Our work is never over

Still enjoying my command-line set up where I can log my time, keep notes and a daily journal all through a few aliases and functions, and it stores everything in plain text files. #KISS

I almost lost my email archive by messing up a server configuration, but luckily I had a local backup made through the amazing Pikabackup. I sent their open source collective some money to show my gratitude.

Stop Google from limiting APK usage:sign the Change.org petition https://c.org/TQ9t4962bR

So I decided that after having two of my three MiniDisc recorders fail on my over the weekend, to prepare myself to say goodbye of most of the discs... and invest in a DAP. More to come on this soon for sure.

Learning the hard way that eventually all MiniDiscs recorders decay into playback only...

Also transfering interesting radio recordings I found on the used MiniDiscs to FLAC.

Also the short documentary 'John Was Trying to Contact Aliens' was really heartfelt and great. Didn't know the story of John Shepherd yet. Discovered some great music thanks to this short film. Inkl. Harmonia

Enjoying the show Resident Alien with Alan Tudyk.

Recording audio to MiniDiscs like it's 2001.

Trying out CloudFlare "workers" / "pages" ... Seems to be ok - getting a litle confused due to the powerful features in the console but isn't that the challenge for all cloud services these days.

Working on a project that does Augmented Reality and computer vision object detection and QR code and image recognition inside a Web application. Pretty neat what can be done today with a few thousand lines of JavaScript.

I walk backwards into the future with my eyes fixed on my past - Mãori proverb

We are all we have.

“Anyone who thinks about the future must live in fear and terror.” - Albert Einstein

Testing the limits of our new 5G internet connection at home with pushing 1.5GB docker images into the cloud a bunch of times day...

It's really cool how my local public library's membership includes digital access to thousands of magazines and newspapers.

Reading “Man’s search for meaning” by Viktor E. Frankl

Enjoyed watching the movie Mighty Ducks (1992) on our family movie night.

I would like to drop Onedrive for Proton Drive and WhatsApp for Threema - I just need to convince my whole family to follow me with that.

I fell asleep again during snoozing, and started dreaming intensely. My own mind woke me up in time by setting everything I loved on fire within my dream. That jolted me awake alright.

Got my teeth cleaned professionally today and I am still feeling it. Recommendation is that I use an electric toothbrush... Health over sustainability I suppose.

Keep breathing and stay cool.

There are European alternatives for many well known digital and online services: https://european-alternatives.eu

Simplifying my online presence further by removing my Known site. Goodbye social.johanbove.info - it was sometimes a little fun.

Cancelled Mastodon because the time spent on it could have been used for reading books instead and the level of interaction is not enough to keep me interested.

Shocked about the fires around LA right now. Following CNN mostly. It's devastating.

There is a reason why being a journalist is still a profession.

Your favourite social media platform should not be where you get your facts from. You get jokes and share with your friends, but facts they ain't. Get your world news from actual news sources instead.

In a rush in getting all my private data off from US - based company servers - the way it is looking, it might be that it would be good for us Rest Of The Worlders, to bring in our sheep and keep them close by.

Happy New Year to the readers of my little Twtxt feed! Wishing you and are your family all the best.

My 400th Twtxt Post will be about you: wishing you, reader of my Twtxt feed, all the best for the coming year and most of all love, health, and that your projects and work may contribute to the greater good of all mankind. I will be taking a social-media break for a couple of weeks to enjoy this special time with my family. I hope you will be able to do this with your family and friends too.

Aus Liebe fürs Leben

If there hadn't been a better time than now to leave the hatred filled cesspool network of right-wing craziness, aka X - then I wouldn't know when would be.

Enjoyed the eight christmas party at work today with some colleagues who I have known and worked with for more than ten years now. That is a nice feeling.

Imagine if all computer UIs would act like the UI from my NAS system... I feel I need to be waiting for output from the machine like it's 1973.

The web server in Calibre is pretty cool. Love how the UI was designed and made. Feels intuitive, yet powerful. Now i do need to organise the book collection a bit better.

Did I write here already that the reason why I love Twtxt so much is that it works without having to compile, install anything extra. Just the bin applications that come with 95% of all operating systems and you're good to read and participate, giving you have a domain name somewhere to host the twtxt.txt file.

We had a great weekend overall. N. loves ice-skating and we had a nice time with friends today playing a round of bowling and visiting the Dussy christmas market.

Organised my decades old ebook collection and cleaned up all the duplicates. The Czkawka application helped a lot with getting that done. Also - finally - using Calibre as our home digital library.

Got tickets for the Germany - USA 🏒 ice Hockey game in Düsseldorf on May 4th 2025

Cleaned up my npm package for twthash; made it CommonJS compatible, added more documentation and even a test. Current version is 1.2.2

Always a great feeling when you can solve npm install problems by simply copying over the whole node_modules folder from your own (linux) machine. One of the benefits of developing on a Linux machine I suppose.

