You’re right! I can’t believe I forgot that “detail”. I will update the article when I get home. Sorry about that! Thanks for pointing this out.

I’m not sure where you got the idea lynx doesn’t support https, but it does.

There are a few text based browsers that support more modern features as well. Elinks for example has mouse support and tabs. Links2 also supports graphics, even in framebuffer mode. So technically your OS is text only, you can still browse in graphics mode.

Glad you liked my article!

I don’t use Lynx more than a few times a month (this was a thought experiment, mostly). My understanding of the SSL issues in Lynx is that it is related to how the distros configure OpenSSL. I never bothered looking deeper into the matter, but have heard from users on HN that it is possible, it’s just not the default on most [Debian based?] systems.

If someone out there does use Lynx on a regular basis, would love to hear about a solution.

Holy False Dilemma, Batman!

lynx supports HTTPS just fine. Always has, for values of “always” including “longer than most here have been programming”. There’s nothing about HTTPS which excludes lynx or any other text browser.

How does MQTT fair against HTTP with billions of users? HTTP has the advantage here for not needing to be stateful.

As the article says too: sometimes HTTP makes sense. IMO the title should have something like “You should use a real pub/sub broker, not HTTP - VerneMQ is one”.

Wow, that’s neat. Did you open source it, by any chance?

I wrote a cron job that uses espeak and notify-send to tell me “Please make a log entry” every half hour. I was going to put it in the article, but people always give me funny looks about it so I left that part out ;-)

Maybe I will make a part II to this article.

I’ve solved this with a physical journal. I find it’s harder to forget when it’s in front of me. Downsides, my handwriting could be better, so it’s not the easiest thing to review. Plus it’s organised chronologically, rather than by task.

Not yet as far as I can tell. The other ATS documents are available in PDF and epub.

What I like about jrnl’s date syntax is how easy it is to inject events into the past. For example I just got interruped by a coworker so I can tell jrnl after he left: “jrnl 45 minutes ago: hunt for bug foo #32456”

OMG. This is almost exactly what I need in my life.

Never heard of jrnl before. Thanks! I am using my own scipt log-append, but it’s only meant to report what’s happening right now. In workplace I plug it into booting, shutting down, screen lock and unlock too, so I have rough estimate of time spent outside of desk and time spent in work in general. My other scripts help me here: day and month (which I have somehow forgotten to commit and push).

It’s actually a huge deal. If you were around the web in the late 90’s, you may remember plugins like “ThirdVoice”. It was basically Disqus, for every website, managed externally from the website.

Social sticky notes + social comments + notes for any site.

I haven’t read the spec yet, but I imagine this is significant for taking discussions out of the “walled gardens” and giving that control back to users. I would quite like the ability to discuss a websites content without needing to register for an account on every page I visit.

Although many won’t remember ThirdVoice today, it was quite disruptive in that regard. It gave end users to have a discussion on a medium that was entirely separate from the main site. I even recall websites such as SayNoToThirdVoice.com (or this one I found via google that is still online) organized by webmasters who felt they were losing control over discussions about their site. It will be exciting to see where this one goes.

I’m not even really sure I understand what it is.