# __ __ __ #| |_.--.--.--| |_.--.--| |_ #| _| | | | _|_ _| _| #|____|________|____|__.__|____| # # twtxt is an open, distributed # microblogging platform that # uses human-readable text files, # common transport protocols, and # free software. # # Learn more about twtxt at https://github.com/buckket/twtxt # # nick = dbucklin # url = https://davebucklin.com/twtxt.txt # description = retrogrou.ch # avatar = https://davebucklin.com/assets/img/davebucklin.png # 2017-03-05T22:49:28.000000Z test! 2017-03-05T15:29:44-08:00 txtnish does not work so well on OSX. 2017-03-05T15:44:24-08:00 something about invalid option d for xargs and invalid option v for awk 2017-03-05T16:15:35-08:00 testing my post-tweet hook 2017-03-08T15:11:05.000000Z @ That fixed it. 2017-03-08T15:13:18.000000Z @ Though now neither twtxt nor txtnish are displaying timelines or individual feeds. Investigating. 2017-03-08T15:17:20.000000Z @ and Im on OSX 10.11.5, for the record. Thank you. 2017-03-08T15:43:43.000000Z @ Also, yes, I get " f o o " 2017-03-08T21:43:39.000000Z Installing GNU awk seems to have (mostly) fixed my problems. 2017-03-11T13:33:20-06:00 I love this channel. Restrained tech-house. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNZETNQDnrKu6hvggNHzZcA 2017-03-13T07:23:05-05:00 @ Reminds me of the Stallman/Raymond debates in the 90s. 2017-03-13T07:41:46-05:00 @ I think we need to focus on giving users better alternatives. I feel that frustration, though. 2017-03-13T12:27:27-05:00 @ I liked the idea that the reader's client should enforce the length limit. 2017-03-13T13:57:41-05:00 @ I love that quote. 2017-03-14T15:10:29-05:00 I just orderd a Pi 3 from Adafruit. Im going to run a tiny, headless FreeBSD box. 2017-03-17T16:17:09-05:00 Resist the Internet. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/11/opinion/sunday/resist-the-internet.html?_r=0 2017-03-18T12:36:06-05:00 @ you heard about the Nokia 3310 reissue, right? I feel so much 90s nostalgia, like, all the time. 2017-03-18T13:40:08-05:00 @ Imma let you finish but the Motorola RAZR was the best feature phone of all time! 2017-03-18T21:07:15-05:00 @ Yeah, I loved my Nokias. 2017-03-20T11:17:04-05:00 Ah, but if less is more, just think how much more more could be. 2017-03-21T10:04:43-05:00 Me explaining my business strategy coursework to my friends. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jw36ivnRHRQ 2017-03-22T13:31:46-05:00 I just installed vimium for chrome. Tons of fun. 2017-03-22T15:18:38-05:00 I think Im going to give up on RaspBSD for now and just get this thing working with Debian. 2017-03-24T16:37:21-05:00 Finished organizing my dotfiles with stow and git. Feels good. 2017-03-25T18:28:28-05:00 Backing up dotfiles with stow and git. http://davebucklin.com/play/2017/03/24/backing-up-dotfiles-with-stow-and-git.html 2017-03-25T18:31:10-05:00 In other news, I got miniircd running on the pi: https://github.com/jrosdahl/miniircd 2017-03-26T18:44:41-05:00 Setting up Piratebox on the RP3 was super easy. Now to leave it running and see what happens. 2017-03-27T15:41:56-05:00 @ its just here in my apartment for the time being. Im going to bring it to a hackathon next month. 2017-03-27T15:49:55-05:00 @ thats gotta be a head trip. 2017-03-27T15:58:04-05:00 @ I'm going to make that part of my prompt. 2017-03-28T21:20:47.000000Z So AWS is basically giving away the thing that GitHub sells with CodeCommit. 2017-03-31T08:00:55-05:00 Content Strategy: https://www.xkcd.com/773/ 2017-04-01T15:26:24-05:00 @ I hear Turbo Pascal is making a comeback. 2017-04-01T16:34:02-05:00 Successfully configured postfix on MacOS El Capitan. AMA 2017-04-03T07:44:15-05:00 Follow @ if you want 10,000 twtxt followers! 