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#     https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/mentions?uri=:uri  View all mentions for uri.
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[47°09′26″S, 126°43′10″W] Transfer completed
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This looks interesting - hi from France
This thing about making software run on other people's computers can be pretty hard!

No wonder I think I've heard this is one of the things that distinguishes professional software development from [my preferred domain of] things such as "end-user programming" etc.

The problem is that when you start sharing code in the context of a FLOSS project you almost immediately get enmeshed in concerns about packaging and how other people will install stuff, when sometimes you just don't want to be a professional software developer! 😿

I'm always borrowing terms (learning ideas) from @lr like: *incidental complexity*. I hate *incidental complexity* or maybe I just fear *incidental complexity*. Can we escape *incidental complexity*? I guess not.
Can we play D&D now?
Greetings from England
This looks so huggable, it feels like a plushie! 🥰

After seeing so many resolutions, I think you're only missing a *matrioska* version of it. 🪆
@lyse Yeah, the format is just an idea of how it could work.

The order of SOURCE > POST does make more sense indeed.
@prologic thanks, I already follow @important_dev_news too.

BTW, the feed on https://feeds.twtxt.net/ seem down? It says it's in maintenance.
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@alexonit Personally, I find the reversed order of URL first and then timestamp more natural to reference something. Granted, URL last would be kinda consistent with the mention format. However, the timestamp doesn't act as a link text or display text like in a mention, so, it's some different in my opinion. But yeah.
God bless mr. Trump and USA
@prologic Me neither, if there's any important news others usually tell me anyway. 😌
[47°09′46″S, 126°43′27″W] Transfer 25% complete...
[47°09′55″S, 126°43′03″W] Bad satellite signal -- switching to analog communication
vacas pintadas de zebra e morcegos bêbados...

https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/09/meet-the-2025-ig-nobel-prize-winners/
Vacas pintadas de zebra e morcegos bêbados...

...também conta que os nenês curtem o leita materno quando a mãe comeu alho.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/09/meet-the-2025-ig-nobel-prize-winners/
Vacas pintadas de zebra e morcegos bêbados...

...também conta que os nenês curtem o leite materno quando a mãe comeu alho.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/09/meet-the-2025-ig-nobel-prize-winners/
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https://lichess.org/training/431526724
Mate in 5 I think... :)
#chess #ChessPuzzle #lichess
[47°09′34″S, 126°43′36″W] --bad checksum--
[47°09′15″S, 126°43′43″W] --white noise--
@prologic I know you were away, but were you under a rock?! 😅
Paul Walter has been posting amazing #GIS stuff on linkedin....

Like this: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/paulwaynewalter_urban-gis-people-great-free-self-paced-activity-7373022072685506560-z0S5

«Oh, also, here is a link to Transitland's map of open #GTFS data: https://www.transit.land/map#3.5/40.41/-104.84»
Paul Walter has been posting amazing #GIS stuff on linkedin....

Like this: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/paulwaynewalter_urban-gis-people-great-free-self-paced-activity-7373022072685506560-z0S5
«Welcome to the #AutomatingGIS processes course! Through interactive lessons and hands-on exercises, this course introduces you to #GeographicDataAnalysis using the #Python programming language. If you are new to Python, we recommend you first start with the Geo-Python course (geo-python.readthedocs.io) before diving into using it for GIS analyses in this course.

Geo-Python and Automating GIS Processes (‘#AutoGIS’) have been developed by the Department of Geosciences and Geography at the University of Helsinki, Finland. The course has been planned and organized by the #DigitalGeographyLab. The teaching materials are openly accessible for anyone interested in learning.»

https://autogis-site.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

(via Paul Walter no linkedin)

#GIS #geoPython #geopandas #shapely #osmnx #networkx
«Welcome to the #AutomatingGIS processes course! Through interactive lessons and hands-on exercises, this course introduces you to #GeographicDataAnalysis using the #Python programming language. If you are new to Python, we recommend you first start with the Geo-Python course (geo-python.readthedocs.io) before diving into using it for GIS analyses in this course.

Geo-Python and Automating GIS Processes (‘#AutoGIS’) have been developed by the Department of Geosciences and Geography at the University of Helsinki, Finland. The course has been planned and organized by the #DigitalGeographyLab. The teaching materials are openly accessible for anyone interested in learning.»

