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APRIL 2017
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hello friends and welcome to the first edition of this, the tilde.town
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times! the tilde.town times is a newsletter about what is happening on
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tilde.town. it publishes on or around the 15th of every month and is
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completely open to contributions! please see the section on contributing
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if you would like to help towards the next edition.
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1. tilde news
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2. new software
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3. ~ page spotlight. this month: ~nossidge
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4. new members
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5. a note from the editor
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6. a moment of reflection
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hello and welcome to the tilde newsdesk. not all of these developments
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are recent but then this is the first issue and so everything from now
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until the very beginning of time is technically within our remit for
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"news". therefore I will try to be brief.
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NEW SIGNUP TOOLS!
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our beneficent overlord ~vilmibm (tilde.town/~vilmibm) has created
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an amazing set of new user tools! the code is all available in the github
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repo here (https://github.com/tildetown/tildetown-admin) and there are a
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bunch of issues that anyone is welcome to pick up here
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(https://github.com/tildetown/tildetown-admin/issues). all contributions
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are very welcome!
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NEW MASTODON INSTANCE!
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tilde.town hero ~insom (tilde.town/~vilmibm) has created a mastodon node
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for us at https://tiny.tilde.website. here you can sign up and see what
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all other members of tilde.town are tooting about. toot away!
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STARBOUND SERVER!!
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we still have a starbound server at starbound.tilde.town! sign up today
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if you would like to do a space imperialism. more details / starbound
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chat on the irc channel, #starbound
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we have a couple of amazing new pieces of software available to everyone.
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BOTANY!
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botany is a wonderful place where you can go if you would like to grow a
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plant. water your plant and play it electronic music. don't neglect your
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plant or it will whither and die. here is the editor's plant:
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. , _ . ., l, _ ., _ .
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^ ' ` '
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an oozing young snapdragon. thank you so much to ~curioser
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(https://tilde.town/~curiouser/) for this amazing project.
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A FORUM!
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~desvox (https://tilde.town/~desvox/) brings us an amazing forum tool!
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access it with the command bbj. go and chat with your fellow tilde
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friends.
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~ page spotlight is an area where we take a look at a user's ~ page. old
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or new, this is an opportunity to shed light on some of the beautiful
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projects that are hosted on tilde.town. this month we're looking at
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~nossidge (http://tilde.town/~nossidge).
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there's lots to love about nossidge's ~ page. I think the most surprising
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thing for me is the sheer breadth of stuff on here. every time I visit
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this page I find something new and every time that thing is completely
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amazing.
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for those unfamiliar with nossidge's oeuvre, a perfect place to start
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is the collection of javascript experiments
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(http://tilde.town/~nossidge/tilde). nossidge describes them as "a
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collection of tilde themed JavaScript sketches that lead to the next".
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the artistry on display here is really striking. each experiment
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is surprising and delightful in a different way. they're a really
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sweet display of nossidge's aesthetic and their amazing technical skills.
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of the other things on the page there are too many to do justice. the
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poetry strewn across the page is unrelentingly wonderful. my favourites
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are the procedural poems made from game text with sonnet the hedgehog
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(http://tilde.town/~nossidge/#sonic) being a stand-out.
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but amongst the more obvious items are some less well-known delights.
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here to say (http://tilde.town/~nossidge/heretosay) is a constant
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delight. quiz (http://tilde.town/~nossidge/quiz) and crossword
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(http://tilde.town/~nossidge/crossword) are wonderful uses of the irc
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logs. pac man (http://tilde.town/~nossidge/pacman) is a mind-blowing
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achievement.
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~nossidge's page demonstrates a really rare combination of digital artistry
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and technical mastery. their page is truly inspiring and an outstanding
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example of what can be achieved by our community.
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welcome everyone who has joined recently! here are the new members and
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their ~ pages. a ** indicates they have updated their index page!
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• http://tilde.town/~the_tation/
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• http://tilde.town/~stuck/ **
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• http://tilde.town/~leetspoofer/
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• http://tilde.town/~tehfraga/
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hello everyone! editing the tilde.town times is great fun but it is also
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a fair bit of work. my hope with this project is to get more people
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collaborating on the amazing things going on around the town and also
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provide more visibility for different projects. you can help out by
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contributing to the newsletter! there is a github repo for it here
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(https://github.com/tildetown/newsletter) where you can read the
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CONTRIBUTING.md for info on how to get involved. I would love it
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if you could contribute whatever you can. thank you for reading.
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~jumblesale x
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our moment of reflection this month comes from tilde.town member ~elly
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(http://tilde.town/~elly/).
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"the key to being positive is to regularly take time to appreciate the
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beauty of the world and all things in it imo"
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thanks elly.
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