Midnight Pub

2024-10-28-22:43:53-Monday-10

~inquiry

2024-10-28-22:43:53-Monday-10

And g'nite, y'all!

2024-10-28-22:26:07-Monday-9

<slaps forehead with open palm of right hand>

<Deity>, I'm an idiot!

The solution to posting frequency is simple:

One post per day.

So, accumulate multiple "entries" of a post all day.

Start over and do the same the next.

That allows for the need to post alot without flooding the main page.

Simple!

2024-10-28-21:53:20-Monday-8

Point blank: liberals are the mentally ill of the social spectrum who - for a season - found a way to guilt the rest of the spectrum into following a victim-based moral code.

But....

GAME OVER

2024-10-28-21:37:58-Monday-7

I can't tell you how much I'm enjoying some monitoring tools I created. They're almost certainly not what experts in the field would do: no comments in the code, probably not nearly enough reuse, purely for the command line, and so on. But, wow, I can't tell you how good I feel seeing the likes of the following accumulating in a tmux pane due to having started what I'm calling "link monitors" against specific links in the background:

=== skyjake === Mon 28 Oct 2024 08:35:47 PM CDT
gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2302 inquiry — 2024-10-28-20:11:22-Monday-3
=== mp_notifications === Mon 28 Oct 2024 08:38:09 PM CDT
https://midnight.pub/replies/9852 detritus | 2024-10-28-20:11:22-Monday-3
=== mp_diff_mon === Mon 28 Oct 2024 08:39:06 PM CDT
>   /replies/9852 detritus
=== mp_diff_mon === Mon 28 Oct 2024 08:50:37 PM CDT
< /posts/2302 2024-10-29 inquiry - 2024-10-28-20:11:22-Monday-3
> /posts/2302 2024-10-29 inquiry - 2024-10-28-20:48:54-Monday-4
=== antenna === Mon 28 Oct 2024 08:56:05 PM CDT
gemini://gemini.ucant.org/gemlog/2024-10-29_new-tool-for-making-atom-feeds-from-gemini-posts.gmi 2024-10-29 Ucant Gemlog: New tool for making Atom feeds from Gemini posts
=== mp_diff_mon === Mon 28 Oct 2024 09:01:12 PM CDT
< /posts/2302 2024-10-29 inquiry - 2024-10-28-20:48:54-Monday-4
> /posts/2302 2024-10-29 inquiry - 2024-10-28-20:59:08-Monday-5
=== mp_notifications === Mon 28 Oct 2024 09:04:28 PM CDT
https://midnight.pub/replies/9853 detritus | 2024-10-28-20:59:08-Monday-5
=== mp_diff_mon === Mon 28 Oct 2024 09:05:32 PM CDT
>   /replies/9853 detritus
=== mp_diff_mon === Mon 28 Oct 2024 09:08:13 PM CDT
< /posts/2302 2024-10-29 inquiry - 2024-10-28-20:59:08-Monday-5
> /posts/2302 2024-10-29 inquiry - 2024-10-28-21:06:34-Monday-6
=== mp_diff_mon === Mon 28 Oct 2024 09:12:42 PM CDT
>   /replies/9854 inquiry
=== skyjake === Mon 28 Oct 2024 09:15:41 PM CDT
gemini://gemini.ucant.org/gemlog/2024-10-29_new-tool-for-making-atom-feeds-from-gemini-posts.gmi Ucant Gemlog — New tool for making Atom feeds from Gemini posts

Don't know if you can get the feel for what's going on just by looking at it, but whenever a monitor for a link awakens every 60 seconds, and detects that meta-content at that's link endpoint changed since the last look, the monitor simply writes the likes of the above to its stdout, and it all comes together in said tmux pane in a way that looks better than Picasso to me.

The "mp_notifications" monitor is what you'd expect if you've ever gotten Midnight Pub notifications of replies.

But the "mp_diff_mon" is an ongoing "diff" of the output of successive (again, on 60 second boundaries) invocations of a script I wrote called "mp-scrape" that returns all posts and their replies in a certain simple format such that "diff" is all it takes to understand changes along the way.

(If ~alex is tuned into this (doubt it, but I'd love to be wrong), it's how it was easy to understand your posting/replies history.)

2024-10-28-21:06:34-Monday-6

I see the "feed":

feed link at bottom of main page

is being updated with each update... looking at the details, the entry's <title> subtag, as well as its <updated> subtag are changing with updates.

