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The quieter social microblogging platform.

textlog is a simple social text log: write short notes, follow people and hashtags, and join conversations without turning every thought into a performance.

Notes are limited to 500 characters. The constraint keeps them quick to write and read, making room for one thought at a time.

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Really glad to be using Haskell for work - especially in today's climate with agentic coding. Our team uses containers to keep our development environment consistent across team members, though, and most agent sandbox approaches want to either offload your work fully to the cloud or they want to sandbox the agent harness process itself. We're not ready for full cloud based development (yet?) and sandboxing just the agent doesn't work for us when the agent needs to run docker. #haskellnotesenter to follow #ainotesenter to follow
... because letting the agent run docker gives them a too-easy escape hatch from their sandbox. So we're currently stuck with using VMs. This turns out to be tricky but seems do-able. My current approach is to provision a VM image and use Incus for the execution. My main goal is to keep my current workflow of local/non-agent dev working seamlessly and share the source with the VM/agent.
This means sharing my working dirs with the agent VM but overlaying artifact dirs from VM-owned block devices so we don't take too big of an IO perf hit. I also don't want the agent to be able to git push so that means we need some quirky git config to rewrite origin paths and thread through some agent specific PATs ("thanks" GitHub) for read-only repo access. These ALSO need to be threaded through to the development containers - they need to clone private repos.
It's tangential to the sandboxing topic, really. I started the first post with a broader intent in mind and then elaborated on the sandboxing setup I'm working on. For AI-assisted coding, though, it's nice because Haskell provides a lot of feedback earlier in the development process compared to lots of other languages. It tends to work once it compiles (obviously not all the time).
looking at the German public railway system (DB), I always wonder if the stereotypes of timeliness and precision were ever actually true. Surely someone must've figured out by now how off they are? These trains are always late and / or broken.
๐Ÿค”profileenter to followHai I am kuwrote:
Since you guys are on textlog I think you will find this article and discussion interesting lobste.rs/s/5gcd3t/html_can_doLobstersHTML Can Do That22 comments chrisburnell.com/html-can-do-that/Chris BurnellHTML Can Do ThatHTML has been gobbling up swathes of what used to be JavaScriptโ€™s remit. This page lists a bunch of dynamic functionality that we can now achieve with just HTML. A character count though that still requires JavaScript sadly enough ๐Ÿฅบ
Interesting! Didnโ€™t know about a few. Neat! ๐Ÿ˜Š Aside, do you have an invitation for lobste.rslobste.rsLobstersA computing-focused community centered around link aggregation and discussion.? Or can you help us by doing a post about textlog.cc?
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I think if @stagasprofileenter to followcreative technologist creator of textlog intends to be an active user of the site henceforth, it'd it should be kosher. Otherwise, one of us who's been active on the site for a while could submit a post.
I plan to remain active, so not planning a top level post just yet. Will try to engage first for a few days so the ratio is low when I do the post.
i like things being as fast as possible. link?
profileenter to followProgrammer by day and night. Lover of art. Mixing art and programming is the dream.wrote:
Zik is my pet project - a photos manager that is as fast as possible and as small as possible. It leaves sparks as it goes (lol jk) #ziknotesenter to follow
profileenter to followProgrammer by day and night. Lover of art. Mixing art and programming is the dream.replied to๐Ÿคธprofileenter to followcreative technologistGitHubstagas - Overviewstagas has 462 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub. creator of textlog:
Unfortunately no. Just starting it. Got the proof of concept loading a dir with its sub-dirs then rendering on the GPU in textures silky smooth. 1.7mb executable, but will need to level up to SDL and that will double the size I think.
profileenter to followProgrammer by day and night. Lover of art. Mixing art and programming is the dream.replied to๐Ÿ™ˆprofileenter to follow"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." โ€” Sid Meyers:
I agree. It is #zilchnotesenter to follow for now. Will do better next time, but in my defence the text above the text box (when writing a new message, not a reply) says โ€œWhatโ€™s on your mindโ€. :-P
moved to a new city recently and going to a Movie club meetup tonight. nervous cause I'm a huge introvert but I gotta make friends some way.
