# 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.
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# Options:
#     uri     Filter to show a specific users twts.
#     offset  Start index for quey.
#     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=193
# next = https://watcher.sour.is?uri=https://arrakis.netbros.com/user/fastidious/twtxt.txt&offset=293
# prev = https://watcher.sour.is?uri=https://arrakis.netbros.com/user/fastidious/twtxt.txt&offset=93
Weekend is almost over, and I haven't installed Monterey. Geez, what's wrong with me?!
@thecanine \n> only shows you the nicknames in those lists, not the avatar\n\nOh, that! Yes, it is the same on the web client. The followers/following lists need some work. Maybe something á la Twitter, or Mastodon? The project doesn't have an UI/UX expert (you know, frontend dev), which is needed really bad.
> I've heard it affects people quite differently\n\nIndeed. My first didn't do much, other than a little pain on the spot. My second gave me chills, and low fever. On the other had, mum didn't feel a thing on either—and she is 78.\n\nFor some people the side effects has lasted up to a week, but I figure those are rare cases.
@thecanine, what do you mean by "adding avatars to followers and following"? Did you mean, you are wondering what effects avatars have? That would be a good little research. I think people tend to follow those with an avatar—other than an auto-generated—more. That, of course, is just a hunch .
@jlj \n> I've got one, if you're still in the market.\n\nSure thing, toss it over, please! I am being very lazy this weekend. Got a house to clean, and I am procrastinating like never before to do anything 🙈. So, yes, if you have a working systemd init, please share.
@prologic 10KB, woah! I have not seeing images that small since the 1990s. I didn't even know they were possible these days. I mean, my avatar is bigger than that! 🤣
@prologic I will come up with one.
@prologic \n> But I totally get that everyone will have different "workflows"\n\nOr none, like me. LOL. I am thinking on running Arrakis for good, so I need a systemd init script. I can come up with one, but if anyone has it already handy, I would take it!
\n> if you’re running a production instance then you really shouldn’t be modifying the theme\n\nThen git pull and make is also out of the question? 😩😂
@prologic \n> 788 x 834 is considered small?!\n\nMy desktop is an iMac 27” 4K. In such display, that image is small indeed.
@eldersnake yes, I just have the minify command in a makefile, then run make on the CSS directory after any changes.
@prologic sure thing. There is a caveat: if the image is small, or very small, it will stretch it to the 100% width of the twt (the height will continue to be automatically computed). Are you OK with that?
@prologic no, it is more evident on the desktop. What it does is changing images/videos width to 100%, filling the entire twt space. Looks very nice on the web.
to see what it does, check this one: https://arrakis.netbros.com/twt/l2thfrq
Go to 99-yarn.css on your theme, and change these (lines 298-303) to this:\n\n
\n/* Video Summary Content Styling */\narticle .p-summary p video,\narticle .p-summary p img{\n  width: 100%;\n  height: auto;\n}\n
\n\nYou are welcome!
> 'An essential fact of the Dune universe—but one that goes unmentioned in the movie—is that there are no computers. Around 10,000 years before the events of Dune, a mass galactic revolt—the Butlerian Jihad—against “thinking machines” ended in a new commandment, adopted by the universe’s many religious sects: “Man may not be replaced.” Complex calculations—like those needed to run a state or navigate a spaceship—would be done by highly trained, and often wildly doped-up, human beings.'\n\nIf you haven't seeing "Dune)", then do not go checking on this page, as it contains lots of spoilers. If you have seeing it, and didn't understand a few things, then go and you will see light.
@prologic off topic, it looks like you need to update Chrome. 😝
@prologic right, I forgot the first—and so far only—wiki page, that deals with this specifically. All good now. I was thinking on a way to avoid having to run minify. There is an option, but running minify after a change on the CSS is not that big of a deal so, as I said, all good. 🙂
To elaborate, yarn.min.css isn't recreated upon changes on the other CSS files.
@prologic looks like templates changes are applying (after a restart), but not CSS changes.
So, with the “-t” option, one do not longer have to recompile on theme changes (templates and CSS), correct? A simple yarnd restart does it, yes?
@prologic I agree. With the theme ability, I can easily remove those on my pod. 🎉
While on the formatting bar topic, how many of you uses it? I am curious, as I don't at all. Markdown is fairly easy to be typed, so I just do that. But I have used Markdown for a long time, and am used to it.
Will it be OK to replace all data-tooltip= with title= on the partials.html template? Looking for opinions about removing the quasi-grotesque tooltips on the formatting bar.
Some very lovely collection of mathematical fonts. Just perusing the web, while wife still lingers in bed. Half of Saturday gone, to never, ever, come back. 😩
@prologic all good!
