# I am the Watcher. I am your guide through this vast new twtiverse.
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# Usage:
#     https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/users              View list of users and latest twt date.
#     https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/twt                View all twts.
#     https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/mentions?uri=:uri  View all mentions for uri.
#     https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/conv/:hash         View all twts for a conversation subject.
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#     limit   Count of items to return (going back in time).
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# twt range = 1 1793
# self = https://watcher.sour.is?uri=https://arrakis.netbros.com/user/fastidious/twtxt.txt&offset=1793
# prev = https://watcher.sour.is?uri=https://arrakis.netbros.com/user/fastidious/twtxt.txt&offset=1693

If someone is following me, I am sure this message will come across quite clear. I don't think we want this to be used, and abused, right? Also, this is a test, please do not reply as I will be deleting this twt within a day or two.

I think the hacky footnotes broke the timeline too. Let's see what shows now. The timeline was filled of own posts, so maybe the cache simply expired? We will find out now.
Testing to see how footnotes1 work here, if they do at all. It is very hacky, and I am sure it will render like crap on any other twtxt client, but it does the job on Yarn.

1. This is a "footnote".
Testing to see how footnotes1 work here, if they do at all.

1. This is a footnote.
If you are seeing this, check your "Following" list and unfollow me. Did? Good, good, have as cookie! :-)
This is a test.

> A simple.
> Test

Let's see how it goes. And now…

A piece of code here that will scroll horizontally. A piece of code here that will scroll horizontally. A piece of code here that will scroll horizontally. A piece of code here that will scroll horizontally.


The end.
I am no longer following anyone on this feed (@fastidious@arrakis.netbros.com), and will not be twting from it any longer. Please unfollow and follow @david@netbros.com instead.
@prologic don’t let it put you down. People solves this whilst blindfolded, so you have an advantage. Am I right? You can do it!
@adi so, if everything is shell script, and just about everything can be done with it, what do we need *zs* or *mkws* for? 🤣
@lyse where do I sign up to subscribe to that devil’s treatment? It sounds so enticing! Shagadelic, baby. Oh, stop it! 🤣
@prologic this is you now 😂:
Playing with a beehive
@darch that someday is now for me. I have zero interest on NFTs, will not pay a penny for one, don't want one, and the list goes on. I bet the term on this instance was used sarcastically.
@lyse glad you liked it! Yes, not all were of my liking, but even those I didn't like much I also didn't have to skip. "Suffering" through them was doable.
@lyse that was quite a story! I could vividly imagine the entire thing, though, up and until the last sentence I imagined the old teacher to be mean, but also sexy. @movq's cringing on the last sentence snapped me out of it. 🤣
@screem DM are in "private"? Each time you mention someone, like @prologic you are directly mentioning it, but on a public forum. If it is private messages, they were half 'arsely' implemented, and they were scrapped. Personally I see no need for it, but I am just a pebble in the river. :-)
@screem DM are is "private"? Each time you mention someone, like @prologic you are directly mentioning it, but on a public forum. If it is private messages, they were half 'arsely' implemented, and they were scrapped. Personally I see no need for it, but I am just a pebble in the river. :-)
@lyse again, premiere is my favourite! Second fave is 05 (bonus, how many birds?). On the premiere, is that a small lake, or simply a widening of a small river? Love the colours, and the artefacts the light created on the lens!
@lyse you are “the supplier” (read it on the context of a drug dealer, LOL). Without your participation, dopamine levels go down. I mean it!
This Twitter Close Friends "Flock" looks like a good idea, issues and problems with the platform aside. It is a more "private" Twitter, and I think that is a good thing. Hoping it goes out for all users **and** it is not only available for those on Twitter Blue (paid).
So, is this what being spoiled or, rather, having created a habit feels? I am used to see @lyse on IRC, and around here just about this time, so it is weird neither has happened yet. I hope you are hiking, @lyse, and will bring us more nice pics!
The Great Wave off the Coast of Kanagawa, 1831, on Reading Public Museum. Iconic, I know.

