# __ __ __ #| |_.--.--.--| |_.--.--| |_ #| _| | | | _|_ _| _| #|____|________|____|__.__|____| # # twtxt is an open, distributed # microblogging platform that # uses human-readable text files, # common transport protocols, and # free software. # # Learn more about twtxt at https://twtxt.readthedocs.io/ # # Meta-Data support see https://dev.twtxt.net/doc/metadataextension.html # # nick = johanbove # description = Posts by Johan Bové # avatar = https://johanbove.info/images/johanbove_2020_600w.jpg # url = https://johanbove.info/twtxt.txt # link = My Site https://johanbove.info # refresh = 86400 # # follow = davebucklin https://davebucklin.com/twtxt.txt # follow = ckeen http://pestilenz.org/~ckeen/twtxt.txt # follow = mkdom https://domgoergen.com/twtxt/mdom.txt # follow = robbinaer https://robbinaer.info/twtxt.txt # follow = von https://tilde.town/~von/twtxt.txt # follow = nblade http://nblade.sdf.org/twtxt/twtxt.txt # follow = uninformativ https://www.uninformativ.de/twtxt.txt # follow = darch https://twtxt.net/user/darch/twtxt.txt # follow = darch https://neotxt.dk/user/darch/twtxt.txt # follow = prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt # 2019-10-25T22:31:54+02:00 Hello, this is twtxt! 2019-10-25T23:01:33+02:00 Testing pre-tweet and post-tweet hooks - crosses fingers 2019-10-25T23:06:19+02:00 @ Welcome to the IndieWeb! Thanks also for introducing me to #twtxt. Gophering this for sure. 2019-10-25T23:14:32+02:00 Mirrored on gopher://gopher.johanbove.info/0/twtxt.txt 2019-10-25T23:29:26+02:00 Reading https://begriffs.com/posts/2016-07-08-returning-original-social-network.html 2019-10-25T23:30:47+02:00 kas has an amazing twtxt feed: https://enotty.dk/twtxt.txt 2019-10-25T23:31:55+02:00 domgoergen also has been twtxt tweeting for a while: https://domgoergen.com/twtxt/mdom.txt 2019-10-25T23:34:07+02:00 Reading https://robbinaer.info/index.php?article93/twtxt 2019-10-25T23:46:01+02:00 Created an Indieweb.org wiki article about twtxt - help expand it please - https://indieweb.org/twtxt 2019-10-25T23:48:10+02:00 Reading https://ils.unc.edu/callee/gopherpaper.htm 2019-10-25T23:59:16+02:00 Requested my #hacktoberfest T-shirt and sticker pack! Happy I finally managed to participate and contribute this year. 2019-10-26T00:12:23+02:00 Added myself to the user list at https://github.com/mdom/we-are-twtxt 2019-10-26T00:26:47+02:00 @ https://webring.xxiivv.com/hallway.html looks amazing! How does it work? 2019-10-26T00:41:12+02:00 @c-keen I just joined :-) Happy there are still other peepz active on twtxt. 2019-10-26T00:45:34+02:00 @ I just joined :-) Happy there are still other peepz active on twtxt. 2019-10-26T13:44:52+02:00 @ 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 2019-10-26T13:46:19+02:00 Looking at text-first design: https://indieweb.org/text-first_design 2019-10-26T15:27:06+02:00 Beautiful autumn day today 2019-10-26T21:37:14+02:00 Going to see Terminator Dark Fate next tuesday - somewhat big expectations 2019-10-26T22:02:41+02:00 Fixed the microformats2 u-url links on my homepage so vcards download correctly with http://h2vx.com/vcf/ 2019-10-27T22:09:10+01:00 Reading https://medium.com/@anildash/the-lost-infrastructure-of-social-media-d2b95662ccd3 2019-10-27T22:29:29+01:00 Discovered txtnish by mdom https://github.com/mdom/txtnish 2019-10-27T22:40:41+01:00 Reading https://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm 2019-10-27T22:43:44+01:00 // todo Create a Kaios client for twtxt 2019-10-27T22:46:39+01:00 Known 1.0 is released https://www.marcus-povey.co.uk/2019/10/27/known-1-0-out-of-the-door/ 2019-10-27T23:18:43+01:00 Added clients and articles sections and added domgoergen's twtxt.txt to https://indieweb.org/twtxt 2019-10-27T23:45:50+01:00 Updated my daily journal at gopher://gopher.johanbove.info:70/notes 2019-10-28T08:57:34+01:00 My gopher site is about 38K big - still plenty of space left on the 1.24MB floppy disk 2019-10-28T22:11:06+01:00 @ I thought it was a nice practice to share interesting twtxt-ers through a follow tweet 2019-10-28T22:16:44+01:00 Discovered some new twtxt _followers_ by glancing at my web server logs.. Feeling so l33t now. 2019-10-28T22:59:57+01:00 @ The news site at gopher://taz.de:70/ is really cool. How did you make it? 2019-10-28T23:01:59+01:00 @ Why do you want to keep your twtxt.txt more private if I may ask so? 2019-10-28T23:08:48+01:00 One of the biggest twtxt feed files I could find is still only 127 KB big 2019-10-30T13:05:40+0100 twtxt is über cool 2019-10-30T13:16:27+0100 @ the 0 indicates the txt file type in gophermaps. Gopherholes are made up of mostly plain text files. Does that answer your question? 2019-10-30T13:21:16+0100 Made my own super basic twtxt client in 3 lines of code as a bashrc function. #l33t 2019-10-30T13:27:11+0100 @ Thanks for making and hosting http://twtxt.xyz - the agreggation of twtxts users, tweets and tags is really cool 2019-10-30T13:51:06+0100 Listing to a Deezer playlist with a mix of Leftfield, Moderat, Amon Tobin, The Chemical Brothers, etc 2019-10-30T14:51:43+0100 @ 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. 2019-10-30T15:48:00+0100 @ having topic-specific twtxt feeds is not a silly idea. Not sure if the clients allow easy switching though. 2019-10-30T16:22:26+0100 @ 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 2019-10-31T07:15:21+01:00 Proud of myself for achieving a 10 day streak of writing a daily journal log entry. 