# I am the Watcher. I am your guide through this vast new twtiverse.
# 
# 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.
# 
# Options:
#     uri     Filter to show a specific users twts.
#     offset  Start index for quey.
#     limit   Count of items to return (going back in time).
# 
# twt range = 1 195664
# self = https://watcher.sour.is?offset=195664
# prev = https://watcher.sour.is?offset=195564
They look the same to the naked eye. Of course, I checked your raw feed, and saw only one.
@itsericwoodward hmmm, what was this, an edit, a deletion?

@movq can't you use generic drivers? I did that for an enterprise copier/printer/scanner we used to have at work, and it worked just fine!
Of course, all things optional is fine. Like, it will be ignored (just like banner would) for clients having no knowledge of it.
@zvava agreed. I think display_name will be redundant, and add to the "busy" factor. That is, the opposite of simplicity.
God Bless USA and mr. Trump
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Hello everyone!
I love Lynx. The biggest gripe I have with it is that it doesn't display tables correctly. Links2 does, and it has bg downloads without a clunky handoff.
Uuuhhh, that's rather interesting, I didn't know about that:

> Aachen has been officially certified as "Bad Aachen", but for alphabetical reasons usually declines to use the prefix
>
> — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spa_towns_in_Germany#A

That made me chuckle.
Sieht ganz so aus, als hätte die gute @kat ihre Büchse mit in den Kurort Bad Gateway genommen.

Sorry, this pun only works in German, where "Bad" means spa and is used as prefix for spa towns.
@movq You should send 'em this sample. ;-)
@movq It completely escapes me, too. I will never understand it, but people are just wired very differently.

Relevant film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYNbSuMLZZg
@movq Yeah, the lighting needs to be right in order to make them really pop like this. I got lucky today. :-)
My photos are categorized as crafts porn for my workmates: https://lyse.isobeef.org/tmp/porn.png
The main feed got quite large again, so it's time for another rotation into archive feeds. I just noticed that I forgot to upload the archive feeds last time. Whoops. :-)
Autumn and magpie around the corner: https://lyse.isobeef.org/elster-2025-10-02/
Okay, they are also offering 2.8x25mm copper nails. Which I actually do have a single one here. :-)

My hardware collection also includes a few brass-like looking screws that I could repurpose into rivets. But I reckon I have to upgrade my burner first. I'm not a metal worker by any means, so I could be totally wrong, but I imagine that some heat is necessary to loosen the work-hardening effect when beating on them. I will do some experiments on Saturday and report back.
@movq Not sure, if this observation is correct. I know so many techies who also use every latest shit and automate their homes which is scary as hell to me.
@alexonit I just checked my local hardware store next town and 4mm brass rod is the closest I find.
@movq No doubt, some things are just so much better the low-tech way. Waste paper, like an opened envelope, suits a shopping list perfectly fine. You've got a nice handwriting, I like it.
@movq \o/
@thecanine Oh no, the poor crocodile is struck by lightning!
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Hello again everyone! A little update on my twtxt client.

I think it's finally shaping a bit better now, but... ☝️

As I'm trying to put all the parts together, I decided to build multiple parallel UIs, to ensure I don't accidentally create a structure that is more rigid than planned.

I already decided on a UI that I would want to use for myself, it would be inspired by moshidon, misskey and some other "social feeds" mock-ups I found on dribbble.

I also plan on building a raw HTML version (for anyone wanting to do a full DIY client).

I would love to get any suggestions of what you would like to see (and possibly use) as a client, by sharing a link, app/website name or even a sketch made by you on paper.

I think I'll pick a third and maybe a fourth design to build together with the two already mentioned.

For reference, the screens I think of providing are (some might be optional or conditionally/manually hidable):

- Global / personal timeline screen
- Profile screen (with timeline)
- Thread screen
- Notifications screen or popup (both valid)
- DM list & chat screens (still planning, might come later)
- Settings screen (it'll probably be a hard coded form, but better mention it)
- Publish / edit post screen or popup (still analysing some use cases, as some "engines" might not have direct publishing support)

I also plan on adding two optional metadata fields:

- display_name: To show a human readable alternative for a nick, it fallback to nick if not defined
- banner: Using the same format as avatar but the image expected is wider, inspired by other socials around

I also plan on supporting any metadata provided, including a dynamically parsable regex rule format for those extra fields, this should allow anyone to build new clients that don't limit themselves to just the social aspect of twtxt, hoping to see unique ways of using twtxt! 🤞
@bender The first format use the subject extension while the other is a new format that is inspired by mentions format, the first one should be compatible but I'm not sure, if it's used verbatim by the client it would work, but if we consider the new proposal for it to have an optional part it wont work on clients without changes.
@movq While using the a frament is pretty nice, I think we can have a twtxt only format if the formatting seems to be a problem.
@lyse I think will be bad if handled incorrectly.

