tilde.team/~tomasino

Cleaning Up Team Hole

Fri, 14 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

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cleaning up team hole
January 14th, 2022
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I haven't written on this gopher hole in a while. It just popped
into my head that it's here and I should do some house-cleaning.
I started by fixing my burrow config for this server, then things
became instantly easier. I added a gemini link on the root
gophermap and now this phlog entry. It should republish my RSS
feed and all will be well.

My dotfiles updates[0] in the last year or so have really reduced
my overhead on remote servers but still give me so much power.

[0] dotfiles
    https://ino.is/dot

Not much else going on for now. Just a lot of work I'm taking
a break from. Time to find some water.

More Tilde.txt

Sun, 18 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000

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More tilde
November 18th, 2018
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I've joined yourtilde.com. It runs centos! How cute. ;)

So far I'm just mirroring my main gopherhole over there. I'll dig
around and see what's what soon. I'm on vacation, so I expect lots
of playing around will be in the cards.

Refuge.txt

Thu, 04 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0000

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Refuge
October 04th, 2018
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I had a slight explosion over on gopher.black this week. Team was
my happy refuge for a few days. I left weechat running in tmux
here since it inherits my dotfiles. All was well.

Pb Package.txt

Wed, 15 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000

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pb package
August 15th, 2018
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The pb utility now has a full repo with installer, man page, and
a basic bash completion. I hear fish pulls its compleyions from
man, so that may work too. Let me know if you try it.

It still defaults to tilde.team's 0x0 pastebin, but you can
override that with the -s option, or just change the var near the
top of the script.

~ben has it installed on team. Let me know if you find any bugs!

http://git.tildeverse.org/tomasino/pb

Pb Pastebin.txt

Mon, 13 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000

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pb - pastebin
August 13th, 2018
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With a little help from our ~ben I wrote a new version of the pb
utility here on team. It still does everything it used to do, but
now you can use it more ... um... differently? 

echo "some whatever thingies" | pb

That still works to shove content into the pastebin.

pb filename.txt

This works now too!

If you're really crazy, you can use the -f switch to force
filename mode when using stdin like so:

find . -type f -name "*.js" -print | pb -f

This will upload all your js files individually to the pastebin. 

If your full string passed to pb doesn't match a file (in filename
mode only) then it'll try to break it up on whitespace and test
each of the parts for a file match. On the super rare occasion you
actually use that feature it might save you a couple keystrokes.

Alacritty.txt

Fri, 10 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000

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alacritty
August 10th, 2018
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Thanks to some help from ~ben I was able to get alacritty up and
running on my Linux Mint laptop tonight. It's a screaming-fast
terminal emulator with gpu jibby-jabs and fancy-pants stuff. I got
hung up on the config for a little while and had to duck into irc
for help. As usual, irc had the answer and I got things working.
Dotfiles updated and I'm golden now.

I also switched my colorschemes from base16 with tomorrow dark
theming to Pencil dark. I use Pencil a lot in (n)vim, so it's
fitting. The themes are kinda similar but just different enough to
be noticable. It's kind of refreshing to change up every now and
again.

What sorts of colorschemes do you use?

Juicessh.txt

Wed, 08 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000

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juiceSSH
August 08th, 2018
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I finally got around to setting up a key to connect to tilde.team
on my phone via juiceSSH. I love this thing. I can get at bbj all
the time now!

Sets.txt

Fri, 20 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000

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Sets
July 20th, 2018
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I've started working on adding set support to flashleit. Adding
new questions will ask you if you want to add them to an existing
set (via a list) or create a new set, or keep them set-free. That
part of the code is 90% done. The sets are just strings and can be
whatever you'd like. Next up I'll be adding a checkbox thing when
you start a review session which asks you which sets you want to
review. I'm going to do a multi-select thing. Set-free cards will
fall into a default set that can be chosen as well.

I kicked around the idea of having cards be in multiple sets, but
I decided against it. It's unnecessary complication. I'll keep it
simple for now.

I suppose I'll need to add a way to manage cards. Remove sets,
remove individual cards, etc. That's still a ways off.

Flashleit.txt

Mon, 16 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000

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flashleit
July 16th, 2018
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This past weekend I built a new CLI program called Flashleit [0].
I wrote about it at length on gopher.black [1]. @ben has it
installed on tilde.team if anyone wants to use it. Right now it's
very bare-bones, but it works. You can create "cards" using the
menu system and practice them. Check out the README or my phlog
for the details on how it's all set up.

Today during some downtime between meetings at work I started
working on a new feature for it: sets. I want the cards you make
to be able to be added to a specific set. Then, when you practice
you can choose which sets you want to go through. I think it will
be helpful to keep things contextualized.

Eventually I want to explore options for importing cards from
other flashcard systems. I'm not sure if there are any standard
formats or if it'll be a big time-waste. We shall see!

If you use flashleit, let me know your thoughts on gopher or in
a github issue.

[0] https://github.com/jamestomasino/flashleit
[1] gopher://gopher.black/1/phlog/20180714-flashcards

Burrow V1 6 0.txt

Sun, 15 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000

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Burrow v1.6.0
July 15th, 2018
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Hello Team,

I'm using this account on tilde.team to push the boundaries of
what my shell scripts can do. My gopher helper, burrow, has just
released v1.6.0 thanks to requests from @ben. You can now run
"burrow root" to edit your root gophermap.

Gophermap syntax is tricky, especially on some of the more strict
servers like motsognir. While @ben is running Gophernicus, it's
important that burrow be stable in any environment. As such,
gophermaps that it generates will all strictly fit the protocol
requirements.

What does that mean for "burrow root"?

It means that any comment lines you have (i.e., lines of text that
are meant for description, not linking elsewhere) will be defined
by ItemType "i". If you look at the raw source for my root
gophermap you'll see that every text line begins with an i and
ends with several tabs and the server name and port. This is the
strict requirement from the specs. Gophernicus doesn't require
that you do that because it'll automatically generate the extra
gibberish for you if you have a line that starts with anything
that's not a number and no tabs.

Even so, all that formatting is awful for actually writing. That's
where burrow helps. When you edit a gophermap with burrow, whether
your root gophermap or a phlog, recipe, or topic entry (if you
have "usegophermap" set to true) it will automatically strip out
all the "i" prefixes and the tabbed stuff at the end while you
edit. Once you save the file all of that stuff will be
re-generated and inserted on disk.

The only lines that will be ignored are ItemType entries with
tabs. Those could be type 0-9, h, +, G, I, T, or s. Any of those
will be completely ignored when opening and saving your files.

If you haven't given burrow a chance yet, fire it up and see what
you can do. "burrow edit-config" will open up your personal
configuration file. If you don't have one, "burrow create-config"
will generate you a boilerplate. Fix the paths to point to your
folders and choose the settings that are right for you.

If you have any questions, find me in tilde.chat in #team.