# I am the Watcher. I am your guide through this vast new twtiverse.
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# 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 = 1 379
# self = https://watcher.sour.is?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/lukem/twtxt.txt&offset=79
# next = https://watcher.sour.is?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/lukem/twtxt.txt&offset=179
Windows 10 and Xbox should be owned by PornHub. Microsoft doesn't understand reliability or smooth gaming experiences, especially when cross-platform play is involved.
@prologic (re Theme) looks fine on my end now. That was quick.
@prologic @dilbert (re 5G Doorway To The Demon World) Dilbert can be so brutally on point under the disguise of light-hearted satire.
@prologic (re Theme) I have a weird feeling you broke profile pages in the process. 
@dooven THAAAAANK GOOOOOOOOOD IT'S FRIIIIII.... wait, where I live it's Saturday already. :)
@mdosch if it's hacky, but it works, it works. I don't use XMPP these days but if I would I'd definitely try it out.
@prologic (postas) oh, true that. :) No problem, I'll get my first lines of code in Go in some other PR.
@prologic @antonio @dooven (re Flutter App functionality) just saying I'm still planning to come up with my Android app as well and I'll probably call it 'X for Twtxt.net' or 'X for Twt.social', where X is a word I haven't decided upon yet. Like Relay for Reddit or Fenix 2 for Twitter. Whether it becomes 'official' or not doesn't really matter to me. There's no 'official' app for XMPP, World Wide Web or e-mail.
@prologic @dilbert (re automated Dilbert feed) I haven't coded Go before, but I might give it a shot unless anyone is faster than me. I'm having two weeks off work starting next Monday and that means more time slots for side projects.
@prologic @dilbert (re automated Dilbert feed) Yeah, being able to post-as via API would be nice, but Dilbert is still particularly tricky to work with because their official RSS feed is broken and their TOS are very prohibitive. Doesn't change the fact I can see certain solutions to that problem.
Okay. Now that I created @dilbert feed I have two weeks to figure out how to make it automatic. For now I have enough time and processor cycles to curate it manually.
@prologic (upside down ranch) not an Australian ranch in California any more. :)
@prologic (ranch) Damn, I knew this was an easy trap.
@prologic (ranch) True Australian ranch. Upside down. 😂
@netdata @prologic I know, I saw your GitHub profile. :) 'use' is rather bold term, I prefer to say I sometimes look at dashboards and mark alert emails as read. I like the project though.
Yes netdata, I get it, my Raspberry Pi is struggling. Already bought a new one but I still can't find time to replace it. 
@prologic (Surface Duo) I don't know exact sales figures, but judging from my anecdotal experience of never seeing anyone using any MS-branded device since Windows Phone, I'd say either US-based sales or enterprise sales. Or both.
@prologic (Surface Duo) good morning good sir! ~$1,400 for a _flagship_ Android device without 5G or NFC, rather unimpressive 6 GB of RAM, 60Hz display and a single speaker. To me it feels a little like iPhone in 2007: cool idea but severely lacking for now.~
This new Surface Duo from Microsoft looks so sexy. But specs are disappointing and the price tag is ridiculous.
@kt84 (dinner) oh, right! Yeah, I need a good dinner idea too. cc @recipes
@kt84 (dinner) depends if you're just asking or inviting.
@hjertnes Complaining doesn't always imply lack of understanding.
@dooven (song) perfect. I'll use this someday.
@prologic (re HR recruitment industry) yeah, that whole 'marketing hype' thing bothers me big time as well.
I have hard time talking to recruiters on LinkedIn. On one hand I know they're just ordinary human beings doing their job. On the other, after dozens of failed recommendations and just as many silent rejections over last years I'm sick and tired of whole industry of HR done by third-party companies on behalf of their clients.
Done working for today. America, passing Monday depression over to you guys. 😃
@antonio (re Twtxt Net API) yes. Will release when it's done (somewhere next week hopefully)
@antonio (re Twtxt Net API) that is TypeScript and the project in question is an API wrapper for a certain microblogging service. :) It compiles to plain ol' JavaScript. I'm targeting web browsers, Node.js and React Native.
Something nice is brewing here. 
twtxt-net-api
@prologic (re IE quirk) probably, but they have to wait a little bit. I can look at them in ~2 weeks once my twtxt pod is up and running.~
@prologic (re IE quirk) launched IE 11 on Windows 7, failed to reproduce the exact issue mentioned by Rob. I found quite a few other problems though.
@rob @prologic (re Settings quirk) Rob's screenshot looks like IE 11 and your VM is Edge. I think I still have Windows 7 VM on my disk, I'll try to replicate this when I'm back home (~20hrs from now)~
@dooven VSCode too but my Vim skills are too 💩 to use it daily. Intellij Idea and Eclipse at my day job but I don't like IDEs in general.
@prologic (re Android App) I'll definitely be happy to join you guys but I'd like to wait for that to happen until I have something tangible to present. Talk is cheap and I want to have code to show. :)
@prologic (re Android App) yup. Or, to be more precise, twtxt.net and any other compatible pod.
@antonio @prologic (re IOS App) I'm feeling challenged to build my first Android app. Might happen once I finish API wrapper in JS 🤔
My Android tablet is starting to show its age. With 5G around the corner every potential replacement wihout it looks obsolete and 5G devices within reasonable price range are not there yet. Sigh.
@prologic (re country stats) as my fellows would say on the internet, Poland stronk. :)
@prologic (re char. limits) when you bring Twitter, support media upload and remove character limit, you get something similar to Tumblr. That's my first thought for now and I feel it has potential for a wall of text, but I'd have to think more about this.