2019-10-31T11:28:01+0100 Should I do another Movember campaign this year or not? 2019-10-31T11:46:34+0100 This will show my age: do kids these days know what LAN-parties were? 2019-10-31T22:32:38+01:00 Why the heck people would deliberately buy an iphone XR is beyond me. 2019-10-31T22:57:41+01:00 I feel like I only scratched the surface of what Vim really is capable off. 2019-10-31T22:59:12+01:00 Considering: https://indieweb.org/Twitter#How_to_unfollow_everyone_but_still_read_their_tweets 2019-10-31T23:00:22+01:00 Pondering: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1236563/how-do-i-run-a-terminal-inside-of-vim 2019-10-31T23:09:11+01:00 If everyone on Twitter started unfollowing each other would Twitter still be Twitter? 2019-10-31T23:17:54+01:00 Learning about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibibyte 2019-10-31T23:24:19+01:00 @ (re: Splitting) Good stuff kas++ What command or script did you use to split by year? 2019-11-01T00:53:17+01:00 Vim really has the best commands for typo-fixing: r, a 2019-11-01T14:47:38+01:00 @ (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. 2019-11-01T15:07:14+01:00 Anyone still using Skype actually? Seems like the service completely lost to WhatsApp. 2019-11-02T20:34:21+01:00 Donated 500ml of my own blood today at the Uniklinik in Düsseldorf to help others in need. 2019-11-02T23:36:37+01:00 As my hardware is getting older, I feel myself getting more attracted to retro-computing. 2019-11-02T23:50:10+01:00 Enjoying the constraints of the Gopher protocol as a minimalistic zen-mode kind of online publishing revival. 2019-11-03T21:09:51+01:00 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. 2019-11-03T21:10:54+01:00 Reading https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/nov/03/blue-space-living-near-water-good-secret-of-happiness 2019-11-03T21:11:36+01:00 Reading https://www.wired.com/story/internet-archive-wikipedia-more-reliable/ 2019-11-03T21:27:18+01:00 Watching https://www.ted.com/talks/hans_block_and_moritz_riesewieck_the_price_of_a_clean_internet?rss=172BB350-0205 2019-11-04T14:02:43+0100 @ (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. 2019-11-04T14:43:04+0100 German grammar is really tricky sometimes when it comes down to writing user-interface labels 2019-11-04T23:38:02+01:00 @ (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. 2019-11-05T09:02:29+01:00 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. 2019-11-05T23:01:50+01:00 $ cd gopherhole && vim notes/. 2019-11-05T23:36:22+01:00 Logging off. Good night 2019-11-07T08:38:53+01:00 Listening to L'amour et la violence by Sébastien Tellier 2019-11-07T22:36:40+0100 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 2019-11-08T14:15:02+0100 Building docker image with name and tag ... 2019-11-08T23:26:18+01:00 Lynx is my new favorit browser 2019-11-08T23:27:07+01:00 Low-Tech Magazine is inspirational: https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/ 2019-11-09T22:41:29+01:00 @ [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. 2019-11-11T09:05:01+0100 When all fails, `rm ./package-lock.json` and try again 2019-11-11T09:22:00+0100 @ The domain move seems to have worked. :-) 2019-11-11T09:24:16+0100 twtxt feels a little like launching simple digital bottle notes into the vast oceans of the Internet 2019-11-12T08:31:10+01:00 I backed Bangle.js on Kickstarter: a JavaScript and TensorFlow powered hackable smartwatch - https://banglejs.com 2019-11-12T08:35:01+01:00 @ I like your gopher server's formatting, nice and clean and how did you implement the TLS certificate? 2019-11-15T21:59:35+01:00 Signing my twtxt with my johanbove@keybase.io account from today onwards 2019-11-16T21:17:35+01:00 Currently lost in txt nirvana over at http://textfiles.com/100 2019-11-17T23:31:23+01:00 @ (re: signing) Thanks for the suggestion using Keybase. Playing around with the authenticity idea. 2019-11-17T23:37:23+01:00 @ (re: Bratislava) Good one! :-) 2019-11-18T22:32:40+01:00 I'm going to call all "apps" programs again as part of my retro-computing experience. 2019-11-26T21:40:27+01:00 Happy 64th Birthday Ma :) 2019-12-02T21:46:51+01:00 And I lost a whole story writing it in Vim by not creating a new folder first. FFS 2019-12-09T21:23:34+01:00 Going to have to read Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark - Being human in the age of Artificial Intelligence 2019-12-09T22:19:44+01:00 In a rather gloomy dark mood today. Been listening to Anne Clark - Our Darkness on repeat 2019-12-09T22:20:39+01:00 Listening to Dance with the Dead - Eye Of Madness from their album The Shape 2019-12-09T22:21:23+01:00 Am I real? How do I know? 2019-12-09T22:22:57+01:00 Twtxt is real enough. Feels funny to be so open writing here, yet nobody knows twtxt.txt is here - part of the charm 2019-12-09T22:25:24+01:00 Opening the man page for tail feels very vestigial 2019-12-16T23:19:22+01:00 Finally creating PHP programs using Composer and Twig templates 2019-12-16T23:22:02+01:00 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. 2019-12-19T09:53:17+0100 @ Welcome to Twtxt! Noticed a typo in your twtxt user-agent handle. It is pointing to txtxt.txt. 2019-12-19T09:59:18+0100 @ Welcome to Twtxt! I don't think anyone still is doing something on http://twtxt.xyz/ honestly. It just runs on its own. 2020-01-03T16:32:31+0100 Happy New Year Twtxt! 2020-01-03T16:36:53+0100 The twtxt.xyz domain is a 1000 days old and expires on 2020-04-07. Wondering if anyone will renew it? 2020-01-06T16:18:54+0100 @ [re: abandoned ideas] Thanks for the inspiration! How do you keep track of projects now? Do you know about TaskWarrior? 