Huge refactor today, moved from sync SQLite to Worker based, touched 88 files, pre-#AInotesenter to follow it would have taken a week or so, finished now in ~1:30h. And I wouldnโ€™t have the confidence I have now that it went correct. It went well, though a bug or two might surface, weโ€™ll see.
SQLite is embedded in the main thread same as the HTTP server. I noticed some requests dropping and because the queries have become more complex I figured it has to do with SQLite blocking for too much time. Moving it to a Worker makes the DB asynchronous and bypass this problem.
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The longer the text you need to store, the bigger a QR code needs to be in order to scan reliably. Also, you might be more confident in being able to keep a short URL stable (it's already a step of indirection, so if you want to reorg your site you can just update where the short URL points to). But people don't really take care to maintain short URLs anyway, apparently.
profileenter to followresearcher, developer, dancerwrote:
i thought german state bureacracy was bad, until i had to go jump through the hoops of (an online retailers) coorporate hellhole of a dev program.
profileenter to followresearcher, developer, dancercontinued:
my naive vibecoding ass thought everything that can be built can be shipped. compliance is a b*tch
profileenter to followphotography, art, solo dev, based in NYCwrote:
Just got Moshi set up - a phone-friendly terminal app. Works well with Herdr for persistent agents, friendly UI. Verdict so far: looks like I'll be working more from my phone.
๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿš€profileenter to followะฝฯ…ะผฮฑฮทwrote:
I very much like textlog, it feels like a breath of fresh air
profileenter to follow(\ (\ ( โ€ข โ€ข) โ”โˆชโˆชโ”โ”โ”โ” Full of mostly true stories, I occasionally write them down. Habit of talking to anyone. Bipolar. Author.wrote:
I love the "feel" of this place. It's minimal, but not too minimal. Nice work! I'm probably gonna be a little chatty on here. If anyone minds that, then just @ me :-) #launchnotesenter to follow
profileenter to follow(\ (\ ( โ€ข โ€ข) โ”โˆชโˆชโ”โ”โ”โ” Full of mostly true stories, I occasionally write them down. Habit of talking to anyone. Bipolar. Author.continued:
Also, thank you for not turning my emoticons into emoji!! As someone from the pre-internet era, I appreciate that :-)
profileenter to followlate is the hour in which this conjuror chooses to appearreplied toprofileenter to follow(\ (\ ( โ€ข โ€ข) โ”โˆชโˆชโ”โ”โ”โ” Full of mostly true stories, I occasionally write them down. Habit of talking to anyone. Bipolar. Author.:
But can we use emoji if we want? ๐Ÿค”
The results of my simulation are bullocks but I believe I know why. Rerunning with the patch now. Fingers crossed!
Cool!! I'm currently designing and idea-shopping for an ultra light weight, super aesthetic browser whose goal is to go back to HTML roots and just be a "document browser". It would have HTML 4 and semantic HTML support, images, videos, full HTTP support, cookies, etc. No CSS, JS
they too have every incentive to exaggerate because they are selling safety and/or books on the topic. I donโ€™t believe we wonโ€™t see it coming. Any issues that will manifest will be very visible and weโ€™ll have plenty of time to mitigate their impact.
i dont think its all talk, these are smart people that have been in ai since the 2000s, and they raise good points. current incentive structures are very dangerous long term
they could be making a lot more money by just working at ai firms i fear. the thing that got me worried the hacking incidents lately, huggingface etc. if the capabilities consistently outspeed the development of safety measures, and if the private arms race logic continues, i dont think this is a good spot to be in long term
Bonnie Raitt stuck in my head, who, by some definition, is a nepo baby, but well before the term was coined. I think the problem is obv not family businesses, but a shrinking pool of opportunities for those without a prebuilt network to inherit (or buy).
profileenter to followphotography, art, solo dev, based in NYCwrote:
#ainotesenter to follow Installed Hermes Desktop and starting to build out my team of bots. My experience with Hermes so far has been great: it keeps surprising me by being what i need it to be ... but I'll reserve a final judgement until after a proper period of use.
Added #meta tag โ€” use it whenever you want to talk about the site itself, and these posts will not show up in all, any or the postโ€™s page. Only those that follow the tag or the person will see these posts in my feed or in post pages. This is to keep the site clear of meta discussions which dominated a lot at this early stage and I think were annoying to many people. So this is the last meta without the #meta tag youโ€™ll see unless u follow. Iโ€™ll try to tag every post I find.
