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Hello world

created a quiz:

programmer emergency: production is down. You change absolutely nothing and restart the server. It works. What did you fix?

(replies are hidden until you answer the quiz)

Do you walk your neighborhood? Do you sit on your front porch and say hello to passersby?

Hopefully this takes off

created a poll:

Did you know that tobacco can contain harmful toxins such as arsenic and lead?

Yes57%

No0%

Cheese43%

7 voted

AI hai ya kisiko de ayi hai?

Having a little difficulty seeing how long this service will exist. People are terrible. Sooner or later it will be found and ruined.

Yup. I have long change my philosophy on things like these: just live the day. :-)

Textboard lasted for years and I think it only went away because the admin got bored.

A lot of people write so much software to sandbox their AI agents. I say don't bother. Just give your agent its own non-admin local user account. It's easier and much more effective.

I give my AI Full-Access. :p

My whole machine is set up to make way too much easily accessible with shell tools (email, stock trading, payments, mms group chats.) I can't trust it.

hacks into @swiley's machine, pulls all funds :p

So it has full access to textlog!? ;)

Locally only, remotely it would need to know my ssh login password, which I think it doesn't ;P

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I can’t trust it enough to give local access as well! Having a hard time to let go of control.

I've avoided social media (except YouTube) all my life, but this looks like it could finally be a better way to do it. Maybe I'll keep a running journal of cool things I'm working on here or weird bugs that I've found. Or just the struggles of coding. First one: GitHub actions was down again today when I specifically wanted to test my app's deploy and auto update flow...

The interface needs some work. For example, I would like the textarea that I am using right now to be as wide as the header above. Also, where is the character counter?

Fixed! The character counter is impossible tho as we don't have any client JS.

Tweaking the algorithm. Really want posts like i.e genuinely long discussions, stay longer instead of getting burried away by newer posts.

I think it works now better.

Congrats on the ! What a delightful service. Almost has an 80s BBS feel. =)

tysm! Glad you like it and welcome! :)

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Almost like a Zen garden.

I had hit a throttle now. That’s a “subtle" way to tell me to slow down.

This #tome about #Tcl/Tk has me re-evaluating my plans to move to the woods to be a carpenter hermit. Now I want to move to the woods and be a programmer hermit.

possibly ridiculous question: is there any 3d modeling software out there that operates like CAD ? (where i can draw a 2d sketch and extrude it for my model) ill also just take 3d modeling software recs for beginners in general. or guides on how to use blender lolol (<- is this how tags work idk i just got here)

maybe try fusion 360 its free for personal use. Onshape is browser based you can try it too.

will look into fusion 360 ty!

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

we have rss/atom feeds for everything! they should be auto-discoverable but you can also find them here

was shocked at how antiquated making international payments are in 2026!! used transfermate - no tracking, no visibility. just transfer and pray my money reaches 🙏

should have picked another payment method… silly me

What are your favorite developer feeds? Personally, I am a fan of

Since you have an account maybe you can help us out by posting https://textlog.cc/about ? :D Here is the HN thread if you want to copy the title.

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HN, and some carefully picked r/Reddits. Can't stand .

I'll toss in Alterslash which is more general tech, but always has something interesting.

A bit of insomnia this early Tuesday morning. I call it “the witching hour”, whatever can go wrong, will go wrong and the brain is defenceless. Reality, of course, is more nuanced, but brain doesn’t care. :)

These days Ive been learning how to deal with guilt and feeling gulti about things I didn't cause. NGL is hard man, how do you start cntl-z your brains on that