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Ctrl-C.club news
- In sad news, Bram Moolenaar, creator and BDFL of Vim, has passed away: https://groups.google.com/g/vim_announce/c/tWahca9zkt4?pli=1
- ~gome is putting on a Webjam for the whole server! See the announcement on the front page, or go here for details.
- ~loghead has released the first edition of Ctrl-ZINE, a zine started here on Ctrl-C.club. Read it here!
- There's a new search-centric Iris client: iris-search! See Iris thread 268 for more details. Thanks so much to ~nodisc for writing this for us!
- Hugo, the static site generator, has been installed. Thanks to ~tg0 for the suggestion!
- As part of ~nodisc's work on an alternate Iris client, fzf is now available. Enjoy!
- ~nodisc has written an alternate client for Iris, with search! Check it out in Iris thread 268!
- Thanks to ~loghead, ii (irc improved) and sic (simple irc client) have been installed. Enjoy!
- The Mastodon command-line client `toot` has been installed. Thanks, ~protodrew for the suggestion!
- ~loghead has been working on some more documentation for Iris. Check it out!
- Bywater BASIC has been installed! Thanks go out to ~balglaas for requesting it!
- The R language has been installed, for all your statistical needs! Thanks to ~enochthechronocom for the suggestion!
- SBCL (Steel Bank Common Lisp) has been installed. Thanks, stack, for the suggestion!
- ~quadruplea has put together a script,
newstuff, which gives you a quick view of what everyone on the server's been up to lately. Check it out!
- The low-flow plant-growing game "botany" has been installed. Thanks to ~captainvic for the suggestion. Enjoy!
- We've fixed a permissions issue on the server that was affecting web pages, Gemini capsules, and Iris. Big thanks to ~fabian for bringing up the issue!
- Ctrl-C.club finally has SSL on the main site. Please reach out if you notice any issues.
- Want a text-based Twitter without all the gibberish of Twitter? We now have twtxt available!
- The server has (finally) been upgraded! There are probably a few
gotchas and missing items, please don't hesitate to reach out over IRC
or email at eric AT pencricket.com. Also, you may get a huge SSH
warning next time you log in that the server's identity has changed.
This is expected. Thank you, everyone, for your patience!
- Thanks go out to ~samthecoder for requesting bb.sh, a blog-creation bash script. It's now available for everyone to use. Instructions here.
- We have some new policies coming in the new year. Please take a quick look! New Ctrl-C.club Policies
- Amfora, a Gemini browser has been installed. If bombadillo is not your cup of tea, you have another option.
- Iris has been updated to a new version! Not only is it much
faster, now, by default, it only shows new messages that have appeared
since the last time you checked! Enjoy!
- Not only has ~timemachine
been doing some technical blogging, he was kind enough to track down an
issue with our PHP config. Now your PHP pages should work directly
from your public_html directory. Enjoy!
- m4 1.4.17 has been installed. Enjoy!
- We've got our own Gemini server running now! See who's got their
gemini site set up by typing `bombadillo gemini://gemini.ctrl-c.club`,
or build your own in `public_gemini` in your home directory.
- Bombadillo, a browser for gopher and gemini sites, has been installed. Enjoy!
- The `jed` editor has been installed. Enjoy!
- Nim has been on the server for a while, but I forgot to post about it in the news section! The 0.19.0 compiler is available.
- Iris has a new version out-- 1.0.8. This is mostly a bugfix and
testing release, so you shouldn't see too much different. Big thanks go
out to Ubergeek for the bug report!
- Development and support for Ctrl-C.club is now provided by Surge Forward Consulting, and hosting is provided by Mount Olive Software, LLC!
- Hey all! I apologize for the outage earlier, but we're on the
receiving end of a DDOS attack. It looks like it may have cleared up,
but I'll keep an eye on things. Thank you for your patience while we
weather this.
- Racket 5.3.6 is now installed. Go get your Lisp on!
- We're now part of tilde.chat! Many thanks go out to ~benharri for helping get it all set up!
- gforth has been installed-- get some practice writing code for microcontrollers!
- mono-complete has been installed, for all your .NET framework needs!
- Ctrl-C.club is proud to host a patching repository mirror for Kwort Linux! Thanks go out to ~nomius, who distributes Kwort!
- We've just reached 300 members in our little community! Welcome to ~LemonMan, who has the 300th account on Ctrl-C.club!
- Big languages update: OCaml, Pony, and Clojure have been
installed. Additionally, a lot of our languages have been brought up to
more recent versions. Check the FAQ for a full list!
- tintin++ has been installed, for all your MUDdy goodness. Have fun!
- ~0x00ctrl made a page listing the social networks our users have posted on their personal pages. Awesome stuff!
- Happy birthday Ctrl-C.club! Today, February 11 2018, marks three years since our first user signed up!
- Iris, a text-based forum, is in development on our server! Try it out!
- Server hardware has been upgraded-- we now have twice the RAM and disk space! Have fun!
- Hledger has been installed, if you'd like to track your accounting/finances from the terminal. Enjoy!
