@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.