@prologic +1, for sure!
Watching “Man’s greatest food” at mum’s without having had breakfast yet—just coffee—is truly a self imposed torture. 😅
I am on the go, and away from IRC. Just in case anyone pings me there. 😊
@lyse \n> Just remove target=_blank from each and every anchor and open all links in the same tab\n\nI would vote for this wholeheartedly.=_
@eldersnake when you open a twt (click on time stamp), the page title used to be the entire twt. Right now it is a short version of it.
@prologic \n> Manage Pod UI are not designed to be permanent “toggles”\n\nOh, no, I know, and understand. They are supposed to graduate. I think they have.
@prologic I have found no issues with it. I like the discover_all_posts very much. The short titles are much nicer too, though, as I remember you pointing out, they could be better. Baby steps!
@prologic links within a pod still open a new one. The bottomline is, any link within, say, twtxt.net should not open a new window/tab. Anything other than "local" should.
@prologic oh, no, I believe you! I mean, it is *the* main pod.
How about #2zmgyrq?
OK, this worked fine. Let me trying linking a specific message ID now. Yes, this does it.
This is a test adding a #random hash keyword (can come up with their name now, maybe tag?). I think it will open on a new browser's tab right now. That shouldn't be. Any links within a pod, should flow transparently within the same open browser's window/tab.
@prologic \n> If someone has gone to the grouble of reading up on Yarn.social, registering to a freely available pod, setting up their profile and posted\n\nThe kick is, that isn't hard to do. It takes seconds to register, and post.
People can say what they want, but “The Great British Bake Off” is awesome! 🧑🏻‍🍳👨🏻‍🍳
@prologic I will probably be watching telly, so we catch up tomorrow.\n\nOn the search implemented today, we are missing the fork on the results. Would it be possible to have it show? Enjoy the museum!
@prologic so, no way to set a nick of my own to someone, correct? I am sorry, but I didn’t quite get a clear answer there. 🙈
@prologic I haven’t figured out how to enter nicks of my own choosing. Right now I enter the feed URL and Yarn does it for me. How can I enter my own custom nick for people I follow?
oh.mg I do the same. 😂
@prologic you should be able to verify it, but maybe need keys (from https://keys.pub) to be able to do it.
@prologic it is a signed message. ☺️
@lyse on 07, those are beehives, yes?
@lyse, lovely clicks! Those autumn colours! 😍 My favourite season.
Oh my! 😂 The current Markdown parser is really bad.
@movq @prologic, 2020/2021, how will that show. Or 2021/09-2021/10.
@prologic I don't think it is needed. Specially when twts often go in a rather disorganised sequence, and also fork. My 0.2 cents.
@movq unrelated to what you did, but those fractions conversions on Yarn’s Markdown… 😬
It is something badly needed, for engagement, and quality of reading. For example, all you guys replying to Slashdot feeds. I don't really want to follow that feed, but I want to interact if anyone I follow does it. Not possible as is right now.
@movq \n> Cars are just super expensive and require so much maintenance\n\nThey are a liability, indeed. Now, about maintenance; wife drove an Acura RDX (a small SUV) for 12 years (unlike me, she likes to keep her vehicles longer), and all we did was change oil every 16,000 km, and replace tyres twice, I think.
@movq Facebook remains. Meta is the name of the mother company (just like Alphabet is for Google), isn't it?
@stackeffect isn't that something up to the web server to do? How can we overwrite headers, when serving a plain text file? I mean, Yarn could do it, yes, but for anyone else hosting their own twtxt.txt (or whatever they want to name it), how?
@prologic I have unfollowed, and followed back Adi like five times already. 🤣 I think the main issue I have with him is the language barrier, and his fixation with mkws, which tends to be too much for my liking.\n\nUnfollowing (or not following to begin with) people in such small community has big drawbacks: you see twts that do not make sense, because the other side of the conversation, the one you are not following, is invisible.
@laz \n> everyone’s blog looks stale like there hasn’t been any engagement\n\nBecause the engagement is happening on twts. I mean, it makes sense, right?
Time to do some spring cleaning on my "Following". 🤔
@prologic wow! I got my electric over a year ago. Right now petrol is more expensive, with the highest octane close to €4 a gallon (read dollars, not euros), so it would probably be more expensive now.
@adi the change is yet to make it to main, but it is coming. 🥳
Hmm, not sure what happened there, but I was posting the twt and it wasn't showing. I blame it on the ongoing thunderstorm!
@jlj, @movq has all information about it on his website.
@jlj, @movq has all information about it on his website.
@jlj, @movq has all information about it on his website.
