In a recent phlog entry, Jirka
mentioned that he couldn't find any
SDF members with a .plan file. That
got me thinking about the purpose of
finger: to convey contact information
and provide something along the lines
of status updates.

For a while now, I have been
considering running a gopher-based
(and gemini-mirrored) microphlog. I've
seen a few people with Twitter-esque
gopher feeds around the smolverse.

But finger is really the perfect tool
for ephemeral smolnet microblogging.

So I wrote up a quick bash script to
create a feed for finger "microblogs."

Copy the script below to a file, make
it executable, and add new addresses
to poll, each on their own line, in
the addresses section.

Run the script to read other users'
finger-blogs -- and of course, just
add your current status or whatever
random commentary you see fit to your
plan or .project file to post!



#!/bin/bash


addresses="
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
"


separator () {
echo >> readerfile.tmp
echo "===================================================================" >> readerfile.tmp
echo >> readerfile.tmp
}


echo "===================================================================" > readerfile.tmp
echo "                            FingerFeed" >> readerfile.tmp
echo "===================================================================" >> readerfile.tmp
echo >> readerfile.tmp


for address in $addresses
do
 finger $address >> readerfile.tmp
 separator
done


less readerfile.tmp

rm readerfile.tmp

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