I finally did it and moved to a more appropriate "home realm" for a #FreeBSD enthusiast. Thanks @stefano for offering this!
Moving followers worked flawlessly, restoring all my settings was pretty quick, but of course all my old toots are left on https://techhub.social/@zirias 🙈
So I guess I'll introduce myself here by writing a little thread, adding a few of my works that someone might find interesting. But first a bit of "who am I":
I'm a "professional" software architect/developer (mostly #dotnet platform in the day job), FreeBSD hobby-admin and ports committer, #C64 fan (and occassionally coder and even musician), and apart from computers also interested in music (playing a few instruments myself), traveling, cooking, sometimes sports, sometimes politics ... but probably won't toot about any non-technical stuff (or, very very rarely).
Also quite recent: #dos2ansi. This is a very versatile converter for #MSDOS#ansiart (and other "text") files to a format using #Unicode and only standard #ANSI#SGR escape sequences, so, suitable for today's terminals like #xterm. It includes an ansiart viewer which is "just" a shellscript, leveraging dos2ansi, xterm, less and some nice original #IBM fonts to do its job. So, maybe something for the #retrocomputing fans.
With the VOD release of the Textmode Graphics compo at @revisionparty, here is "Everyone Loves the Nightlife", the #ANSIArt entry I sent in remotely. I'm sorry I cannot be there in person, but I hope everyone's having a great time at #Revision2024! #ANSI#Furry#FurryArt#RevisionParty
Wow. Durdraw was written about in Linux Magazine's April 2024 issue! Thanks to Andy Herbert for taking this photo, and to @degville for writing the article! #ansiart#durdraw#asciiart#linux
Niklaus Wirth, computer scientist and father of the Pascal programming language, sadly passed away on January 1st this year, less than 2 months short of what would've been his 90th birthday today.
Screenshot shows displaying some random #SAUCE metadata, and the new (finally, lol) flag to display version info (also note the license matching my favorite OS, #FreeBSD)
Season's greetings from the Fire crew to all you textmode aficionados, and here's the release you've been waiting for all year long... the Fire 2024 ANSI Calendar.
“#Durdraw is an ASCII, ANSI and Unicode art editor for UNIX-like systems (Linux, macOS, etc). It runs in the terminal and supports frame-based animation, custom themes, 256 colors, terminal mouse input, IRC color export, Unicode and Code Page 437 block characters, and other interesting features.
Durdraw is heavily inspired by classic ANSI editing software for MS-DOS and Windows, such as TheDraw, Aciddraw and Pablodraw, but with a modern Unix twist.” #bbs#ansiart#ansi
I've been dying to work more on my old school BBS system but I've been such a good boy to focus on finishing Bustina. But now that that's over... Time to get geeky! Any bbsers on here?