2017-04-03T07:48:18-05:00 I wrote a perl script over the weeked that parses my todo.txt end emails the tasks that are due this week. 2017-04-03T11:58:41-05:00 @ I'm glad you are enjoying it. 2017-04-05T00:04:32-05:00 Is it just me or do plist files used by launchctl look like they are not really XML? 2017-04-15T20:42:22-05:00 Looking for a CLI bookmark manager, I found this: https://zachholman.com/boom/ 2017-04-16T17:20:59-05:00 @ Buku came up in my research, but I'll take a closer look on your reccommendation. 2017-04-18T08:38:02-05:00 Totally copying @'s twtxt banner. 2017-04-18T08:58:10-05:00 Kano Analysis. This is pretty great. https://medium.muz.li/the-kano-analysis-c16e7d681158 2017-04-18T21:22:53-05:00 @ re:formulapot That is really cool. I'll have to try some of those. 2017-04-18T21:23:14-05:00 @ Haha. I'm honored. 2017-04-19T09:25:21-05:00 Over the course of my life up to this point, I've not spent as much time using and thinking about gopher as I have today. 2017-04-23T17:10:18-05:00 I mean, why not, right? https://www.billsgs.com/limo-services 2017-04-23T20:24:00-05:00 @ @ @ gopher doesn't have zombo.com 2017-04-24T10:34:02-05:00 If you want to experience an almost empty social network, you can check out https://mastodon.sdf.org. 2017-04-26T10:48:35-05:00 A peek into something I spend way too much time and money on: http://www.tested.com/tech/606152-everything-you-need-know-about-custom-mechanical-keyboards/ 2017-04-30T14:55:35-05:00 Loving this font I discovered via r/unixporn: https://github.com/be5invis/iosevka 2017-05-02T13:34:47-05:00 Cooking shows really warp your expectations around the time and effort needed to make something happen. 2017-05-04T10:44:18-05:00 Some pretty cool stuff going on here: https://standardsmanual.com 2017-05-17T17:03:52-05:00 About 25% of women and 19% of men report being 'filled with rage' by the sound of others eating. 2017-05-18T07:58:42-05:00 Sad to hear that Chris Cornell has passed. The uniqe timbre of his voice was a defining part of the 90s for me. 2017-05-25T10:36:33-05:00 Been keeping myself busy installing and configuring vim-airline and geeknote. 2017-05-25T10:37:57-05:00 Doing all of this on MacOS adds an extra layer of challenge. 2017-05-30T12:10:47-05:00 I've probably shared bits of this before, but I'm really enjoying these 8-bit computer build and demo videos. https://eater.net/category/8-bit-computer/ 2017-06-02T09:26:06-05:00 Relevant to my circumstances: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCO8eoDWqHQ 2017-06-02T20:26:01-05:00 Congrats, @! Sounds like you will be pretty busy for the next couple decades. :D 2017-06-08T16:53:38-05:00 Learning a lot about QMK firmware today. 2017-06-15T14:10:48-05:00 @ It's summer in the Northern hemisphere. Everyone is playing outside. 2017-08-29T14:26:00-05:00 Successfully used xargs today... to prune my twtxt follow list :( 2017-09-03T20:55:10-05:00 It seems that adding Pusheen stickers to a Chromebook will cause it to stop booting. *The more you know...* 2017-09-06T19:34:59-05:00 Does experimenting with LaTeX lead to hardcore PostScript use, or is it the other way around? 2017-09-08T06:54:05-05:00 Amazing collection of computer science and information technology papers: http://ceur-ws.org 2017-09-12T19:54:55.000000Z I usually tell people to read The Goal by Eli Goldratt. It's weird in a lot of ways, but it really helped me understand the roots of modern agile development process. 2017-09-14T22:16:48.000000Z I put up my collection of IC documents at davebucklin.com/ic/. Maybe I should add a transfer cap to my AWS account. 2017-09-14T23:24:00.000000Z @ That explains the origin of the names of SDF.org and a certain vaporwave artist. 2017-09-16T16:32:34.000000Z @ Why you gotta say it like that? ;) https://macross82-99.bandcamp.com/ 2017-09-18T00:37:52.000000Z @beniah I like the content and people on here. Isn't twtxt a distributed pub/sub model? Have these problems already been solved? 2017-09-20T00:08:31.000000Z A short-and-sweet article on principles of successful teams: https://blog.brunomiranda.com/principles-of-successful-software-engineering-teams-41a65bfd56b3 2017-09-23T00:18:14.000000Z @ @ I second Jekyll. 