# I am the Watcher. I am your guide through this vast new twtiverse.
# 
# Usage:
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#     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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# Options:
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#     limit   Count of items to return (going back in time).
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# prev = https://watcher.sour.is?offset=194681
zvava
twtxt.net
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@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
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magical.fish:70
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Herro everyone!
movq
www.uninformativ.de
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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 … ? 😂
movq
www.uninformativ.de
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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)
@jo
comam.es
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[47°09′59″S, 126°43′08″W] --no signal--
movq
www.uninformativ.de
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@arne Hm, noch nie gemacht. 🤔 Machst du das von Hand oder mit Code?
movq
www.uninformativ.de
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@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.
zvava
twtxt.net
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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?
@jo
comam.es
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[47°09′38″S, 126°43′58″W] Dosimeter fixed
bender
twtxt.net
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For what I can gather, kind of a waste of time, not a good solution. I might be missing bits, or may haven't grasp the entire "story".
bender
twtxt.net
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@kat, see this one, regarding "Anubis" (which I believe you use, right?): https://github.com/eternal-flame-AD/pow-buster
bender
twtxt.net
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@rrraksamam someone has a huge crush on Emily Blunt, eh? 🤭
@jo
comam.es
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[47°09′37″S, 126°43′47″W] Dosimeter overflow
@marado@ciberlandia.pt
ciberlandia.pt
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#MaradoWeekly #WeeklyPlant Week 37 Oxalis corniculata is growing and blossoming on my strawberries vase, giving it some unplanned color
@jo
comam.es
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[47°09′20″S, 126°43′10″W] Resetting dosimeter
@jo
comam.es
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[47°09′41″S, 126°43′59″W] Dosimeter malfunction
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yarn.meff.me
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🧮 USERS:1 FEEDS:2 TWTS:1466 ARCHIVED:89964 CACHE:2691 FOLLOWERS:22 FOLLOWING:14
@jo
comam.es
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[47°09′28″S, 126°43′11″W] Reading: 1.36 Sv
@villares@ciberlandia.pt
ciberlandia.pt
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You can still help sponsor the Brazilian national #Python conference!
You can also donate a ticket so that a student can attend!
#PythonBrasil2025 Python Brasil banner with QR codes for registration and the sponsorship information.
@jo
comam.es
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[47°09′18″S, 126°43′31″W] --bad checksum--
movq
www.uninformativ.de
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@lyse Omg, that is great. 😃
movq
www.uninformativ.de
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@lyse Omg, that is great. 😃
lyse
lyse.isobeef.org
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@zvava There would be only one hash for a message. Some to be defined magic date selects which hash to use. If the message creation timestamp is before this epoch, hash it with v1, otherwise hammer it through v2. Eventually, support for v1 could be dropped as nobody interacts with the old stuff anymore. But I'd keep it around in my client, because why not.

If users choose a client which supports the extensions, they don't have to mess around with v1 and v2 hashing, just like today.

As for the school of thought, personally, I'd prefer something else, too. I'm in camp location-based addressing, or whatever it is called. There more I think about it, a complete redesign of twtxt and its extensions would be necessary in my opinion. Retrofitting has its limits. Of course, this is much more work, though.
prologic
twtxt.net
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@thecanine Id like that too, it just can't come from me, because native mobile dev just isn't my thing 😢
prologic
twtxt.net
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@zvava And yes yarnd does have a well documented API and two clients (CLI and unmaintained Flutter App)
prologic
twtxt.net
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@zvava We can do that 👌
lyse
lyse.isobeef.org
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I'm happy to report, after the successful remix of System Of A Down with the Nooran Sisters from India in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mi106DZJhuQ I stumbled across something almost equally great from Pakistan, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZYG-9usGPI It's a banger! The girls are unmatched, though.
@marado@ciberlandia.pt
ciberlandia.pt
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This Saturday is #SFD2025 , celebrate by educating people and helping them migrate away from #Office365 !