- It looks like I managed to break the system-wide install of
bake at some point-- it's been fixed and should be working for everyone now. Thanks to ~lee for letting me know!
- WOOHOO! Looks like we may have all the email issues cleared up, both internally and externally. Try it and see! Let me know if you have any issues.
- In a rare moment of productivity, I've gotten the wiki fixed. Have fun!
- The Crystal programming language has been installed. Enjoy!
- Weechat has been upgraded to 1.8
- Ruby has been upgraded to 2.3. Ruby 1.9 is still available as `ruby1.9`
- Redis 2.8 has been installed. Enjoy!
- HTML SSI (Server-Side Includes) are available and working now!
- We've had to install the fail2ban utility to block hackers trying to brute-force our accounts. Send an email to admin@ctrl-c.club if you have trouble logging in and we'll get you fixed up!
- The reptyr and sponge utilities have been installed for your bash-ing pleasure.
- LLVM has been installed. Enjoy!
- Elm, a modern compiled functional language for the browser, has been installed.
- Curse of War, a real-time strategy game, is now available.
- The Lua programming language 5.2.3 has been installed. Enjoy!
- Unfortunately, due to spammers, I've had to put a captcha on wiki
edits. If you have any problems with or suggestions for the captchas,
let me know at admin@ctrl-c.club
- The game ninvaders has been installed. Now you can play Space Invaders from the command line!
- We just signed up our 100th user! Welcome, ~atidix!
- There was some minor downtime this afternoon due to a botched
upgrade. Additionally, ctrl-c.club will be down tonight (8/27/2015) for
about ten minutes at 22:00 EDT.
- We have a documentation wiki! Finally! Go check it out, read, and contribute! https://ctrl-c.club/wiki
- Ctrl-C.club now has a tilde.json as described in the Tilde Description Protocol.
- jq has been installed, for those who like messing with their JSON from the command line.
- Both spell and aspell have been installed. Happy spellchecking!
- ~philips has updated his blogging tool "bake" to support multiple bakefiles and RSS feeds. Check it out!
- Elixir 1.0.5-1, a Ruby-like successor language to Erlang, has been installed.
- ~philips has been working on Bake, a templated blog generator. It's been installed for anyone to use, so give it a whirl!
- Tired of bash? Want to try a different shell? zsh 5.0.2 and fish 2.0.0 are installed!
- Clang 3.4 has been installed.
- Sinatra 1.4.6, a lightweight web framework for Ruby, has been installed.
- We will soon be scheduling an IRC town hall to discuss how to
welcome more members to Ctrl-C.club. Keep an eye out for your
invitation!
- Rust has been upgraded to 1.0.0 stable.
- GDB 7.7.1 has been installed. Happy debugging!
- Rust 1.0.0 beta 4 has been installed!
- Somehow Haskell was installed without Cabal. This has been rectified, and Cabal 1.16.0 has been installed. Thanks ~caasi for the heads-up!
- Toilet 0.3 has been installed. If you like the look of figlet, but want colors and Unicode, check it out!
- Ikiwiki version 3.20130904 is now installed!
- The Alpine news and mail reader has been installed.
- Meteor 1.0.3.2 is installed and available!
- Java 1.7 is now available!
- SQLite 3 has been installed, if any of you need an SQL database.
- GNU Octave has been installed for the use of our mathy types!
- ~bear has put together a map of Ctrl-C.club users. Find it here! Read the description of the page to find out how to opt-in.
- We hit the milestone of 50 users! Everybody welcome nmael, our newest Ctrl-C.club member!
- ~endorphant has set up a World File at /home/endorphant/HELLO.txt. Hop in and leave a message saying howdy!
- As you've probably noticed, we've updated the layout of the front page. Let us know what you think!
- We've upgraded the server and doubled our RAM! Have fun with the extra room!
- The Python programming language is available! Version 2.7.6 has been installed.
- The Inform programming language (and docs) have been installed, for those who want to write text adventure games.
- For those who want to write webpages without HTML: pandoc and asciidoctor have been installed.
- There are now a couple of ways you can support Ctrl-C.club... using our referral link, or with bitcoin!
- BSD Games have been installed! This includes rogue (for those
who find nethack too intimidating), canfield, sail, tetris, phantasia,
snake, Air Traffic Controller (atc), and others. Have fun!
- New software: wyrd (a console calendar/reminder system) and mc
(Midnight Commander file management) have been installed. Have fun!
- IRC is back up! Log in at irc.ctrl-club:6667!
- So naturally, after announcing our IRC server, I promptly broke it. I will update as soon as it's back up.
- We have an IRC Server running now at irc.ctrl-c.club:6667. Hop into #chat and join the conversation with some of our regulars!
- ~endorphant is building a page to make a narrative out of our nethack sessions! Check it out!
- ~pgadey keeps building new stuff! Now we have a place where you can see whose pages have been updated lately.
- We now have some docs on communicating with wall, who, finger, and write. Thanks, ~pgadey!
- See the nethack high scores here.
- PHP has been installed and is available.
- The Go language has been installed and is available.