Added TwtHash hashes to every message on my personal Twtxt HTML renderer. Code is not yet ready for prime-time. Need to work out some kinks still.

You can select some text from a web page and right/command click and select print... and select To PDF to quickly save snippets for save-keeping or further reading.

If I use Fedora on my PC, Vivaldi as my browser, Signal as my main messenger program, then which OS should my phone run on?

Getting my knowledge refreshed on web accessibility through a course on deque university.

I have been on Twtxt for five years straight now. Hurray me.

My 7-year old invented the word guakilijion which is a 1 with a bazillion zeroes following after it. He wants to be a word inventor.

Was on the receiving end of multiple robocalls originating from the UK so now I blocked the whole of the UK from being able to call me on my phone.

Listening to Buffalo Springfield's - For What it's Worth - the topic seems still very relevant these days sadly.

Wanted to share that we're so proud of our six year old son; after taking skating lessons himself, he taught me and my wife how to stop on skates today. He was so proud about that he could teach us something good. Enjoyed also playing table tennis with him in the park, even-though it got windy, we had fun and didn't give up trying to have a decent game. And at the guided tour at the old hot-metal plant in Duisburg yesterday, he asked the best questions and could be the guide's assistant - holding the flashlight.

Oh the joy of working half the day in remote desktop environments with intermittent Internet connection issues... Good thing there is still some LTE left.

I have ethical concerns about executing killall node in my console, regardless of how necessary it is.

Wishing all carnevalists around the World a great start of the fifth season of the year.

My German word of the week: der Einfallsreichtum

Not sure that I really like where Microsoft is taking VSCode - it looks like soon it will be just another frontend for them to sell Github Copilot subscriptions.

We turned the heating up/on in our home for the first time this year.

Let it sink in how the richest person on the planet was EXTREMELY directly involved in getting his preferred candidate in the US presidency seat.

After testing Vivaldi for a couple of weeks I am convinced this is a great browser and to support the team behind it, I decided to start sending them a couple of Euro monthly, just to keep the momentum going.

If all Orange Face Elefant party voters would take them on their words and make them actually do whatever insane world they invented, then perhaps people will realize the grave mistake that was made today. Many people have to feel consequences before they believe it. I hope there will still be history books in the future to disclose the insanity for future generations. But whatever happens, the World will keep spinning...

Another new email handling strategy I am applying is agressively deleting everything that I don't need to keep for some reason.

I wish I could absorb some of the horrors the rescue workers will encounter in Valencia's underground garages and basements, so they could somewhat manage on with their own lives after... #realheroes #cannotunsee

Grateful for everything I have. Wishing everyone a good week.

So I've flattened my work and private email inboxes to single inbox folders and I don't even know anymore what I was thinking before trying frantically to organise everything in sub folders. Labels and search filters are the way forward.

Moved my email back into a single 'inbox' folder instead of trying to keep everything organised in sub-folders. Using Vivaldi's labels instead for organising the messages. Makes sense because I sometimes had trouble if a message needed to be in multiple boxes.

My guilty pleasure: raisin bread with salted butter and a slice of gouda cheese

My favourite part of Halloween is helping to set up the charity halloween party at a local school. Love decorating the haunted hallway and setting up the lights. Feels great to get those smiles on people's faces.

First day back at school after our first real school vacation. Didn't know where to start when a parent asked me about how our vacation was.

Cleaned up my personal e-mail account this week and claimed back about 2GB of space occupied by irrelevant stuff.

Liking the distinction in Vivaldi between bookmark and something to add to your reading list.

After many many years on Firefox, I am making the move to Vivaldi.

Had a great time at the Duisburg zoo yesterday including the amazing dolphin show

Got my flu shot today!

Monthly sign of life. We're good.

We had a great and relaxing three week vacation in Denmark and Sweden.

Picked up Altered Carbon again on Netflix. Really need to read those books.

Had totally forgotten how cool Apocalyptica's "Nothing Else Matters" is.

Asked ChatGPT 3 yesterday to tone down an angry message I had to send, as in make it still polite, but make sure to get the message across, and it succeeded pretty well.

So dissatisfied and disappointed with the Fairphone 4’s audio issues where during phone calls, the receiver only gets half of the messages due to noise cancellation problems, that we’re considering iPhone as a valid “it just works” replacement. Especially since the iPhone15 now also has the USB Type C port.

I lapsed with the coffee drinking. One cup a day. Making tea takes way more time than making a quick coffee. Although I still should take the time.

Doing laundry at 6:00 in the morning

Time flows backwards for some successful people

And I feel fine...

Haven't been sleeping well lately. Going to bed late. Lots to do.

Fun with React Hook Forms and MUI Material lately.

Cutting down on drinking coffee to one cup a week. Drinking more tea to get me through the day instead.

Made something that was mentioned in a national press release last week. That was cool.