2020-01-20T12:01:21+0100 Live long and prosper 🖖 2020-04-06T22:42:38+02:00 Tempus Fugit 2020-04-06T23:43:27+02:00 New post on my Gopher site. Back to updating it once a month. 2020-04-16T21:58:24+02:00 We are thinking of you Grandpa Ivo. May the peaches be forever ripe and juicy where you are. 2020-04-16T22:33:49+02:00 Listening to Voodoo Chile by Jimi Hendrix while enjoying a Belgian Leffe during these dark hours. 2020-04-22T23:41:04+02:00 Retro-fitting my music collection and music players with early 20s digital stereo MiniDisc technology. 2020-04-30T00:00:00+02:00 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. 2020-05-07T21:57:47+02:00 Was feeling super nervous and on-the-edge earlier this evening. A cup of chamomile tea later I am feeling again more relaxed. 2020-05-18T14:23:08+0200 Honestly never realized before Beakerbrowser that peer-to-peer could be used to share markdown, JavaScript and html files. 2020-05-22T14:05:34+02:00 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! 2020-05-25T22:13:54+02:00 Who needs games when you can have fun with contributing to open-source! 2020-07-17T16:26:38+0200 Yeah. I'm still here. Just been busy doing something on Beakerbrowser and Scuttlebutt. 2020-07-17T16:28:36+0200 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 2020-07-17T16:30:36+0200 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. 2020-07-27T15:35:56+0200 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. 2020-08-12T13:39:16+0200 Hello Twtxt from a Xubuntu 18.04 machine! 2020-08-12T13:42:20+0200 @ Sorry to disappoint. I think I have Finger running on my Raspberrypi but didn't make it public. 2020-08-12T13:43:49+0200 @ I will probably check out twtxt.net later. Can we use it without registering for an account? 2020-08-12T13:48:46+0200 The Mozilla layoffs are really worrying me about the future of the Web. 2020-08-16T21:41:23+0200 Fun setting up basic productivity tools with Syncthing and Todo.txt 2020-08-16T21:44:14+0200 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. 2020-08-16T21:46:18+0200 Signing off for the week. Good night! 2020-08-21T00:27:27+0200 Trying to get a grasp and take back control over my family's digital assets. 2020-08-22T00:19:07+0200 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. 2020-09-03T22:23:02+02:00 Getting inspired by the [Burning Man Multiverse 2020](https://kindling.burningman.org/multiverse/) 2020-09-03T22:24:41+02:00 The personal Internet needs more weirdness 2020-09-04T16:17:11+0200 Going to have my head shaved on 2020-09-26 for charity. [Info](https://www.stbaldricks.org/participants/mypage/1073209/2020) 2020-09-23T09:06:26+0200 Another cool advantage of keeping everything in text files is how fast the search indexer of operating systems gives you results. 2020-11-25T23:32:05+01:00 Now also to be found on Gemini at gemini://gem.johanbove.info - the future looks light and bright!. 2020-11-25T23:42:47+01:00 @ Welcome to Twtxt! Liking your introduction article and your Gopherhole is awesome. 2020-11-25T23:49:54+01:00 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 2020-11-26T00:00:04+01:00 Getting started with [Restic](https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) for my backup needs. It's really neat and fast. 2020-11-26T15:21:22+0100 JavaScript applications have become not-to-be-kidding complex lately. I guess that's why I am longing for simpler days. 2020-11-26T15:49:05+0100 @ Could you make the polling of your server a little slower please? Thanks. 2020-12-13T14:54:53+01:00 Wishing everyone a wonderful, happy and healthy end-of-year time after all. 2021-01-28T09:27:15+0100 Mirroring my private sites on the IPFS network. Generating my static site using 11ty 2021-06-23T10:58:28+0200 All is good. Got my first shot of Biontech last week. 2021-06-23T10:58:54+0200 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. 2021-06-24T09:57:12+0200 Decided to keep the smart-phone out of our bedroom and keep a note book instead. Already feeling lighter and fresher. 2021-06-25T11:41:12+0200 A beloved colleague passed away after a terrible car accident a couple of days ago. Thoughts go to her family and colleagues. 2021-06-25T12:50:34+0200 I made with a couple of lines of JS today. Makes it a bit easier to read my Twtxt feed online. 2021-06-25T12:54:39+0200 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. 2021-06-25T13:10:52+0200 Content-security-policies are an evil necessity. Setting them up securily takes away some fun out of publishing online. 2021-06-25T14:22:59+0200 STAY SANE + STAY CALM + STAY HEALTHY 2021-06-25T14:23:30+0200 Semper meliorem facio - Always do better 2021-06-26T00:06:44+0200 This Loki show is pretty clever and really well-made. Enjoying watching it. 2021-06-26T00:45:30+0200 Not sure why exactly, but I made sure my Twtxt HTML page renders okay on a Nokia 8110 4G 240px screen. 2021-06-26T20:28:35+0200 @ Yes, nothing much to it. Full source code is free to use :-) I will probably add some analytics and sorting options later. 2021-06-26T20:30:02+0200 @ Thanks. Nothing much to it. Perhaps I'll make it better later. 2021-06-26T22:56:26+0200 @ Welcome back! 2021-06-26T23:41:39+0200 Had a great day at the Leverkusen Neuland park and the Langenfeld Wasserski place with my family! 2021-06-28T10:11:54+0200 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 2021-06-28T10:14:22+0200 After building websites and styling for about 20 years now I still don't see the difference between italic and oblique. 