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I made a whole video about this. Why gemini over gopher and why gemini over http -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Q3GCzG2gvE

You can find that info and more about all the member tildes of the tildeverse (including tilde.town) on the tildeverse website here: https://tildeverse.org/members/

I love having a variety of these types of sites available for a new language. Different learners will react well to different styles. My personal favorite is AWK in 20 Minutes: http://ferd.ca/awk-in-20-minutes.html

The AWK Programming Language book is also great.

Nice work.

Last I checked the formatting results of toLocaleString differ between browsers and NPM for certain locales. A quick search finds a handful of issues on Github about it, but I'm pretty sure there's a more in-depth stack overflow discussion too. I'm not sure if this will all be superseeded by the new date handling proposals or not, but it's something to be wary of.

They're just for transactional emails, not for marketing ones. They wouldn't show very much based on how he's measuring.

(The article sums up a lot of this, but the actual website is more misleading)

I went through and clicked on the about page. The books aren't sold through local book stores. It's a front for Ingram, which handles the orders. The local bookstores that sign up as affiliates get a percentage of the sale, basically as referrers.

I'd love to see this as a search-model that drives to the actual stores, but it seems that would be much more difficult to implement with arbitrary stocking information. In its current state the site represents itself as a method of shopping local, borrowing its respectability from the local stores.

It turns out the key for me was that my mic requires phantom power and that the Fethead blocks it from reaching the mic. There are apparently some versions of the Fethead that allow pass-through of phantom power, but not the one I tried. I guess I'm stuck with the gain from the mic & the 2i2 as-is.

I was a bit surprised to see the recommendation of another inline preamp in the chain with the Focusrite. He recommends a TRITON AUDIO FetHead Filter in-Line Microphone Preamp. Does anyone have further experience with this setup? I've been using my MXL Mics 770 Cardioid Condenser Microphone with a Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 with nothing in-between. I know I've got the gain dialed up pretty high but it never occurred to me to put something else in between them. I'd love to hear your experiences and recommendations. Is an in-line preamp worth it?

I was refering to plain text as the interface to the machine, not the file formats. When your primary interface is through text, it makes sense that good tooling would develop.

Yes, recutils comes in 3 forms: a c library, command line utilities, and an org-mode plugin.

Here's a real example: https://gopher.tildeverse.org/sdf.org/0/users/dbucklin/posts...

I don't, sadly. That is an example from the Recutils help docs, not my own personal collection.

The maintainer it's active still with a bugs mailing list and chat in IRC. Your findings would surely be well received.

I think you're referring to my book data? It's all from Goodreads export, not hand entered. I love my compose key and will get around to cleaning this up.

I couldn't find much more, which is why I decided to write this intro. I may do a video exploration of the various tools and features as well. It seems like others are as excited by this as I am.

Blog author here. Glad to see someone submitted this and you all liked it.

Recutils has MUCH more to offer beyond the basic intro I gave here. It has wonderful org-mode integration for you emacs people.

Here's a recfile of my read books for reference. I generated this from my Goodreads export csv and a few recutils calls: https://ttm.sh/Equ.rec

Yes, you can do \n, or a literal newline and start the next line with a +. The second technique is wonderfully readable.

I use between 4 & 6 primary email "blocks" with each using several hundred aliases. I keep access to most, but not all of these blocks in Thunderbird on my two laptops. One of the email accounts I only access from a dedicated device while VPN'd. I fetch mail over POP3, wiping the server data, and then move the files to an airgapped machine to read. I have a Protonmail & Tutonota account which I connect to via their apps or websites. I also maintain several small public access servers which handle mail. I use Alpine for that, or Mutt in a pinch.

Friends get one email address from one domain. Work gets aliases from a second domain. Businesses get an alias from a third domain. These are either whitelisted domains where any address will get to me, or I can create the alias on the fly in the moment. I like to know not only if a mailbox is getting spam so I can block the alias, but also so I can stop doing business with companies that sell my data (looking at you, Bank of America).

Is it overkill? Oh yeah, big-time.

I'm on IRC constantly via Weechat on a VPS and Weechat-Android connecting my phone.

Servers I use: irc.tilde.chat irc.sdf.org irc.freenode.net and a few others here and there.

There's a huge amount of IRC usage in the wild still. Major projects use it, like the web-extensions project. Hobbiests have servers and channels gallore. Every programming language has a presence. There's so much to see and explore.