The client must reference both properly or it would miss posts, including both this way is a bit pointless if you can't use the hash or url separately.

Being a highly likely a breaking change anyway I think @zvava proposal looks much better.
Try gopher://1436.ninja/1/Port70News . It works with http and https, if you have no btowser.
There was a monster in the sky: https://lyse.isobeef.org/abendhimmel-2025-10-01/

Lizard or shark or something
@thecanine content warning please! I had to go home and change, if you catch my drift. LOL. Well done!
@movq I wish I could truly say that. :-D
@aelaraji, I mean to follow up here on the brief exchange we had on irc.mills.io, but I forgot. Never too late, so here it goes:


18:16 <aelaraji> quark 🙏 much appreciated but it won't be necessary, since there isn't much to miss out on in most of  where I hang out, so I could just disconnect and spare everyone else the noise 
18:17 *** aelaraji (aelaraji@776014f5a3edd32f1ed19658b7b85c8c655945b0feacaedd92fe60e61a3c0ae2) has quit (/ME goes "yeeeeet..!")
18:18 <quark> No noise for me. 
18:18 <quark> It’s all good. 
18:18 <quark> What would IRC be without on/offs?
18:19 <quark> Preeeety boring!
18:19 <quark> Ah, he was gone. 
18:19 <quark> Well, I will twtxt this to him.  LOL. 
Thanks, @alexonit! Yeah, this classic rivet is a good, yet laborous alternative. I don't mind the work, I just don't have any copper at hand. I might give this some more thought, though.
@alexonit Hahaha, that made me laugh real good. :-D I find it always surprising what collects in a short amount of time.
Lynx is the GOAT, if only it linkified text though
@zvava Mixing both addressing schemes combines the worst of both worlds in my opinion. Please don't do that.
@zvava Yes, the specification defines the first url to be used for hashing. No matter if it points to a different feed or whatever. Just unsubscribe from malicious feeds and you're done.

Since the first url is used for hashing, it must never change. Otherwise, it will break threading, as you already noticed. If your feed moves and you wanna keep the old messages in the same new feed, you still have to point to the old url location and keep that forever. But you can add more urls. As I said several times in the past, in hindsight, using the first url was a big mistake. It would have been much better, if the last encountered url were used for hashing onwards. This way, feed moves would be relatively straightforward. However, that ship has sailed. Luckily, feeds typically don't relocate.
@zvava the second format (the one you think should be changed to), is it backwards compatible to what's currently in place? I believe the first one would be.
I must not buy another mechanical keyboard. I must not buy another mechanical keyboard. I must not… https://www.keychron.com/products/keychron-k8-he-wireless-magnetic-switch-custom-keyboard
@zvava That was my greatest concern with how it is currently handled, I'm afraid to break threads even by fixing a typo.

Handling it via the pod might work but I think it's not the best approach, external feeds and clients don't usually use a pod api but their own implementation, so any workaround won't work there.

That's why my proposals addressed those issues:

- the idea of using a "key" instead of the url (with the url as a fallback), the key could even be a public key so it can be used verifieable in crypto functions
- using the timestamp to prevent content changes to break threads (plus being simpler to implement)
- using an explicit thread reference with an alternative subject format (like [#THREAD_ID] Hello world and replies with (#REPLY_ID) Ahoy) so the content can change without affecting the thread reference, and anyone can use their own schemes freely
@zvava I just have plastic plants at home too.
I wrote a bit about #mastodon #starterpacks. Starterpacks got popular when Bluesky introduced them, and there is a similar solution for Mastodon too:https://sociab.li/blog/2025/mastodon-starterpacks-follow-and-create-them/
@zvava Don't say that.

The eye candy is always good to have.
@zvava I'm not sure, I could just set up a cors-anywhere via docker in a minute and it would work the same.

Still, I could write one with just a dozen lines of Go or Node.js, I might consider writing one after the client is working decently.
Amazing game, Love the Peer-to-peer with other players and be able to communicate with them.
So smart, would be great to sneak in as an easter egg in a app.
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what losers
liverpool have lost 2 games in a row
Seems doubtful...
I always wanted to build a terrarium, but after cleaning my keyboard today, I think I already have one...
@lyse I can suggest you a trick to do a "cold" welding.

