~~~Tilde Tips & Tricks~~~

Please send tips, tricks, or questions to ~pfhawkins' server mail.

Places To Start

• ~anthonydpaul wrote a primer. It is short but n00b-friendly.
• ~procload's index has some good starter information, some of which is included on this page.

Secrets of the Tilde Masters

• ~qqwy over at retronet.net wrote a search engine of the entire tildeverse!
• ~kentbrew wrote some instructions to hack around the modern browser's intransigent refusal to honor the blink tag
• JOIN THE WEB RING
• Also ZARATE MADE US A BADGE
• The club now has a twitter bot. Check and see if your tilde usage will harsh its gibson.
• A really open database for storing javascript objects.
• Autolink ~usernames in your HTML.
• email.club Send electronic mail to others on the server who want some. Now with its own badge.
• Find ~tildenizens in meatspace.
• See ~tildenizens link to each other.
• Snoop on other ~tildenizens public_html disk usage.
• See a listing of all the pages on tilde.club.
• Watch Star Wars on the server with other ~tildenizens.
• Dynamic visualization of ~tildenizens linking to each other.
• Set up sshfs to edit your tilde files as if they were on your local machine.
• Port forwarding in ssh so you can connect to tilde's irc from a local irc client.
• ~jonathan wrote up some really useful info about screen.
• Here's a collection of ~.club games.

One-Liners

• Change Shell To Bash

chsh -s /bin/bash

• Set Your Location In Your Plan

chfn -o "Your City Here" username
chfn -p "Your State/Province/etc. Here" username
chfn -h "Your Twitter Here" username

N.B.: finger/plan does not have a field for twitter, so we are experimenting with repurposing a field.

• Turn Terminal Beep Off On Linux (h/t ~silver)

xset b on|off

(might need to be run prior to window manager loading)

• Read Everyone's Plans

ls /home | while read -r line; do finger $line; done | grep -A1 Plan:

• Retro Crappy Fonts [CSS]

font-smooth: never; -webkit-font-smoothing : none;

• Log chats in irssi from within a chatroom

/SET autolog ON

• .slrnrc config for autowrapping lines in vim

set editor_command "vim '+set tw=72' +%d '%s'"

APIS

• List of all tilde.club users.
• List of recently changed pages. Covers the previous 24 hours.
• List of alternate tilde sites.

External References

• HTML Goodies (archive.org capture) is a great resource to learn how the web was built mid-to-late nineties.
• HTML 2.0
• Disable ssh timeout on your local machine to keep the wall coming when you're not there.
• Get rid of the annoying terminal beep in OS X.

Miscellaneous

• ~pfhawkins' list of other tilde sites.
• ~schussat's Alfred workflow if you run a mac and use Alfred. Fire up Alfred, type "tilde username" (only with someone's username), and their tilde page opens in a browser.
• Browse with Mosaic in OS X (requires homebrew).