 says lines have to end with crlf, but I was just sending lf.

Indeed! I think the first "network protocol client" I ever wrote was something that just did the PING/PONG part and passed everything else raw.

SunLollyVortex #shaders #GLSL #shadertoy - https://www.shadertoy.com/view/fts3Wf  

Looking at raw IRC traffic streams to debug a client issue and it's 1997 again.

Fixed a bug. Found a new bug in yesterday's work. Fixed that bug.

New video riffing on some ideas for doing more with animation in debuggers: https://archive.org/details/akkartik-mu-2021-05-17

Plan 9 got three slots in GSoC; we'll be working on an updated Japanese input method, updating edwood, and getting Oauth2 support. 🎉🐇

My computer now prints a call stack when it crashes: https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/106239831225295745

“Remember: the internet didn't have to be like this. A better world is possible.” I love this. telnet issue1.anewsession.com

Unrelated: my first response shows a rendering bug on your site: it's dropping a backslash. Hard to mix markdown and genuine plain text.

For sure. The pi progresses normally until it prints that it's initializing the keyboard, at which point the keyboard spends ~30 seconds beeping.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ It's a funky mechanical thing running QMK, but I have two others that fit that description which don't behave like this.

I just timed it: 59 seconds for my Raspberry Pi to boot, 33 of which is waiting for my keyboard firmware to initialize. That's just absurd.

Don't called them signed ints and unsigned ints. Call them ints and addresses. https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/106206878251648806

Lisp macros in the Mu computer: https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/106195814023586904

How computer sandboxing models have evolved over time: https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/106185773783459627

I've published my silly finger implementation: http://txtpunk.com/finger

Then finger is for the straight-up shut-ins.

Or maybe that's old-school twtxt, and twtxt.net is those people who're constantly trying to coax the introverts out. ;-)

Pinboard describes itself as "Social bookmarking for introverts". Maybe txtxt is social networking for introverts.

Prototyping on the Mu computer, and nudging people to throw the first one away: https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/106112499040193446

Good idea. Plan 9 sets $NPROC on boot to the number of cores, so other things can use it. mk will dispatch things in just that way.

Distinguishing a program's return value from its side effects: https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/106045532928000526

Dynamic linking was a mistake.

Think of it like buying a signed print of a photo, instead of the photo itself, but the "signature" is an entry in a database and that's all you get. Still dumb.

Anyone (preferably in the PDX area) have a way to read QIC-80 tapes?

Just over a week left to apply to Summer of Code. Plan 9 is in there, and ~200 other good orgs. Go apply and tell students you know. https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/

Nobody's saying he can't write code any more (I mean, I think his code is crap and wish he'd stop, but that's another issue). But he should not be on any board, should not be in any leadership position, should not be held up as a role model or even vaguely okay.

I can't believe it's controversial to say "somebody with a 30+ year history making women uncomfortable shouldn't be in a leadership position". That's not "cancel culture", it's just friggin' obvious.

What a terrible video. "Cancel culture" is not a thing, and when you hear someone complaining about it, 99% of the time they just don't want consequences for bad behavior.

Sure. I think search, if it's going to exist, should be the client's responsibility. But I also value the readability of the raw twtxt file a lot more than y'all do.

He's fine with gender-neutral pronouns when he gets to pick them, but insists on policing others'. The open letter calling for his removal has references.

I actually haven't yet, it's just easy enough to manually prepend the subject for now, if I skip the search URL. 🤣 I'll do it properly eventually.

This is an awful take. The issue isn't that he's cantankerous and rigid; it's that he's sexist, misogynistic, ableist, transphobic, and has a decades-long history of making women feel unsafe. This isn't "cancel culture", it's "consequences" (as is usually the case with that term).

Not even a little. So pumped. https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Tf20bce89ef96d4b6-M63f81768e4ffdfa4df402ec5/transfer-of-plan-9-to-the-plan-9-foundation

Bell Labs has now transferred Plan 9 to the Plan 9 Foundation, who has in turn re-released all releases under the MIT license. I am *very* excited about this. 🐇🎉

I am very excited for tomorrow.