2021-06-28T23:15:01+0200 Restarted my paper bullet journalling as a form of digital detoxing - zen in pen and paper 2021-06-29T10:59:21+0200 The flavours of rosmarin and nutella fit together, right? 2021-06-29T11:19:15+0200 To add another abstraction layer or not, that is the question. 2021-06-29T11:28:11+0200 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. 2021-06-29T11:32:40+0200 The weather of the moment brought to you with the command ``tweet "$(weather)"``. 2021-06-30T11:56:58+0200 Working with Web components feels a bit like {insert fav fantasy world here} with [concepts](https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/web-components/shadowdom) like the Shadow Dom and the Light Dom 2021-06-30T12:14:19+0200 Anyone made a Drum & Bass / Dubstep remix of "Fuel to Fire" by Agnes Obel yet? 2021-06-30T20:08:00+0200 Jake explains [how to correctly encode data for POST requests](https://jakearchibald.com/2021/encoding-data-for-post-requests/) as no AI can. 2021-06-30T22:53:45+0200 I feel like I only scratched the surface of what can be done with IPFS. 2021-07-01T10:01:04+0200 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... 2021-07-01T11:19:27+0200 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. 2021-07-01T13:20:42+0200 The [Weaving The Web Book](https://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/Weaving/Overview.html) by Tim Berners-Lee should be a required read for anyone building on the Web. 2021-07-07T10:31:34+0200 I will miss being able to multi-task during long meetings while working remotely if I need to get back in the office. 2021-07-07T11:15:23+0200 I always need to look up how to use pbcopy. It's counter-intuitive to me. 2021-07-09T10:37:03+0200 I miss David Bowie 2021-07-10T23:06:13+0200 Making sure my personal profile site is navigatable using a keyboard only for fun 2021-07-10T23:19:51+0200 So I should really try setting up a Restic repo on an IPFS/IPNS hash. 2021-07-10T23:27:59+0200 Uninstalled Brave browser and went back to only using Firefox. 2021-07-12T21:49:31+0200 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. 2021-07-12T21:50:04+0200 Will the UEFA be responsible for nobody wearing a mask at the Eurocup games when the infection rates sky-rocket - allover again? 2021-07-12T21:50:20+0200 I'm doing this thing again where I am collecting more articles and books to read than actual doing any reading. 2021-07-12T21:50:34+0200 For a blissful month we had our own strawberry garden, now I know what fruitflies live on in the wild. 2021-07-13T16:08:49+0200 After Home-office time is over I will miss being able to multi-task during long meetings. 2021-07-14T11:25:33+0200 Words I cannot type rightly at the first attempt: testimonial, accessibility, successful 2021-07-20T09:36:58+0200 Switching search engines today from DuckDuckGo to Ecosia as ClimateChange has a higher prio than our privacy. 2021-07-20T12:01:27+0200 I have a lot of respect for scientist and engineering astronauts - not so much for tourist ones... 2021-07-21T09:41:44+0200 Thou shalt not steal focus in popup windows when users are trying to get work done; no matter what. 2021-07-29T08:59:53+0200 What if due to climate crisis effects and disasters our digital future will depend on low-energy hardware and protocols like Gemini? 2021-08-06T17:52:52+0200 Was feeling a bit down but watching some family videos and pictures from last year brightened me up. Good night. 2021-08-06T17:53:26+0200 What am I doing and why am I doing it, I have no idea. Today is one of those days. 2021-08-06T17:54:57+0200 Why do I keep writing simple English words like change or chance and save or safe, and live or life wrong? 2021-08-13T08:51:20+0200 Waar een wil is, is een weg. 2021-08-19T09:00:35+0200 Can I rely on IPFS mirrors only yet for serving my personal static website? Probably only when you're a popular IPFS oriented site. 2022-01-02T22:49:14+0100 Happy New Year 2022 Twtxt! 2022-01-03T16:29:09+0100 Upgraded my Twtxt feed to 2022 with the twtxt.net meta-data extensions. 2022-01-03T16:34:01+0100 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. 2022-01-06T10:30:33+0100 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 2022-01-06T13:36:23+0100 Oh hello again SSB - reinstalled ManyVerse on all my devices, including my PC 2022-01-06T15:36:33+0100 First rule of SSB is: be patient - it is meant to move slower than conventional social networks 2022-04-28T23:06:38+0200 Ping - still alive and kicking 2022-05-01T23:18:16+0200 So it happened - the twtxt.xyz domain finally expired 2023-03-15T10:07:43+0100 With all this ActivityPub hectic, it is still nice to have a super simple platform like Twttxt to get back to. 2023-03-15T10:08:12+0100 If you're looking for a cool p2p database system have a look at www.earthstar-project.org 2023-03-15T10:09:32+0100 In case you didn't notice, I deleted my Twitter and Keybase accounts. Going full indieweb. 2023-10-27T10:05:39+0200 We're still here! 2023-10-27T10:10:58+0200 Using the CLI to be in-dis-tractable 2023-11-03T09:26:17+0100 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. 2023-11-03T15:15:22+0100 Anyone else keeping personal .log files updated through basic shell commands? 2023-11-03T16:26:55+0100 (#3yluutq) @ Cool to see you're still here too. 2023-11-03T16:32:35+0100 (#3yluutq) @ I've even added the twthash message hash to my Twtxt bash CLI script so I can properly answer here. 2023-11-03T16:40:55+0100 (#ruxrmxa) @ Are the apps on F-Droid better? 2023-11-03T16:56:46+0100 Upgraded my Twtxt feed to 2023 with the twtxt.net twthash extension. 