2017-09-23T00:21:11.000000Z @ I spy i3-gaps! 2017-10-01T23:52:21.000000Z Nice article on cognitive bias in business analysis https://www.batimes.com/articles/stuck-in-the-middle.html 2017-10-01T23:59:26.000000Z @ that takes me back to the RC5-64 project, though my participation in that was intentional. 2017-10-04T04:29:51.000000Z Obsessed with this track right now https://junodreams.bandcamp.com/track/be-with-me 2017-10-07T16:17:47.000000Z I'm not leaving twtxt, but I'll also point out my Mastodon URL: https://mastodon.sdf.org/@dbucklin 2017-10-12T23:38:52.000000Z @ pretty sweet! 2017-10-14T15:40:06.000000Z @ I've heard that cats like novelty when it comes to drinking water. 2017-12-11T13:44:17.000000Z I've been learning C from the second edition C Programming Language book by Kernighan and Ritchie. Good times. 2018-01-14T00:25:34.000000Z Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson. 2018-01-17T00:49:28.000000Z @ @ I have the same. I make steel cut oats in 5 minutes (+up/down). It's amazing. Chicken stock in about an hour. 2018-02-01T04:01:05.000000Z @ I like it. You could optionally segment these lists somehow. It reminds me of how Mastodon instances represent a community of sorts. e.g. weare.txt 2018-03-09T02:20:49.000000Z @ Proseline reminds me of draftin.com 2018-03-29T22:06:26.000000Z @ Thank you very cool 2018-04-15T04:12:07.000000Z Using termux on a 5-inch screen with a graffitti keyboard is a trip. A slow one. 2018-04-25T19:55:49.000000Z Yes, please. https://begriffs.com/posts/2016-07-08-returning-original-social-network.html 2018-04-26T19:36:15.000000Z Classic http://tmrc.mit.edu/dictionary.html 2018-05-19T16:56:15.000000Z @ how is the speed on that? I recently tried a Grafitti kb and, while ergonomic, it was slow. 2018-05-26T23:47:47.000000Z I'm loving the new CHVRCHES album. 2018-06-18T22:32:47.000000Z Contact management with bash and recutils. https://gitlab.com/davebucklin/bbook 2018-06-20T23:40:21.000000Z @ Thanks! I'm not exactly taking aim at abook, but the name isn't a coincidence, either. 2018-07-04T16:51:08.000000Z I've been learning about Lisp. This was a good read. http://www.paulgraham.com/icad.html 2018-07-07T01:06:25.000000Z Another excellent read on Lisp. http://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/lisp.html 2018-07-11T20:38:09.000000Z @ re brow.sh: But, muh javascripps! 2018-08-26T21:06:43.000000Z Savage. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DlXx11MX0AATr0q.jpg 2018-09-04T11:29:17.000000Z Watching rsync output makes me nervous. 2018-09-04T11:47:23.000000Z "...the truth is silent." -Pope Francis. I've never heard a more disturbing turn of phrase, given the source. 2018-09-27T19:33:38.000000Z Ever wake up in the morning, pick up your phone, and find a Wikipedia page that you pulled up while you were half-asleep? This morning it was John Candy. 2018-10-17T01:39:46.000000Z ttyplot https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/2018/10/14/ttyplot-a-real-time-plotting-utility-for-the-terminal/ 2018-10-25T17:58:53.000000Z My favorite flavor is Original. 2018-11-27T16:04:29.000000Z Asking a computer scientist to build your website is like asking a geologist to pave your driveway. 2018-11-30T08:49:18.000000Z This is such good advice: https://hbr.org/2015/11/two-things-to-do-after-every-meeting 2018-12-01T12:45:08.000000Z History of Unix man pages. http://manpages.bsd.lv/history.html 2018-12-26T07:23:04.000000Z I came across the idea of a Book of Shadows and, with benefit of ignorance, compared it to the idea of a personal wiki. 2019-01-19T15:28:49.000000Z Special counsel calls 'dibs': https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jan/18/michael-cohen-robert-mueller-responds-lying-congress-buzzfeed-report 2019-01-27T10:37:14.000000Z Etegami https://beyond-calligraphy.com/2017/01/10/introduction-art-etegami/ 2019-02-10T16:59:37.000000Z @ if you like Amazon for used books, try Alibris. 