[vox] Talk idea: "back to the terminal"

[T. Mark]

That sounds groovy, Bill.  I find myself more productive at the CLI for sure (gotta sit down & learn `tmux` some day as the podcasts have been talking it up.. used to use `screen` on pre-graphics boxes, modeming into mainframes..) 
Your mention of IRC<>Twitter reminds me of something I came upon lately--  an RSS-to-Newsgroup generator, that serves you the feed on their free newsserver.  I poked around and am using Pan to browse my podcast feeds now.. all the GUI ones (Firefox addons I was using) are clunky in various was but this way's nice.  Get to see a bunch of other stuff people have put there, along with mine too.
I've long been meaning to give a talk, but have been too perfectionist as a developer, to the point that I still don't have  a 'release' of a re-spin of the distro I use "ready for prime time".  Sometime soon hopefully--  could use some paying work first, so's to have operating ca$h..

Happy Springtime all,
 Mark


3. Apr 2017 22:41 by nbs at sonic.net:


>
> I see no objections... should I just do it? ;)
>
> -bill1
>
> On Sat, Apr 01, 2017 at 10:32:35AM -0700, Bill Kendrick wrote:
>>
>> As I've been futzing around getting on the Internet with my little
>> 8-bit Atari, with the help of Linux, it occurs to me that others
>> out here may find some of these 'old-school command-line' tools
>> useful for their own purposes.
>>
>> For example, today I just found out there's an IRC gateway to
>> Twitter and other social networks (as well as, unsurprisingly,
>> instant messenger protocols).  And a week or so ago, I discovered
>> a stream-based text terminal interface to Twitter.
>>
>> I'd be happy to talk about (and _possibly_ demonstrate) some
>> of these.  I actually use some of this stuff in my day-to-day
>> life, not just when I'm pretending it's 1993 and I'm BBS'ing
>> at 19.2Kbps.  For example, Mutt is my email client of choice.
>> (Gmail is that thing I use to test HTML emails at work, before
>> sending them out to users. ;) )
>>
>> Would there be any interest?
>>
>> And while I'm here, is anyone interested in speaking
>> (either instead, in April... or down the road)?  We're in need
>> to guest speakers again! :)
>>
>> -- 
>> -bill!
>> Sent from my computer
>
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