The earliest roman calendar had only 10 months / 304 days. There’s still traces of that in the names today (e.g. DECember used to be the 10th month)

There’s a theory that ancient romans just ignored the missing 61 days in the solar year, since they were in the middle of winter.

So effectively January and February were “dead time” were everyone agreed nothing happened - time doesn’t exist. Just wait around until the sun comes out again.

That’s a concept I could get behind. 👍 ⌘ Read more

This post makes the common mistake of avoiding JS (generally a good idea) in a way that hurts a11y. The proposed solution is a broken experience for screenreaders and keyboard navigation.

https://www.pausly.app/blog/accessible-hamburger-buttons-without-javascript 🚫

For a correct implementation, see https://web.dev/website-navigation/ ✅

JavaScript, used sparingly, is *necessary* here. Don’t try t … ⌘ Read more

@darch I’m even thinking about a slide in from the right for filters…

@ocdtrekkie@twtxt.net Oh snap 🤦‍♂️

so every time I tried to check in here I slammmed into the expired app and went back to Mastodon

I’d best not let that happen again, and get the app over the line and finally published! 🤣 My goals for this year! 🙏 So sorry! 😅 Stay with us, the only truly decentralized community that will stand the test of time 😅

Also we need to finish that Sandstorm work 👌

On the enshitification of the internet (and how the Netheads were right all along).

We push ourselves harder to get rid of anxiety, but the result is actually more anxiety, because the faster we go, the clearer it becomes that we’ll never succeed in getting everything to move as fast as we feel is necessary.

#quoteOfTheDay

“The #fediverse is like #email.”

Yes.

Now read this and understand it:

“I have been self-hosting my email since I got my first broadband connection at home in 1999 … But my emails are just not delivered anymore. I might as well not have an email server.

Email is now an oligopoly, a service gatekept by a few big companies which does not follow the principles of net neutrality … I lost. We lost. One cannot reliably deploy independent email … ⌘ Read more

@darch, the “Settings” screen has issues as well. I can screenshot it and twtxt about it, but it is easier to see. Click on “Settings” and see the alignment of the three blue buttons, and width in comparison with the rest of the page. This on both, desktop, and mobile.

This post by @andy is like the story of the turtle and the hare, except the hare is a massive douchebag

https://andy-bell.co.uk/front-end-is-so-much-more-than-building-designs/ ⌘ Read more

“Don’t cling to a mistake just because you’ve spent a lot of time making it.”

“The algorithm is an asshole.”

Seeing the latest Musk brain-fart making the rounds reminds me why I wrote Hell Site…

https://ar.al/2021/05/10/hell-site/

#elonMusk #twitter #algorithm #SiliconValley #BigTech #PeopleFarming [#capitalis … ⌘ Read more

Marginalia Search

This is an independent DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and attempts to show you sites you perhaps weren’t aware of in favor of the sort of sites you probably already knew existed.
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The search engine calculates a score that aggressively favors text-heavy websites, and punishes those that have too many modern web design features.

@kdx@kdx.re This is really cool and funky man! And I can buy and download in FLAC?!😱

this is the shit https://queenjazz.bandcamp.com/album/counting-with-numbers

Consent, a quick guide for tech bros:

Opt-out: I just stuck my ice cream cone in your mouth, you can remove it if you don’t like it.

Opt-in: Would you like some ice cream?

#consent #tech #technology #techBros #optIn #optOut #iceCream ⌘ Read more

Sobs’ Telltale Signs is way too fucking addictive, i shouldn’t listen to it so often

After a few hours of usage, twtxt feels very in control, in the same way personnal websites do. I feel better writing for it than on other social medias, including Mastodon. The software isn’t using me this time, I’m using it. It’s everything I love about RSS, but as a small social network. No dependencies, accessible to everyone and powerful. Very cool!

I love this new thing where people make their websites literally look like a social feed (e.g. https://nerdy.dev/) and use POSSE/backfeed to bring it into the fediverse.