https://autogis-site.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

#GIS #geoPython #geopandas #shapely #osmnx #networkx
Consulta do senado sobre projeto de anistia do Mourão:

https://www12.senado.leg.br/ecidadania/visualizacaomateria?id=160575

Precisa logar com gov.br e tal, mas acho que vale a pena votar para mandar uma mensagem, a diferença andou diminuindo :-S
Attention, bientôt l'équinoxe : un évènement cosmique si puissant qu'il pourrait faire changer la saison!
idée peut-être pas si con du jour : ajouter des entrées sur mon twtxt à partir de mon téléphone en utilisant markor + syncthing pour la publication
[47°09′17″S, 126°43′24″W] Storm recedes -- back to normal work
@prologic Yes, no doubt. There's always something somewhere.
Did something bad happen in the world today? 🧐
[47°09′24″S, 126°43′47″W] Wind speed: 79kph -- batteries low
Doing a bit of 2018 Advent of Code now to relax. 🎄
@lyse Some stuff is actually more reliable, that’s true. It’s also waaaaaaaaaaay more expensive, though … :-)

I called it a day, yes. \o/
@movq But it's so reliable and they have all the experts, they know what they're doing! And don't forget, it's way cheaper! Just think of the 34 cents saved every year on paper, the business dude calculated!

Enjoy your weekend! (I hope, you just called it a day and don't have to drive to the office or silly shenanigans like that.)
The worst thing you can do is make your infrastructure (switches, wifi, ...) depend on some cloud service. Because someone else is maintaining that service; you have no control over it. You 100% depend on that other person now. Very stupid idea.

Now guess what manufacturers are pushing for ...

Now guess who couldn't complete a task at work this Saturday morning, because a certain cloud service was down ...

IT is fucked. Throw it all away and start over.
[47°09′34″S, 126°43′01″W] Wind speed: N/A -- Cannot comunicate
@lyse Yep! Super fast and efficient! 😃
@kiwu awwww! 😢
#Python #cbers4a #satelite #SensoriamentoRemoto

https://cbers4asat.readthedocs.io/pt-br/latest/

cc @elmoneto@elmoneto (você viu isso? eu não manjo nada mas já fiquei animado...)
@prologic welcome back! 🥳🥳🥳
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Hello 👋 I'm back!
https://galusik.fr/fridayrockmetal/2025-09-19-frm.m3u Tonight #FridayRockMetal playlist
@movq That's transparency hardware support!
[47°09′36″S, 126°43′16″W] Wind speed: 75kph -- batteries low
While working on the Discoverability for my twtxt client (it runs client-side) I found out that Chrome doesn't allow to set a custom user agent. 🙃

I thought it was a general thing for browsers, but it that was actually allowed in a newer specification, yet it's still not implemented in Chrome, it does work in Firefox though.
Severe but funny burn-ins on my TFT again:

https://movq.de/v/9df0437d27/MVI_8891.MOV.mp4

Now everything looks like it has that silly slogan as a background image:

https://movq.de/v/9df0437d27/smol.jpg
[47°09′21″S, 126°43′27″W] Working impossible due to heavy rain
@zvava In tt, I recognize umlauts in nicks, but they cannot include whitespace, @, !, #, (, ), [, ], <, >, " (but ' is okay). Whitespace also acts as a separator between nick and URL. @<Hello World http://example.com> ends up exactly like that and is not a mention.
https://villares-shop.fourthwall.com (International)
https://umapenca.com/villares (BR)

#Python #CreativeCoding #Processing #py5 #TShirt #GenerativeArt #SupportArtists white T-shirt with abstract geometric pattern made of recursively placed unfilled black stroke hexagons and lines
I would like to wish everyone, including all haters and losers (of which, sadly, there are many) a truly happy and enjoyable weekend!
Only plebeians and shabbos goyim care about politics, however. Naturally, the Jews *would* want you to sperg out about Trump in a hipster-protocol chat.
[47°09′40″S, 126°43′26″W] Working impossible due to blizzard
Fuck Trump!
utiliser git sans forge: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/quasiblog/git-no-forge/
J'aime beaucoup cet article, surtout la fin : pourquoi avoir son site web? https://daverupert.com/2025/09/why-would-anybody-start-a-website/
@zvava I kinda fixed the issue by not stripping the timestamp at all.

Seems that more feeds work correctly this way. 🤔
@thecanine With a progressive web app (PWA) you can have a native like experience without having to trouble yourself with building a second project that act as a client.

You can even "wrap" it into a packaged installation and publish it on stores, theres even projects to streamline it https://www.pwabuilder.com/.
My proposal is taken from https://texudus.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ BTW.
[47°09′26″S, 126°43′59″W] Working impossible due to thunderstorm
@zvava @lyse I also think a location based reference might be better.

A thread is a single post of a single feed as a root, but the hash has the drawback of not referencing the source, in a distributed network like twtxt it might leave some people out of the whole conversation.

I suggest a simpler format, something like: (#<TIMESTAMP URL>)

This solves three issues:

- Easier referencing: no need to generate a hash, just copy the timestamp and url, it's also simpler to implement in a client without the rish of collisions when putting things together
- Fetchable source: you can find the source within the reference and construct the thread from there
- Allow editing: If a post is modified the hash becomes invalid since it depends on [ timestamp, url, content ]
@zvava @lyse @movq I also was wondering how to handle this.