Saw an airship fly over Düsseldorf and for a second I felt like being in an alternative dimension where these were more common. Really like them as they glide through the sky.

We're good. Lots of work to do and that is great.

Finally using workspaces in my monorepos.

Not having a great experience with Acrobat Reader. What the heck is Adobe trying to achieve with all of these popups and annoyances?

Half of Germany's car owners are trying to get their cars washed today.

If AI coding machines become mainstream in less than ten years no human will be able to understand how any digital service works any more.

Even AI coding machines will need to rotate their access credentials every 90 days.

Going to have to reinstall my Yunohost server one of these days as the packages no longer seem to be updateable.

The show "One Day" is well worth the watch.

I'm in need of some nineties rage against the machine right now - sleep now in the fire

Asked an "AI Assistant" (Perplexity) to summarize my introduction of my homepage and then I asked it to give me some book recommendations I might like, and the thing actually nailed it.

The way things are going, we're never going to make it to Alpha Centauri.

I arrived at a phase of life where waking up after 6:30 feels late.

What the heck is a Devil's Haircut anyway Beck?

'The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.' RIP Alexei Navalny (1976-2024). https://youtu.be/AHDueubF0QY

So I had three espressos before 11:00 - today's going swell.

Wishing I could do accents like Trevor Noah can.

Found a new CLI timetracker assistant named Watson. Works really well.

"no-code" and "low-code" is still someone else's code.

I've been enjoying my Fairphone 3 since January 2020. Not planning to change to a newer phone soon.

Of all the Daft Punk hit songs, 'Around The World' is probably still my favourite.

Played our first "Ticket To Ride" boardgame today.

Listening to classic rock with my six year old son on a Sunday afternoon - what can be better than this?

Lost my wallet with my IDs and bank cards. Would have been worse case if I had lost my phone. Still, it's a waste of time and it will take weeks before I get all my cards back.

Got a Dr checkup and the screw in my hand hasn't moved. That's the good news. Bad news is that there seems to be something going on with the internal healing. Nothing to do but wait.

Late fees for public libraries are not fines, they're extra donations to keep the organisation going.

Why isn't inkjet printer ink simply replaceable like the windscreen wiper fluid in our cars? Why does it have to be so expensive and complicated?

The German indie sci-fi movie "Das letzte Land" was an interesting watch.

Anyone else noticed how the current date and the climate are more resembling Blade Runner each year.

Hoping for a good 2024.

I fell with a stupid e-scooter and have been waiting at the hospital now for more than three hours. Not worth it. I almost broke my left elbow and right hand wrist. Got lucky because I was wearing a helmet. Not going to try that again. The wheels slipped on the wet zebra crossing paint in a turn.

This is the best time of the year - BEFORE the Christmas holidays - when most are hopefully looking forward to spending good times with family and friends. And I do wish you too.

Looking forward to losing the muscle memory in my fingers of entering passwords into forms during my two week vacation.

Pretty cool how one can post to the Internet with a single curl command.

My last working day of 2023 is going strong! Just a couple dozen things left to take care of.

Actually funny that Germans wish each other a good slide into the new year every year, as if the rest of the year is too high a target to grasp within that wish.

Decided to block the threads.net domain on Mastodon. I am happy with reaching the people that are part of the current Fediverse. I have no need to add more celebrities and brands and whatever to the Mastodon instance I have been enjoying.

Reading The School Of Life by Alain De Botton, Page 65

Gotta admin that Ms's Playwright test framework is really powerful.

90% of web apps are just fancy forms.

Creating stories together with a five year old is fun.

I just realize that today is still WEDNESDAY and not THURSDAY.

Instead of formal todo's I have the option to create items in a plan in the morning that is valid for the coming day. Plans can be related to todo's.

Thinking of building a simple "Things our kids say" database form, using Node, Express and SQlite3. Going beyond simple text files.

Having a tough time gathering my thoughts sometimes. So many appearing and bursting through.

So what's the age of the oldest garment you still ocassionally wear? I think for me it's this blue hoodie I got when I was 20 or so.

After seeing Google's Gemini video, will everyone now need to invest in one of this pointing-downwards camera stands for the home?

Doing this thing where I do one-word status reports and logging them in a file.

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. -Robert A. Heinlein

When is most of humanity going to realise that we're all stuck on the same space vessel, hurling to the vast and empty space together, and have limited resources that cannot be replenished from some other planet.

Had my first toast-sandwich today and it was incredible.

We rely too much on Bluetooth. Even on Apple devices it sometimes is a very broken technology. We cannot trust not having cables around with the old trusty USB.

Learning about stair-cases and human norms is something that I don't do on a regular basis.

#StuckOnRepeat: "Good Fortune" by PJ Harvey

With all M$'s apps being basically fancy web apps, there is no need to actually install any of their legacy applications locally anymore. Since I am online basically 100% of the time this turns my Office experience in a Chromebook like one. No installs, never outdated software. Just a yearly subscription contribution to worry about.