Using a copper wire or a similarly malleable material, pass it through a drilled hole, hammer it on one end until flat, then do the same on the other side.

It does the same job of a rivet but it's flatter and look nicer on both sides, it's of course weaker but still strong enough for small objects.

It's sometimes used to reduce risk of deformities due to heat in hand-crafted jewelry and to reduce costs of small tools.
I love it!

Giving the user multiple choices to do the same things is what is great about protocols in general.
@zvava CORS is our worst enemy. 🥷

I too had the same issue being a browser-based request, so the only solution is using a proxy.

For testing (and real personal use) I rely on this one https://corsproxy.io/.

In my client, I first check if the source allows me to fetch it without issues first and fallback to prefixing with a proxy if it gives an error.

For security reasons the client don't give you a readable error for CORS, so you must use a catch-all for that, if it fails again with the proxy you can deal with any other errors it throws as you normally would (preferably outside of the fetch function).

After the fetching responded, I store the response.url value to fetch it again for updates without having to do extra calls (you can store it verbatim or as a flag to be able to change the proxy later).

Here an extract of my code:

t
export async function fetchWithProxy(url, proxy=null) {
    return await fetch(url).catch(err => {
        if (!proxy) throw err;
        return fetch(`${proxy}${encodeURIComponent(url)}`);
    });
}

// Using it with
const res = await fetchWithProxy('https://twtxt.net/user/zvava/twtxt.txt', 'https://corsproxy.io/?');

// Get the working url (direct or through proxy)
const fetchingURL = res.url;

// Get the twtxt feed content (or handle errors)
const text = await res.text();


I also plan to allow the user to define a custom proxy field, I like the solution used by Delta.chat in their android app, where you can define the URL format with a variable https://my-proxy?$TWTXT_URL since it allows you to define with more freedom any proxy without a prefix format.

If the idea of using a third-party proxy is not to the user liking they can use a self-hosted solution like cors-anywhere or build their own (with twtxt it should just be a GET).
I briefly mentioned it yesterday: I wasn't really comfortable with my book rating system anymore. So last night, I spontaneously sat down and redesigned it:https://maurice-renck.de/en/blog/2025/leseliste-update
Bananas are radioactive https://what-if.xkcd.com/158/
I was born with a Swiss Army Knife and though it was no khukri or any kind of sword, it worked just fine on that umbilical cord and served me the rest of my Swiss Army Life.
@movq Same 👌
https://mapcarta.com está bem legal, só falta ter as rotas de transporte público!

#OpenStreetMap #FreeMaps #MapCarta
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Amanhã no #SescAvPaulista rola o último encontro do semestre do Grupo de Estudos em #Python (https://hackmd.io/@sesc-av-paulista/estudos-em-python), se quiser participar é só chegar 14h para pegar uma senha grátis. A atividade é das 14h30 às 16h30.

Em outubro vou dar este curso quintas à tarde com 4 encontros:

https://www.sescsp.org.br/programacao/ilustracoes-vetoriais-para-grandes-formatos-com-programacao/

#SescSP #TecnologiasEArtes Captura de tela da página do curso no site do Sesc
Haha, turns out, it's the perfect size to fit hankies: https://lyse.isobeef.org/tmp/blechschachtel/07.jpg
Thank you, @alexonit! It's not sealed at all. If you were pouring in a liquid, it would run out on all four corners. It's just folded over and carefully hammered shut as best as possible. 03 is a bit blurred, but you can see the tab from the right (the short side) tucking in on the left (the long side). The hem on top clamps it in place fairly decently.

I decided against blind rivets, because they leave ugly looking and sharp backsides, which can also interfer with the contents of the box. However, they would be an easy solution to make the corners more rigid and prevent any movement from the short sides.

Unfortunately, I can't weld or solder, so that's not an option. It would be the by far best solution. I wanna learn it one day, though.

Yes, Ken is a really great dude. He's the reason I gave this a shot in the first place. :-)
@itsericwoodward No worries, all good, mate! We all have to start somewhere. Other software requests my feed several orders of magnitude more often.

I can confirm, the User-Agent header appears to be fixed. \o/

Two other things I noticed, though:

1. There's now an OPTIONS request for my feed coming from something that claims to be Firefox, pointing to your feed URL in the query. No clue what this is about. In any case, it's rejected with a 405 Method Not Allowed.