Currently my regex is like this: /@<((?<nick>[^\s]+)\s)?(?<url>\w+:\/\/[^>]+)>/g

It takes everything until the space and the nick is optional.
Hello everyone! 👋

After a long while away, I'm back on twtxt with this new feed.

Some of you might remember me as justamoment@twtxt.net, that was a test account I made for trying things out, but I ended up keeping it more than planned.

I also tried other social platforms in search of a place that felt right for me.

In the end twtxt was the one that ticked all of my boxes:

- Slow social: it act more like a feed reader and I really appreciate that there's no flood of content that I can't keep up with.
- No server needed: I absolutely love to have total control over my content, I tend to avoid having moving parts that might break, plus you can put your feed under version control and it's all backed up.
- Ownership: I can put my feed anywhere I want and nobody can decide if I can access it or not.
- For hackers: a single .txt file allows me to join a community, how cool is that!

This is why I decided to build my own twtxt client, one that allows you to decide how the feed is presented on your "instance".

It's still in the making but I'll try to share a bit of it once I defined how things should work.

Coincidentally, I discovered that @itsericwoodward and @zvava were also building a twtxt client, seems like twtxt is set to grow!
[47°09′01″S, 126°43′14″W] Automatic systems disengaged due to thunderstorm
@bender Soon soon🤣
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@prologic ah! Well, keeping fingers crossed for you and family on that RV, for sure! 🤞🏻
@bender I wish 🤣 Nah work on-site thingy😆
[47°09′30″S, 126°43′37″W] Automatic systems disengaged due to blizzard
[47°09′55″S, 126°43′43″W] Weather forecast alert -- storm from NE
Quoi qu eje fasse, je reviens toujours à cette font pour le terminal. Oh, et que je déteste les ligatures! https://juliamono.netlify.app/download/
Quoi qu eje fasse, je reviens toujours à cette font pour le terminal. Oh, et que je déteste les ligatures! https://juliamono.netlify.app/download/
@prologic ah, I was wondering! Hoping you are having a good time, mate! Christening the new RV? :-)
[47°09′13″S, 126°43′25″W] Reading: 0.35000 PPM
God BLESS USA and mr. Trump
Good morning from France
Hieee guise!@oneone
#musiquinta #DadRock
Não é um tema de que saiba muito para conseguir musicar apropriadamente, mas julgo que a "Fuel for Fire" dos #Metallica não fica mal:

https://youtu.be/PvF9PAxe5Ng
[47°09′32″S, 126°43′49″W] Reading: 1.64 Sv
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I'm out of town folks and away until tomorrow (have been all week)
Little Lost Robot - Asimov short story. (1962)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-RX1GT4GT0
Someone please ban 2929b's autistic spamming ass.
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I know it doesn’t need to be said, but “Texudus” is not twtxt. It is an attempt to create a, arguably, “better way™️”. 🤭
@zvava ah, yes, that’s the only Texudus feed. It also seems it is a one way only feed.
@bender https://andros.dev/texudus.txt, its url doesn't correspond to the feed either
@zvava which Texodus feed? That I know of, there is only one, or am I wrong?
@lyse @movq bbycll's nickname regex is /^([-_\p{N}\p{L}])+$/iu because i don't like how english-centric only allowing ascii letters/numbers is though this only applies to local users as of now, currently all nicknames are tolerated when parsing remote feeds and i just do mentions how yarn does (just the feed url)

in the wild, i've noticed a texedus feed with spaces in the nick (where its spec explicitly disallows whitespace in the nick) and feeds with other symbols in the nick too. honestly, i think we should just tolerate arbitrary nicknames for sake of user expression (while stripping or converting unreasonable characters) and just leave them out of mentions
Herro everyone!
Sometimes, I wonder how my desktop looks to other people. Normal sighted people, I mean. For me, everything is much smaller and always slightly blurry (almost antialiased) because of my eyesight.

Maybe it *does* look horribly pixelated and super ugly to other people, and that’s why everyone prefers smoothed fonts and UIs and all that … ? 😂
@zvava @movq 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
Speaking of Sudoku, I was banging my head against this for 15 minutes:

https://sudokupad.app/adventure/94-advvvvvvvven

I’m glad I eventually got it right. 🥴

(via https://dosgame.club/@Tijn/115221132694421937)
[47°09′59″S, 126°43′08″W] --no signal--
@arne Hm, noch nie gemacht. 🤔 Machst du das von Hand oder mit Code?
@zvava Good question. This is the spec, I think:

https://twtxt.dev/exts/metadata.html#nick

It doesn’t say much. 🤔

In the wild, I’ve only seen “traditional” nick names, i.e. ASCII 0x21 thru 0x7E.

My client removes anything but r'[a-zA-Z0-9]' from nick names.
is there consensus on what characters should(n't) be allowed in 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?