Rediscovered how it's possible to show/hide content on an HTML page without JavaScript, using a checkbox and some sprinkle of CSS magic.

My son said for the first time he wanted to make a game himself today. Going to freshen up my canvas and collision detection skills.

Qnap's Hybridmount feature makes it possible for me to access the files on OneDrive as if they were available from a local network drive on my Fedora PC. Pretty neat (when everything works).

I would love to be able to time travel back to the days when Talking Heads toured and witness one of their epic live concerts.

Anyone else working with Mac OS (work), Windows (client project) and Fedora (private) on the same day, almost every day?

Hey Apple, it's 2023 - about time to start supporting the content indexation of markdown files in Spotlight out of the box, don't you think?

The local energy Company is doing an Advent contest with a word guessing game, 21 letters long, it starts with a T and I got all other letters by looking at the source of their site... Put all of the letters into ChatGPT 3.5, but it is having real trouble coming up with something plausible.

In Memoriam voor mijn grootmoeder Agnes Cours, die vandaag haar 88ste verjaardag had gevierd. We missen je!

Pretty neat what one can achieve with Node.js Fs, the Express framework, Redis, a text file and some HTML with a sprinkle of CSS.

Almost six year old loves the New York Rap dance remix from Jan Hammer's "Axel F" - it's a bit stuck on repeat. The song is from 1985. Coincidentally the year I was five myself.

First snow fall in Düsseldorf city center this evening.

't is the Season to restock on batteries.

My son achieved the kindergarten karate belt white-orange-white. He is really proud too himself.

Streaming services can suck. Wanted to watch the classic Elf movie for a fun movie night, but somehow we were getting the message "This movie is not available in your region.". Turns out we were looking for the wrong title.

Went to the Christmas market for the first time this year.

My kid is amazing

SCP all the things!

Cache rules everything around us.

Feeling nostalgia for simpler web development times.

Context-switches are a real productivity killer if it means that by the time you get back to the previous context your remote desktop session expired.

The best gift anyone could give me is the time to be able to finish reading some books.

Is there a car leasing that does not feel like a trap?

Happy advents calendar month to everyone!

Enjoying the shower as a sensory depreviation cell.

I think I witnessed twice today how someone shop-lifted something from a big department store and ran away with it. One was actually being chased by the shop's security.

Hurray for password recovery processes.

If snow fall on the mountains is reducing so much, and this snow acted as a water reservoir formed in Winter to get through the warmer, dry summers, then we should start creating huge water reservoirs on top of mountains; pumping the water up there when it rains.

Going for Codeberg to support a non-profit organisation that stands for the common good.

Github is like Linkedin for Developers

Started the process of migrating from Github to Codeberg with my projects.

Obligatory Twtxt post: I love how I can simply use a terminal window and some very basic tools (echo, scp, ssh) to publish thoughts, as they pop up, onto the Internet in a structured way, that can be found and perhaps even appreciated.

Wondering that part of the charm and attraction of Christmas markets could come from a common nostalgia towards every day street markets in towns and a longing for more outside social life during the cold, clammy Winter days.

Keeping the bare minimum of apps installed on my NAS to avoid vulnerabilities.

These guys from the Sokpop game developers collective are really cool.

Figuring out how to properly do session management in Node.js with Redis.

I'm in your node js, messing with your process.env variables.

It is that time of year where I try to be extra nice in customer service Quality and feedback surveys. I once worked on the other side of these, so it might brighten someone's day.

Another work week just flew by.

One of these tricky things of the German language I haven't really gotten the hang of is the difference between: "Ich weiss." and "Ich weiß."

Got a great idea for an web app: a flashlight app which uses media-queries to detect if the light, aka the body of the page, should be on (white) or off.

It's getting, it's getting, it's getting kinda hectic...

With that said: Happy Thanksgiving to anyone celebrating and for everyone else: happy third thursday of November. I am grateful and I thankful I get to share this thought with you all.

There is a lot of Black Friday promotion happening in Germany these days - I wonder however how many Germans really know where it comes from? Happy Thanksgiving to whoever is celebrating today - as it is one of the few US / Canadian festive days where families - really - try to enjoy their time together.

Having fun with React - yet again. A large part of my job entails (re)learning technologies - luckily I have access to some good resources in the form of training- and tutorial sites, all provided by my employer.

First time ever I made something that uses Redis

The first cold days of Winter are upon us.

Good night, good morning, good afternoon.

My todotxt done.txt file has over three years worth of stuff in it that I found important enough to put a todo in todotxt for.

Someone at Philips Hue or Amazon Alexa screwed up something, as it seems. My lamps stopped responding to Alexa some days ago and I am not the only one experiencing issues. I guess we can say we enjoyed the (partial free) ride for as long as it lasted. https://www.amazon.com/Philips-Hue/dp/B01LWAGUG7

Printing pictures on Linux is still a bit of a challenge.

