@metamurks that sucks. Hope the USB Dongle works out for you.

@von your posting to the future worked for me.

Wow got so busy I forgot about twtxt. Hope everyone is doing well.

Short work week and about half the office is out.

It's weird as I get older, I find I have less and less people I actually want to talk to.

Love it we have a "contract" developer but he is not in the right group to push commits to the code repo. When I suggested that he be added to the right group one of the other developers was like that will give him access to everything. I'm sorry but what is everything? It's not like he can pull from any of the repos as it is. Right now he just can't commit.

The project I'm working on went "live" this morning. Even though most us developers think we shouldn't have.

At work for only 70 min and I already want to go home.

I love it. I have a program that needs to processing about half a million records, which will take 3 days. The database that all those records are suppose to go to is acting up after I've just done 140K records.

@tx I remember people doing word processing though their spreadsheet program.

Having a fun day trying to sort out why my code isn't working. Only to find out the API server I'm calling is borked.

It's really odd trying to downsize your stuff. Even with stuff you haven't used in years or use very little, it's hard to get rid of stuff you have acquired over time.

There are days I don't know why I come into work.

I don't know why but Openconnect no longer will connect to my work VPN.

@freemor No, I think the old DOS edlin program is the standard text editor LOL.

I love how I just got an email to tell me that something I ordered was shipped. Funny thing is, this email came 2 days after it was delivered to me.

It too quiet here for a Monday morning. I swear if I didn't know better, I would have thought someone died.

@dave No, I don't think I've ever done that

@freemor I also always try to have a few ssh servers with several ports available for me to use. My favorite port is 443. Once had a firewall that wouldn't allow SSH on 22 but 443 was acceptable because it expected encryption on it.

@sdk Why doesn't that shock me. Hell I've worked places where they had a strong firewall that blocked a lot of sites and yet I was allowed to SSH out, setup a tunnel, and bypass the firewall.

Another Monday and I'm really dragging.....zzzzzzzzzzz. Wait! What was I talking about?

Read some excepts from a book I randomly found yesterday. While the writing was a little dry, I thought it could be an interesting read. However when I looked on Amazon, found out the book was 80 USD. I'm sorry but it was not that interesting.

I love monitoring a process. It's more excitement than I can handle.

Non-programmers have invaded the programming area. It wouldn't be bad except some of them wear way too much perfume or cologne. Feel like I need a gas or filter mask.

Another fun day of loading data for this software pilot. It's fun just watching data load.

Well, I'm out until Monday. I hope everyone has a good weekend.

@sdk that's insane. What's the point in that.

I just recently found an issue with my custom client. It was ignoring microseconds on timestamps. Which meant I was missing some twtxt from people. I got that fixed and I know see all of them.

@mdom my own custom client I wrote, I use cron to run the update my timeline every 20 mins. My update process also processes 10 curl calls at time. I did that to save time when I poll everyone.

Another fun day of loading data, so people can test the new system next week.

@mdom That's interesting. So does txtnish read that metadata? or would an end user just look at the file to see it? Is the meta data going to be the standard?

@mdom what metadata feature is that?

@freemor It's nice to be way ahead of the curve no? LOL.

@kas the only thing I can think is that people are finally re-figuring out that static sites are really fast because the content doesn't need to generated on the fly. I noticed there were a lot of static content generators out there.

@kas WTF! That's a good one.

After a weekend out in the woods, I'm down one flashlight, one camping chair, and one tent pole.

Well that was disappointing. Was all set to run my Savage World game on Roll20 and 3 of the 5 players had to cancel.

While it's been a short week here, I'm ready for the weekend already.

@sdk Well I've added the special datetime to my kitbashed client. I store the URL it gets but I'm not doing anything with it right now.

@sdk as for the 140 character limit. I swear I read somewhere that the limit was really more of a suggestion than anything else. I don't think any of the clients I've looked out enforce it. As long as it's on a single line, no one seems to care too much.

@sdk A comment might not be in the spec, but I know several of the twtxt files I've looked at have them. I know my kit bashed twtxt client ignores those lines and I'm sure other clients do too.

@sdk you know the more I think about it, it might make sense to have it the twtxt file. It would just need to be a comment line something like "#follows sdk gopher://codevoid.de/0/tw.txt" on a single line. That way it would be easy to parse out those follows by finding the #follows.

@sdk a random mix into the the twtxt file seems less clean to me. The former would be easier to implement and simpler for another program to get and parse.

@sdk That's an interesting thought. I Know most are text files but at one time there was someone that used a python CGI Script. That person would have had to make a script for the follows.

While certainly not a solution to everything, I find I'm using temporary SQLITE database a bunch to solve problems with a few lines of sql and less then 50 lines of code (to insert data into the SQLITE DB) instead of several hundred of lines of code and a bunch of arrays.

@sdk I have to admit that's true. While I don't call myself an expert, I almost always wore several hats at places I've worked. Programmer, Server Admin, Network Admin, Cable Puller, Telephone Admin, PBX installer, Database Admin, etc

@freemor I always find amazing that people don't understand that. People just don't understand that everything can be a "server"

@freemor I thought so too. Color me surprised when I surveyed my follow programmers in my dept and only 3 out 12 knew what I was talking about.

