neildaemond's tilde.club page

Here's the gist:

My official homepage is neilpahl.com.
My official blog is at 808.ninja.
I like to hang out at the dimsumlabs hackerspace in Hong Kong and #dimsumlabs on Libera.chat.
I've been having such an adventure exploring and joining other tildeverse communities (and even the wider multi-verse). I hope to do casual & themed writing on their related gopher/gemini/html sites.

♫ ~ The tildeverse is real! ~ ♫

What's the deal with `'tilde.club'`?

An excerpt from The story of Tilde.Club:

A website-managing friend of mine promptly wrote back: "tildes are only ever properly used in front of usernames on shared hosting." Wait, what? ... So! Back in ye olden Inter-Net tymes of the 1990s, if you were a (then youngish) nerd like me, you'd get an account on some server called CyberFox.net and your web address would be http://CyberFox.net/~vixen. (You were "vixen.") And you could put some web pages at that address. The early personal web grew up around these little "tilde sites"; that's what preceded blogging.

Note: These "tilde sites" are often purposely styled similarly to the webpages built in the early 90s, paying homage to that era of computing.

What do I do with my account here?

For one, I use irc for pure text chat with various communities:

tilde.club provides weechat command line irc client (see docs here).
tilde communities have their own channels on the tilde.chat irc server which, if I recall correctly, is already configured/accessible for weechat installed on the server - you just need to join with a command in weechat like /join #cosmic. I can add other irc servers like, for example, Libera.chat to reach any of their hosted channels, like #dimsumlabs (my local hackerspace in Hong Kong).
I use screen to keep it running when the terminal closes. Starting it up, I give it a session name 'wc' with screen -S wc weechat. Then, when I log back in, I can do screen -dr wc (detach and re-attach the screen with session name 'wc').
Connecting to the 'Weechat Android App':
This has been a bit of a game changer which enables me to bring my irc instance with me everywhere. Here's the 'Quickstart Guide':
https://github.com/ubergeek42/weechat-android/wiki/Quickstart-Guide.
Keeping irc connected and open on my macbook:
(Another game changer.)
A friend taught me a trick using iTerm2 where I create a profile which uses a startup command involving mosh to keep a persistent ssh connection despite any intermittent network disconnects. I have the profile fill the page vertically, and its startup command is zsh -i -c "/opt/homebrew/bin/mosh [email protected] -- screen -dr". Having that, I can start iterm2 with the profile "mosh_to_tilde_irc" on bootup by using an applecript I pieced together and posted here as a gist on github.