My son is getting pretty good at skating.

ExpressJs is rather fun to work with - at least for a smaller project.

Wondering how that person in Nebraska is doing keeping that cornerstone open-source package going.

So now that I have a basic Twtxt form, I can also update my feed even when I am not on my PC.

So the APC UPS power pack's USB port is not capable of providing stable current for both a Macbook and the Iphone, which was also connected to the USB Type-A port next to it. Good to know.

Something weird is happening to the new APC UPS - it has an USB Type-C port - but it seems that the power supply is a bit wonky.

Fiddling with paths in Node Express for fun

Building a Twtxt Gui with some JS and HTML as an example application.

Refreshing my knowledge on Node.js

Hey Apple, it's 2023 - about time to start supporting the content indexation of markdown files in Spotlight out of the box, don't you think?

My cli work-apps: note, plan, dlog (daily log), status and twt.

Got the flu shot done for this year

I just backed up my twtxt.txt data on a medium that will last for years if treated well: 4 sheets of paper.

'An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth' ends up with blind people starving to death.

It would be hard to explain to anyone, some fifty years ago, how I accidentally bought apples grown in South-Africa at the supermarket here in Düsseldorf the other day..

my thoughts are free

Since I have these simple, yet effective bash shell commands, which allow me to edit notes, plans, todos and statuses from the terminal, I feel liberated from overly complex software - everything is just text files and applications which come preinstalled on every Linux system.

The situation in Gaza is “more than a humanitarian crisis, it is a crisis of humanity”, Guterres said during a briefing at the UN’s headquarters on Monday.

By using scp I can see just how fast my updates are published to the WWW.

I salute you, who can remember Vim's copy paste commands without using a cheatsheet.

Still find it amazing how I can put almost my whole music collection on a device the size of a human finger nail.

Reorganising and refactoring terminal aliases is a nice way to start a quiet Sunday morning.

Just published my very first npm package: https://www.npmjs.com/package/twthash

On the book wishlist: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2023/10/thematic-book-series-how-to-downsize-a-transport-network/

Reading the backlog of my twtxt posts and it's nice to be able to just delete some outdated things by editing a simple txt file.

Upgraded my Twtxt feed to 2023 with the twtxt.net twthash extension.

Anyone else keeping personal .log files updated through basic shell commands?

Messed up the configuration of the nut UPS monitor so bad it actually initialised an UPS test where the device switched itself off on the reboot of the PC. No idea how that happened. So uninstalled it again.

Using the CLI to be in-dis-tractable

We're still here!

In case you didn't notice, I deleted my Twitter and Keybase accounts. Going full indieweb.

If you're looking for a cool p2p database system have a look at www.earthstar-project.org

With all this ActivityPub hectic, it is still nice to have a super simple platform like Twttxt to get back to.

So it happened - the twtxt.xyz domain finally expired

Ping - still alive and kicking

First rule of SSB is: be patient - it is meant to move slower than conventional social networks

Oh hello again SSB - reinstalled ManyVerse on all my devices, including my PC

The battery life in this i9 MacBook Pro from 2018 has diminished to being barely enough to serve as an UPS backup system with enough time to perform a safe shutdown

Anyone else see their kids seem bigger in the morning or when not having seen them in a couple of hours? They grow so fast.

Upgraded my Twtxt feed to 2022 with the twtxt.net meta-data extensions.

Happy New Year 2022 Twtxt!

Can I rely on IPFS mirrors only yet for serving my personal static website? Probably only when you're a popular IPFS oriented site.

Waar een wil is, is een weg.

Why do I keep writing simple English words like change or chance and save or safe, and live or life wrong?

What am I doing and why am I doing it, I have no idea. Today is one of those days.

Was feeling a bit down but watching some family videos and pictures from last year brightened me up. Good night.

What if due to climate crisis effects and disasters our digital future will depend on low-energy hardware and protocols like Gemini?

Thou shalt not steal focus in popup windows when users are trying to get work done; no matter what.

I have a lot of respect for scientist and engineering astronauts - not so much for tourist ones...

Switching search engines today from DuckDuckGo to Ecosia as ClimateChange has a higher prio than our privacy.

Words I cannot type rightly at the first attempt: testimonial, accessibility, successful

After Home-office time is over I will miss being able to multi-task during long meetings.

For a blissful month we had our own strawberry garden, now I know what fruitflies live on in the wild.

I'm doing this thing again where I am collecting more articles and books to read than actual doing any reading.

Will the UEFA be responsible for nobody wearing a mask at the Eurocup games when the infection rates sky-rocket - allover again?

So tired of mobile phone vendor lock in and bad usability for the sake of keeping people in their services. Try printing a file from your email inbox to a Bluetooth printer from your Android phone.

Uninstalled Brave browser and went back to only using Firefox.