2023-11-03T17:23:34+0100 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. 2023-11-03T17:31:27+0100 On the book wishlist: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2023/10/thematic-book-series-how-to-downsize-a-transport-network/ 2023-11-03T18:52:53+0100 Just published my very first npm package: https://www.npmjs.com/package/twthash 2023-11-05T08:05:33+0100 Reorganising and refactoring terminal aliases is a nice way to start a quiet Sunday morning. 2023-11-06T19:48:32+0100 Still find it amazing how I can put almost my whole music collection on a device the size of a human finger nail. 2023-11-06T21:55:15+0100 I salute you, who can remember Vim's copy paste commands without using a cheatsheet. 2023-11-06T21:56:11+0100 By using scp I can see just how fast my updates are published to the WWW. 2023-11-06T22:25:25+0100 > 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. 2023-11-06T23:06:43+0100 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. 2023-11-06T23:07:10+0100 my thoughts are free 2023-11-08T10:25:13+0100 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.. 2023-11-08T13:30:54+0100 (#qngl2xa) @ Perhaps we should add a meta flag to Twtxt to stop indexation by ChatGPT and consorts? I already use robots.txt for this. 2023-11-08T13:34:59+0100 'An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth' ends up with blind people starving to death. 2023-11-08T20:41:01+0100 I just backed up my twtxt.txt data on a medium that will last for years if treated well: 4 sheets of paper. 2023-11-13T10:53:36+0100 Got the flu shot done for this year 2023-11-13T15:17:02+0100 My cli work-apps: note, plan, dlog (daily log), status and twt. 2023-11-15T11:03:23+0100 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? 2023-11-15T18:31:27.959Z Refreshing my knowledge on Node.js 2023-11-15T19:06:39.179Z Building a Twtxt Gui with some JS and HTML as an example application. 2023-11-16T10:00:44.739Z Fiddling with paths in Node Express for fun 2023-11-16T10:36:04.987Z 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. 2023-11-16T10:40:54.617Z 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. 2023-11-16T11:20:58.908Z So now that I have a basic Twtxt form, I can also update my feed even when I am not on my PC. 2023-11-16T12:13:37.555Z Wondering how that person in Nebraska is doing keeping that cornerstone open-source package going. 2023-11-17T09:52:16.261Z ExpressJs is rather fun to work with - at least for a smaller project. 2023-11-18T08:42:51.822Z My son is getting pretty good at skating. 2023-11-18T15:33:34.534Z Printing pictures on Linux is still a bit of a challenge. 2023-11-20T15:43:36+0100 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 2023-11-20T23:24:16+0100 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. 2023-11-21T15:33:14+0100 (#a35ceca) @ Thanks for reaching out - just general wonkiness with the Epson printing job configuration UI. They offer Fedora software, but it seems that not all features are supported 2023-11-21T15:37:09+0100 (#3voh5ra) @ I played that DOS Tetris game too over and over on my PC, mezmerized over the 3D graphics. 2023-11-21T23:30:42.311Z Good night, good morning, good afternoon. 2023-11-22T12:12:32.668Z The first cold days of Winter are upon us. 2023-11-22T12:17:37.939Z First time ever I made something that uses Redis 2023-11-22T14:54:30.291Z 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. 2023-11-23T14:12:33+0100 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. 2023-11-23T14:36:15+0100 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. 2023-11-23T15:20:22.299Z It's getting, it's getting, it's getting kinda hectic... 2023-11-23T16:07:11.168Z 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. 2023-11-24T17:05:41+0100 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." 2023-11-24T22:39:36.618Z Another work week just flew by. 2023-11-25T11:10:45.997Z 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. 2023-11-26T13:26:40.768Z I'm in your node js, messing with your process.env variables. 2023-11-26T13:42:48.372Z Figuring out how to properly do session management in Node.js with Redis. 2023-11-27T08:41:19+0100 (#atm7oga) @ This is cool Windows history. Thanks for sharing 2023-11-27T09:51:40.769Z These guys from the [Sokpop game developers collective](https://www.sokpop.co/) are really cool. 2023-11-28T07:32:34+0100 Keeping the bare minimum of apps installed on my NAS to avoid vulnerabilities. 2023-11-28T07:35:09+0100 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. 2023-11-28T07:38:03+0100 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. 2023-11-28T07:42:52+0100 Started the process of migrating from Github to Codeberg with my projects. 2023-11-28T07:43:07+0100 Github is like Linkedin for Developers 2023-11-28T07:44:30+0100 Going for Codeberg to support a non-profit organisation that stands for the common good. 2023-11-28T18:30:11+0100 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. 2023-11-29T17:46:23.504Z Hurray for password recovery processes. 2023-11-29T17:47:42.559Z 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. 2023-11-30T06:40:25.746Z Enjoying the shower as a sensory depreviation cell. 2023-12-01T07:26:32.017Z Happy advents calendar month to everyone! 2023-12-01T07:37:37.815Z Is there a car leasing that does not feel like a trap? 2023-12-01T07:59:52.912Z The best gift anyone could give me is the time to be able to finish reading some books. 2023-12-01T08:40:21.116Z 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. 