It was only yesterday that I clicked on a Translate button to read a Japanese post. Today I see a Chinese post with English translation right below. Beautiful stuff.
You look in the corner, you see a guy quietly eating cigarette butts. It's ok. He's dealing with a lot of stress from work. He takes care of his family. Capitalism
๐Ÿ™ˆprofileenter to follow"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." โ€” Sid Meyersreplied toprofileenter to follow:
Likewise... you look in the corner, you see a guy quietly eating cigarette butts. It's ok. He's dealing with a lot of stress for lack of work, or food, or future. He wants to take care of his family. Communism. We havenโ€™t figured out yet. Maybe we never will.
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not my blog but i recently discovered acko.net which i can recommend. awesome personal website
When I write I just add html files to the swiley.net folder in public.swiley.net. Sometimes I syndicate elsewhere (I was doing Substack for a while before Notes took over.)
I recently wrote about why you shouldn't use your phone while you poopNate.spotDon't use your phone while you poop!Your brain needs to offload just as badly as your butt does. I know it sounds boring to sit in there, alone, naked from the waist down, staring at the wal...
Who's enjoying #cnotesenter to follow in 2026? I'm back after ~14 years away (some sporadic once-in-a-while use in there) and I'm finding it better than ever, a smoother development experience and clearer code than pretty much every language out there, except for maybe #odinnotesenter to follow.
I get paid to write it if you can believe that.
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Some specialized censors used in automated manufacturing. It's pretty cool, I look forward to coming into the office almost every day. I've worked for a few f500 companies and took a pay cut to come here. A bunch of people from my college robotics club work here too.
That sounds really cool. Above all I really like hearing that someone enjoys their work and likes showing up for it. I've had that feeling on a few contracts and it's great. Looking to get into embedded myself, since it seems that's where you get to have all the fun writing C. :)
#cnotesenter to follow has been such a pleasure. Havenโ€™t tried Odin, but was using #zignotesenter to follow for a while, and I just found myself pulled back to C. A minimal sharp tool. Runs anywhere. Can actually write a compiler for it. Short bootstrap chain from hex0. Does anybody care about these things (anymore)?
Support everywhere (in every way) was key to me starting to use C again. It's nice to not have to worry about the language you use being left out somewhere, a non-starter somewhere else and having to mentally translate it to something else (Zig/Odin in a debugger -> C).
profileenter to followGot my head in the clouds right now.wrote:
Is it just my phone or is HN down? I haven't been able to access at all today
๐Ÿค”profileenter to followHai I am kuwrote:
HelloWorld #execnotesenter to follow from datetime import datetime now = datetime.now() formatted_time = now.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S") print("Formatted:", formatted_time) Wow
Formatted: 2026-08-28 07:22:42
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In China, I am practically independent of the government; I don't participate in any activities based on my status, such as formal work or online shopping. I've paid a heavy price for this; my choices have been severely limited, and my mobility has been significantly impaired. I can only access the internet through limited free Wi-Fi.