So I should really try setting up a Restic repo on an IPFS/IPNS hash.

Making sure my personal profile site is navigatable using a keyboard only for fun

I miss David Bowie

I always need to look up how to use pbcopy. It's counter-intuitive to me.

I will miss being able to multi-task during long meetings while working remotely if I need to get back in the office.

The Weaving The Web Book by Tim Berners-Lee should be a required read for anyone building on the Web.

TIL that changing a .bashrc alias to a bash function requires you to restart the terminal as calling source ~/.bashrc does not change the alias to the function call.

The immersive beats and the haunting vocals in "Silent Shout" by The Knife still sound like they came from the future even-though the song was released in 2006...

I feel like I only scratched the surface of what can be done with IPFS.

Jake explains how to correctly encode data for POST requests as no AI can.

Anyone made a Drum & Bass / Dubstep remix of "Fuel to Fire" by Agnes Obel yet?

Working with Web components feels a bit like {insert fav fantasy world here} with concepts like the Shadow Dom and the Light Dom

The weather of the moment brought to you with the command tweet "$(weather)".

Look for overcast in Düsseldorf with a temperature of 22.7°C. No rain is expected at this time. Expect a gentle breeze from the WestSouthWest.

To add another abstraction layer or not, that is the question.

The flavours of rosmarin and nutella fit together, right?

Restarted my paper bullet journalling as a form of digital detoxing - zen in pen and paper

After building websites and styling for about 20 years now I still don't see the difference between italic and oblique.

Coming back to work today, I found myself still very much grieving for the sudden loss of our dear colleague Filiz - finding some solace in the words of the beautiful song "I grieve" by Peter Gabriel

Had a great day at the Leverkusen Neuland park and the Langenfeld Wasserski place with my family!

@von Welcome back!

@prologic Thanks. Nothing much to it. Perhaps I'll make it better later.

@darch Yes, nothing much to it. Full source code is free to use :-) I will probably add some analytics and sorting options later.

Not sure why exactly, but I made sure my Twtxt HTML page renders okay on a Nokia 8110 4G 240px screen.

This Loki show is pretty clever and really well-made. Enjoying watching it.

Semper meliorem facio - Always do better

STAY SANE + STAY CALM + STAY HEALTHY

Content-security-policies are an evil necessity. Setting them up securily takes away some fun out of publishing online.

When tragedy strikes unexpectedly we cannot just go on as if nothing happened. Our minds need to be given time to deal with the blow. So it is necessary to pause and allow ourselves to process and recover.

I made https://johanbove.info/twtxt.html with a couple of lines of JS today. Makes it a bit easier to read my Twtxt feed online.

A beloved colleague passed away after a terrible car accident a couple of days ago. Thoughts go to her family and colleagues.

Decided to keep the smart-phone out of our bedroom and keep a note book instead. Already feeling lighter and fresher.

Hypothes.is is now enabled on my personal site https://johanbove.info - so I can give some insights in what I wrote and it allows for interaction with visitors.

All is good. Got my first shot of Biontech last week.

Mirroring my private sites on the IPFS network. Generating my static site using 11ty

Wishing everyone a wonderful, happy and healthy end-of-year time after all.

@prologic Could you make the polling of your server a little slower please? Thanks.

JavaScript applications have become not-to-be-kidding complex lately. I guess that's why I am longing for simpler days.

Getting started with Restic for my backup needs. It's really neat and fast.

Can I interest you in the latest edition of Tales From The Dork Web when it's about Gopher, Gemini and The Smol Internet? https://thedorkweb.substack.com/p/gopher-gemini-and-the-smol-internet

@uninformativ Welcome to Twtxt! Liking your introduction article and your Gopherhole is awesome.

Now also to be found on Gemini at gemini://gem.johanbove.info - the future looks light and bright!.

Another cool advantage of keeping everything in text files is how fast the search indexer of operating systems gives you results.

Going to have my head shaved on 2020-09-26 for charity. Info

The personal Internet needs more weirdness

Getting inspired by the Burning Man Multiverse 2020

Being a Dad is hard as you need to balance being fun with being a parent. But it is really rewarding when all are well and happy.

Trying to get a grasp and take back control over my family's digital assets.

Signing off for the week. Good night!

Checking out Todo.txt because it literally is all text files. But will probably still move back to TaskWarrior because I will miss annotations and other features.

Fun setting up basic productivity tools with Syncthing and Todo.txt

The Mozilla layoffs are really worrying me about the future of the Web.

@prologic I will probably check out twtxt.net later. Can we use it without registering for an account?

@Leo Sorry to disappoint. I think I have Finger running on my Raspberrypi but didn't make it public.

Hello Twtxt from a Xubuntu 18.04 machine!

Since a couple of months on peer-to-peer Web and I'm really convinced that as long as isps do not start messing with firewalls, this could really be the next step in a real Internet of humans.

