# 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 194803
# self = https://watcher.sour.is?offset=194803
# prev = https://watcher.sour.is?offset=194703
[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
[47°09′31″S, 126°43′42″W] --interrupted--
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?
[47°09′38″S, 126°43′58″W] Dosimeter fixed
Pqp! A carteira de trabalho digital, um aplicativo do governo brasileiro, fazendo propaganda de um curso de IA. Quero socar (metaforicamente) todos que aprovaram e executaram essa *palhaçada*!*
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".
@kat, see this one, regarding "Anubis" (which I believe you use, right?): https://github.com/eternal-flame-AD/pow-buster
@rrraksamam someone has a huge crush on Emily Blunt, eh? 🤭
[47°09′37″S, 126°43′47″W] Dosimeter overflow
#MaradoWeekly #WeeklyPlant Week 37 Oxalis corniculata is growing and blossoming on my strawberries vase, giving it some unplanned color
[47°09′20″S, 126°43′10″W] Resetting dosimeter
[47°09′41″S, 126°43′59″W] Dosimeter malfunction
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[47°09′28″S, 126°43′11″W] Reading: 1.36 Sv
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.
[47°09′18″S, 126°43′31″W] --bad checksum--
@lyse Omg, that is great. 😃
@lyse Omg, that is great. 😃
@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.
@thecanine Id like that too, it just can't come from me, because native mobile dev just isn't my thing 😢
@zvava And yes yarnd does have a well documented API and two clients (CLI and unmaintained Flutter App)
@zvava We can do that 👌
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.
This Saturday is #SFD2025 , celebrate by educating people and helping them migrate away from #Office365 !

@davidgerard@davidgerard https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/115210866167925508
[47°09′45″S, 126°43′45″W] Transfer 75% complete...
Interesting! The Great Firewall's leak from 11.9.2025.
bluedfart.shit lol
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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
@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)
@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)
@bender yeah i've noticed yarn being very strange with edits, deletes haven't worked since i joined here
@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
[47°09′38″S, 126°43′27″W] Waiting for carrier
Wanting to add, this isn't a twtxt client. It is Yarnd on steroids! 😂
@thecanine it should work everywhere. It is a web application.
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
@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. 😂
@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. 😂
@bender Sigh. So it’s just me. Again. 😂
@bender Sigh. So it’s just me. Again. 😂
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?
Hmm, twtxt Yarn is misbehaving. Can't even edit, nor delete. Oh well.
On the configuration topic, the example at the repo reads like this:

Hmm, not experiencing that. Using Zen (Firefox), under Linux, with uBlock Origin.
@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.
@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).
@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.
[47°09′07″S, 126°43′22″W] Carrier too weak
Next level poop: Can’t log in to reddit anymore with adblock enabled. It says *invalid usename or password*.
Next level poop: Can’t log in to reddit anymore with adblock enabled. It says *invalid usename or password*.
hello @zvava@zvava, funny that you found this here little feed!
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
mobile navigation bar :3

@lyse Yeah, I’ve corrupted a Git repo or two doing that … 🥴
@lyse Yeah, I’ve corrupted a Git repo or two doing that … 🥴
@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. ✌️
@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. ✌️
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.)
[47°09′00″S, 126°43′12″W] Bad satellite signal -- switching to analog communication
[47°09′45″S, 126°43′57″W] 4532 days without news from Herve
[47°09′21″S, 126°43′04″W] Not enough data -- sampling finished
wait why are so many of my post hashes not generating correctly ;w;
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+02:002025-09-14T12:45:00Z) 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
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 >.<
@lyse 🙈😂
@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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@zvava that makes it even more so exciting! 😂
blue blue bluedwarf.top!!! u should use bluedwarf.top!
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.
Man, I love edbrowse and the Librarian movies and TV show.