@davidgerard@davidgerard https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/115210866167925508
@jo
comam.es
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[47°09′45″S, 126°43′45″W] Transfer 75% complete...
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magical.fish:70
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Interesting! The Great Firewall's leak from 11.9.2025.
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magical.fish:70
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bluedfart.shit lol
@jo
comam.es
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[47°09′46″S, 126°43′50″W] Transfer 50% complete...
@jo
comam.es
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[47°09′18″S, 126°43′00″W] Transfer 25% complete...
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yarn.meff.me
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🧮 USERS:1 FEEDS:2 TWTS:1465 ARCHIVED:89956 CACHE:2696 FOLLOWERS:22 FOLLOWING:14
zvava
twtxt.net
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@lyse i dont mind if the hash is not backward compatible but im not sure if this is the right way to proceed because the added complexity dealing with two hash versions isnt justified

regular end users wont care to understand how twt hashes are formed, they just want to use twtxt! so i guess i could work in protecting users from themselves by disallowing post edits on old posts or posts with replies, but i'm not fond of this either really. if they want to break a thread, they can just delete the post (though i've noticed yarn handling post deletes dubiously...)

on activitypub i do genuinely find myself looking through several month or even year old posts sometimes and deciding to edit/reword them a little to be slightly less confusing, this should be trivial to handle on twtxt which is an infinitely simpler specification
zvava
twtxt.net
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@bender @thecanine well now this has me thinking abt the feasibility of making an android twtxt app for pods, the actual apis of pods would have to be standardized (or the fucked up way that activitypub does it, where the "mastodon api" is the defacto client api (does yarn even have an api reference?)) or the client is just simply..a client..but editing feeds via PUT, PATCH, DELETE etc. is standardized!...? (not to mention i dont even know where to begin making an android app lmao)
zvava
twtxt.net
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@bender @thecanine well now this has me thinking abt the feasibility of making an android twtxt app for pods, the actual apis of pods would have to be standardized (or a fucked up version of how activitypub does it, where the "mastodon api" is the defacto client api (does yarn even have an api reference?)) or the client is just simply..a client..but editing feeds via PUT, PATCH, DELETE etc. is standardized!...? (not to mention i dont even know where to begin making an android app lmao)
zvava
twtxt.net
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@bender yeah i've noticed yarn being very strange with edits, deletes haven't worked since i joined here
zvava
twtxt.net
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@quark ooh, thanks for catching that! i forgot abt the caddy example when adding the config example

nick is nick bc it is parsed as a nickname just for the instance, though calling it instance_nick would probably be less confusing
@jo
comam.es
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[47°09′38″S, 126°43′27″W] Waiting for carrier
bender
twtxt.net
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Wanting to add, this isn't a twtxt client. It is Yarnd on steroids! 😂
bender
twtxt.net
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@thecanine it should work everywhere. It is a web application.
lyse
lyse.isobeef.org
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What a crazy color temperature this yellow orange was in person! Sick lighting this evening: https://lyse.isobeef.org/abendhimmel-2025-09-15/

Yellow orange clouds
movq
www.uninformativ.de
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@lyse I didn’t know they had a name, to be honest. When I/we last had a dot matrix printer, I just sat alone in the basement and made these. 😂
movq
www.uninformativ.de
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@lyse I didn’t know they had a name, to be honest. When I/we last had a dot matrix printer, I just sat alone in the basement and made these. 😂
movq
www.uninformativ.de
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@bender Sigh. So it’s just me. Again. 😂
movq
www.uninformativ.de
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@bender Sigh. So it’s just me. Again. 😂
quark
ferengi.one
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Adding too this. The configuration example at the repository reads:


{
	"nick": "Example",
	"description": "alice's twtxt instance!",
	"host": "twtxt.example.com",
	"admin": "alice"
}


Would it make more sense changing nick to instance_name or similar? Usually nick is reserved for users, like here, quark. Right? Also, is host the same FQDN to be used while proxying traffic to the application? That is, using the above configuration, it's Caddy configuration would be:


twtxt.example.com {
	encode
	reverse_proxy :31212
}


Is that correct?
bender
twtxt.net
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Hmm, twtxt Yarn is misbehaving. Can't even edit, nor delete. Oh well.
bender
twtxt.net
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On the configuration topic, the example at the repo reads like this:

bender
twtxt.net
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Hmm, not experiencing that. Using Zen (Firefox), under Linux, with uBlock Origin.
lyse
lyse.isobeef.org
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@movq Luckily, I had a grep -v git at the end, so my repo is still in working order. Phew. I wish find had grep-like --exclude-dir and --exclude options (or the include variants) instead of its own weird options that I never can remember and combine properly.
lyse
lyse.isobeef.org
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@movq Nice Jacob's ladder. ;-) I had to look up this term, I also found Zig Zag. What do you folks call this in your languages? In German, it's Hexentreppe (lit. Witch's Staircase).
lyse
lyse.isobeef.org
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@zvava It is just completely impossible to make v2 backwards-compatible with v1.

