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RSS2025-09-21 - NOSTR
I've lately been messing around with NOSTR. What I like most about it is that it's pretty close to what I would have implemented - users are defined by cryptographically secured profiles (your identity is your public key) and all of the information is hosted on relays.
It's basically uncensorable. As long as there are relays that are willing to host your information no one can prevent you from publishing it.
Another interesting property is its inherent association with Bitcoin. Most of the crypto and address standards come straight from the BIPs, and so many people who post on the network are BTC-maximalist crypto-anarchists. I feel right at home.
2023-03-06 - PHP Tiny Blog Engine
I recently met user Turboblack from rawtext.club and he shared his PHP Tiny Blog Engine link with me (download as a zip file from the link in red).
2023-01-22 - Generated Blogs and RSS
I've just finished a first round of improvements of the news feed on this
server (that's the thing containing the text you're reading right now :-)). Now
new posts are generated from simple text files. Full versions of a post can be
independently linked and there's a dedicated news page and
an RSS feed.
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2022-12-29 - rawtext.club and twtxt
I recently learned of the existence of rawtext.club -- a site that aims to be a social network built around the shell and very simple text protocols. Very cool stuff!
In reading the reddit thread on it, I also discovered twtxt, a simple microblogging protocol also based on text files.
2022-11-21 - Style Switching!
For the infidels out there, you can now select "light" style from the select form below. This sets a cookie that works entirely client side. You don't have to be a logged in user. The downside is that you need to do this for every browser.
2022-11-13 - New server
We're now running on a sweet new server program (dubbed "dweb"). This will allow us to do a little more with this site going forwards.