2. Not that these few requests bother me at all, but you might wanna implement caching next with either the If-Modified-Since or If-None-Match request headers. This way, if the feed hasn't changed, the web server can reply with a 304 Not Modified and no body at all, saving unnecessary traffic. But again, this is really not an issue for me at all. I just wanted to make sure you're aware of it, that's all. It might be even already on your agenda. Or you might decide to never do anything about it, which is also fine for me. :-)
As pessoas ciclistas, em princípio, combatem a ideologia da carrocracia (a colonização mental pelo automóvel).
No entanto, muitos nutrem uma tóxica noção de superioridade em relação aos pedestres: furam a sinalização, cruzam de qualquer jeito a faixa de pedestre, assustam a gente e tiram finas. É detestável isso.
Não seja ciclista com a mente carrocrata.
@itsericwoodward Cool! 😎
It still needs some cleaning (and some slight UX improvements), but overall, I'm happy with it.

BTW - I promise, I intended it to be pronounced like "TweetStream" (or as written, "TwtStrm"), rather than "TweetStorm". Sorry again. 😊
I _finally_ solved the loading issue in my WIP reader, TwtStrm (and apologies again to anyone that got spammed while I was diagnosing the issue).

After another round of coding this weekend, I'm happy to report that it now renders _all_ the twts (with markdown parsing), complete with localstorage and server-based file caching.
@prologic That zs looks pretty cool! I love simple static site generators, and look forward to trying it on my next web site project. Kudos!
I prefer "glog" over "phlog." Phlog sounds like a character from Spy Kids
@bender Yes! What you're seeing in the demo is just demoing the routes file and redirects, etc/. Pathing more.
@lyse Thanks, I think I fixed it now. Sorry for the spam.
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@bender Yes and no.

To build a compliant PWA you need to provide a webmanifest json and a service worker.

Those requirements are not directly part of this project.

You can build the client as a standalone PWA or even as a widget inside an existing page.

The general steps are closer to how you would include a third-party library in an existing project, by importing it as a dependency and using it in your website.

I'm pretty sure most users would expect a PWA (me included) so I plan to provide a ready-made template ready to be deployed as is.
Confesso que tenho uma certa inveja dos amigos que não olham as mensagens no celular, são pessoas mais evoluídas que vivem uma vida com menos ansiedade, com mais momentos "desconectados". Queria conseguir ser um pouco mais assim.
@alexonit so, a PWA, right?
Wouldn’t a deleted post not show on the list, and if referred from elsewhere render a 404?
@prologic ready, set, goooooooo!
Hi everyone, here's a little introduction of my twtxt client (still WIP).

The client I'm developing is a single tenant project that runs entirely in the browser (it might use an optional backend).

It's entirely based on native web-components and vanilla JS, it is designed to act closer to a toolkit than a full-fledged client, allowing users to "DIY" their own interface with pure html or plain javascript functions.

Users can also build their own *engines* by including a global javascript object that implement the defined internal API (TBD).

I'm planning to build a system that is easy enough to build and use with any skill level, using only pure html (with a homebrew minimal template engine) or via plain JS (I'll be also providing some pre-made templates too).

Everything can be self-hosted on any static hosting provider, this allows to spread twtxt within communities like Neocities and similarly hosted websites (basically any Indieweb/Smallweb/Digital garden website and any of the common GitHub/Lab/Berg/lify Pages).

It will be probably named something like TxtCraft or craf.txt but I'm not really sure yet... 🤔 (Maybe some suggestions could help)

I'm still in the experimental phase, so there's no decent source-code to share yet, but it will soon enough!
@lyse Beautiful handwork, how did you seal the corners? I don't see and hole or anything.

BTW, That Sheet Metal Dude is something else himself, skilled enough to teach others, can work properly with self-imposed contraints, care about safety and is humble enough to be wiling to learn from others, a true craftman worthy of respect.
I _think_ I'm just about ready to go live with my new blog (_migrated from MicroPub_). I just finished migrating all of the content over, fixing up metadata, cleaning up, migrating media, optimizing media.

The new blog for prologic.blog soon to be powered by zs using the zs-blog-template is coming along very nicely 👌 It was _actually_ pretty easy to do the migration/conversation in the end. The results are not to shabby either.

Before:

- ~50MB repo
- ~267 files

After:

- ~20MB repo
- ~88 files
@movq Yeah I was gonna say 😅 The problem isn't that bad 🤣 But still we should fix this soon™ 🔜
@prologic I checked a while a ago and there were, like, 3-5 collisions or something like that. Not that many. 🤷 I have to specifically look for them – I don’t notice it in normal operation.
[This happened already and was recorded. Description from the YT recording]

«This year at PyCon UK, you’re warmly invited to a world premiere: Ada, a brand-new play inspired by Ada Lovelace, written by Emily Holyoake, and staged as a rehearsed reading by Nottingham-based theatre company Chronic Insanity

'You may turn the handle, and I will whirr and calculate without error!'