Playing around with #GLSL #shaders and webcam in #KodeLife   

Someone brought us pie for Pi Day. 💯

We welcome prospective students to submit their own ideas, but we've got a page full of suggestions: http://p9f.org/wiki/gsoc-2021-ideas/index.html

At some point, for reasons I do not understand, my feed reader replaced cabinporn dot com with freecabinporn dot com, which is *not* the same thing.

Plan 9 is GSoC! 🎉🐇 I've missed participating this program. https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Ta35cde1382617430-M32af07f289087f227189b74f/plan-9-in-summer-of-code

Live coding #improviz           

@ I am not. :-)

I've got it running on a pair of commercial kvm providers right now (vultr and ramnode). It works on many, but edge cases can cause some issues.

Oh no, so much better than that. Worth checking out.

Hrm, that would've been csh probably, or tcsh if you were lucky. But Plan 9 uses rc, which is so lovely I use it everywhere.

Hey, from my perspective on Plan 9, all these linuxes are the same junk.

Thanks! According to /etc/os-releases, it's Fedora 32.

uname; I have an account. I just don't know how to differentiate linux especially.

@ Some linux; how does one tell which?

Plan 9 doesn't really do text-mode pseudo-graphics at all, or even cursor addressing, on philosophical grounds.

This is a good morning. 🚀🐇

I am very excited about this, and it seems like something the twtxt crowd might enjoy: https://anewsession.com/

Yup, 1997 to... 2000 or 2001.

Huh. In my feed, there is (correctly) a backslash before that . in the sed command, but twtxt.net is stripping it.

Ah, no; and there we have a good example of finger's poor discoverability! It matches my email address, though: echo a.9srv.net | sed 's/\./@/'

I don't think the pod would have to be large. Even on tilde.club and the like, with a few dozen active users, it adds to the fun.

@ Bug in your profile links: it's repeating a segment. For example, your face tries to get to https://twtxt.net/user/https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt

No, totally not useful. 🤣 I mean, the finger protocol is pretty trivial, and it'd be fun to add, but doesn't replace anything you're doing.

I like finger, but outside of a shared system, the complete lack of discoverability is pretty fatal.

With the finger server specifically? No idea, it's a toy. I'd honestly forgotten I had it on until someone mentioned finger.farm and I was inspired to poke at it again.

My finger server now includes the last post from tw that doesn't have a subject. 'finger a@9srv.net'

I just made the decision to allow a domain I own to expire. Personal growth is possible!

This was macOS. I don't really use gnu. Of course, it's also not on Plan 9, the system I know best.

I was reading dd(1), where it is mentioned in passing, obliquely. Then stty(1) has more info.

Drilling into computations in the shell for the Mu computer: https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/105790894303047592

I have been using Unix for 25+ years and I just learned about the status character in shells (often ^T). Huh.

Mulling switching gears for the Mu shell to a less ambitious Lisp-based language: https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/105771735864653468

Fixed the race in tw. Mostly; now it's just while tw/r is running. Close enough.

The GSoC application period is closed, and Plan 9's is in. Now the waiting.

Ooo, tw has a race condition between tw/r and pull/mktl, in the case you /r after a new post but before pull & mktl have run. Oops.

Plan 9's GSoC application is now in. 🎉

I want read-only iOS client that just does the simplest model: pull a list of feeds, make a timeline.

Pushed small updates to tw. Next: make discoverability optional.

@ Saw your oldish note about wanting an offline/async twtxt workflow. Do you have something that works for you? My (very young!) client was designed with that in mind.

I agree clients should present things better (part of why I'm writing one!). But that should be additive. There's a reason we're not passing json around.

@ Exactly, but that reduces the argument for URLs in the post. The client should figure out how to search based on the hashtag.

@ Yup, several. My favorite is RFC 1149, another that's since been implemented. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools%27_Day_Request_for_Comments

@ You may be interested in https://github.com/u-root/u-root (I work with a contributor).

@ It was totally an April Fools' joke; the IETF has a bunch of those. But! It has also been implemented. And 418 is my favorite error code.

I'm unclear if I'm going to do the twtxt.net discovery protocol; neither my web server nor Plan 9's default capture agent strings. :-/

@ Looks like twtxt.net is already happy with it, so that's good! I'm just going to aim for that.