The Great Wave off the Coast of Kanagawa
@screem only if it was your last twt, and only if someone hasn't replied to it. Let's say you twt, I see it on my pod (or on any other twtxt client that supports the subject/hash extensions), and reply to it, then you go and edit it, there will be disconnections. Normally if you edit it right away, or delete it (again, only for your last twt) everything is fine.
I am slowing finding and compiling my own playlist on Apple Music following this YouTube's "Back to the 80s" greatest hits song list. So many nice songs; so many memories there! I was in my teens in the 80s, so I listened to plenty of those.
@prologic there is more than one algorithm/method to solve it out there. All well known, and used by the top solvers—which include machines. Current solving record I believe it is held by an Aussie.
@prologic I am assuming you guys solved it whilst on the call, right? If so, who was the winner, and how long did it take? My older kid can do it in under two minutes. I thought that was great until I checked the Guinness records. 😂
@screem I see, but it shouldn't be the job of the government to do everything. That's where the enterprise comes handy. Letting business compete in the arena will also speed things up (not a pun) and both, businesses and customers, would win.
@screem one day it will get faster. It is just a matter of time. We went from 14400 Bauds modems, to 10Mbps, to 50Mbps, to 200Mbps, to 700Mbps, to the now 1Gbps. And, well, you just saw what’s coming. I can’t help but wonder how will it be 100 years from now.
Just read that AT&T here is coming with Fibre 2 GIG: $110/month + taxes and Fibre 5 GIG: $180/month + taxes. If you want to read more, and salivate, more information at their site.
@prologic because it is fun! Because they could! Because some of us are square pegs in round holes. 😂
@screem 👋🏻 howdy, and welcome mate! I like your domain (why didn't I get that when I had a chance?)! It normally gets busier around here during UTC daylight, or US hours, but if more Aussies keep joining, pretty soon will be the opposite.
@prologic yeah, none of those are truly acceptable options. It reminds me when I used to be locked in with a monopoly provider. It truly sucked, for a long time. Now we have, easily, over a handful of options.
I saw you bounce. I don’t know if we talked about this before, but what are you options, should issues with your ISP continue? Are you locked in to your current, or are there other (preferably better) options?
Wow, @lyse, talk about a blast from the past! Twenty years ago I would have paid for some of those, believe it or not. LOL. Good times, good times...
@prologic I figure five hours is plenty of time to rest, right? I was just reading today that our brain eats up to 25% of our entire energy. I surely hope you are not starving yours! 🧠
@movq start here, and be prepared for a potentially arduous task. When I was running my own mail server I was able to be unlocked and on their allowed list. I am sure you will be able too, if you want.
@movq start here, and be prepared for a potentially arduous task. When I was running my own mail server I was able to be unlocked and on their allowed list. I am sure you will be able too, if you want.
@lyse totally love 15, pretty nice angle, and crispiness. The premiered photo hits the spot this time, I would have chosen it too. 5°C is hot, eh? LOL. We had 2°C, haven't ventured outside yet.
You need to include that hash in between parenthesis, not brackets, and have it be at the very beginning of the twt. Otherwise it will not work.
Oh, I forgot to comment about the necklace! How nice of people! I just wonder on whether or not she likes it. Also, seeing the drops on her forehead and face makes me want to pull a handkerchief, and give it to her. :-)
@lyse I would have picked 01 or 05 to premiere 😛. I like how the snow gives the trees and landscape that magical touch. I'll say, Friday's hike was a worthy one—but then again, I am yet not to like anything you bring from your escapades!
There is nothing on that Gemini pod, just a "Hello Gemini!" message, and that's about it. So, hmm, yeah. And on a shared server, access to logs is normally not possible. I can't imagine how a twtxt "ping" will be seeing.
@james yup, still. I just come by to check every once in a while. Right now I am at the end of my lunch break—without having eating any lunch—and am just catching up here and there.
@movq, that person is also on Gemini. I will take a look at that capsule when I am back from lunch, and see if I can find other contact information. I can’t see the feed on my mobile.
On this, about a four booster shot decreasing infections from the Omicron variant, I have to say: COVID-19 shots are now at a similar schedule level as the flu shots people gets each year. It is just the reality until we find a more permanent solution—which we might not find.
One thing I need to add, and it might be very important, I think. The page you linked is not mobile friendly. I can do something in it while on mobile, but no where near what it can be done on a desktop. Considering that many these days exclusively use mobile web, you may want to do something about that.
@prologic that last commit (117efbfca8) did the trick to get your avatar to show consistently on my pod. Before that commit it was flip flopping worst than a US Republican politician. 😂
Though the "article" is substantially about nothing—it simply says that rumours are spreading about next year's iPhone displays being manufactured by a Chinese display maker—it is funny to read the comments on it. "*I would much rather have anything other than a cheap Chinese screen on my iPhone […]*", or "*If I wanted a cheap Chinese screen I would buy a non Samsung CHEAP Android phone*". I think they are forgetting, or know very little—if at all—about economical globalisation.
@prologic well, you see, I didn't need to see the video to grasp it is a really nice yacht. After all, why wouldn't it be, at a $710,000 price tag? I will order two, to which address should I get yours delivered? 😂
All I have to say is, I wish everyone who invested, or is investing in cryptocurrency, the very best. People have made a lot of paper money with it, and have acquired plenty of materials goods as well (houses, cars, etc.). Some are bound to lose money. People have also made lots of money on the market, and also have lost money.