2023-12-01T14:11:00.315Z Feeling nostalgia for simpler web development times. 2023-12-01T14:33:37.081Z Cache rules everything around us. 2023-12-02T06:46:35.019Z SCP all the things! 2023-12-02T08:43:53.587Z My kid is amazing 2023-12-02T19:25:58.345Z Went to the Christmas market for the first time this year. 2023-12-02T19:46:18.642Z 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. 2023-12-02T23:52:11.319Z My son achieved the kindergarten karate belt white-orange-white. He is really proud too himself. 2023-12-03T07:12:25.975Z 't is the Season to restock on batteries. 2023-12-03T23:04:49.329Z First snow fall in Düsseldorf city center this evening. 2023-12-03T23:12:08.754Z 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. 2023-12-04T07:11:52.155Z 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. 2023-12-04T07:16:33.527Z In Memoriam voor mijn grootmoeder Agnes Cours, die vandaag haar 88ste verjaardag had gevierd. We missen je! 2023-12-04T07:21:27.776Z 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. 2023-12-04T07:26:14.799Z 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? 2023-12-04T07:28:47.338Z Anyone else working with Mac OS (work), Windows (client project) and Fedora (private) on the same day, almost every day? 2023-12-04T13:45:24.291Z 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. 2023-12-04T22:39:23+0100 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). 2023-12-04T22:43:33+0100 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. 2023-12-05T06:51:32.892Z Rediscovered how it's possible to show/hide content on an HTML page without JavaScript, using a checkbox and some sprinkle of CSS magic. 2023-12-05T12:04:27.285Z (#s7cm7iq) @ The "game" will involve racing and exploding cake - I think he got inspiration from SuperTuxKart. So will see how far we can go. He's only five still.. 2023-12-05T15:46:22+0100 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. 2023-12-05T15:47:19+0100 #StuckOnRepeat: "Good Fortune" by PJ Harvey 2023-12-05T18:50:07+0100 Learning about stair-cases and human norms is something that I don't do on a regular basis. 2023-12-06T09:08:54+0100 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. 2023-12-06T13:48:46+0100 Had my first toast-sandwich today and it was incredible. 2023-12-06T22:52:46.780Z 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. 2023-12-08T15:52:38+0100 > 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 2023-12-08T17:35:48+0100 Doing this thing where I do one-word status reports and logging them in a file. 2023-12-08T17:55:16+0100 After seeing Google's Gemini video, will everyone now need to invest in one of this pointing-downwards camera stands for the home? 2023-12-08T21:12:56+0100 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. 2023-12-11T17:28:40.139Z Having a tough time gathering my thoughts sometimes. So many appearing and bursting through. 2023-12-11T17:30:49.916Z Thinking of building a simple "Things our kids say" database form, using Node, Express and SQlite3. Going beyond simple text files. 2023-12-13T17:19:51+0100 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. 2023-12-13T18:57:13+0100 I just realize that today is still WEDNESDAY and not THURSDAY. 2023-12-13T20:55:21.182Z Creating stories together with a five year old is fun. 2023-12-13T20:56:27.211Z 90% of web apps are just fancy forms. 2023-12-14T10:10:13.126Z Gotta admin that Ms's Playwright test framework is really powerful. 2023-12-14T22:16:26.367Z Reading The School Of Life by Alain De Botton, Page 65 2023-12-14T22:21:53.129Z 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. 2023-12-15T10:01:38+0100 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. 2023-12-15T10:32:21+0100 My last working day of 2023 is going strong! Just a couple dozen things left to take care of. 2023-12-15T10:48:52+0100 Pretty cool how one can post to the Internet with a single curl command. 2023-12-15T10:52:54+0100 Looking forward to losing the muscle memory in my fingers of entering passwords into forms during my two week vacation. 2023-12-15T15:56:35+0100 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. 2023-12-15T20:48:51.872Z 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. 2024-01-14T00:09:04.065Z Hoping for a good 2024. 2024-01-14T00:10:17.274Z Anyone else noticed how the current date and the climate are more resembling Blade Runner each year. 2024-01-14T18:10:19.739Z The German indie sci-fi movie "Das letzte Land" was an interesting watch. 2024-01-20T19:24:03+0100 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? 2024-02-02T06:59:21.492Z Late fees for public libraries are not fines, they're extra donations to keep the organisation going. 2024-02-02T16:37:14.592Z 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. 2024-02-04T10:32:29.106Z 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. 2024-02-04T15:55:46.149Z Listening to classic rock with my six year old son on a Sunday afternoon - what can be better than this? 2024-02-04T18:19:20.355Z Played our first "Ticket To Ride" boardgame today. 2024-02-09T11:08:19+0100 Of all the Daft Punk hit songs, 'Around The World' is probably still my favourite. 2024-02-09T14:08:32+0100 I've been enjoying my Fairphone 3 since January 2020. Not planning to change to a newer phone soon. 2024-02-14T06:26:47.973Z "no-code" and "low-code" is still someone else's code. 2024-02-16T10:00:58+0100 Found a new CLI timetracker assistant named Watson. Works really well. 2024-02-16T10:06:15+0100 Wishing I could do accents like Trevor Noah can. 2024-02-21T11:08:03+0100 So I had three espressos before 11:00 - today's going swell. 