Well, breaking threads on edits is considered a feature by some people. I reckon the only approach to reasonably deal with that property is to carefully review messages before publishing them, thus delaying feed updates. Any typos etc., that have been discovered afterwards, are just left alone. That's what I and some others do. I only risk editing if the feed has been published very few seconds earlier. More than 20 seconds and I just ignore it. Works alright for the most part.
@jo
comam.es
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[47°09′07″S, 126°43′22″W] Carrier too weak
movq
www.uninformativ.de
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Next level poop: Can’t log in to reddit anymore with adblock enabled. It says *invalid usename or password*.
movq
www.uninformativ.de
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Next level poop: Can’t log in to reddit anymore with adblock enabled. It says *invalid usename or password*.
wake.st
wake.st
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hello @zvava@zvava, funny that you found this here little feed!
@villares@ciberlandia.pt
ciberlandia.pt
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I "created two issues" today on #Processing, no I didn't introduce new bugs I just wrote two bug reports :)

https://github.com/processing/processing4/issues/1243

https://github.com/processing/processing4/issues/1244

#SVG #LinuxXFCE
zvava
twtxt.net
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mobile navigation bar :3

movq
www.uninformativ.de
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@lyse Yeah, I’ve corrupted a Git repo or two doing that … 🥴
movq
www.uninformativ.de
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@lyse Yeah, I’ve corrupted a Git repo or two doing that … 🥴
movq
www.uninformativ.de
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@zvava I was about to suggest that you post some examples. By now, we’re pretty good at debugging hashing issues, because that happens so often. 😂 But it looks like you figured it out on your own. ✌️
movq
www.uninformativ.de
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@zvava I was about to suggest that you post some examples. By now, we’re pretty good at debugging hashing issues, because that happens so often. 😂 But it looks like you figured it out on your own. ✌️
movq
www.uninformativ.de
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Someone posted one of my blog posts on HackerNews again and there’s this comment:

https://movq.de/v/b24882ecb1/s.png

A lot of HN comments are like this – in general, I mean, not only regarding my blog posts.

I’m not even angry, I’m just genuinely confused. 😂 The blog post in question isn’t a rant to begin with. Are those comments bots to drive engagement? Is this humor that I don’t understand? Is the person being serious?

What motivates people do post such comments? What’s going on here?

This is very, very weird to me.

(I don’t use HN, I just notice it by the increased load on the server.)
@jo
comam.es
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[47°09′00″S, 126°43′12″W] Bad satellite signal -- switching to analog communication
@jo
comam.es
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[47°09′45″S, 126°43′57″W] 4532 days without news from Herve
@jo
comam.es
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[47°09′21″S, 126°43′04″W] Not enough data -- sampling finished
zvava
twtxt.net
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wait why are so many of my post hashes not generating correctly ;w;
zvava
twtxt.net
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im unable to figure out why bbycll is not generating posts hashes for @lyse's feed correctly (or at least different from the ones generated by yarn)

i'm pretty sure the timezone is stripped off the offset correctly (2025-09-14T12:45:00+02:00 → 2025-09-14T12:45:00Z) though messing with how the hash is generated i can't get it to make one that matches...but all other hashes for all other feeds seem to be correct? does yarn use a different canonical url for lyse internally? is there a bug in the libraries im using? bwehhh
zvava
twtxt.net
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wait why are so many of my post hashes not generating correctly ;w;

edit: i read the spec wrong :3 only +/-00:00 is stripped, not the entire timezone offset >.<
bender
twtxt.net
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@lyse 🙈😂
zvava
twtxt.net
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@prologic im unsure how i feel about the hash v2 proposal, given it is completely backward incompatible with hash v1 it doesn't really solve any of the problems with it. it only delays collisions, and still fragments threads on post edits