Decades before the first computers are built, Ada imagines machines that can do anything, even compose beautiful pieces of music. Far beyond Ada’s future, a learning machine called Ginny breaks free of her routine and tests the boundaries of what ought to be possible.

Ada is an intricate re-telling of the life and legacy of Ada Lovelace, pioneer of computing, paralleling her history with a contemporary story about the potential of artificial intelligence.

Cast and Crew:

Ada: Ruth Page
Babbage: Jamie Richard-Stewart
Lady Byron/Anna: Lynne Payne
Ginny: Natalie Patuzzo
Jasper: Ben Gilbert»

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtrsssksCNU

#AdaLovelace #PyConUK #Theater
«This year at PyCon UK, you’re warmly invited to a world premiere: Ada, a brand-new play inspired by Ada Lovelace, written by Emily Holyoake, and staged as a rehearsed reading by Nottingham-based theatre company Chronic Insanity

'You may turn the handle, and I will whirr and calculate without error!'

Decades before the first computers are built, Ada imagines machines that can do anything, even compose beautiful pieces of music. Far beyond Ada’s future, a learning machine called Ginny breaks free of her routine and tests the boundaries of what ought to be possible.

Ada is an intricate re-telling of the life and legacy of Ada Lovelace, pioneer of computing, paralleling her history with a contemporary story about the potential of artificial intelligence.

Cast and Crew:

Ada: Ruth Page
Babbage: Jamie Richard-Stewart
Lady Byron/Anna: Lynne Payne
Ginny: Natalie Patuzzo
Jasper: Ben Gilbert»

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtrsssksCNU

#AdaLovelace #PyConUK #Theater
@movq You were seeing that mayn hash collisions for you to notice this? 😱
The twtiverse appears to have shrunk. Among the 61 feeds that I follow, I don’t see any hash collisions anymore. 🤔
Atenção atenção!

Vocês sabem que é possível ler de graça a versão em português do Python Fluente do Luciano Ramalho, não é mesmo?
(https://pythonfluente.com)

Agora, se você sonhava com uma edição em papel, ajude o @lr a fazer ela acontecer contribuindo no:

https://www.catarse.me/pythonfluente

#Python #PythonFluente #Livro
@bender I've made several improvements today, tightened up the line height and density of the text plus a few other nice things too! I _think_ I'm ready to start migrating my blog over to this 😅
@prologic Ta! :-)
https://online-go.com/learn-to-play-go #game
I'm for the first time over 1900 on #lichess puzzles...
@bender I agree ! I reckon the line height could be a bit smaller 👌
@prologic it is looking good! On mobile, I find that the line height is too large for my liking, and that text takes too much space. I would like it a bit more dense. But that’s just my taste.

I haven’t checked in desktop; I try not to touch desktop on weekends. 😂
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#Python is for artists too!

I made some #Python #numpy, #shapely, #trimesh & #py5 stickers!

PS: I asked the PSF to check if the logos were alright: "you can change the colors and add elements inside, but not change the shape or position of the snakes". So I had to change my original Python Reading Club logo... A sheet of stickers: "Python is for artists too" and a few others.
#Python is for artists too!

I made some #Python #numpy, #shapely, #trimesh & #py5bot stickers!

PS: I asked the PSF to check if the logos were alright: "you can change the colors and add thing inside, but not change the shape or position of the snakes". So I had to change my original Python reading club logo... A sheet of stickers: "Python is for artists too" and a few others.
Pretty happy with my zs-blog-template starter kit for creating and maintaining your own blog using zs 👌 Demo of what the starter kit looks like here -- Basic features include:

- Clean layout & typography
- Chroma code highlighting (aligned to your site palette)
- Accessible copy-code button
- “On this page” collapsible TOC
- RSS, sitemap, robots
- Archives, tags, tag cloud
- Draft support (hidden from lists/feeds)
- Open Graph (OG) & Twitter card meta (default image + per-post overrides)
- Ready-to-use 404 page

As well as custom routes (_redirects, rewrites, etc_) to support canonical URLs or redirecting old URLs as well as new zs external command capability itself that now lets you do things like:


$ zs newpost


to help kick-start the creation of a new post with all the right "stuff"™ ready to go and then pop open your $EEDITOR 🤞

#awesome #zs