2024-02-21T11:09:39+0100 'The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.' RIP Alexei Navalny (1976-2024). 2024-02-21T11:21:03+0100 What the heck is a Devil's Haircut anyway Beck? 2024-02-24T06:12:06.077Z I arrived at a phase of life where waking up after 6:30 feels late. 2024-02-25T10:23:13.098Z The way things are going, we're never going to make it to Alpha Centauri. 2024-02-28T07:15:51+0100 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. 2024-02-29T18:14:20.099Z I'm in need of some nineties rage against the machine right now - sleep now in the fire 2024-03-02T23:28:36.428Z The show "One Day" is well worth the watch. 2024-03-07T11:53:35.989Z Going to have to reinstall my Yunohost server one of these days as the packages no longer seem to be updateable. 2024-03-26T10:39:57+0100 Even AI coding machines will need to rotate their access credentials every 90 days. 2024-03-26T10:41:13+0100 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. 2024-04-13T10:39:43.782Z Half of Germany's car owners are trying to get their cars washed today. 2024-04-16T08:36:06.403Z Not having a great experience with Acrobat Reader. What the heck is Adobe trying to achieve with all of these popups and annoyances? 2024-04-18T21:36:51.538Z (#lwb53ba) @ Yeah, normally I just use s browser to open PDF, but we had actually create one and it needed some special Acrobat features. Afterwards I immediately uninstalled it again. 2024-06-12T09:56:50+0200 Finally using workspaces in my monorepos. 2024-06-12T09:57:36+0200 We're good. Lots of work to do and that is great. 2024-06-12T09:59:08+0200 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. 2024-06-16T05:59:25.893Z Made something that was mentioned in a national press release last week. That was cool. 2024-06-16T06:01:29.582Z Cutting down on drinking coffee to one cup a week. Drinking more tea to get me through the day instead. 2024-06-26T23:26:33+0200 Fun with React Hook Forms and MUI Material lately. 2024-06-26T23:27:27+0200 Haven't been sleeping well lately. Going to bed late. Lots to do. 2024-06-26T23:27:47+0200 And I feel fine... 2024-06-27T04:08:27.177Z Time flows backwards for some successful people 2024-06-27T04:12:54.233Z Doing laundry at 6:00 in the morning 2024-06-27T04:14:01.177Z 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. 2024-06-27T04:16:12.290Z 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. 2024-06-27T04:18:42.127Z 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. 2024-07-02T20:21:31.762Z (#ze7cu6q) @ No, haven’t had the need to. We’re sticking to trusted and true over latest and sleekest in this project. Perhaps next year. 2024-07-09T09:34:35.426Z Had totally forgotten how cool Apocalyptica's "Nothing Else Matters" is. 2024-07-10T12:50:01+0200 Picked up Altered Carbon again on Netflix. Really need to read those books. 2024-08-12T18:04:28+0200 We had a great and relaxing three week vacation in Denmark and Sweden. 2024-08-12T16:08:48.312Z (#xwecfoa) @ It's hot here as well. Luckily should only last a couple of days. Bunkering down in our home and keeping all the doors and windows closed. No airco. Fans give some relieve. 2024-09-25T09:16:16+0200 Monthly sign of life. We're good. 2024-09-30T11:10:15.337Z Got my flu shot today! 2024-09-30T11:11:28.272Z Had a great time at the Duisburg zoo yesterday including the amazing dolphin show 2024-10-07T13:08:13+0200 After many many years on Firefox, I am making the move to Vivaldi. 2024-10-25T16:26:01+0200 Liking the distinction in Vivaldi between bookmark and something to add to your reading list. 2024-10-25T17:15:50+0200 Cleaned up my personal e-mail account this week and claimed back about 2GB of space occupied by irrelevant stuff. 2024-10-28T10:00:56+0100 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. 2024-10-28T10:05:45+0100 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. 2024-10-29T09:43:43+0100 My guilty pleasure: raisin bread with salted butter and a slice of gouda cheese 2024-10-30T09:02:04+0100 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. 2024-10-31T13:20:26+0100 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. 2024-11-04T09:09:58+0100 Grateful for everything I have. Wishing everyone a good week. 2024-11-04T14:00:47+0100 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 2024-11-04T13:06:50.256Z (#ch7zx3q) @ I have separate mail boxes for private and work, but flattened both to have a simpler structure. For work, where we use Outlook, I am using categories for organising the mails and privately I am using Vivaldi's labels system. The main idea is to use search and grouping through dynamic saved searches instead of static folders. 2024-11-05T09:57:51+0100 Another new email handling strategy I am applying is agressively deleting everything that I don't need to keep for some reason. 2024-11-06T07:49:36.495Z 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... 2024-11-06T08:19:37.770Z 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. 2024-11-06T16:01:50+0100 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. 2024-11-11T09:16:36+0100 We turned the heating up/on in our home for the first time this year. 2024-11-11T09:23:36+0100 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. 