Posted on 2024-09-15
01 Plain Text Programs
Hi. I'm here to talk about Plain Text Programs, what they are, what they do, why they're good, and why they're not for everything. Right up front I'm requesting feedback on what I have to say. I'm on Mastodon and I'll start a thread for each podcast or you can reach me by email.
My Mastodon address is
@hairylarry@gamerplus.org
My profile is at
https://gamerplus.org/@hairylarry
And my email is
hairylarry@deltaboogie.com
Also you can Network With Hairy Larry at
https://deltaboogie.net.
In the future I plan on doing podcasts on specific Plain Text Programs, some that I wrote and some that were written by others. Any program that I will discuss will be licensed with a free culture license.
The first thing I want to emphasize about Plain Text Programs is that there's no database like SQL or LLM. All text data is written in plain text files stored on a file system.
Now, I love databases. Before I retired I was a database programmer. And as a database programmer I learned a lot about the difficulties maintaining programs that rely on databases. There's a lot of cool stuff you can do with a database that's just not reasonable to try with plain text. Now that I'm retired I don't really want to work that hard anymore. I want programming to be easy and fun.
Plain text does not mean there can't be images or other media. Image files like .jpg or .png can be stored in the file system just like text files. No worries.
A big advantage of Plain Text Programs is portability. To back up a working program you copy the directory tree that holds the program's files. To install or restore a Plain Text Program copy the tree onto a system or server.
I usually work on Linux using the PHP programming language. This is of course my preference. Any language running on any file system can be used to write Plain Text Programs.
My minimum install will usually have a configuration file, at least one program file, and a set of text files.
Some of the Plain Text Programs I use all the time that I wrote are
Websites
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Dirt Simple Photo Gallery
Plain Text Blog
Not Actually Plain Text Blog
Network With Hairy Larry
Internet Radio
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MixRemix - Creative Commons Jazz
KGPL
Utilities
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Backup The Web Server
I also use Plain Text Programs that other programmers wrote
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Music Folder Player
https://github.com/ltguillaume/music-folder-player
Free PHP File Directory Script
https://halgatewood.com/file-directory-list
Simple Image Browser
https://github.com/SammysHP/SimpleImageBrowser
Links to these programs are in the script.
So these are mostly websites or web applications but Plain Text Programs do not have to be outward facing. They can just be an easy program that you write to automate a task that you have to do periodically. Like my Backup The Web Server program that I wrote in bash.
I write my Plain Text Programs websites so that updates and additions are made with FTP. FTP is a well established secure way to transfer files from your development system to your web server. Another good option, particularly for static websites that are generated on the development system and then mirrored up to the server, is rsync.
I believe that simplicity is the key. I have written complicated Plain Text Programs including the social network writing game, Collab. But I think a simple one page or few pages design fits the plain text paradigm better.
Well, I'm going to call this a wrap for now. I plan on covering specific Plain Text Programs in future podcasts and I may occasionally step back and look at the big picture or discuss ideas and specifications for future projects.
Thanks for listening. I appreciate all you comments.
You can find the plain text script with the link to the comment thread and all other links at home.gamerplus.org, a Not Actually Plain Text Blog.
Comment thread link.
https://gamerplus.org/deck/@hairylarry/113142858145586294
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Jimi Hendrix Experience Live In MauiAlbum Artwork
Posted on 2024-09-14
This is Hairy Larry inviting you to enjoy Something Blue every Saturday night at ten. This week we’re featuring the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Neal Francis, and Delta Legends. For more about the show visit the Something Blue website at sbblues.com.
https://sbblues.com/2024/09/07/changes-3/
Don’t miss Something Blue, Saturday night at 10:00 PM CST, at kasu.org.
Neal Francis Live at Framily Fest on 2020-09-05
archive.org/details/nealfrancis2020-09-05
www.nealfrancis.com/
The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Live In Maui
www.jimihendrix.com/music/music-money-madness-jimi-hendrix-in-maui/
Delta Legends Live at The Fall Ball on 2017-09-30
archive.org/details/hl2017-09-30
deltalegends.com/
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Snowflake And CcMixter-Peace Of Winter
Posted on 2024-09-13
MixRemix On Anonradio - From The Creative Commons Jazz Library - 2024-09-13
jazz.mixremix.cc
https://archive.org/details/ccj2024-09-13
Snowflake & ccMixter-Peace of Winter
https://www.jamendo.com/album/55877/peace-of-winter
Vélos - Boom Boom Beckett
https://www.jamendo.com/album/4234/velos
Gaiapeace-piano works
https://gaiapeace.bandcamp.com/album/piano-works
Recycle by SmokedBeat
https://smokedbeat.bandcamp.com/album/recycle
Bilboquet 2016by Bilboquet
https://bilboquetofficiel.bandcamp.com/album/bilboquet-2016-2
Pharmacopia-Questionable Questions
https://www.jamendo.com/album/476896/questionable-questions
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Jimi Hendrix Experience-Live In Maui
Posted on 2024-09-07
This is Hairy Larry inviting you to enjoy Something Blue every Saturday night at ten. This week we’re featuring the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Neal Francis, and Delta Legends. For more about the show visit the Something Blue website at sbblues.com.
https://sbblues.com/2024/09/07/changes-3/
Don’t miss Something Blue, Saturday night at 10:00 PM CST, at kasu.org.
