OK, I think I have most of the YunoHost catalogue "scraped"; I have the version history of the applications on YunoHost, and the matching Git tag history for the related repos. Daily scraping should get this updated.
Next step is to set up publishing of the data for use by others, and some static website for easy browsing of this information.
@technomancy in IRC, you better not have a nickname that can accidentally be a substring in a message, for instance. I kinda see the point of "tags as explicit objects", although no solution satisfies me completely.
Just added jj support to my package manager ( https://github.com/alexpdp7/ubpkg ).
It took me a long time to finally switch from Subversion to Git. But once I did, I never looked back. It will likely take me another very long time to switch to jj, but installing it is a first step :-p
I have some doubts about jj's governance, but I'm crossing my fingers the situation improves.
Perhaps it's time to use this last hour before dinner to fool around with making a Visidata video. I learned it has interesting JSON support recently.
Small milestone of https://github.com/alexpdp7/selfhostwatch ; I have a deployment on my Kubernetes test host that scrapes daily the versions of YunoHost packages. The idea is to make it easy for people to assess how well updated systems like YunoHost are.
(For example, if you want to self-host Nextcloud, you could visit selfhostwatch, search for Nextcloud and view a timeline of updates across different self-hosting solutions.)
@technomancy I have played with https://github.com/boxdot/gurk-rs in preparation to moving to Signal (if it gets WhatsApp interop. few of my contacts are on Signal, and I'd rather nag them to move when there's interop with the #1 ecosystem in my neck of the woods).
Gurk worked pretty well in my limited testing. I'd prefer to bridge to IRC, but my experiences bridging Telegram with IRC make me think bridges are not ideal.
@zephyrfalcon I'm lately thinking that it's about making self-hosting easier. There's a ton of OSS feed readers, and there's stuff like YunoHost (and many others), but I feel nowadays it's harder for some reason for regular people to self-host. Many years ago I knew a lot of people who got shared hosting and ran Wordpress.
Nowadays, it feels that self-hosting your own blog for normal people is a fractal of complexity.