In a recent phlog entry, Jirka 
mentioned that he couldn't find any 
SDF members with a .plan file. That 
got me thinking about the purpose of 
finger: to convey contact information 
and provide something along the lines 
of status updates.

For a while now, I have been 
considering running a gopher-based 
(and gemini-mirrored) microphlog. I've 
seen a few people with Twitter-esque 
gopher feeds around the smolverse. 

But finger is really the perfect tool 
for ephemeral smolnet microblogging. 

So I wrote up a quick bash script to 
create a feed for finger "microblogs."

Copy the script below to a file, make 
it executable, and add new addresses 
to poll, each on their own line, in 
the addresses section.

Run the script to read other users' 
finger-blogs -- and of course, just 
add your current status or whatever 
random commentary you see fit to your 
.plan or .project file to post! 



#!/bin/bash


addresses="
visiblink@zaibatsu.circumlunar.space
someuser@server.org
someotheruser@server2.net
"


separator () {
echo >> readerfile.tmp
echo "===================================================================" >> readerfile.tmp
echo >> readerfile.tmp
}


echo "===================================================================" > readerfile.tmp
echo "                            FingerFeed" >> readerfile.tmp
echo "===================================================================" >> readerfile.tmp
echo >> readerfile.tmp


for address in $addresses 
do
  finger $address >> readerfile.tmp
  separator
done


less readerfile.tmp

rm readerfile.tmp