@prologic (re char. limits) in case of Twitter it was once a technical limitation. Twitter in its infant phase was heavily based on SMS services, thus initial 140-character limit. Only a few years ago they increased it to 280 characters.
@prologic @antonio (re Netlify hosting) GitHub Pages is just 'deploy whatever is on this branch'. Netlify adds CI mechanism that will build your site before deployment and provides a few nice things like collecting form submissions or AWS Lamba functions.
@antonio (Netlify) static sites built with various generators. React apps work well. I also like 11ty.
@antonio (Netlify) #151,048. Netlify is awesome.
@prologic (re instance) that's super nice of you but domain names are within my budget and I already have two Linux boxes with unused resources, so no problem here. PS. misclickked 'unfollow', sorry about that.
@prologic (re instance) I am and it's 100% going to happen. as I said before I'll have a time slot for that in 2-3 weeks. Can't wait to get my hands on this.
I published and made my Ansible roles for initial setup, server creation and [OS updates](https://github.com] somewhat reusable. It ain't much, but learning new stuff is fun.
Today I get more out-of-office messages than actual human-made replies to my emails.
@prologic (re shoutout) haha, no problem :) Also, I'm happy to learn API is already live, looking forward to play with it this week.
@prologic I can't into English before coffee.
Well hello another Monday.
Shameful confession: I once rejected a job offer because it involved working with NLP. It took me good few months to learn NLP stood for natural language processing, not neuro-linguistic programming.
@prologic (re 😺 spam) absolutely right. And wow, I like how replies work now.
Me when I can finally spam cat pics on twtxt 
@prologic (Cloudflare) I'm pretty sure it's possible to set 'Respect existing headers' or lower cache time below 4 hours even in free tier. I'll check tomorrow.
@prologic (following @rob) I don't know. Let's just assume I'm getting insane haha. :)
@prologic (following @rob) I swear I remember myself having followed him earlier (his twt about bore pump sounds familiar) but somehow he wasn't in my following list today. Not sure if another bug or I'm getting insane.
@prologic (regexes) I partially solved a problem in a very dirty way, but it works for now. I might want to clean it up later. I wrote an Ansible role that has potential to be my first role on Ansible Galaxy but I need to get it right.
@prologic (blazingly hot) Where I live it's still morning so it hasn't got as hot as it's been lately yet. But soon...
I have a problem. I'm trying to solve it with regular expressions. Now I have between 2 and ~128243 problems and the number fluctuates across entire range.~
@recipes if my bananas wouldn't go overripe the very moment I forget I have them, that would be great. *Photo of Bill Lumbergh goes here*
@kt84 NASA prefers to call it 'samples for future missions' but I believe you're on to something here 😄
@prologic (re new users) I'm planning to launch my instance around the end August / beginning of September and get it a little more visible here and there. That also means I'll finally get a chance to see if I can contribute anything of value to UI/UX department.
So uhm, today around 12 pm GMT my name, alongside 10M others, will go to Mars on a Perseverance rover. Much to my haters' disappointment I'm still here going nowhere in the nearest future.
@prologic how dare you use your internet for something else than watching Netflix and scrolling Facebook.
@recipes now this is the recipe that is dead simple and delivers exactly what it promises. <3
@prologic My case is more about scarcity of documentation and a major knowledge gap between me and Java devs who seem to think I'm one of them even though I'm not and never will be. I want to fix frontend bugs god dammit!
Every minute spent launching legacy Java projects in Windows environment makes me slightly more miserable.
@kt84 there's something ironic about this piece and the fact the company in question is called 'Ballistic Beer Company' :)
@prologic didn't have time today. Feel free to merge, I'll probably check tomorrow as I'm about to go to sleep.
@prologic (slashdot link) to be honest I'm not sure if I'm surprised or not.
@prologic feeds is something I still have to look at. I'll see if I can add any new ones I'd like to follow.
@prologic (why twtxt > twitter): also, being able to self-host part of the infrastructure and operate it in a decentralized fashion is an interesting proposition to me.
@prologic (why twtxt > twitter): Many things, I'll mention a few. Twitter requires quite a lot of effort to discover interesting voices or filter noise out and I'm tired of it. Being able to see this place grow and evolve at such an early stage is fascinating to me.
@prologic Also, I'm super honored to be a member of this community, I check it more often than Twitter these days. :) Spreading the word will take some time, but I'll definitely do that should the opportunity arise.
@prologic I'm primarily a frontend dev but I'm bored of maintaining legacy software. I mostly dabble in Node and React in my spare time to scratch my itch for building new things. As of company names -more details in my GitHub readme. :)
@prologic weekly team meeting, fixing old bugs from my Jira backlog, then finishing Ansible stuff for my side project. Just another day in not-exactly-but-close-to-paradise haha.
Monday's on, coffee's in. Let's produce.
@prologic To be more precise - first time publicly on GitHub. For 99% of time I'm the one submitting changes and I haven't had many occasions to do reviews / approvals so far. At work we use self-hosted Bitbucket, so that doesn't count.
@prologic (re approval) This is the first time I approved something on GitHub. Here's history being written. :)
@prologic I'll probably use it in a similar way. My goal is to automate everything and reduce number of steps needed to bring changes to production in my side projects. I'm a little tired of managing VMs manually, I'd rather spend that time coding.
I learnt basics of Ansible and I feel it's time to dive into Docker.
Exercising the idea of enabling GitHub sponsorships but looking at other people in the community I feel like an impostor.
@prologic this is neat. Very welcome change. Also, congrats on trending on GH. :)
@prologic No no, it's still Thursday afternoon where I live, but I like to call Thursdays 'Friday eves' :)
Whoa. It's getting crowded here. Hi people 👋