Need to fight the urge to redesign my site yet again… ⌘ Read more

mitmproxy - an interactive HTTPS proxy – trying to debug what I think is a bug with go-git and needed a way to see what’s going on on the wire/protocol level – This tool mitmproxy is fucking amazing shit 👌

Today at lunch break I made a small scene in 3D to help my colleague to understand how 3D worked in pure CSS for a personal project, here’s the link.

WARNING: This page might cause motion sickness to some of you, open with care 🤗

https://sunetraalex.gitlab.io/3d-css-tunnel/

@bender@twtxt.net @tkanos@twtxt.net Thanks, oh yes, it’s very yummy. :-) It came out far from flat, a lot of different thicknesses, but oh well. I’ve already cut it up into cuboids and put it in a tin box. The thinner stuff is very crunchy and shattered into pieces when my sharp knive wanted to hit it. The thicker stuff cut beautifully. Both parts taste very great, though.

It’s my grandma’s recipe. For the dough batter

• 4 eggs
  
• 65 g butter
  
• 300 g sugar
  

and then add

• 500 g honey
  
• 675 g flour
  
• 1 sachet baking powder
  
• 1 sachet gingerbread seasoning
  
• 65 g grated chocolate
  
• 100 g grated almonds
  

Bake it for about 35 minutes at 160°C. I was too lazy to add a glaze (it’s also extremely sweet already), but the recipe calls for

• 300 g powdered sugar
  
• 3 tablespoons cacao
  
• hot water until spreadable

You can’t spell fediverse without diverse. ⌘ Read more

What’s behind the loved Windows 95 redesign from Win 3.11/NT

https://socket3.wordpress.com/2018/02/03/designing-windows-95s-user-interface/

@movq@uninformativ.de I think the webclient on my phone “cookie jar’ed” that mention. We need to find a way to clear the postbox so prefilled text is not carries over from difference view. Right now it seem to just store whatever. @prologic@twtxt.net or others, do you have any idea how to fix this?

Vi har åbnet en Open Collective side til Nørrebro.space!

Hidtil har jeg betalt for serveren.

Det er ikke meget dyrt, men det ville være rart at deles om.

Den sidste måned var 120 personer aktive herinde. Hvis de gav 1.5kr om måneden hver, ville vi have et overskud.

Lad os lige vise, at man sagtens kan drive sociale medier, uden at sælge persondata eller vise reklamer! 💪

https://opencollective.com/norrebrospace

På forhånd mange tak 🙏 ⌘ Read more

terrastruct/d2: D2 is a modern diagram scripting language that turns text to diagrams. – Now this is cool! 😍 I might finally be able to actually start thinking about drawing pretty diagrams and shit 🤣 (pretty hard for a blind guy to do with any graphical tool!)

Here’s an incredible detailled interactive post by Josh Comeau that teaches you why flexbox works the way it does.

A fantastic resource for beginners and pros of CSS:

https://www.joshwcomeau.com/css/interactive-guide-to-flexbox/ ⌘ Read more

I love these visualizations (Voronoi diagrams alike)

https://arantius.github.io/web-color-wheel/

Ladybird’s Current Progress on Yarn.social: https://mckinley.cc/notes/20221119-ladybird-yarn.html

@prologic@twtxt.net Well, basically I refer to a “radical decentralization”, with twtxt you don’t need to host a pod or maintain any software, nor rely on any 3rd parties, you can simply manage a text file, and make it available however works best for you. It provides a quite refreshing sort of independence I mostly miss from the internet of decades ago. Mastodon is nice, but it doesn’t give you /that/.

#Book review: “Autonomous #knowledge: radical enhancement, autonomy, and the future of knowing”: https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/autonomous-knowledge-radical-enhancement-autonomy-and-the-future-of-knowing/

Created simple portfolio powered with twtxt.net and Deno deploy. It’s so sketchy for now🤦

Demo : https://hashrock-twtxt-gallery.deno.dev/
Source: https://dash.deno.com/playground/hashrock-twtxt-gallery

@prologic@twtxt.net
I’m not sure but maybe like this.

