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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.