Day 6
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I haven't had much time for computing today, with a 2.5 hour
journey home, etc.. I might not have any time tomorrow either as
I'm seeing a good friend of mine from about midday...
## Looking back
The week has been quite a busy one with little time to engage with
the challenge. In general, I haven't had many major problems,
though since I've still been doing some things on my smartphone
(which exceeds the maximum specification for a computer involved in
the challenge) I guee I've been cheating a bit. I have favourited
Mastodon toots from my phone, but I haven't boosted or posted from
my phone, just relying on the scripts for that. I will need to
write a script for favouriting them too and extend my scripts so I
can page through messages. Also, polls are an issue with a large
number of bugs in my scripts for displaying them and no ability to
vote in them.
Emails have worked OK, though they have been fairly slow as my main
email box for home stuff now has around 47000 messages in it, so
the headers tak a while to download! I have still been able to use
it though.
It's a little annoying writing these blogs the way I have as, if I
let Nano wrap the text, my textfile fills up with linebreaks that
I'd have to remove before posting, so I've been using the "-w" flag
to stop that, but the upshot is that all my text for each paragraph
is on one line, so it's hard to keep track of what I wrote. It's
also sad that I can only post/modify blog files from the SmolPub
script, so I can't upload images etc..
I have been able to view images with flpicsee, but I had an email
with a PDF attached, which contained an SVG and had no way to view
the SVG even if I had been able to extract it from the PDF, so I
had to forward the email to a mailbox I can access from my phone.
I've spent less time on social media over the course of the week
because of the challenge, though whether this is good or bad
depends on your perspective.
I've been still using Discord a little from my phone for some
asynchronous communication, but only really with communities I
can't talk with otherwise. When I've been bored and only had access
to my phone, I've tried to limit my browsing habits to Gopher,
which is more in the spirit of the challenge.
## Scripting
Looks like it's fairly easy to add Favouriting capability to my
scripts, so I've quickly done that, using screen to save display
space when looking at the docs. I'll just see if it works...
Hmm... Looks like I can't use the scripts for viewing my timeline
alongside screen as I would need to scroll the terminal window and
they seem to cause glitches in less (even less -r). I will have to
close the docs and screen...
Looks like it's worked! I would like to be able to view my
favourites too, but I may have to write that script after the
challenge ends.