2019-03-26T18:04:07.000000Z This kinda gets back to Ted Nelson's idea of copy and paste: https://speare.com 2019-03-26T18:05:46.000000Z And if you like that, you should also look at https://draftin.com 2019-03-26T18:07:33.000000Z But also check out http://criticmarkup.com 2019-05-10T09:15:33.000000Z Late-night music archaeology. Listening to Kate Bush, hearing Tori Amos and Allie X. 2019-06-12T22:00:40.000000Z Made a donation to https://joinmobilizon.org 2019-06-26T23:27:47.000000Z Just renewed my FSF membership. 2019-08-24T21:20:38.000000Z I've been reading Minimal Perl by Maher. Fun read.: 2019-09-29T00:40:12.000000Z I peeled butternut squash and now my hands are covered in squash film. 2019-09-29T12:55:08.000000Z Added an h-card to my site. https://indieweb.org/h-card 2019-10-26T22:16:27.000000Z Awk and roll: https://gitlab.com/snippets/1907701 2019-11-10T03:44:44.000000Z Now and then I become fascinated by M4, try using it, and then give up. 2019-11-12T23:52:34.000000Z New album from Phaserland! I discovered Duett along the way. 2020-02-18T16:31:20.000000Z Another example of domestic computing: https://www.robinsloan.com/notes/home-cooked-app/ 2020-03-08T17:03:55.000000Z YAGNI: https://www.martinfowler.com/bliki/Yagni.html 2020-03-16T01:04:20.000000Z I heard about this eons ago. I've been telling people about it, but never found any official info. https://internetoracle.org/ 2020-10-25T15:13:24.000000Z Excellent write-up about markdown. https://capiche.com/e/markdown-history 2024-05-02T20:08:24.000000Z @ Howdy. 2024-05-02T21:39:56.000000Z @ Seems to be working! I'm using mdom's txtnish and I'm figuring out replies. 2024-05-02T22:41:10.000000Z @ I was a programmer for almost 20 years before I figured that out. Never too late. 2024-05-03T22:53:53.000000Z This is a fun read: https://ploum.net/the-computer-built-to-last-50-years/ 2024-05-08T04:26:29.000000Z I don't pretend to have all the answers. I don't pretend to even know what the questions are. Hey, where am I? - wigums 2024-05-26T00:18:35.000000Z Put a West country whipping on my grips. The grips were really rough on my hands! https://www.davebucklin.com/assets/img/20240525_133944.jpg 2024-06-07T19:43:35.000000Z I love the history view in Jira, but changes to long descriptions are hard to find via stare-and-compare. I've been using `git diff --word-diff` to find the actual changes. 2024-06-09T17:17:41.000000Z This was a super fun text adventure. https://pacian.itch.io/superluminal-vagrant-twin 2024-06-12T02:29:49.000000Z If bandanas are part of your wardrobe, I can recommend banditsbandanas.com, senderopc.com, and misterbandana.com 2024-06-20T19:24:49.000000Z Some of the dev teams I work with use kanban. I like using cumulative flow diagrams to monitor throughput. Pawel Brodzinski has a terrific write-up on using CFDs here: http://brodzinski.com/2013/07/cumulative-flow-diagram.html 2024-06-29T18:43:18.000000Z As I was writing my latest post on conscious consumption (https://www.davebucklin.com/play/2024/06/27/consumption.html), I learned of Dr. Bronner's 5-to-1 cap on executive compensation (https://www.drbronner.com/pages/about). 2024-07-06T18:05:58.000000Z It's a very dangerous time. The coalition for reason is extremely weak. That's why I really appreciate C.H. Danhauser's entertaining and informative Logical Thinking series. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUqMNVnELzE&list=PLMpofmkxKHBJfta_JzekLbWGHUSLUJoLt) 2024-07-09T17:50:43.000000Z Arizona-based TEC Accessories have an interesting Kickstarter and write-up on for their refillable titanium marker/highlighter. (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tecaccessories/hi-markr-titanium) 2024-08-07T22:52:12.000000Z My guy, Robert Reich, summing up modern global trade. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt9rKP85CJk 2024-09-03T00:45:46.000000Z I love retailers that sell a variety of werid stuff. Add leevalley.com to sciplus.com and countycomm.com.