Current toy project: an image feed generated by mk(1). Still some edges to clean up but it's nice: http://a.9srv.net/img/_readme.html

My main domain name turned 24 years old today. That feels weird.

I updated wordwrap.[ch] to more closely match the interface for string(2); it's now just that plus a margin. I also updated litclock and marquee to match. http://a.9srv.net/src/index.html

After submitting a correction for Apple Maps when they got the name of the Gulf of Mexico wrong, I wrote a letter to Investor Relations: http://a.9srv.net/b/investor_relations

One of the things I love about Plan 9 is how the interfaces make this possible: add snapshots to any block storage, at the kernel level, in less than 700 lines of code. http://9p.io/sources/contrib/blstuart/snap/devsnap.c

Cleaning up some of the 500 open tabs on my phone. I realized that if I don’t have some place to stash the good ones, I won’t go through any. http://a.9srv.net/b/2025-01-16

I forget where I found this, but it's really beautiful, for the right kind of nerd (hi, it's me!) — Docubyte's Guide To Computing. https://www.docubyte.com/projects/guide-to-computing/

I've been using nile, my alternative WM for #plan9, for over a decade now. I just made some additional improvements and finally gave it a web page: http://a.9srv.net/src/nile/

Happy New Year, UTC-08:00! 🥳

First we got 9fans to be moderated, now we've brought back comp.os.plan9! Come say hi! #plan9 #usenet

9fans is now a moderated list. It'll take time, but I'm hopeful we can get it back to being a good source of discussion. https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T124eb3ec9c594189-M83bd6a0d97304a9b5cffd91d/9fans-now-moderated

I've talked about how I do backups on unix a bunch of times, but someone asked again today and I realized I didn't have it written down where I could point to. So I wrote a lab report: http://a.9srv.net/reports/index.html#vac-unix

I wrote about making Glenda's Joy Division cover (with updated colors and a link to source): http://a.9srv.net/b/2024-11-23

Glenda’s on a Joy Division kick: http://a.9srv.net/image/jocelyn.x3y2o10t1.png

For example, this links to the previous post, no crypto needed: http://a.9srv.net/tw.txt#:~:text=2024-10-23T18:59:49-07:00

Huh. I had long forgotten about text fragment URLs. Seems relevant for linking to discussions around linking to individual twtxt posts. https://alfy.blog/2024/10/19/linking-directly-to-web-page-content.html

New post (mostly follow-up on the previous with a few new points) on the twtxt v2 discussion. http://a.9srv.net/b/2024-10-08

TWO HOURS wasted today trying to figure out why an image wasn't loading on some web page and what I was doing wrong... when the issue is the friggin' DSL router is injecting headers into http (non-https) pages. GAH! I'm ready to throw the thing. I've never been so mad at CPE. 🤬

Reading about browser security measures and getting sad we don't live in a world where cross-site scripting is a feature instead of a bug.

This is only first draft quality, but I made some notes on the #twtxt v2 proposal. http://a.9srv.net/b/2024-09-25

Earlier this week I found myself on the RIAA’s side in a legal dispute. Now I think Amy Coney Barrett got it right in her SCOTUS dissent. Truly we are in Bizarro World.

Fire-proof safes are generally designed so the internal temperature stays at or below ~350°F. Is there a computer medium I can write that's likely to survive an extended stay around that temperature? Storage size doesn't matter too much; a CD would be plenty (although an actual CD would presumably turn to soup).

This was interesting: I didn't expect so much variation in reported times. If you happen to have #plan9 running on some other VPS, I'd love to hear your results. https://pdx.social/@a/112481970480703254

Started writing something from scratch yesterday using thread(3) and wow do I miss writing in Limbo instead. :-/ #plan9

"Magic Clock" for Plan 9 (and p9p). http://a.9srv.net/src/img/magicclock-p9p.png http://a.9srv.net/src/magicclock.c (man and other info at http://a.9srv.net/src/).

Just over here writing my Senator's office to see if we can get a new Federally Funded R&D Center created. 😳🤞

Also, incredibly excited that XOXO is coming back, even if just for one more year: https://2024.xoxofest.com

I wrote up a lab report on my daily to-do tracking "system", mostly so I could stop thinking about it. The report is at http://a.9srv.net/reports/daily.pdf and the referenced code is at http://txtpunk.com/daily/index.html.

FOR SOME REASON I'm now archiving my plan files (as shown via 'finger a@9srv.net') at http://a.9srv.net/plans

Well crap. I think I just realized that if my profile photo was a person it could vote in this year’s election. Probably time for a new default one.

I've added myself to the registries at registry.twtxt.org and twtxt.tilde.institute. I wonder if there's a list of registries. #meta

Huh. At some point, my twtxt-via-ssh shortcut from my phone stopped working. It does again now! I've changed nothing. Yay black boxes! 🤷🏻

First task of 2024: renew an expired cert. I like that it's calendar-themed.

Spent a few hours the last two evenings fighting with tftpd. Party like it's 1999!

TIL my high school publishes its own research journal. https://www.pingry.org/our-community/students/pingry-community-research-pcr-journal

I needed something to help with a morning schedule for two kiddos. It highlights the current 5-minute block as it goes. I think this was my first time reaching for JavaScript for a personal project. https://sidequest.club/stages.html

One of the frustrating parts of using twtxt for conversations is the URLs are, well... ugly. Anyone (like y'all yarn folks) looked at using webfinger for translating user@domain accounts to URLs?

I was just reminded of this interpreter for an APL/J-like language by Arthur Whitney, the absolute weirdest bit of C code I've actually gotten something out of, and thought I'd share: https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Essays/Incunabulum

TIL there's a Director's Cut of Miley Cyrus's Wrecking Ball video and it's much better than the original.

If I have an image that has clearly been naïvely upscaled, is there a program that can reasonably reliably tell me what the "true" size is?

Watching the ISS fade out in the sky as it moves into earth's shadow remains one of the coolest things in the world.

I'll likely take this down soonish as I think it's pretty bad for usability, but as a fun hack, one of my weird side projects web pages now has monitor burn-in: http://txtpunk.com/index.html

A read-only, finger(1)-based social network, maybe? http://txtpunk.com/fingers/

I want a browser for iOS that's basically Mobile Safari but without JavaScript (or at least an easy toggle). Does such a thing exist?

I realized my twtxt client isn't validating what it pulls once it gets a valid response when a domain started returning js-heavy parking pages for every URL. Oops. Weekend project, I guess. 🤦🏻

@adi Also, I noticed you followed me on Twitter, but you might enjoy @anths if you want techie stuff instead of Oregon politics. 🤣

Given that we don't have a "home phone", what's the best way to create a "hunt group" for my partner's and my cell phones? My first thought is Asterisk on a VPS, but my knowledge of such things is years out of date. Is there a better way?

Good weekend for random tech projects: this rackmount server I got free boots Plan 9 without issue, and my ttl adapters and wii nunchucks just arrived. Now where can I find a serial modem?

I have only just discovered this and need to dig in more, but so far it looks like a really nice reference for electronics pinouts: https://pinouts.org/

Only 1 day of activity so far, but I've started a new project log for whatever the heck I end up doing to this Monroe 425 I got. http://a.9srv.net/monroe425