My silly Plan 9 rc twtxt client now has a web page: http://txtpunk.com/tw/index.html

@For example, this should work (no idea if it does).

(#) @Yes, I think tags should just be #foo, and let the client figure out searching if it cares.

(#) @ Yes, I often read the raw messages. But more to the point, the simplicity of the format is the bulk of the appeal.

(#) @ No argument that threading is an improvement. But I think (#hash) does that, and I think figuring out how to search should mostly be up to the client.

(#) I don't have any issue with the (foo) subjects, it's the proliferation of the (foo url) tags. They're just too long and ugly.

Hah... my silly twtxt client now has "stories" mode.☺

I don't think I'm implementing twtxt.net-style hashtags (for now?). The "" is bad enough for nicks, but they just make the plain text unreadable.

@ (#) I've just never had it be a rewarding experience.

@ (#) rc, the Plan 9 shell.

I ran fortune for something to stick in a text-centric side project, and it said "You can't build a bomb at 300 baud." which is just about perfect.

Announcing the Plan 9 Foundation — http://p9f.org/ — https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T973ff41a99053355/plan-9-foundation

Last night I spent about 30 minutes putting together the bare framework for a dumb project I want to do. I'm so excited to work on it, I keep checking the website to see if I've posted anything new.

Today, out of the blue, somebody thanked me for some minor tech work I did in 2008. That felt pretty nice.

One of these days I will learn not to argue with the bitcoin bros.

Started the #gsoc application for Plan 9 yesterday morning; spun up a new cpu server last night; poking at it today. I miss being able to spend more time on this.

My daughter grabbed my mouse and started smacking it arouond and managed to do things I didn't know you could do with my WM with a mouse... nor how to undo them.

Documentation on i2c devices is so-so. Lots of good documentation on higher-level APIs, but not a lot of "this register does this" stuff.

On the up side: I got my first successful comunication over i2c on Plan 9 on a Raspberry Pi today! Looking forward to playing with that more.

I have ~10 different kinds of USB cables/adaptors, and I can't make the conversion I need.😞

@prologic (#qvykv7a) it seem to work just fine for the most part. http://darch.dk/twtxt.txt for refernce

@prologic (#63ldz2a) @darch Thank you for making twt.social etc:) I don't think I have been this involed in a open source project before.

[Rafa & Timo - "Hello, off-world!"](https://youtu.be/BbOz1XBu8f8) #livecoding #music

Woohoo, #phpub2twtxt - my php interface for publishing to my selfhosted twtxt.txt is now online at [GitHub](https://github.com/sorenpeter/phpub2twtxt/)

Thanks to a pointer from Richard Miller, got screen rotation working on my Pi 4s. Makes this absurdly wide display more practical.

Wrote a man page for this thing. I miss writing man pages.

Rendering text on bare-metal x86, with an eye to non-Latin languages: https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/105542032656082045

Well, my twtxt reader is a bit *too* simple; drops who actually wrote the message before it's printed. 🤦🏻

Okay, a bit better: it now preserves the author, although it prints a hash right now. Tomorrow's problem.

Okay, my #twtxt reader works-ish. Need to properly deal with timezones (and, um, maybe do *any* error checking).

I have a working model for the reader portion of what I want this twtxt client to do.

Okay, well, if we're being all txtpunk, I want troff macros for zines.

Apparently I did something for this like three years ago, and can't find it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Hello, world.

2020 wrap-up redux, a Wardley Map for Mu: https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/105476276652369571

2020 wrap-up: https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/105467785655674076

Starting to give Mu its own OS: https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/105436432584324552

dither waves #shaders #GLSL #shadertoy - https://www.shadertoy.com/view/tdGBz3  

New demo and medium-term plans: https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/105338014257369963

Visualizing programs with side-effects, such as printing to a screen: https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/105201366581271961

A live-updating postfix shell for the Mu computer: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/105108305362341204

Defining functions in my live-updating structured editor for postfix: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/105071402581806586

detective story of the day: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/104975077519600207

Visualizing postfix functions with named arguments: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/104935713813872559

New demo, a structured editor for postfix arithmetic: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/104896128141863951