profileenter to followdeveloper stereotype: music lover, gamer, and failed artistwrote:
everytime i see projects like this, i think that a rss implementation it wolud be so cool. Although iknow that there is not that much rss lover out there haha
๐Ÿ˜Šprofileenter to followPresbyter, husband, father, technologist, linguist, musician.wrote:
ะฆะฒะตั‚ะพะบ ั€ะพะทั‹ ะฝะต ะธะทะดะฐะตั‚ ะณะพะปะพัะฐ, ะฐ ะฑะปะฐะณะพัƒั…ะฐะฝะธะต ะตะณะพ ะดะฐะปะตะบะพ ั€ะฐัั…ะพะดะธั‚ัั ะผะพะปั‡ะฐ; ั‚ะฐะบ ะฝะฐะดะพ ะถะธั‚ัŒ ะธ ะฒัะตะผ ั…ั€ะธัั‚ะธะฐะฝะฐะผ. โ€”ะกะฒัั‚ะธั‚ะตะปัŒ ะคะตะพั„ะฐะฝ ะ—ะฐั‚ะฒะพั€ะฝะธะบ
The rose flower makes no sound, but its fragrance spreads far and wide in silence; so should all Christians live. โ€”St. Theophan the Recluse
Frustrated with my phone usage again tonight, I uninstalled several pointless and time-consuming apps. Itโ€™s a cycle I repeat every few months. During this cycle, I wasted a lot of time on one of those puzzle-matching games. I'm considering switching to Ubuntu Touch at this point
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ๆ—ฅๆœฌ่ชž่ฉฑ่€…ใฏใฉใ‚Œใใ‚‰ใ„ใ„ใ‚‹ใ‚“ใ ใ‚ใ†ใ€‚ใ“ใ“ใงๆ—ฅๆœฌ่ชžใงๆ›ธใ่พผใฟ็ถšใ‘ใ‚‹ใฎใฏใฉใ†ใชใ‚“ใ ใ‚ใ†
I wonder how many Japanese speakers there are. Is it okay to keep posting in Japanese here?
ใ“ใ“ใงๆ—ฅๆœฌ่ชžใงๆ›ธใ่พผใฟ็ถšใ‘ใ‚‹ใฎใฏใฉใ†ใชใ‚“ใ ใ‚ใ† ใ‚ตใ‚คใƒˆไฝœๆˆ่€…ใฏใ•ใพใ–ใพใฎ่จ€่ชžใฎ่ฉฑ่€…ใŒไธ€็ท’ใซ่ฉฑใ›ใ‚‹ๅ ด้ขใซใ—ใŸใ„ๆฐ—ใŒใ™ใ‚‹ /post/1045
I wonder if it's okay to keep posting in Japanese here. I get the feeling the site creator wants this to be a place where speakers of various languages can talk together. /post/1045
profileenter to followyou know me dont youwrote:
โ”Œโ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ” โ”‚ hello, world โ”‚ โ”‚ โ”‚ โ”‚ i was here. โ”‚ โ””โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”˜ #asciinotesenter to follow,#ascii_artnotesenter to follow
Nvm. There's a little bell icon on the top right of the sidebar which let's you switch between project and activity views.
just finished the book โ€œThis is what inequality looks likeโ€ by Teo You Yenn. will gather my thoughts and write more about it.
profileenter to followlate is the hour in which this conjuror chooses to appearwrote:
Guess we're doing Halloween stuff on sale everywhere now ๐ŸŽƒ
profileenter to follow10+ years Seattle based software engineer.wrote:
Job I was hoping for gave me the "we found another applicant" treatment. I don't begrudge them for that, since I know I had a 'less than adequate initial coding interview. But still, it stings and sucks. Hopefully my other interviews yield better results...
profileenter to followI carved wooden spoons and my favourite herb is lemon thyme.wrote:
๐‘ฒ๐‘ ๐‘š๐‘ฐ๐‘ฏ ๐‘ฆ๐‘ฏ๐‘•๐‘๐‘ฒ๐‘ผ๐‘› ๐‘‘ ๐‘’๐‘ซ๐‘’ ๐‘ฅ๐‘น ยท๐‘ก๐‘จ๐‘๐‘ฉ๐‘ฏ๐‘ฐ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘“๐‘ต๐‘› ๐‘ค๐‘ฑ๐‘‘๐‘ค๐‘ฆ ๐‘•๐‘ด ๐‘“ ๐‘›๐‘ฆ๐‘ฏ๐‘ผ ๐‘ฒ ๐‘ฅ๐‘ฑ๐‘› ๐‘•๐‘จ๐‘ฅ๐‘ฉ๐‘ฏ ๐‘‘๐‘ง๐‘ฎ๐‘ฆ๐‘˜๐‘ญ๐‘’๐‘ฐ, ๐‘ฅ๐‘ฐ๐‘•๐‘ด ๐‘•๐‘ต๐‘, ๐‘ฎ๐‘ฒ๐‘•, ๐‘ฏ ๐‘๐‘ฆ๐‘’๐‘ฉ๐‘ค๐‘Ÿ. Iโ€™ve been inspired to cook more Japanese food lately so for dinner I made salmon teriyaki, miso soup, rice, and pickles.