Just the same as I don't invest in gold, I don't invest in cryptocurrencies. Simply not attracted. Same reason I don't go around pushing down, nor evangelising, cryptocurrency. Cryptocurrency evangelists remind me the people wanting to sell pyramid schemes. And when they mix conspiracy theories, politics and the like, with it, then it is even worse.
I know the temptation to buy something for less money is always enticing. I tell me wife the same thing, to which she almost always replies "we do not have enough money to buy xyz!" And that might be true, we might not have the money *right now* to buy it. My philosophy is different. I would rather wait until I pile up the money to buy the high quality stuff I want, than go for the cheap version of it.

Sometimes cheap works very well, even as well as the most expensive version and, occasionally, even better. But more often than not, it doesn't. Anyway, sorry I went on a little rant there. Good luck with that bass (the musical instrument, not the fish)!
@prologic to gain traction, which is nothing more than spark the interest so that people joins, and/or start using Yarn, and spinning pods, once needs to be on the "evil" platform. And that to be is, if anything, to proselytise. How many of us are on Twitter? 😉
@james I got it a while ago, I am just working and I haven't checked until now. Quite a busy day here. I will have to disconnect from all other tempting distractions.
@thecanine it works. Colour changing works, clicking and making the squares works. The eraser works. The squares are not pixel sized, but I am sure you know that.
@homer this is fixed now on a commit I am testing here. So, if I hit reply, it should (and it does) fill in the mention of the person I am replying, even though I might not be following it, like you, for example.
It was rendered fine when manually entered. So, it is just when the autocomplete is used on Yarn, it seems; the @ autocomplete, that is.
It seems mentioning @ew0k/BW is still breaking here. I just used @<ew0k/BW https://warmedal.se/~bjorn/twtxt.txt>, lets see how it renders. Not forking on this off-topic, to avoid adding complicating factors.
Awesome, @homer I got this too! I would say WebMentions are working as they should, and as expected. I would like to apologise to everyone for the noise. I will work on deploying a dev Yard pod to keep this kind of noise out of your main timeline.
Awesome, @homer I got this too! I would say WebMentions are working as they should, and as expected. I would like to apologise to everyone for the noise. I will work on deploying a dev Yard pod to keep this kind of noise out of your main timeline.
@homer I tried this many times yesterday, and it was a hit or miss, but I was told it is fixed now, so here I am trying again. Please mention me on your reply.
I don't think *tt* is missing anything, it is just hard—to almost impossible—to be get running at this time. I haven't bugged @lyse to work on that, but it would be super nice to have that client available for the masses to use. What say you, @lyse? (wink, wink)
@xuu still at it, eh? 😂 Almost everyone I know who was playing Wordle (or one of its spin offs) is over it already. I never even tried it. Well, not fully true. When I first saw it linked on Hacker News (or Reddit, can't remember) I went and looked, and clicked a couple of times. Then I left. I know, I can be so impatient sometimes!
Hello @admin
I got it.
@homer again.
@homer how do you do?
Trying this again to see if @homer receives this.
@admin testing again.
Well, I am not sure what's happening, @admin because I haven't done anything different.
@admin another try.
@prologic you have my sword, and my axe. I am even willing to take an arrow to the knee! But, on a more serious note, if that's the case, phew, all good. I like the short name, specially for those I might want to mention without following.
@admin trying once more.
@admin hoping this will get to you.
Will stop wasting time, and bandwidth now. It ain't working, and that's final. Sorry @james!
@james I am testing a WebMention like we did before, to your development Yarn instance, to see if it is an issue with the main pod. If this works, they my theory is correct.
@~duriny that is a question that's worth debating. Open an issue for it, and I will tag it as discussion to see what people think. Being on the minimalistic side, I would say let us use the description for it, without the need to add another meta/field to the feed, but I am only one. I think opening it for discussion is worth it.
Hashes work like, so sweetly! They help to keep conversations (or yarns, like we call them on Yarn.social) organised and on topic. :-)
@stigatle two children in my family got it too—the Omicron variant. They are 5 and 7, and were for the most part asymptomatic. The 7 years old got running and stuffy nose, but that was all for her. The five years old experienced nothing. Both are fully (two doses) vaccinated. Your kid and family will be fine. 🤞🏻
@lyse I was thinking about the same. I am one of the few who peeks at the raw feed, but most people using Yarn will not. Now, the description people will for sure see.
@stigatle oh crap, so sorry mate! Plenty of rest, and fluids. If things get worse—which I wish and hope they don't—get to see a doctor right away.
@darch I am afraid it is simply not possible and, even if it were, of no use for people not using Yarn. You either embed a video by uploading it (which renders as a link to those not using Yarn), or just provide a link to where the video is. Again, your use of this is very niche. You might be better using something else, like a custom WordPress theme. That would be down your turf, as you seem to like PHP. Or Hugo, the static site generator.
@lyse I have seeing dogs on @off_grid_living before, I don't think he has a cat (I might be wrong, though). A cat walk is not for a cat. It simply means a narrow way in and out. :-)
@~duriny my apologies for assuming. I normally look at the person's profile (on Yarn) for a description. Some like to list their pronoun there, which makes it easier. Now, why I assumed Duriny was a he, and not a she—or a they—boggles my mind now. Truly, my apologies.
@lyse ahh, touché! I am a bloody idiot. With the format being discussed (that is, @nick@fqdn.tld) is impossible, you are right. I got confused by the simple fact that, indeed a meta can be added to the ~, but it really can't be referenced on the mention at all with that format.