Growing a test-driven text-mode Markdown browser all the way up from machine code: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/104845344081779025

Mu now has a generic stream type: http://akkartik.github.io/mu/html/402stream.mu.html

Beginnings of a spreadsheet for trees: https://archive.org/details/akkartik-2min-2020-07-25

A tutorial on Mu the language: https://mastodon.social/web/statuses/104385065026974197

Mu now type-checking all function calls: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/104366226332745069

A calculator app in Mu: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/104352495147108886

A very-high-level language feature in Mu, in spite of bootstrapping from machine code: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/104305128661766343

A test app in Mu, and an experience report: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/104250249472942612

Paper on Mu published at the Convivial Computing Salon: http://akkartik.name/akkartik-convivial-20200315.pdf

Mu language almost done: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/103809142727508327. Now to make it safe.

past: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/103635361482232697; future: https://lobste.rs/s/2qzmtr/#c_itzqwm

Learning the complexity of compilers rather than pretending they're easy: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/103581348949359372

Working: factorial function. https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/103571329543801973

Working: local variables. https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/103554841927344456

Working: programs with int variables. https://www.reddit.com/r/BarbarianProgramming/comments/eiq5jg

Update on my safe syntax for machine code: functions can now return results. https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/103395953154615316

First function body translated. Still no variable declarations, though. https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/103229216904239835

Another week, another instruction compiling, more refinements of the code-generator: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/103157776545612964

First baby steps in compiling the Mu memory-safe systems language: empty function; primitive stmt; function call.

Mu's translator is growing complex. Lots of book-keeping for entering/exiting scopes: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/103053133325948545

Beginnings of a translator for a memory-safe language: http://akkartik.github.io/mu/html/apps/mu.subx.html. Just empty functions so far.

It's surprisingly hard to do safe, efficient array initialization: https://www.joshmcguigan.com/blog/array-initialization-rust

I've mostly managed to stick to statically allocated arrays so far, but now I need real ASTs. Just leak memory for the first draft.

Now that feedback on the design has died down (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21268252; https://lobste.rs/s/xtxlec), back to hacking.

Mu's design is taking on a life of its own: http://akkartik.name/post/mu-2019-1

Seems useful to have a set of consistent lexical conventions. # for comments; . for lookup; / for metadata. e.g `cat ~.conf.git.core.pager`

But sometimes you do want a separation between dirs and files. So maybe the file system has both, but also supports treating files as dirs?

Thinking about https://zge.us.to/dirconf.html; what if `cat`ing a directory rendered its contents as a structured file?

After various attempts to grep for Tss and whatnot, current plan is to just try to binary-search writes to protected memory in the kernel.

Where does https://github.com/ozkl/soso first switch to Ring 3? I want to rip it out and just run everything in Ring 0.

An ergonomic syntax for machine code: numbers, metadata, strings, tests, blocks. https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/102825992961303855

@ The link you posted :p https://wiki.waifu.haus

@ Wow, somebody's reading this! What's up?! Nice site!

This should take a lot less code than an optimizing C compiler. There'll be no optimizer, but lots of room for the programmer to optimize.

(But decent error messages if you screw up your register allocation, try to read a different type from a register than you wrote.)

Next stop: a type- and memory-safe compiled language that can occupy C's niche. Manual memory management. AND manual register allocation.

But everything takes too damn long with machine code. Enough fun and games. Resume climbing the ladder of abstraction.

It's taken a year to get here. I want to take a break, do a Lisp interpreter for fun. Just so I can see a computer boot into a Lisp prompt.

But the syntax is nothing more than machine code (with good error messages).

So far I can: create Linux binaries; package them up with a kernel into a bootable image; run it on Qemu or Linode.

about me: I'm building a hobbyist computer. No C (eventually). Lots of tests. Reward curiosity. https://github.com/akkartik/mu#readme

@ Thank you for teaching me about Tauthon!

Today I was reminded of it by a long series of steps that began with an invitation from http://tilde.club. Web surfing at its best.

I've always _loved_ the idea of twtxt, but had no idea so many people are using it.

I can't abide Python, so I'm writing these messages using 'echo', for now..

Hello world!

Made something because my head was on sideways all day.