whoo fix a long stnading bug with identicons for feeds with no avatar in their metadata

Hint:

# nick = ...
# avatar = ...

Hmmm all these tilde.club feeds have no # nick and is messing with yarnd's behavior 😅

Thank you for the encouragement and love and kind words, @lyse @movq @bender @doesnm and others along the way I'm not sure of their feed uris 💕 I'll keep at it, but for the time being I will keep my distance, mostly off IRC, because I don't have the energy to spare in that kind of engagement (what//if the worst happens, it's so draining). I need to remember what I ever did any of this for, it was back in ~2020 and I wanted really to build small interconnected communities that any non "tech savvy" person (more or less) could also benefit from ane enjoy. Even if there are aspects of the specs we've built/extended over time that aren't "perfect"™, they're "good enough"™ that they've last 5+ years (I believe this is 6 years running now). I want to spend a bit of time going back to why I did any of this in the the first place, and get a little micro-SaaS offering going (barely covering running costs) so encourage more folks to run pods, and thus twtxt feeds and grow the community ever so slightly. Other than that, I plan to get the specs "in order" to a point (with @movq and @lyse's help) where I hope they'll stand the test of time -- like SMTP.

Thank you all ! 🙏

PR to clean up some unwanted specs and cleanup some invalid/bad references. 🙏

I am sorry folks 😞

I just successfully used my own SnipMail service with a real business, whoohoo! 🥳

Thoughts/Opinions on Cap 🤔

The modern, open-source CAPTCHA

Lightweight, self-hosted, privacy-friendly, and designed to put you first. Switch from reCAPTCHA in minutes.

I'm building a service that lets you:

create and manage disposable, brandable email aliases so you can track leaks, forward important messages, and keep your real inbox clean.

I've just finishing building it for the most part, and have cut a v0.1.0 release. It's currently closed source (to be decided later) and now open to beta testers. cc @bender 🙏 I fully intend to monetize and offer this as a paid service in teh coming weeks/months, but beta/invite-only testers and early adopters/users first 🤟

Scheduling the next Yarn.social Call for next month, a month in advance. Hope y'all can make the next one 🤞

Okay folks I'm calling it. See y'all again next time. Hopefully more of you make it next time 🤞

CodeX is very good at following instructions 👌

Let's do it! 🤟 https://meet.mills.io/call/Yarn.social

👋 Reminder that we're starting up our social calls again (monthly), RSVP here 🤟 It starts in 13h27m 😅 Hope to see some/all of you there 👌

🥳 Just released Gatherly v0.3.0 🤟 -- My instance is available at: https://gatherly.mills.io (free for anyone to use)

Apologies folks 😅 A bit of a bad electrical storm rolled through earlier. 🌩️ I looked kind of bad⚡️ so I powered down the Mills DC 🤟 (out of precation).

Wow! 🤩 Are folks actually using Gatherly already? 🤔

The hail we had yesterday 🤯

Hmmm 🧐 I'm annectodaly not convinced so-called "AI"(s) really save time™. -- I have no proof though, I would need to do some concrete studies / numbers... -- But, there is one benefit... It can save you from typing and from worsening RSI / Carpal Tunnel.

Fixed following page template bug so cached feed counts render without errors. cc @bender

So just @bender and I attending our monly call eh?

Reminder, kick-starting our monthly social call! 📞 Please RSVP if you can make it!

Hey all 👋 Starring up the monthly social call we used to have 🤞 Please RSVP here if you can make it! 🙏

Behold! 🥳 I consider Gatherly "good enough"™ to use: https://gatherly.mills.io/ 🤟

Anyone interested in starting up the monthly social calls we used to have? 👋

I disabled the compression of logs on my edge, which I'm hoping will fix the "instability" I see every now and again where my edge network just "falls off the face of the earth". Some folks don't really appreciate / understand this, but Disk I/O can kill your application(s) no matter what. I/O Wait is a real thing.

🤔 💭 🧐 What if, What if we built our own self-hosted / small-web / community-built/run Internet on top of the Internet using Wireguard as the underlying tech? What if we ran our own Root DNS servers? What if we set a zero tolerance policy on bots, spammers and other kind of abuse that should never have existed in the first place. Hmmmm

I keep getting this email occadionally:

Your iCloud storage is almost full

Now for various reasons, I don't want my children to be using iCloud to store data, files, photos or any of the sort. They're free to use iMessages, and other Apple services like the App Store, etc, but not storage.

So I've set about blocking iCloud Storage API(s) via AdGuard Home tonight as well as ensuring that my local network (client users) cannot bypass DNS policies and get out other sneaky ways, because some applications will just use other DNS servers, or DOH or DOT.