~duriny, sadly, as @lyse rightfully wrote, it is not possible. Now, look at jenny's vim autoload, as it is possible search a file with your following and autocomplete, if you use vim. Heck, if you use jenny you will be all set!
@lyse but he can write to ~/duriny/, and keep an index.html there with the meta tags. As I see it, it should work just fine. I shall test it later this afternoon, as I have accounts on a few tildes around.
@benk new is, of course, a relative term. If this is the first time @movq is working with it, then it is new to him, right? ☺️
@~duriny it will work under your tilde, as it is the root of your website (where your twtxt.txt file is). @prologic can correct me if I am wrong.
@adi woah! Look who the cat brought in! 😂 Welcome back from your sabbatical, mate! How’s mkws?
@lyse I saw what you did there, bad, bad, baaaaaaaad boy! :-) You see, I even accommodate to your terminal lack of Emoji, and fall back to the safe one for you to use. I am all heart!
Since the new @nick@domain.tld and the parser are having slight issues, I will use the "old" method for now, to WebMention someone on a Yarn pod. Hello, @eaplmx! 😂
Now that we can mention people by simply knowing their nick, and where they are, it is very simple to say, "hi there, @eaplmx
Oh, and in case I didn't make me case clear, **I hate** little replies. That might give someone the impression that I am a hateful guy. I am not. I simply like content, and substance, and a twt with "Cool!" or "🤣🤣🤣" isn't that.
@kayos on this I very much agree with you. You see, I am pedantic to an unhealthy extreme, and I honestly dislike things like these you mention. There are occasions I want to show I like, or I agree with something, but simply do not do it because **I hate** to simply write "Cool!", "Awesome!", or an Emoji as a reply. I don't see likes as dopamine boosters—though will agree they might work like that for most people—but as a short engagement for things that, well, simply require, or deserve, an "I like it!" reply.

It doesn't need to be a like. It can be a star, a ball of yarn, a horse shoe. Whatever! Mastodon does it. Discourse does it. It is just a way to simply avoid the noise of little replies, composed of little, small twts (which I **hate**).
@prologic no, no, no, you haven't seeing BookWyrm. It is a specialised, decentralised, book and social reading and reviewing solution. It looks pretty neat, and niche. No comparison, and not possible with Yarn.
@movq it is just the latest fad. It popped on Hacker News pretty much at the same time it popped on Lobste.rs, Reddit, Twitter, and the like (maybe even on Facebook, who knows!). I am sure the euphoria will die out soon. :-D
@lyse I am sure we have gotten a few corona pizzas, and cheese sticks, and bread sticks, and lava cakes. I normally put them in an 235°C oven for five minutes after bringing them home, but still. I guess it is a good way to put to test those three vaccines!
@jlj even better, you should run one! It seems to be exactly what you want for your book club. Pretty nifty piece of software. It comes to prove there is open source for everything. I love it!
@james this should go through, because I am mentioning you.
Howdy mate. This worked awesomely!
@james how goes mate? This is to test WebMentions. I know I could have just say "hello", but it doesn't go well with my nick. TEST 2
@james this is another mention. But you already added my feed, so let's see what it does.