I've been mostly writing bash scripts to automate things around development, testing and publishing of my demo and it's been fun.
At the same time it feels like I'm not doing the "important stuff" of developing the demo, when in reality it will make time doing that way more efficient. 🤷♂️
However, the final script is on Windows, to build and upload to an ftp server, so my Windows torture isn't quite over.
At least I have ftp working now.
BTW Windows' standard #ftp is useless so... #WinSCP
I'm currently being reminded how I hate having to use #Windows and how insanely crap is support for online hosting.
I'm trying to upload using Windows ftp command and it all goes fine, even the file is created on the server but the file is empty due to some error establishing the data connection.
Some report solving this error by setting passive mode in the client, which #Windows10 ftp doesn't support
Support guy tells me: create an #FTP account and you can use Windows ftp or any FTP client 🤦♂️
Something created in 1989 that changed how people used , viewed then-nascent #Internet had nearly vanished by 2024. Nearly because dogged researchers, enthusiasts at The Serial Port channel on YouTube have found what is likely the last existing copy of #Archie. Archie, first crafted by Alan Emtage while a student at McGill Univ in Montreal allowed for searching various "anonymous" #FTP servers around what was then very small web of unis, researchers, govt military nodes. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/archie-the-internets-first-search-engine-is-rescued-and-running/
Archie, the Internet’s first search engine, is rescued and running:
A journey through busted tapes, the Internet Old Farts Club, and SPARCstations.
It's amazing, and a little sad, to think that something created in 1989 that changed how people used and viewed the then-nascent Internet had nearly vanished by 2024.
🧵 …nun gibt es auch einen Artikel auf Deutsch zum obigen Thema. Vor Google gab es einige Suchmaschienen davor aber die hier erwähnte, war die erste im Internet.
»Das war die erste Suchmaschine des Internets:
Archie konnte FTP-Webseiten auffinden. Das Programm galt als verschollen, wurde nun aber wieder entdeckt und in Gang gesetzt.«