Greetings everyone! Well, greetings you, in particular. Thank you for reading this entry. It's an honor to be on your screen currently. Always blows my mind that words can be transported all across the world. So hey! 
 Today I've updated Nightfall City. 
 
 I changed it quite a lot, and I hope for the best. If you don't know what Nightfall City was, then feel free to check: 
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I've been working on a forum software for a few weeks now. I just realized I haven't spoken about it in here yet. It's a simple forum inspired by phpbb. It started as a fork of Midnight but I soon realized I wanted to do something very different. The main difference is that it has a flat-thread approach. It's not possible to branch conversations, unlike on Midnight. To create a new branch, someone…
From my last post: 
 Or perhaps I just need a good vacation. Not the kind where I stay home, but the kind where I go somewhere. A mountain maybe? Take a little retreat from the speed, the noise, the 'now' and the let my only anxiety be to know if the coffee is good. 
 Well, that's happening. Starting tomorrow, I'll take a week at the mountain, and I'm thrilled. The last time I went to the…
I'm writing much less than I used to. That's in part due to a lot of work during the day and relatively short time to work on projects during the evening/morning. However, as the world goes by at increasing speed, it gets hard to not to feel overwhelmed. Some days are quieter than others, but on this Monday morning I'm really feeling the force of the kinetic energy pushing. This is going to be a…
The small net isn't a social network, yet it's deeply social at its core. Meaningful connections happen naturally. I think it works thanks to three components: a homepage (Web, Gemini, Gopher, other?), a feed and an email address. Those three components enable most of the features a traditional social network offers. 
 A homepage is a lot like a profile. It introduces who we are, what we like…
A small one to let you know that I've added an atom feed that aggregates all the messages posted on Smol Pub. 
 You'll find the link to the feed at the top of the '/feed' page: 
 Feed Page 
 
 Happy holidays!
During my commute a few days ago, I read about chat.sr.ht. It's a service that simplifies using IRC. As a teenager, I've hoped on and off from IRC channels without ever fully appreciating the technology. It was mostly a mean to ask people about a programming question, get the answer, and move on. Fast forward to now, I can't help but notice how communities are built on closed platforms like…
If you're wondering what I've been doing for the last few weeks, wonder no more: I've been working on status.cafe, a place to share your current status. It all started when I discovered imood, a service that's been around for more than 20 years. It allows people to share their current mood. In many ways, it's a lot like micro-blogging, but centered around feelings. What's incredible is to see that…
While I value diversity of opinion, Smol Pub cannot be used as a mean to share any kind of idea and content. Smol Pub is an inclusive place comprised of human beings connecting respectfully to one another. To that end, I've added Posting Guidelines [1] to the manual. Please go ahead and read them. It's important for the future of Smol Pub. I'll have no choice but to remove accounts that…
Greetings reader! I hope your Saturday (or perhaps another day?) is going well. On my end it definitely is. Today I created a new homepage and updated smol.pub. 
 Find my long overdue web homepage right there: 
 https://m15o.ichi.city 
 
 I hope you like it! If you'd like a web space to create your own, just shoot me an email, and I'll happily send you a key. 
 In the page, I…
I'm always surprised and excited when I discover something on a technology that I thought I knew everything about. It happened with atom. A few days ago I received a message from crussel who found a vulnerability on ichi [1]. Not only did they explain a way to solve it, but they also mentioned that if we add an email within the atom/rss feed, people who use supporting clients can reply directly to…
I love Internet suites. A set of desktop applications used to help us navigate the internet, write emails, subscribe to RSS feeds, even connect to IRC and compose web pages! Almost like an IDE for the web. I tried SeaMonkey for almost a month and if I didn't run into JavaScript issues on sites I often used, I wouldn't continued to use it. 
 It's a weird thing to say, but it feels fresh to…
It's cold and sunny outside. I love this weather. There's something comforting about wearing warm clothes and stepping out. Halloween is right around the corner, and we're headed to the winter season slowly but surely. 
 For the last few weeks, I've been working on a new project, ichi.city [1]. If you know NeoCities, it's that, just smaller and with less features. It's a tiny community that…
This was my first week back to work after a two weeks vacation, and I'm comfortably writing from my kitchen. Chemex is next to me, the smell of coffee overtaking the room. That's the perfect way to start a Saturday. This week's been incredibly busy at work, but it's September, and that's where the Summer months yields to Fall, so that's to be expected. While the outside gets colder every day,…
I can't even count how many hours I've spent writing the following blob in tal. It draws a line using Bresenham's [1] algorithm. It doesn't handle all the cases (e.g. x1 needs to be > x2), but I'm fairly happy with it. 
 

@line ( x1* y1* x2* y2* c -- )
	,&color STR ROT2 LTH2k DUP ,&dec STR #01 EOR #06 JCN SWP2
	SUB2k NIP2 OVR2 ADD2 SWP2 STH2 STH2 SWP2 OVR2 OVR2 STH2…
While I looove emails, a good little form does wonder. So if your feed isn't yet on Nightfall, go ahead and add it! The form is currently web only, and I might create a gemini version of it. 
 Nightfall City form 

I just discovered uxn, a programmable virtual computer with its own assembly language. I spent a few hours learning it over the last couple days and it's extremely fun. I did do a little bit of assembly when I was in engineering school around 10 years ago, but it's nothing like 'uxntal' (or simply tal), the assembly programming language that comes with uxn. It comes with great ideas that makes…
When visiting your journal on smol.pub, you are presented with your posts. However sometimes we want to add a little more to the list of posts. For that we can add a header and footer to the list. But what if we want a little more? A sort of cover. Or just a page with links, one of them being your posts page? I love the concept of a home page. That's one I've re-discovered while exploring the…
After thinking about thoroughly, I'm not going to add a 'hit' counter to smol.pub. There's a beauty in writing only for the art of writing, and I'd love to thank everyone who reacted and gave me insights! 
 hexdsl wrote: 
 Don't do it! We shouldn't write for the audience we should write because we can't not write! 
 I thought this was a really fun way to put it. It's true, we can't not…
I've found the Winamp Skin Museum [1] and it's been a fun trip. Winamp was such a landmark, distinctive software. A product of its age. We could download it, theme it, make it our own. It was also true for lots of software of that era. I remember using ICQ quite a lot, and spending hours to customize it. I added a terrible sound anytime someone sent me a message, and it even got really annoying…