But I've no idea if all/most/any feed readers honor the <updated> subtag... or is it just when there are new <entry> tags appearing in the .xml?

2024-10-28-20:59:08-Monday-5

So, think about it. This is the fifth update to this post. I just so happened to have a fair amount of time on my hands tonight, and wanted to make a point about this posting style.

But I might have had that kind of time during another given day. Would you rather I'd put five "entries" in post, or created separate posts, meaning there'd have been five new posts on the site's main page. How would that have struck you? As "Oh my, that inquiry surely has a lot to say!" -or- (in a post possibly entitled "What's happening?"...) "My <deity>, what a *dick* that flippin' ~inquiry is, what with polluting the main pages with five posts today! What will it be tomorrow? 10? Then what? 20? Wher[en]ver will this madness end?!??!? Pretty soon no one else will be able to slide a new post in sideways 'cuz his'll quickly push them down and out of visibility!"

(hope you caught the post title reference)

2024-10-28-20:48:54-Monday-4

So, I noted this content in a reply to this post:

> From: detritus In: 2024-10-28-20:11:22-Monday-3
>
> Interesting

What I'm struggling with at this point is that if I clear the body content every new calendar day (in my timezone), that reply will no longer be contextually relevant, but it'll still exist.

Which I *think* suggests:

1) I *shouldn't* clear the post body content every day to be respectful replies.

-OR-

2) I should have the authority/means to delete replies that only made sense in the context of past/deleted body content. It's hard to make a case for that constituting being respectful to reply authors unless everyone understands what's going on and isn't violently opposed.

The second is probably too much to ask - never mind (assuming I had that authority/means) would probably require more work than I'm willing to put, i.e. having to delete all replies relevant to a given calendar day.

Trouble with (1) is that I can be somewhat of a posting machine on some days, so if I continue to accumulate daily postings until the post drops off the edge of the site's main pages, it's going to get quite long.

2024-10-28-20:11:22-Monday-3

So... again... on the next calendar day in my timezone, *if* I update this post, I will begin by removing all the body content, and start anew, accumulating entires along the way of the same day. The title will always reflect the latest.

<tires screeching to a halt>

And FWIW, I can't think of a better example of liberal mental illness than to perpetually call everything their opponents say is "hate" but *never* explain why it's hate. They say their opponent is "Hitler", but never explain why. And so on.

They proclaim, but don't explain.

And since they typically do that while visibly hysterical, well... the deductive math is pretty simple....

2024-10-28-20:01:18-Monday-2

Oh! I forgot to add that entries will never be more than a calendar day's worth in my timezone. But I won't clear them to start anew unless I post on a new calendar day.

And, of course, this update illustrates a new entry in today's content in this repeatedly-used post.

2024-10-28-19:51:04-Monday-1

Given my desire to not leave posts here indefinitely (being on the front page is long enough), I'm thinking it might be interesting to periodically update the same post, including the title, which I'm thinking might look something like:

2024-10-28-19:51:04-Monday-1

(perhaps as a level 2 or 3 heading?)

The last number is a monotonically increasing positive integer that returns to '1' when moving on to the following day.

What I can't decide is whether to always replace all the body content, or reverse append new entries - ongoing-ly separated by the above date/time/version stamp.

Finally, I'd empty the title and body content once the post is no longer on the front page.

If/when you want to reply to something therein, you block quote, including the date/time/version stamp.

The other thing this solves is not feeling too ridiculous for having gobs of posts in the same day. Yeah, I know, I could accumulate throughout the day and post once, but, well.. I dunno, just trying to think a little differently, here.

Or does this sound/silly/ridiculous/unnecessary/an-attempt-to-solve-a-problem-that-doesn't-exist? I won't be offended no matter how stupid you characterize it. I've been down dumb obsessive paths before.


brewed

This is so interesting! I love how you're experimenting with different ways to post. Curious to see how it plays out.

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inquiry

I appreciate the feedback. Thank you!

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detritus

how about a system where people have to 'git clone' your posts, check the diff for previous posts, and make pull requests to reply?

Just throwing ideas :^)

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inquiry

I must admit I've not used git in years, but I do believe I recall what you're talking about.

Hard to say. I mean, in what *I* consider an ideal world, the whole interactive Pub experience in a terminal would be essentially orgiastic to those who love such. But there's always the risk that becomes exclusive of great people/minds that simply haven't had reason to become a terminal psychopath.

_As it were_.... :-)

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detritus

Interesting

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