Hi tarocchilla!

It's funny you get to mention that. I'm currently building something like that. I wanted to publish it this weekend but it will have to wait a little more.

This is such a fascinating topic! I amazed at the quality of the answers. What I love in this part of the internet is the focus on people. Regardless of the layout we use or the protocol we decide to publish in, we create because we can't not create, and we grow and learn from these connections with other human beings. We build our websites to learn who we are and as a gateway to our own universe. It creates a sense of intimacy, of vulnerability, one that reflects real feelings. The choice of technology is so interesting too: simple languages are harder to hack, the lack of interactivity reduces spam, not being on a platform reduces anxiety. We're not being alienated to build followers. We have fewer interactions, but deeper ones. Slow becomes a virtue!

Just a tiny little update to let you know that the journal spec now looks for H2 within the article instead of H1: there are many benefits that should come out of this. Rational.

Also! The Atom support has improved and doesn't add the title within the content.

I'm so happy to see that you've started this wiki! It looks incredible too.

Thank you Melon, this is great feedback! That's definitely one of the shortcomings of the current Atom <> HTML Journal implementation. I'll need to review the part of the spec that talks about titles as well: at the moment, they aren't mandatory:

<article>
 <h1>2022-06-23</h1>
 <p>some text</p>
</article>

The above is a valid entry. I have a few ideas!

Woohooo

It's now on the kiosk! You also get an automatic Atom feed from your updates right there: https://journal.miso.town/atom?url=https://melonking.net/home.html

Unrelated: I love the fact that you wrote a zine!

Ohhh awesome! I think what's missing to validate is the month part of the date to be two characters, e.g. 2022-06-22 vs 2022-6-22. If you change that I can add it to the Kiosk.

Also it would be nice if we could use custom date formats somehow, because while ISO is ok.. its not may favourite, I don't find it very human readable because humans don't need to know the year first, we already know what year it is!

Dates can be so hard! It's a good point though.

I always love your site(s) and ideas! I'm really inspired by them and what I see on sites of people from this forum too. I was writing my journal and maintaining a feed.atom file that I was updating manually. And while it's cool, I'd rather write the journal entry once than on 2 different places. :omg:k:

Either way, this is a really cool project!

Thank youu <3

I think my homepage would prob confuse it, can you add the option to make Neon look for content within a specified id as the article area?

That's a good point! You'd like to make sure other parts of the page that aren't journal entries won't be mistakenly treated as such? If so, I think your page would be fine: HTML Journal looks for every <article> with an <h1> that starts with an iso 8601 formatted date as its 10 first characters. If the article doesn't have such an h1, it's discarded. I've created a validator to help making sure the page follows the right format and is read correctly.

Also I assume it supports multiple <p>'s per article?? Oh and what happens if I have other things in there like images? It would be cool if it created a link like "IMAGE - Click here to view"

At the moment, it just shows everything that's in the <article>, including images, any HTML tags, also <script>, which I should probably forbid!

EDIT: Also how did you solve the issue of generating consistent unique IDs for atom? I ended up manually numbering all of mine because there was no way to count them once old ones were removed from my homepage.

Oh yes, that was definitely challenging. I've written this spec that describes how to go from an HTML Journal to an Atom feed. Here's the part on ID generation:

An entry's required "id" element is equal to the concatenation of the feed's "id", a # character, and the entry's title (e.g. feed_id#title). Any space character should be converted to "-".

Hello hello dear forum friends!

Recently, I've been developing a little format to write journals in HTML. Here is what the format looks like:

Code

<h1>My journal</h1>

<article>
 <h1>2022-06-21</h1>
 <p>Welcome to my journal!</p>
</article>

If your page has the above elements, it will be recognized as an HTML Journal. HTML Journals can be automatically converted to a web feed (Atom), so anyone subscribe to it and be notified when you update it.

And so where can you read all the journals, you ask? It's on the Neon Kiosk: an HTML Journal aggregator. If you publish an HTML Journal, you can send it over to the Neon Kiosk and updates will appear there.

I hope this helps lower the barriers to publish a feed for our updates. Hope you like it!

Hiii everyone! I thought I'd give an update on this one. It's changed quite a lot since the moment I started working on it. It's now live on wobble.town!

I went through many iterations with this project, starting with a much more complex idea: re-create an online tamagotchi that features most of the functionalities of the gen 1 & 2. These are incredible little devices but they require lots of time and attention. Perhaps, a little too much? I didn't want to create something that might induce stress to someone as they go through their day. Or that requires them to stop what they are doing to play with their tama. I wanted something simpler, something calming. So I decided to strip down the idea to one essential thing: feeding the tama at least once every 5 days. If you can't feed it, it's okay, other people can... although the tama might get sad. After a while, the tama grows into different stages (child, teenager, adult...). I've changed the name to Wobble, because it's a funny name, and here we are! Also huuuuge thank you Neonriser for sending drawings! I've used some but not all... yet!

Hi all!

Over the last few weeks I've been having fun building what's essentially a tamagotchi simulator. It's a server where tamagotchis live, sleep, age, etc. It replicates a lot of the Gen 2 functionalities. One connects to the server through a browser and every action happens live.

There is still a lot to be done! I'd love for this project to be collaborative, I know there are some incredibly talented artists around here, so if you ever want to take part, take a look at this page.

The display is very small with only 32x16 pixels. I've created a simple tool on the above link to make creating tamas / assets simpler.

I'll update you all on how it's progressing!

Such a great question, and so difficult to recall... am I that old?! Haha.

I think it must've been Free Ski. I used to play it on Windows 3.1. It looks like it's still possible to play it today from here. Beware, as you progress there might be a monster that might follow you and you may be traumatized. But it's fun!

Welcome to the forums saturn! Make yourself at home

Another spirited away fan, maybe we need something spirited away themed around here

I also love Spirited Away! Yes, Melon -- looks like something needs to be done :omg:k:

Where do I even start with this?

Nightfall City is a fictional internet city. It's home of the Midnight Pub (which is located in a small alley off Main Street). It's a project I created a while ago that underwent a few iteration. It started as a "pubnix", a public computer anyone could connect to to create their static websites, then it changed into a feed aggregator for blog posts.

Yesterday, I decided to change it into a directory of websites. It's organized in ":grin:istricts" inspired by Geocities. The site lives on both the web and gemini, so if you're interested, go ahead and submit your website!

Do you know Minesweeper? This game exists for as long as I can remember. It was there on the first computer I ever had, which ran Windows 3.1, even older than good ol' Windows 95 (yes, it's an old system!). But for some reason I never got to learn how to play the game. When I was younger I would just click everywhere hoping to win.

And somehow yesterday I decided to learn how to play Minesweeper. It turns out the game is incredibly addictive. I enjoy how it requires thinking and identifying patterns. I like that the games are short (under 5 minutes, depending on the size of the grid). But what I love the most is how timeless everything is.

When I go to minesweeper.online it says that there are more than 1000 people playing currently, which blows my mind!

I'm still a beginner at Minsweeper but it's becoming my new addition!