Neal Francis Live at Framily Fest on 2020-09-05
archive.org/details/nealfrancis2020-09-05
www.nealfrancis.com/
The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Live In Maui
www.jimihendrix.com/music/music-money-madness-jimi-hendrix-in-maui/
Delta Legends Live at The Fall Ball on 2017-09-30
archive.org/details/hl2017-09-30
deltalegends.com/
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Oleg O Kachanko-Fashion Runway
Posted on 2024-09-06
MixRemix On Anonradio - From The Creative Commons Jazz Library - 2024-09-06
jazz.mixremix.cc
https://archive.org/details/ccj2024-09-06
Oleg O Kachanko-Fashion Runway
https://www.jamendo.com/album/180884/fashion-runway
In Unexpected Places - Bruce H. McCosar
https://www.jamendo.com/album/52977/in-unexpected-places
Strange Boat, Strange Cargo - Régis V. Gronoff
https://rvgmusic.bandcamp.com/album/strange-boat-strange-cargo
Graymic-Selected vol 2
https://www.jamendo.com/album/498638/selected-vol-2
Fortadelis-Unexpected Journey
https://www.jamendo.com/album/178342/unexpected-journey
Tom La Meche-Voyageur
https://www.jamendo.com/album/751/voyageur
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Posted on 2024-09-03
Delta Boogie Newsletter-Gamerplus News - September 2024 - Blues Fest, Beatles Park, and Busking
https://home.gamerplus.org/permalink.php?fname=Delta_Boogie_Newsletter-Gamerplus_News_-_September_2024_-_Blues_Fest,_Beatles,_and_Busking.txt
I have the Blues Fest Schedule
Blues Fest
Craighead Forest Bandshell
Jonesboro, Arkansas
September 29, 2024
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2:00 Bebop Beatniks
3:00 The Spencer Brothers
4:00 Doug Butler
October 6, 2024
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2:00 Hairy Larry and The Flying Hungarians
3:00 Mike Mcleod
4:00 The West Finch Blues Band
5:00 Delta Legends - John Shepherd, Jeremy Burnett, and Hairy Larry
6:00 Anna and the Tanks
And the week before Blues Fest.
KASU Arkansas Roots Stage At Beatles Park On Abbey Road
Beatles At The Ridge Festival
Walnut Ridge, Arkansas
Saturday Afternoon, September 21
1:00 Bebop Beatniks
2:00 Doug Butler
3:00 The Spencer Brothers
4:00 Mike Mcleod
5:00 Anna and the Tanks
Then on to The Biscuit and our Halloween show. But that's next month.
I've been working on my repertoire with an audience by busking on Main Street in Jonesboro.
Hairy Larry Plays Chill Jazz Piano August 24, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XkYT1bXy_w
Hairy Larry Live On Main Street August 30, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHYbdst3qsY
Please enjoy.
On the gaming side I played in two family games over the Memorial Day weekend. Carl Heyl ran a game on Saturday and then Simon Foster was the DM on Sunday. I am running one off Milyagon Adventures at Library Game Day in the Round Room at the Jonesboro Public Library on the second Saturday of each month. Milyagon is a low fantasy locale that Vivian and I worked on over the last ten years.
Let me know what you've been doing. Send me links to your music, art, and games so I can feature it on Delta Boogie, Gamer+ and in this newsletter.
Please forward this email to your friends and share this link.
https://home.gamerplus.org/permalink.php?fname=Delta_Boogie_Newsletter-Gamerplus_News_-_September_2024_-_Blues_Fest,_Beatles,_and_Busking.txt
Thanks,
Hairy Larry
hairylarry@deltaboogie.com
Network with Hairy Larry - https://deltaboogie.net
@hairylarry@gamerplus.org on Mastodon
Or visit my profile - https://gamerplus.org/@hairylarry
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John Shepherd
Posted on 2024-09-04
DJ Hairy Larry presents Delta Legends Playing All Over Again
Thanks Marty, I've got a great blues song this week performed live at the Fall Ball by Delta Legends.
https://sbblues.com/2024/09/04/dj-hairy-larry-presents-delta-legends-playing-all-over-again/
On September 30, 2017 Delta Legends took a road trip down to the Mississippi Hill Country to play at the Fall Ball. We originally booked to busk on Saturday morning but they offered us a slot early Saturday afternoon so we got to play that too. "All Over Again" is a blues standard made famous by B.B. King and Paul Butterfield. It's one of our best songs and inspired by the festival stage we nailed it.
And, about that busking Saturday morning. We recorded that too and those songs are included on our CD, "Two Woman Blues". It was a very productive day.
Now here's Delta Legends playing "All Over Again".
DJ Hairy Larry presents Delta Legends Playing All Over Again
From The Archives Of Something Blue 2024-08-11
https://sbblues.com/2024/09/04/dj-hairy-larry-presents-delta-legends-playing-all-over-again/
Delta Legends Live at The Fall Ball on 2017-09-30
Something Blue Archives
https://archive.org/details/hl2017-09-30
Something Blue Archives - List Of Concerts
https://archive.org/details/somethingbluearchives?sort=-publicdate
music
And that's "All Over Again" played by Delta Legends on September 30, 2017 at the Fall Ball in Mississippi.
Tune in to Something Blue Saturday night at 10:00 to hear the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Neal Francis, and Delta Legends.
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This is Hairy Larry inviting you to enjoy Something Blue every Saturday night at ten. This week we’re featuring the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Neal Francis, and Delta Legends. For more about the show visit the Something Blue website at http://sbblues.com.
Don’t miss Something Blue, Saturday night at 10:00 PM CST, at http://kasu.org.
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Now Playing On Something Blue - Sky
https://sbblues.com/2024/08/31/sky/
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