And my new migrated blog is up woohoo 🥳 https://prologic.blog/

I think I'm just about ready to go live with my new blog (migrated from MicroPub). I just finished migrating all of the content over, fixing up metadata, cleaning up, migrating media, optimizing media.

The new blog for prologic.blog soon to be powered by zs using the zs-blog-template is coming along very nicely 👌 It was actually pretty easy to do the migration/conversation in the end. The results are not to shabby either.

Before:

• ~50MB repo
• ~267 files

After:

• ~20MB repo
• ~88 files

Pretty happy with my zs-blog-template starter kit for creating and maintaining your own blog using zs 👌 Demo of what the starter kit looks like here -- Basic features include:

• Clean layout & typography
• Chroma code highlighting (aligned to your site palette)
• Accessible copy-code button
• “On this page” collapsible TOC
• RSS, sitemap, robots
• Archives, tags, tag cloud
• Draft support (hidden from lists/feeds)
• Open Graph (OG) & Twitter card meta (default image + per-post overrides)
• Ready-to-use 404 page

As well as custom routes (redirects, rewrites, etc) to support canonical URLs or redirecting old URLs as well as new zs external command capability itself that now lets you do things like:

$ zs newpost

to help kick-start the creation of a new post with all the right "stuff"™ ready to go and then pop open your $EEDITOR 🤞

#awesome #zs

Okay @bender I think I've made enough improvements now...

https://zsblog.mills.io/

🤞

https://zsblog.mills.io/ for anyone interested. I think I still have some small tweaking to do befor eI use this for realz.

Please don't hate me today; I'm a bit grumpy and have too many reasons to be upset:

• 2 counts of pushing and trying to get the simplest things done at work (that for some reason are made more difficult than they should be)
• This whole Chat Control bullshit
• And some other person things going on that have been ongoing for 72 days and counting 🤬

Oh man, if the EU actually rolled out this horribd idea called ChatControl that actually threatens the security and privacy of secure e2e encrypted messaging like Signal™, fuck me, I'm out 🤦‍♂️ I'll just rage quit the IT industry and become a luddite. I'm out.

I just created a zs blogging template which I'm going to use for https://prologic.blog and I might starting writing long-form again soon™ 🔜 So far the "blogging" template/engine (if you weill) is quite simple. It comprises essentially of an index.md a prehook and a few utilities:

$ git ls-files
.gitignore
.zs/config.yml
.zs/editthispage
.zs/include
.zs/layout.html
.zs/list
.zs/months
.zs/now
.zs/onthispage
.zs/posthook
.zs/postsbymonth
.zs/prehook
.zs/scripts
.zs/styles
.zs/tagcloud
.zs/taglist
.zs/years
archives/.empty
assets/css/site.css
assets/js/main.js
index.md
posts/hello-zs-blog.md
posts/on-tagging.md
posts/second-post.md
tags/.empty

TNO Threading (draft):
Each origin feed numbers new threads (tno:N). Replies carry both (tno:N) and (ofeed:<origin-url>). Thread identity = (ofeed, tno).

• Roots: (tno:N) (implicit ofeed=self).
• Replies: (tno:N) (ofeed:<url>).
• Clients: increment tno locally for new threads, copy tags on reply.
• Subjects optional, not required.

...

Did something bad happen in the world today? 🧐

Hello 👋 I'm back!

I'm out of town folks and away until tomorrow (have been all week)

Today is a good day! Took my daughter to art class, got a beard trim, wife is awesome and we're all doing great 🤞🍀

@zvava Hey 👋 Welcome to Yarn.social 🤗

@ionores Love the new Avatar dude 😅 Very nice! 👍

Weekend! Whooo 🤣 Having a few too many glassses of 🍷 listening to music on Youtube and playing Chess which I haven't been playing much lately 😢

@dce Hello! 👋 Welcome! 🤗

@itsericwoodward Also just a heads up, GIF(s) aren't supproted as an Avatar type on yarnd (what runs twtxt.net). I'd change this to something that's more supproted like PNG, JPEG, etc.

Today I finally got rid of my /29 IPv4 subnet with my ISP used to power my ingress. No longer.

This whole Age Verification that's being rolled out in the UK, AU and parts of the EU is totally fucking bullshit. Death to the Online Safety Act.

Hello @jassim 👋

Been mucking around with designing my own camper (floor plan).

Global update: Trump in Scotland says EU trade deal has 50-50 chance as tariff row grows. Gaza sees 9 more starvation deaths (122 total); UN says famine is deliberate. Thai-Cambodia clashes kill 16, displace 135k. US raid in Syria kills top ISIS leader & sons.