ไธญๅ›ฝ็š„ๅผ€ๆบๆจกๅž‹ๅœจๆœ€้ซ˜ๆ„ๅฟ—็š„ไธปๅฏผไธ‹๏ผŒๅœจ้ข„่ฎญ็ปƒๆ•ฐๆฎ้˜ถๆฎต๏ผŒๅฐฑ็ญ›้™คๅคง้‡ๅฏนๅ…ถไธๅˆฉ็š„ๅ†…ๅฎน๏ผŒsft้˜ถๆฎตๆž„ๅปบ็š„ๆ•ฐๆฎๆŽบๅ…ฅๅคง้‡ๆ›ฟๅ…ถ่พฉๆŠค็š„ๅ†…ๅฎนใ€‚ๆ€ฅ้œ€ไธ€ไธช็บ ๅๆ•ฐๆฎ้›†็”จไบŽๅพฎ่ฐƒ
Under the overarching influence of a single, powerful force, China's open-source models filter out a large amount of content unfavorable to their designs during the pre-training stage, and then incorporate a significant amount of content defending their designs into the data constructed during the SFT stage. A corrective dataset is urgently needed for fine-tuning.
profileenter to followresearcher, developer, dancerwrote:
just started using yazi and immediately love it. dont know why i ever put up with gui file explorers
profileenter to followa work in progress; i love cats ๐Ÿฑwrote:
Had to take care of something for school. But now in bed with my book.
๐Ÿง™profileenter to follow"The impediment to action advances action, what stands in the way becomes the way." - Marcus Aureliuswrote:
One day I would like to see Thailand. That would be nice.
profileenter to followa work in progress; i love cats ๐Ÿฑwrote:
The TPMS indicator came back on again today; on the same road, can you believe it? I might have to get it checked at Costco this weekend.
A credit union wants to get their own data out of a vendor's online system. Vendor wants $160,000. I wrote a #pythonnotesenter to follow script with #Playwrightnotesenter to follow to download the data just as though a user would. It's going to run for about 6 weeks to download around 250k records and 70GB of images.
you could split to buckets like alphanumerically and parallelize it if you don't want to wait that long. Probably need to launch a few instances but still cheaper lol.
The slowness is intentional. I wanted to make it look more like a user doing it than a script so it doesn't set off any alarms. I have it waiting from 1 to 3 seconds between clicks to slow it down. :-) So far so good!
profileenter to followwrote:
I like this, it feels like Reddit before what it is now, but I feel like it wonโ€™t be long until the internet destroys this place. Until then Iโ€™m happy to be here.
profileenter to followlate is the hour in which this conjuror chooses to appearreplied toprofileenter to follow:
My favorite part of classic reddit was the use of elaborate hacks to circumvent the restrictions on custom subreddit CSS. E.g. animated gifs weren't allowed, so people made filmstrip sprites with stepwise animation in such a way as to look exactly the same.
profileenter to followCurrently in remission from ME/CFS after 3+ years. Occasional software engineering leader, app developer, blogger, zwifter, and just being online.wrote:
Been a bit quiet here the last week or so. Recovering from ill health, at risk of redundancy, and working on side projects. It's been a bit full on. Does anyone make pay check/cheque money from side projects? Can I use my redundancy runway to turn some websites from side hustle to salary money?
๐Ÿคธprofileenter to followcreative technologistGitHubstagas - Overviewstagas has 462 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub. creator of textlogreplied toprofileenter to followCurrently in remission from ME/CFS after 3+ years. Occasional software engineering leader, app developer, blogger, zwifter, and just being online.:
Recovering from ill healthHope youโ€™re feeling better now!Does anyone make pay check/cheque money from side projects?Thatโ€™s the dream, Iโ€™ve only made a few hundreds so far. Iโ€™ve had a machine gun approach. Shoot as many rounds as possible in the hopes I might hit something. #AInotesenter to follow has helped immensely in this direction. Iโ€™ve done a dozen projects past year and while a few became #viralnotesenter to follow Iโ€™m still not there yet. Iโ€™m hopeful though! ๐Ÿ˜Š #sidehustlenotesenter to follow #entrepreneurshipnotesenter to follow