We had to move the nice birdfeeder on our balcony because the birds were making too much of a mess and now I feel bad.

That Twitter admin hack shows how important it is to own our own online content and even our own platforms for posting on the Web. Want to learn more? Make yourself a cup of your favorite drink and have a look at https://indieweb.org/Getting_Started

Yeah. I'm still here. Just been busy doing something on Beakerbrowser and Scuttlebutt.

Who needs games when you can have fun with contributing to open-source!

Of course the first thing you do after buying media on DVD is to fire up #Handbrake to make a local copy - those discs are just too fragile!

Honestly never realized before Beakerbrowser that peer-to-peer could be used to share markdown, JavaScript and html files.

Was feeling super nervous and on-the-edge earlier this evening. A cup of chamomile tea later I am feeling again more relaxed.

I'm enjoying listening to music on my re-discovered #MiniDisc players. Pop in the disc, press play and listen to about 150 minutes of your own music in clear digital quality.

Retro-fitting my music collection and music players with early 20s digital stereo MiniDisc technology.

Listening to Voodoo Chile by Jimi Hendrix while enjoying a Belgian Leffe during these dark hours.

We are thinking of you Grandpa Ivo. May the peaches be forever ripe and juicy where you are.

New post on my Gopher site. Back to updating it once a month.

Tempus Fugit

Live long and prosper 🖖

@lucidiot [re: abandoned ideas] Thanks for the inspiration! How do you keep track of projects now? Do you know about TaskWarrior?

The twtxt.xyz domain is a 1000 days old and expires on 2020-04-07. Wondering if anyone will renew it?

Happy New Year Twtxt!

@irongeek Welcome to Twtxt! I don't think anyone still is doing something on http://twtxt.xyz/ honestly. It just runs on its own.

@xandkar Welcome to Twtxt! Noticed a typo in your twtxt user-agent handle. It is pointing to txtxt.txt.

Keybase and Stellar's SpaceDrop unfortunately was naive in thinking greedy clever hackers wouldn't find ways to scam the give-away for more Lumens and ruin it for everyone else.

Finally creating PHP programs using Composer and Twig templates

Opening the man page for tail feels very vestigial

Twtxt is real enough. Feels funny to be so open writing here, yet nobody knows twtxt.txt is here - part of the charm

Am I real? How do I know?

Listening to Dance with the Dead - Eye Of Madness from their album The Shape

In a rather gloomy dark mood today. Been listening to Anne Clark - Our Darkness on repeat

Going to have to read Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark - Being human in the age of Artificial Intelligence

And I lost a whole story writing it in Vim by not creating a new folder first. FFS

Happy 64th Birthday Ma :)

I'm going to call all "apps" programs again as part of my retro-computing experience.

@lucidiot (re: Bratislava) Good one! :-)

@kas (re: signing) Thanks for the suggestion using Keybase. Playing around with the authenticity idea.

Currently lost in txt nirvana over at http://textfiles.com/100

Signing my twtxt with my johanbove@keybase.io account from today onwards

@kas I like your gopher server's formatting, nice and clean and how did you implement the TLS certificate?

I backed Bangle.js on Kickstarter: a JavaScript and TensorFlow powered hackable smartwatch - https://banglejs.com

twtxt feels a little like launching simple digital bottle notes into the vast oceans of the Internet

@robbinaer The domain move seems to have worked. :-)

When all fails, rm ./package-lock.json and try again

@kas [re: gopher client] If you happen to be on Windows, then Gopher Browser for Windows by Matt Owen is pretty nice, otherwise I use Lynx indeed for gopher.

Low-Tech Magazine is inspirational: https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/

Lynx is my new favorit browser

Building docker image with name and tag ...

for branch in git branch -r --merged | grep -v HEAD; do echo -e git show --format="%ci %cr %an" $branch | head -n 1 \t$branch; done | sort -r

Listening to L'amour et la violence by Sébastien Tellier

Logging off. Good night

$ cd gopherhole && vim notes/.

Funny how not that long ago I made a remark to a friend who was keeping all his notes as txt files and now I am looking at doing exactly that. txt will probably be the one format that will be around for a very long time still.

@lucidiot (re: bullet journal) Agreeing that BuJo kind of saved my mind too. It now takes me about three months to fill up 251 pages with tasks, notes and events.

German grammar is really tricky sometimes when it comes down to writing user-interface labels

@adiabatic (re: iphone xr) True. The battery life is great - especially since it is new. FaceID is very handy indeed. The bigger screen estate is amazing too. Also esim might be cool - if only my provider would support it.

Watching https://www.ted.com/talks/hans_block_and_moritz_riesewieck_the_price_of_a_clean_internet?rss=172BB350-0205

Reading https://www.wired.com/story/internet-archive-wikipedia-more-reliable/

Reading https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/nov/03/blue-space-living-near-water-good-secret-of-happiness

My 2014 Android Moto-X is finally out-of-order - the battery life is close to flat-lining and when it boots it gets stuck for a really long time in the optimizing apps mode. The case is cracked. Goodbye old friend.