One thing for sure on this project I'm working on, being able to run multiple CURL requests at once has been a real time saver.

Finally saw some good temps for camping but then I just remembered that labor day is coming up and there will be idiots out there.

I just used the word "Kludge" and no one in the office knew what I was talking about.

@metamurks I have tried several times to learn Morse Code. Sadly, I keep having distractions.

Sometimes, I hate debugging code.

I love working with 3rd Party software. When you have an issue you get to put in a ticket and then wait weeks for a response.

I'm always amazed at how many people I work with go out to eat each day. I don't know how they afford to that.

It's tough to be motiviated to work on a project that has no real plan.

@kas Have to say the peertube is intersting. Too bad I don't have a serveto play with it.

@pete I've played with Mastodon but I really never got into it.

@metamurks I use to but I downgraded this account, since I had two MetaArpa acconts and I really only needed one.

@metamurks Well, I'm thinking of moving my twtxt to anotheurl soon.

@metamurks Changes to my SDF account are the issue I'm sure.

testing to see if I'm back up.

@metamurks No worries from this end.

@kas thanks for that link. Thats a pretty neat thing.

@freemor that is odd, I wonder what happened.

In the last two weeks the company laid off two of the programmers. Which is crazy since we are just about to embark on a huge system conversion.

@freemor I am the same way.

@mdom It certainly does. I find in my currenting pairing, it doesn't work well and to be brutal I do 10x the work without them.

whoever decided Paired Programming should be a thing, needs to be beat up!

@freemor good going on getting your SSH/Git going.

@leveck I really want to use mastodon, but I just can't seem to come up with a use case for me. Guess I don't really do much Social Media type stuff

Another fun day at work. I'll be glad when the day is over.

@kas DST ends here in the US on Sunday. I'm lucky enough to live an area of the US were we don't do that sort of thing. Although it makes dealing with people that do a little tough.

Day 3 at ZendCon (A PHP Convention) - So far only learned a little

Well at ZendCon, not sure I learned anything yet

@tfurrow Yes, I am. I'll have to check that out

For some reason, I started Playing with old School BBSs

So since Mastodon was mentioned a few times, I'm trying that out. Any recommendations on people to follow?

@dave not sure why but I didn't know that SDF had a Mastodon server. I'll have to create an account

@reednj It was mentioned in a sdf.org bboard, so I thought I'd check it out.

@quite thanks, I got that corrected

Well after 4 hours of work, I finally think I solved all my client side calculation issues. I have no desire to screw with it again

Work Project Note : Trying to redo server side logic on the client side sucks.

I am not opposed to someone having a negative comment now and then but when 90% of what they say is negative. That is a person I do not need in my life.

@freemor True, but in this case this person was talking about standards that didn't actually exisit.

Sometimes I feel at work that when they mention 'standards' it just code for I don't understand the code you wrote, so rewrite everything

@tfurrows That's cool, I know only a little electronics. Enough to know not to melt plastic and make the purple smoke appear.

@freemor I have to say that looks interesting.

@tfurrows It is neat. Although it did require to recode a little bit of my kitbashed client LOL

Had my boss ask me if the guy I was working with was keeping me in the loop on the project. I had to tell him no

@freemor I'm cheating geting @mekon file by using my own kitbashed php CLI client I am playing around with

Had to update my client to use CURL so I could get @mekon twtxt file via gopher

@tfurrows just saw your one reply. Yes the client does have a way to sync with the we_are_twtxt list. So far the biggest issue with the PHP CLI client is that it takes a long time to poll all the sites

Another Day of trying to fix other people's problems with code

@freemor Thanks

@kas Yes, I know I am!

After spending 10 hours on a JS issue, found out I needed to have the library we are using to always update things even if it thinks no changes have done

I swear work can not make up its mind. One moment, they want things calculated one way. Then the next a different way. Finally they want it back the way it was. What a waste of time and effort

@benaiah sounds a lot like why many years ago, I went with Drupal for a simple Blogging site vs Wordpress. WP was easier but Drupal allowed me as an admin to not have any filters. Which allowed me to put raw HTML in the posts to control certian that I was doing at the time

@benaiah That is a tough call. I guess it depends on if you can find something off the shelf that will meet your needs or not.

@tfurrows It is certainly not polished but I have made a good start on that php CLI

@mdom I get the error: awk: extra ] at source line 35

A msg from a PHP CLI program

@benaiah Thanks I am just fooling around at the moment.

@tdemin Not quite an option for how I'm using it at the moment. That will change shortly.

@tdeminThis is the good entry that happens after I hand edit. I am sure there is just a problem with my txtnish I get an odd awk error

@< >tdemin This is the bad entry that happens when I do that

@mdomI'm not sure I know how to reply properly with it. I handeded edit this to be right.

@mdom I am playing with the txtnish client, all the systems I have available are running an old version of Python

@< >tfurrows good luck with the Scope, I wish I knew how to use one

I tried to add myself to the Git repos for the twtxt users but I think all I did was create a fork that will not be merged

I hate rewritting code just because someone else does not like the way it is!

I forgot how slow PHP can be at getting URL requests

@< >tfurrows it is likely to be really barebones. I am just screwing around

I think this week I'll look at a bare bone PHP CLI for a twtxt client. Just for fun mind you

like it.

This is a test of this system.