Weird. My timestamps are all being shown (on https://twtxt.net and https://darch.dk/timeline) one hour ahead of what I expected. Am I manually writing my timestamps wrong? Are the clients interpreting something I’m not aware of? Let me write this one on the “Z” timezone to try to debug it.
Someone on #twtxt or #yarn.social on IRC told me to use a client that supports extensions and replies. Uhh… Client? I’m writing my microblogging by hand! (Hides in a very weird mix of pride and shame)
🗣️ Debating whether to try to add a reply feature to comments on my site. Mostly because I‘m afraid I’ll break comments entirely lol.
Streamed me struggling to play minetest yesterday :D
hi yarn! what is everyone working on today?
New library alert => Last night, I published twtxt-lib, a new isomorphic TypeScript library for parsing and interacting with twtxt.txt files. Check out the demo at https://twtxt-lib.itsericwoodward.com/!
Hello world!
Always beware of danger
Been missing you, friends! I hope life’s been treating you well. What did I miss?
how are we doing today
hi guys! how did we like bad bunny’s halftime show?
Ah, nothing quite like a cold beer after a day of moving house without the use of a vehicle.
how are we doing over here on yarn!
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@bender congrats, you are now in sudoers file
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@lyse oh nice find, thanks. i am a copy-paste admin, no wonder
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@klaxzy nothing like a blank twt eh? 😅
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@bender congrats, you are now in sudoers file
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in a camp mood battitude
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hell.com redirects to mybible.com lol hahaha
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My favorite group released a song today! I love it very much :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOjG-70-D5o
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haven't been doing too well yarn. how r u guys?
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@prologic @bender going through a lot of family and personal things. I’m doing better at this very moment, but who knows how I’ll be in the next few days. trying to stay positive!
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Why Go is Going Nowhere
Go, the ancient board game that China, Japan and South Korea all claim as part of their cultural heritage, is struggling to expand its global footprint because the three nations that dominate it cannot agree on something as basic as a common rulebook.
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Did a double take at the headline 😅
Why Go is Going Nowhere
Go, the ancient board game that China, Japan and South Korea all claim as part of their cultural heritage, is struggling to expand its global footprint because the three nations that dominate it cannot agree on something as basic as a common rulebook.
When Go was registered with the International Mind Sports Association alongside chess and bridge, organizers had to adopt the American Go Association’s rules because the East As … ⌘ Read more
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haven’t been doing too well yarn. how r u guys?
Personal Info on 17.5 Million Users May Have Leaked to Dark Web After 2024 Instagram Breach
An anonymous reader shared this report from Engadget:
If you received a bunch of password reset requests from Instagram recently, you’re not alone. As reported by Malwarebytes, an antivirus software company, there was a data breach revealing the “sensitive information” of 17.5 million Instagra … ⌘ Read more
China Tests a Supercritical CO2 Generator in Commercial Operation
“China recently placed a supercritical carbon dioxide power generator into commercial operation,” writes CleanTechnica, “and the announcement was widely framed as a technological breakthrough.”
The system, referred to as Chaotan One, is installed at a steel plant in Guizhou province in mountainous southwest China and is designed to recover … ⌘ Read more
That Bell Labs ‘Unix’ Tape from 1974: From a Closet to Computing History
Remember that re-discovered computer tape with one of the earliest versions of Unix from the early 1970s? This week several local news outlets in Utah reported on the find, with KSL creating a video report with shots of the tape arriving at Silicon Valley’s Computer History Museum, the closet where it was found, and even its handwrit … ⌘ Read more
Cory Doctorow: Legalising Reverse Engineering Could End ‘Enshittification’
Scifi author/tech activist Cory Doctorow has decried the “enshittification” of our technologies to extract more profit. But Saturday he also described what could be “the beginning of the end for enshittification” in a new article for the Guardian — “our chance to make tech good again”.
There is only one reason the world isn’t bu … ⌘ Read more
C# (and C) Grew in Popularity in 2025, Says TIOBE
For a quarter century, the TIOBE Index has attempted to rank the popularity of programming languages by the number of search engine results they bring up — and this week they had an announcement.
Over the last year the language showing the largest increase in its share of TIOBE’s results was C#.
TIOBE founder/CEO Paul Jansen looks back at how C++ evolved:
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Elon Musk: X’s New Algorithm Will Be Made Open Source in Seven Days
“We will make the new ð algorithm…open source in 7 days,” Elon Musk posted Saturday on X.com. Musk says this is “including all code used to determine what organic and advertising posts are recommended to users,” and “This will be repeated every 4 weeks, with comprehensive developer notes, to help you understand what changed.”
Some context f … ⌘ Read more
Nature-Inspired Computers Are Shockingly Good At Math
An R&D lab under America’s Energy Department annnounced this week that “Neuromorphic computers, inspired by the architecture of the human brain, are proving surprisingly adept at solving complex mathematical problems that underpin scientific and engineering challenges.”
Phys.org publishes the announcement from Sandia National Lab:
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Four More Tech Bloggers are Switching to Linux
Is there a trend? This week four different articles appeared on various tech-news sites with an author bragging about switching to Linux.
“Greetings from the year of Linux on my desktop,” quipped the Verge’s senior reviews editor, who finally “got fed up and said screw it, I’m installing Linux.
They switched to CachyOS — just like this writer for the videogame magazine Escapist: … ⌘ Read more
AI-Powered Social Media App Hopes To Build More Purposeful Lives
A founder of Twitter and a founder of Pinterest are now working on
“social media for people who hate social media,” writes a Washington Post columnist.
“When I heard that this platform would harness AI to help us live more meaningful lives, I wanted to know more…”
Their bid for redemption is West Co. — the Workshop for Emotional and Spiritual … ⌘ Read more
AI Fails at Most Remote Work, Researchers Find
A new study “compared how well top AI systems and human workers did at hundreds of real work assignments,” reports the Washington Post.
They add that at least one example “illustrates a disconnect three years after the release of ChatGPT that has implications for the whole economy.”
AI can accomplish many impressive tasks involving computer code, documents or images. That has prompt … ⌘ Read more
Amazon Plans Massive Superstore Larger Than a Walmart Supercenter Near Chicago
Amazon “has submitted plans for a large-format store near Chicago that would be larger than a Walmart Supercenter,” reports CNBC:
As part of the plans, Amazon has proposed building a one-story, 229,000-square-foot building [on a 35-acre lot] in Orland Park, Illinois, that would offer a range of products, such as grocerie … ⌘ Read more
China’s ‘Artificial Sun’ Breaks Nuclear Fusion Limit Thought to Be Impossible
“Scientists in China have made a breakthrough with fusion energy that could finally overcome one of the most stubborn barriers to realising the next-generation energy source,” reports the Independent:
A team from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) said its experimental nuclear reactor, dubbed the ‘artificial Sun’, a … ⌘ Read more