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11/10/2026, 05:57:09 PM
#tildefriends miscellany...
I've started presenting replies to posts of mine from accounts opted in to publicWebHosting on my public-facing blogs (ie, https://www.tildefriends.net/~cory/tildeblog/). Let shenanigans ensue.
I continue to fix replication bugs. How did it ever work? Soon I will fix the last bug, and it will be perfect.
The RSS reader is shockingly usable but still pretty minimal. I'm routinely checking it now, and I've shared a handful of links through it and seen a few come through my feeds that have already been mentioned by people here. This makes me quite happy. I haven't had this experience since Google Reader went away. In celebration I added light/dark mode support to it.
I desperately want rldu to be a thing (â¤ī¸ Sokoban). If you make and/ share a level, I will play it.
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@dtBy https://docs.tildefriends.net/vision.html, I guess. Though I immediately see it's out of date (mobile apps exist!). A variety of related things are linked here: https://www.tildefriends.net/.
Current sitch...maybe it helps for me to spell out:
- It's a fairly small C program.
- It runs on the big desktop and mobile platforms, primarily as a web server although sometimes behind the facade of a native webview.
- It does the Secure Scuttlebutt things, including replication, room, and pub support.
- It stores everything in a single sqlite database, primarily SSB messages, blobs, and its own key/value storage.
- It runs "Tilde Friends apps" by way of the QuickJS runtime and a very custom JS API that really only lets them talk to the database and the web browser.
- You can edit those apps in the browser and share them over SSB.
- When you visit apps in the browser, you can sign in as a user and pick your SSB acount, and you're prompted for permission if those apps want to do anything particularly interesting, like publishing messages to your feed or deleting data.
- It comes with a handful of apps including an SSB client interface, chess, and a makeshift wiki, but I keep adding as I find time, and my end goal is really for there to be an ecosystem outside of what I write in the repository.
@moid I gotcha. I'll make a chess rdlu level. đ¤đ
I feel like whatever's going on with identities is probably just bad feedback of what's happening on my part. I'll see what I can repro and make better.
11/07/2026, 08:47:08 PM
rdlu
From the "I wanted it to exist so I made it" department, I present: rdlu. It's a Sokoban clone. But you can create and share levels on Secure Scuttlebutt. The levels also contain full cellular automata-style rules for the game (@$_ => _@*), so you can modify and add to those, too. Finally, I made it in Tilde Friends, so you can muck with the source as much as you like and make it into your own thing entirely.
It publishes and consumes rdlu-level messages with a source field containing a description of the level and rules as text.
If you just want to see it in action, it lives here, no Tilde Friends account required to play: https://www.tildefriends.net/~cory/rdlu/.
11/03/2026, 03:41:43 PM
I'd love to see people playing with SSB like this in Tilde Friends or otherwise.
10/29/2026, 01:35:34 PM
New Windows File Explorer feature coming soon:
New! Address bar now supports ~, making it quicker to navigate directly to your user profile folder and subfolders (for example, ~\AppData).
10/29/2026, 12:51:11 PM
ssb-validation-dataset question
I'm long overdue testing against the ssb-validation-dataset, so I'm embarrassed to ask, but what's the deal with hmacKey? I've gotten along this far without validating against anything like this in practice, I think. What am I missing?