Enjoying the constraints of the Gopher protocol as a minimalistic zen-mode kind of online publishing revival.

As my hardware is getting older, I feel myself getting more attracted to retro-computing.

Donated 500ml of my own blood today at the Uniklinik in Düsseldorf to help others in need.

Anyone still using Skype actually? Seems like the service completely lost to WhatsApp.

@frogor (re: iphone xr) compared to the Iphone 7. XR might be more powerful but it's clumsy to hold as big and heavy. Does not feel like a phone at all.

Vim really has the best commands for typo-fixing: r, a

@kas (re: Splitting) Good stuff kas++ What command or script did you use to split by year?

Learning about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibibyte

If everyone on Twitter started unfollowing each other would Twitter still be Twitter?

Pondering: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1236563/how-do-i-run-a-terminal-inside-of-vim

Considering: https://indieweb.org/Twitter#How_to_unfollow_everyone_but_still_read_their_tweets

I feel like I only scratched the surface of what Vim really is capable off.

Why the heck people would deliberately buy an iphone XR is beyond me.

This will show my age: do kids these days know what LAN-parties were?

Should I do another Movember campaign this year or not?

Proud of myself for achieving a 10 day streak of writing a daily journal log entry.

@von Understanding you. For me: keeping a bullet-journal on a paper notebook helped me herd my chaotic mind into manageable streams. See https://bulletjournal.com

@von having topic-specific twtxt feeds is not a silly idea. Not sure if the clients allow easy switching though.

@kas twtxt.txt file splitting for achival is an interesting idea. Should not need to be yearly only. High volume feeds could split faster. Needs a spec though.

Listing to a Deezer playlist with a mix of Leftfield, Moderat, Amon Tobin, The Chemical Brothers, etc

@reednj Thanks for making and hosting http://twtxt.xyz - the agreggation of twtxts users, tweets and tags is really cool

Made my own super basic twtxt client in 3 lines of code as a bashrc function. #l33t

@adiabatic the 0 indicates the txt file type in gophermaps. Gopherholes are made up of mostly plain text files. Does that answer your question?

twtxt is über cool

One of the biggest twtxt feed files I could find is still only 127 KB big

@von Why do you want to keep your twtxt.txt more private if I may ask so?

@mdom The news site at gopher://taz.de:70/ is really cool. How did you make it?

Discovered some new twtxt followers by glancing at my web server logs.. Feeling so l33t now.

@mdosch I thought it was a nice practice to share interesting twtxt-ers through a follow tweet

My gopher site is about 38K big - still plenty of space left on the 1.24MB floppy disk

Updated my daily journal at gopher://gopher.johanbove.info:70/notes

Added clients and articles sections and added domgoergen's twtxt.txt to https://indieweb.org/twtxt

Known 1.0 is released https://www.marcus-povey.co.uk/2019/10/27/known-1-0-out-of-the-door/

// todo Create a Kaios client for twtxt

Reading https://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm

Discovered txtnish by mdom https://github.com/mdom/txtnish

Reading https://medium.com/@anildash/the-lost-infrastructure-of-social-media-d2b95662ccd3

Fixed the microformats2 u-url links on my homepage so vcards download correctly with http://h2vx.com/vcf/

Going to see Terminator Dark Fate next tuesday - somewhat big expectations

Beautiful autumn day today

Looking at text-first design: https://indieweb.org/text-first_design

@kas The IndieWeb.org twtxt article is only a stub - me copy-pasting content from other sites - could use some more sections - @t himself found it an interesting concept

@ckeen I just joined :-) Happy there are still other peepz active on twtxt.

@c-keen I just joined :-) Happy there are still other peepz active on twtxt.

@ckipp https://webring.xxiivv.com/hallway.html looks amazing! How does it work?

Added myself to the user list at https://github.com/mdom/we-are-twtxt

Requested my #hacktoberfest T-shirt and sticker pack! Happy I finally managed to participate and contribute this year.

Reading https://ils.unc.edu/callee/gopherpaper.htm

Created an Indieweb.org wiki article about twtxt - help expand it please - https://indieweb.org/twtxt

Reading https://robbinaer.info/index.php?article93/twtxt

domgoergen also has been twtxt tweeting for a while: https://domgoergen.com/twtxt/mdom.txt

kas has an amazing twtxt feed: https://enotty.dk/twtxt.txt

Reading https://begriffs.com/posts/2016-07-08-returning-original-social-network.html

Mirrored on gopher://gopher.johanbove.info/0/twtxt.txt

@davebucklin Welcome to the IndieWeb! Thanks also for introducing me to #twtxt. Gophering this for sure.

Testing pre-tweet and post-tweet hooks - crosses fingers

Hello, this is twtxt!