tilde.town and fond memories

I joined tilde.town in 2019 when I was learning about the 'command line' and Googled free live servers I could join.

There was an pretty active chatroom (on weechat) where the founder posted YouTube music links every day, and hundreds of people are making things. You could publish anything as well by just moving files to a specific location under ~.

I opened my ssh config file today for some reason I couldn't remember and found the entries for tilde.town and tilde.club, so I want to log in and see what's new.

I really like a new homepage of tilde.town where you can go to a user's publishings by clicking on a dot.

https://tilde.town/~acdw/toys/4000.html :(

https://tilde.town/~hush/blog/2025-02-26.html - some people are writing serious blogs (unlink this one you're reading rn) very actively on tilde.town!

https://tilde.town/~vilmibm/recipes/cabbage.html - founder's recipe

https://tilde.town/~vilmibm/recipes/adobo.html - this style of GIF on such simple html pages are rare these days!

https://tilde.town/~vilmibm/paths/ - "choose your own adventure" game

in my memory, tilde.town was a pink page, like this one: https://tilde.town/blog.html

These communities are so cool, I can't believe I was a part of it 🥺

did I publish on tilde.town? nope

what I did was stalking other people's processes' command line, see who was using tons of CPU or storage, and install the Archlinux compatibility layer and run pacman (because I hate apt and the very limited packages). And I ran weechat to see what people were up to.

I watched some of the 2024 town con's videos, and I like this one:

https://youtu.be/ljXuvr_S858?list=PLj4wZTN7SYTtE2vjgcp_AXi6bC1Zwu2PS&t=1210

This guy was not majoring in computer science, but he loved technologies and found this great place (just like me).

He talked about how he was disappointed in learning about how the algo course is just about proving things 😔