@thecanine \n> I only use public transport \n\nI wish I could use public transportation. Sadly, in my town is very poor, to the point of being considered pretty much non-existent. Many cities in the US are in the same predicament.
@thecanine battery degradation will not be an issue here. We don't keep cars that long. 🤣
@thecanine I am spending around $25/month on my Tesla's electricity bill. When I was driving a petrol car, it was $80/month. No complains here! ☺️
I drive electric, so completely unaffected. 😋
@adi \n> Nice web site!\n\nWhich website do you refer to?
@thecanine is alright. Some words are better never read. 😂
@novaburst but a web front end truly works everywhere.
@thecanine I don't use the mobile app. On the web, yes.
@prologic I still see Soren twt at the top on your pod.
@prologic \n> will happen when Google™ finally kick me off my “grandfathered” Google Apps account\n\nI too have two accounts on the old “Google for Domains”. Ever since Apple started offering iCloud+, I have moved three other domains to “iCloud+ Custom Domains”.\n\nIf Google drops me, I will take those two other domains to Apple as well.
@darch not interested. I vote no.
Markdown, yaml and toml are all completely different things. There is no such thing as a Markdown front matter. Can you post an example of a front matter that is parsing? How will it handle this one?\n\n
\n---\ntitle: "1635421341"\ndate: 2021-10-28T07:42:21-04:00\ndraft: false\ncategories: ["something"]\ntags: ["01"]\n---\n
@prologic \n> I kind of tend to find this an abuse of the “system”\n\nIt is an abuse, of course. Because of the way twtxt works, and Yarn's discovery in particular, a future twt remains on top until it isn't.
@darch \n> are gonna keep posting in the future for a way to promote upcoming events.\n\nRight, but Yarn users will not see them until their time has come. So, the promotion piece will not work, at least on Yarn.
@darch 100% agreed. Let's not be apprentice of many, master of none.
@movq they will not be dropped. They will simply be "held" in Oblivion, until their time to show has come. That is, until they are now (present) or then (past). 😋
@prologic \n> Was mostly just interested in if I could make the “blogging” (full) feature better\n\nMost certainly. Even thought I have no interest in having blogs mixed with twtxt (if it were up to me, I would get rid of it), the blog feature in Yarn is lacking. It is obscured (hidden under user's profile), it is just a weirdly named bulleted list, there is no navigation from post to post, or from post to "main" blog page. It is just... not so good---being nice and all. 😅
@eldersnake \n> I’m assuming the only way is he must have followed it from his twtxt.net hosted account?\n\nYes, he is following himself on Neocities.
He lives in the same place as Maya, in Narnia. 😂
@prologic it can't be a pod. It is just a twtxt.txt file hosted on the platform.
@prologic \n> can you give it a try?\n\nThat worked. If I want to change that yarn.db default location (I asked on IRC, but seems everyone is out right now), what should I do? Something like this?\n\n
\nyarnd -s "bitcask://../yarn.db")\n
\n\nOr something else?
@prologic that would work. I already manually copied files, though. Maybe have someone who hasn't done a pull test it? Or do you want me to simply pull, delete yarn.db and compile it again, to have twtxt.db renamed?
@prologic not only this. A fresh, brand yarn.db will be created and contents from twtxt.db will have to be copied to it for things to work normally---and by that I mean, to be able to login, and otherwise use Yarn.
@prologic do you still like using twet?
@prologic space to cater for now and future. Keep in mind the storage is shared with family, and all services, not just photos.
@lyse on every vacation, on any event (birthdays, weddings, etc.), there is tons of pictures. She also take los of food, and flower pics. I have 2 TB on iCloud and 1 TB on Google, mostly to cater for her. 😂
@prologic I read it 😊. I just don’t see much of an issue with the tool. I think it is a good thing. It is an IDE on steroids, on which you still need to know what you are doing, otherwise you get junk code.
@prologic so, a directory with “static” and “templates” in it?
@thecanine well, the Soviets spent quite a long time there, when it was Czechoslovakia. Maybe you will drop them within the next 50-100 years or so. 😉
@thecanine ah, I see. Yes, there might be a few ways to "break" formatting. Some could get accounted for. Actually, most.
@lyse \n> Also, why would one want to reset a field?\n\nYou mean, change its value? How about nick, description, and/or URL change?
Say what?
@lyse \n> Otherwise I’d say for simplicity we just require that both key and value must be non-empty. If a value is empty, the parser would treat it as a regular comment and not a metadata field.\n\nYes.
@lyse my wife is Asian. 🤣 It is not only about re-enjoying the journey, but to reminisce.
@adi I never assume. That's why I ask. Looking at the code, it looks like there are templates involved as well. Again, I will wait for @prologic on this.