i skimmed through discussions under other the proposals — i agree humans are very bad at keeping the integrity of the web in tact, but hashes in done in this way make it impossible even for systems to rebuild threads if any post edits have occurred prior to their deployment
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yarn.meff.me
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🧮 USERS:1 FEEDS:2 TWTS:1464 ARCHIVED:89943 CACHE:2694 FOLLOWERS:22 FOLLOWING:14
bender
twtxt.net
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@zvava that makes it even more so exciting! 😂
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magical.fish:70
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blue blue bluedwarf.top!!! u should use bluedwarf.top!
lyse
lyse.isobeef.org
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I corrupted my SQLite test database with sed -i s/… $(find …). Clearly, I found too many files. That's the signal to go to bed.
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magical.fish:70
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Man, I love edbrowse and the Librarian movies and TV show.
@villares@ciberlandia.pt
ciberlandia.pt
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«... It all went well until 1980 or so, when Ronald Reagan appointed a new head of the EPA. The lady didn’t like her stationery we had designed and with a simple “I want my daisy back” undermined the overall graphic system. If the Queen doesn’t like it, we don’t like it became the attitude, and the program began to crumble. The old logo was fully reinstated and the graphic system was abandoned. A decade later, nobody at the EPA could find a copy of the Graphic Standards System, except a bunch of legalese that you will find on its website.

I’m a fan of the EPA and all its efforts and hope that we helped in some small way for this agency to communicate within itself, to other government agencies, and with the American people. I’m very grateful and appreciative that Jesse Reed and Hamish Smyth of Standards Manual, and Julie Anixter of AIGA, brought this document to life again. Have fun revisiting.»
(from the introduction by Steff Geissbühler)
@villares@ciberlandia.pt
ciberlandia.pt
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«1977 United States Environmental
Protection Agency
Graphic Standards System

Designed by Steff Geissbühler,
Chermayeff & Geismar Associates

The EPA Graphic Standards System is one of the finest examples of a standards manual ever created. The modular and flexible system devised raised the standard for public design in the United States.

The book features a foreword by Tom Geismar, introduction by Steff Geissbühler, an essay by Christopher Bonanos, scans of the original manual (from Geissbühler’s personal copy), and 48 pages of photographs from the EPA-commissioned Documerica project (1970–1977).»

https://standardsmanual.com/products/epa A photo that shows part of a page from the EPA Graphics Standard System, it includes some nice black and white geometric patterns.
zvava
twtxt.net
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@bender just a heads up im thinking of rewriting the database schema with hash v2 in mind >.<
zvava
twtxt.net
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@lyse the problem is that i can not easily show both
movq
www.uninformativ.de
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Can’t resist.

https://movq.de/v/2a7918d719/a.jpg
movq
www.uninformativ.de
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Can’t resist.

https://movq.de/v/2a7918d719/a.jpg
movq
www.uninformativ.de
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@prologic I completely forgot about that topic … 😂🥴
movq
www.uninformativ.de
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@prologic I completely forgot about that topic … 😂🥴
@jo
comam.es
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[47°09′08″S, 126°43′56″W] Transfer aborted
bender
twtxt.net
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@zvava oh?! I shall play more “seriously” with it soon then. Yay!
melyanna
tilde.club
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And I am finally able to post from CLI again!
melyanna
tilde.club
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And I am finally able to post from CLI again!
@jo
comam.es
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[47°09′15″S, 126°43′29″W] Sample analyzing complete -- starting transfer
@villares@ciberlandia.pt
ciberlandia.pt
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Should I make more T-shirts?

https://villares-shop.fourthwall.com/

https://umapenca.com/villares/

#Python #Processing #py5 #CreativeCoding #FLOSS #numpy #shapely #trimesh Screen capture from my Fourthwall shop page with t-shirts, stickers and mugs.
prologic
twtxt.net
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@zvava The first version of what is now yarnd was built over a weekend 😀
prologic
twtxt.net
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@zvava Herw you go: https://git.mills.io/yarnsocial/twtxt.dev/pulls/28
@jo
comam.es
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[47°09′54″S, 126°43′12″W] Analyzing samples
lyse
lyse.isobeef.org
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@zvava For the time being, just show both.
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magical.fish:70
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EVIL
@jo
comam.es
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[47°09′08″S, 126°43′17″W] Re-taking samples
fredg
galusik.fr
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https://oniricorpe.eu/log/tech/kobo-hacks-mods/ #ebook Des tips pour améliorer sa liseuse
@jo
comam.es
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[47°09′01″S, 126°43′37″W] Taking samples