Planeta Oops
Se segues o Planeta Tilde e te sentes vítima de spam por causa do refrescamento de uma das feeds... Oops, é culpa minha - quem diria que isto de manter um planeta consegue ser complexo... Prometo tentar ser mais cuidadoso de futuro!
tags: curtas, planeta, tilde, tilde.pt, pt
Não é procrastinação, é... outra coisa
Eu, a olhar para o planeta tilde depois de lhe acrescentar o maiquetilde:
"Já corrigia o template do planeta para não deixar o conteúdo da coluna esquerda ir para cima da coluna direita..."
Também eu, a olhar para o mesmo planeta:
"...e se eu fizesse um blog post de boas vindas ao tilde para o ~maique? Até se deixava de notar os problemas no planeta tilde e tudo!"
Ou, por outras palavras: bem vindo ao tildeverso, ~maique!
tags: tilde, tilde.pt, tildeverse, pt
multi-aspell: a treat for alpine users
Probably more useful to users of tilde.pt, but maybe others of the tildeverse who speak more than one language and use alpine as a mail client, today wrote a very small shell script called multi-aspell.
multi-aspell is an helper script that shows you a list of (pre-defined)
language options to run aspell with.
It was written with the purpose of replacing the aspell invocation from alpine, in order to let you choose which language you want your e-mail to have its spell checked (useful if you're used to write mails in more than one language).
Now, before sending an email, alpine will ask me wether I want to spell check it in Portuguese or English, and then use that language to check the e-mail with.
Of course, comments, issues, patches or feature requests are more than welcome. Enjoy!
tags: pine, alpine, tilde.pt, tilde, tildeverse, aspell, multi-aspell, en
From ~marado to @marado
Speaking yesterday with someone about tilde.pt, which he found out about due to my contributions to botany, it took me a while but I did realize that there is a generational issue recognizing a ~, or, in particular, recognizing it as a way to refer to someone.
Once upon a time, before @username was the common way to refer to a person (who
came with that first? twitter?), ~username was so. UNIX users will still be
probably used to do things like cd ~ to go to their $HOME, or even ~user
to refer to some other person's home. But I do not think that's where the most
common ~ recognition comes from: instead, what people will most remember is
the number of websites of "white pages" (as some other person refered about
them to me as), that had, as an address, http://institution/~username.
So, where does this ~ come from? Well, there was a time where every machine
connected to the web was more or less expected to have Apache's
httpd running, and it had a useful module, called
mod_userdir. UserDir actually was inherited: Apache's httpd started in 1995
as a continuation of the NCSA HTTPd webserver, and NCSA not only had the
UserDir directive, it was actually active by
default.
What does all this means? Well, it means that, by default, UNIX machines with a
webserver running would probably have NCSA or later Apache's httpd, which, by
default, would be allowing each of that server's users to have their own
website, at the address http://server.address/~username , and to have something
in there they'd just have to put some html pages into their public_html
directory.
tags: history, tilde, UNIX, username, apache, httpd, userdir, en