Very nice. I love the ESV translation. If you're into minimal Bible versions and old-school protocols, here's my ESV Bible on gopher:

gopher://gopher.black/1/bible

That really does seem like the much saner approach, doesn't it? Like, keep display for outer display as it has the history, and use "flow" for the inner. flow: flex, flow: grid, flow: normal, or something. But HN comments aren't in charge of specs, so I look forward to screwing this up for years to come.

Best of luck. We moved here this summer and it's lovely. It's quite easy with an EEA passport and remote work. If you make it over, look me up and I'll buy you a kaffi.

It's a nice front-end wrapper on MJML. It's even using the MJML sample template in this case. I appreciate the front-end work and I bet it would be helpful for some users who aren't great at writing code. I do wish it was a bit more forward in explaining the use of MJML in the project, especially in the About section.

To this day I still do the sound effect of the skeletons that floating up the screen as my go-to "spooky noise". What a fun game. Burn:Cycle was my #1, followed closely by Escape from Cyber City. The CD-i did have some really fun stuff.

Zelda... nope.

A bit, yes. The tildeverse (and tilde.club) are public access UNIX systems just like SDF. The offerings are different and they're run by volunteers. Check out https://tildeverse.org to learn more about the various servers and what is offered by the collective.

CGI-bin vs my butt... hmmm

I wish Google would take a note from Mozilla's add-on submission process and allow the source to be uploaded as a separate package. It's simple to test that the source package builds to match the compiled code and gives a more easily readable method for audting. It would also avoid this sort of nonsense.

Wait a minute... isn't this basically Lex Luthor's plan in the first Superman movie?

First of all, beautiful site. I'm happy to see nuxt projects in the wild, and especially happy when they're this beautiful. I really like the iconography and illustration styles and how nicely it blends with the content. Your UI is stellar.

On the technology side, the page explaining what Blockstack is reads poorly. You use the same subheads a few times to ask that question, but don't really answer it. It feels like an afterthought, which is unfortunate as it was my first stop on the site.

It seems like the "how" of this tool is a big deal to you. Why is the data being stored the way it is? How can you better tell that story? Can you use the same level of awesome you use on the features page?

And finally, if you can't add a working demo to the site due to the blockstack platform, you can still record video demos that highlight different features. Keep that sweet animation style in your video work and you've got some really enjoyable content.

I hope your project takes off. Cheers.

I've been on a number of silent retreats that focus on contemplation, usually prayer. Of those the vast majority have been 3-day retreats which begin on a Friday after dinner and end on a Sunday with a lunch. They're a great introduction to silence and meditation and can really allay insecurities people have about taking on a longer retreat. It's where I recommend starting if you're new to retreats.

I've also done 8-day retreats and 10-day retreats. These are my favorites. As someone else in the comments said, it takes a few days for silence to break through your barriers. There's a whole bunch of science on the 3-day effect which seems related to my experience. For me it works like this: day one I'm excited and my mind doesn't shut up. I have a million ideas floating through and I try to grasp them all and to remember the "fruits" of this time for later when I can talk. Early on in my retreats I would journal furiously. I filled a moleskine notebook each day, front and back of pages. It was insane, and also counterproductive. I was taking the dialogue away from my tongue and moving it onto the page. Now I don't journal at all, or I'll do so only every few days and briefly. Even so, day one is a wasted day. It's like my mind is flipping out craving contact. I just need to let it run its course.

On day 2 I have intermittent moments of calm when I can sense the silence underneath everything. I try to spend this day in solitude if possible. It helps to speed up the transition. Remember, silence in a retreat isn't about sound, it's about communication. Don't make eye contact or gestures at others. You're not being silent.

Day 3 for me is when I'm finally at rest. I listen to the little movements of my mind. It's a great time for contemplative prayer, or mindfulness meditation. If you've read anything about Ignatian spirituality, this is where the real enlightening stuff hits. Days 3-7 are a blur of wonder that I never want to end.

That being said, I've also done 30 days in silence and it is there that I'd use the term "life changing." How life changing was it for me? It led to me deciding to leave religious life to get married and start a family. It was not in rebellion to the style of life I was living, but as a result of it. It took me 30 days of contemplation in silence to finally find the answer to the questions that had been bouncing around in my head for a decade.

Would I go again? Certainly.