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itwtxt complete | |
iDecember 11th, 2017 | |
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iI installed twtxt on ma.sdf.org today. It was easy. I just used | |
ivirtualenv-3.6 to set up a nice ecosystem, then did the pip | |
iinstall method in the documentation. After install I ran the | |
iquickstart. It asked to overwrite my twtxt.txt file (which I had | |
ibacked up) but it turns out it didn't mess with it at all. All | |
igood there! | |
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iNext I found a list of people to follow as a starting point on | |
igithub [0]. I forked the repo and added a pull request to add my | |
iname to the list which was promptly accepted (whee!). Installing | |
ithose folks is an easy one-liner at the bottom of the readme. | |
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iFinally, I didn't want to have to log into ma.sdf.org every time | |
iI wanted to check my timeline, so I added a little alias: | |
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i alias twtxt='ssh -t meta twtxt timeline' | |
i | |
iI have a ssh alias for meta array in my ssh config, so that | |
ihandles it all in one line nicely. Oh! I had to edit the config | |
ifile for twtxt to set the display order to ascending instead of | |
ithe default descending so that the newest messages are at the | |
ibottom. Now I don't need to worry about passing it to a pager to | |
isee the latest. | |
i | |
iThere's a #twtxt channel on freenode. I informed them of my | |
istream, but I haven't seen any responses yet. @elw also set up his | |
iown twtxt stream, so it's already paying off! | |
i | |
iI have no idea if I'll stick with it or if it'll end up having | |
ia different feel from Mastodon, but what the hell. It's plain text | |
iand that's awesome. | |
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[0] We are twtxt @ mdom's github | |