04 august 2016
What's going on here? What is tilde.town still doing here?
There is a deep question that has found its way into my mind after watching Mr. Robot's fifth (and currently latest) episode, "eps2.3_logic-b0mb.hc".
Are there any hacking attempts on tilde.town? It's essentially free (for the people who haven't donated via Patreon) server space with ssh access. Even the best web hosts don't give their users ssh access to the server because it's probably very difficult to keep people with ssh access to a machine from accessing other people's files.
I love how TTBP (tilde town's very own blogging platform, written by i_dont_know_whom has a grainy feel to it, like it was written as a fun project. But when I went to Github and saw the actual code, it was pretty structured and thought out. I would be embarrassed if anybody saw how badly I'd coded and structured my blogging script (that I used to use prior to TTBP's creation). I'm impressed that i_dont_know_whom even thought of integrating feature requests into the software itself. TTBP was self-contained. It's very well planned out.
Praises aside, I wish there was an ability to edit posts and have them reflect on the HTML versions too. When I wanted to make a change, I had to make it in two different places. Surely, TTBP can handle this within itself. It does allow me to make edits, but instead of opening the file in the editor I've chosen (nano), it opens it up in "vim" by default, going against my editor setting. I think this was hardcoded into the program and the ability to choose your own editor was put in later (and the required changes were not made throughout the codebase). Maybe i_dont_know_whom uses "vim" and didn't notice the bug creeping in. The lack of a test suite shows how informal this project was. Writing unit tests is never fun.
I... should stop writing now.