2024-11-11T09:45:08+0100 My German word of the week: der Einfallsreichtum 2024-11-11T09:46:10+0100 Wishing all carnevalists around the World a great start of the fifth season of the year. 2024-11-11T10:11:24+0100 I have ethical concerns about executing killall node in my console, regardless of how necessary it is. 2024-11-13T17:56:11+0100 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. 2024-11-17T22:24:50+0100 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. 2024-11-22T09:14:02+0100 Listening to Buffalo Springfield's - For What it's Worth - the topic seems still very relevant these days sadly. 2024-11-29T13:08:15.264Z (#pw5moua) @ Really cool that you did the presentation about Twtxt! Thanks for doing this. 2024-12-04T22:13:19+0100 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. 2024-12-04T22:39:49+0100 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_. 2024-12-05T15:04:18+0100 I have been _on Twtxt_ for five years straight now. Hurray me. 2024-12-05T15:05:44+0100 Getting my knowledge refreshed on web accessibility through a course on deque university. 2024-12-06T00:10:20+0100 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? 2024-12-06T00:45:53+0100 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. 2024-12-06T22:40:16.662Z 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. 2024-12-06T22:41:38.043Z 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. 2024-12-06T22:50:26.450Z Cleaned up my npm package for _twthash_; made it CommonJS compatible, added more documentation and even a test. Current version is 1.2.2 2024-12-07T09:37:59.257Z Got tickets for the Germany - USA 🏒 ice Hockey game in Düsseldorf on May 4th 2025 2024-12-08T22:07:52+0100 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. 2024-12-08T22:08:57+0100 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. 2024-12-08T22:11:06+0100 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. 2024-12-09T21:27:28.596Z 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. 2024-12-10T08:33:06.145Z 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. 2024-12-12T20:07:36.296Z 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. 2024-12-21T23:05:38+0100 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. 2024-12-21T23:11:53+0100 Aus Liebe fürs Leben 2024-12-21T23:16:12+0100 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. 2025-01-08T16:16:09.376Z Happy New Year to the readers of my little Twtxt feed! Wishing you and are your family all the best. 2025-01-08T16:17:33.467Z 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. 2025-01-08T16:40:00.851Z 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. 2025-01-08T16:40:31.787Z There is a reason why being a journalist is still a profession. 2025-01-08T21:09:48.901Z Shocked about the fires around LA right now. Following CNN mostly. It's devastating. 2025-01-10T14:14:22.805Z (#gudbaza) @ Since I live in Germany, I do believe the media here is generally reputable. It really depends where you live of course. Source I look at are Reuters, NPR, The Guardian, Die Zeit, NY Times, CNN, Tagesschau, Spiegel Online, RP Online (for local news), … I would never just trust what I see in my social media feeds. 2025-01-13T07:55:15.029Z 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. 2025-01-14T21:30:28.269Z (#oxep34a) @ Reading "The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak 2025-01-19T21:55:14.886Z How long will it take for the opponents of the Trump regime to start mysteriously disappearing? 2025-01-21T08:15:59.919Z Simplifying my online presence further by removing my Known site. Goodbye social.johanbove.info - it was sometimes a little fun. 2025-01-21T08:30:29.969Z While the US politicians and tech billionaires are going full-on fascist mode, here is a reminder that there are European alternatives for many well known digital and online services: https://european-alternatives.eu 2025-01-21T09:51:54+0100 Keep breathing and stay cool. 2025-01-23T10:50:47.381Z Predicting what is to be expected in about four years in the USA : there is no way in Hell where Trump will allow any form of return to the way it use to be before he took hold of the country. He will let other people die to make sure his regime will stay on for as long as at least he lives. 2025-01-23T11:53:06+0100 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. 2025-01-23T11:56:34+0100 The T on the cars made by the car manufacturer lead by E Musk really stood for _Trump_ all along 2025-01-24T05:48:14.873Z 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. 2025-01-25T23:43:41+0100 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. 2025-01-25T23:44:22+0100 Enjoyed watching the movie Mighty Ducks (1992) on our family movie night. 2025-01-29T05:05:36.759Z (#gfxj27q) @ Looking at Threema because it is European with servers in Switzerland and it has GDPR conformity, among some other reasons. 2025-01-29T05:10:11.558Z (#l3jpjaa) @ Threema states the findings of that security research are all plugged. Still reading on it. Truth is that my family is difficult to get away from WhatsApp. And yes, I plan to buy them a license key. 2025-01-29T20:49:25.612Z Reading “Man’s search for meaning” by Viktor E. Frankl 2025-02-03T12:40:34+0100 It's really cool how my local public library's membership includes digital access to thousands of magazines and newspapers. 2025-02-13T19:59:11+0100 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... 2025-02-16T16:46:59.565Z “Anyone who thinks about the future must live in fear and terror.” - Albert Einstein 2025-02-19T20:38:44.441Z We are all we have. 2025-02-22T14:07:53.637Z I walk backwards into the future with my eyes fixed on my past - Mãori proverb