I think @darch has a better idea of the layout of the portfolio.

At this point I’m thinking it would be better to render portfolios on an external server with yarn as the data source. I think it’s still a small number of users who want portfolio functionality in yarn and they might want to customize their view.

@eaplmx@twtxt.net Yes, there’s a organization-wide feed at https://git.mills.io/yarnsocial.rss. The Gitea RSS integration is totally broken, but it at least lets me know when there are updates.

There’s a repository feed at https://git.mills.io/yarnsocial/yarn.rss but it’s even more broken.

I gotta try and get into this MIDI / Live looping stuff. I love music! I’ve never tried to create music, but I sure as hell want to learn, maybe my programming experience can be transferred somewhat? 🤔

Quite a few artists that demo their stuff on Youtube seem to use a combination of these two devices:

• AKAI - MPK mini MK3 - Google Search
  
• Novation - Launchpad Mini MK3 - Google Search
  

And only a couple of hundred bucks for the gear it doesn’t sound too expensive to even try 🤔 #Music #MIDI #LiveLoop

FontEditor for when you ever need to edit font files, woff, woff2, etc 👌

Does anyone have an account to add twtxt in that page : https://indieweb.org/specifications

@darch Cool 👌

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci I’m a strong Vim user too. Have never used any other editor really, So someyhing like ~20 years or so. I even use NeoVim inside VSCodium.

From an Olli on Twitter™:

Has anybody information about how many people might use http://yarn.social?
#yarn #decentralized #twtxt #yarnsocial

tweet – I’d love to answer him, but a) I don’t have a Twitter™ account and b) I will never have a Twitter™ account or any account on any tracking+advertising garbage social media 😅

@darch You you want to have a play with how things could work, I’d recommend you checkout the refactor branch on search repo – I’m not quite yet ready to start integrating into yarnd so I started improving the search engine instead – But I plan to borrow code from here…

$ git clone https://git.mills.io/yarnsocial/search.git
$ cd search
$ git checkout refactor
$ make DEBUG=1 && ./yarns -D

@justamoment@twtxt.net That’s just it…

Another risk on a persistent comment system is to remember to have a way to moderate the posts, since you need to control what gets on your page and can potentially stay there forever.

This ☝️ There will be zero ways to “moderate” or “filter” such content if one were to use teh soon and upcoming search of any given Yarn.social pod. The only way for a user to filter content or hide things is to have an account on said pod where things like “hidden twts” and “muted feeds” can be taken into account.

It might be possible to do things like “exclusion matches” and such, but now that’s getting into some tricky territory. Oh well, let’s see how it goes 😅 – Google already indexes all pods anyway 🤣

@prologic@twtxt.net not sure it fixed yet…

@darch Thanks for fixing this! 👌

@darch Awesome! I’ll jump on now then 👌

=> https://meet.jit.si/Yarn.social

cc @xuu@txt.sour.is if it’s not too late for you 🤞

@xuu@txt.sour.is Looks like darch is awake 😅 We could start now? 🤔

@~eaplmx@texto-plano.xyz I forgot to add, in the Sign up you don’t need a password currently, that will be used later to avoid that anyone could register their device as a valid login.

Also, this is a sandbox, don’t take this workflow as an inspiration for any production ready site.

Bueno, después de algunas horas de estarle entendiendo a WebAuthn, ahora puedes ver una prueba de concepto en https://eapl.mx/twtxt/ (Todavía en Alpha, pues no soporta más de una Passkey todavía)

Published without the link, here again: https://git.mills.io/justamoment/yarn-conv-widget

Live demo: https://sunetraalex.gitlab.io/yarn-conv-widget/

Note: you might want to try with a proxy since CORS is not enabled, like I did in the screenshot below.

@prologic@twtxt.net damn, your reply got me an idea…

What if you can use a thread as discussion externally?

I was actually searching for something similar around for myself for curiosity.

Think of it like a widget similar to Disqus.

You can embed a discussion on your site like a comment system.

It might even help spread the use of twtxt with people who don’t know of it.