Hey folks -
Sort of a shameless plug. I've created a
finger service that serves as a companion to my
BBS. I've been whoring out a friend's finger
service to advertise my board and have been
epically lazy about doing my own. While I'll
keep that old finger around, this one is far
more than a business card.
The idea came from using the weather
finger. It's something I've used constantly
for at least the last dozen years or so. When
I first learned about it, it never occurred to
me that finger could be used in such a way. So
I did some digging. Old, underused protocols
doing cool shit is hella rad.
Right now the feature set is limited, but
there's more coming soon. Some of the features
are adapted from doors I wrote for my BBS
(hence the "companion" part).
Others are being spun out of a door currently
in development that will serve as a baseball
portal. For the non-US crowd: baseball is our
national pastime, whether the rest of the planet
finds that remotely interesting or not.
Current offerings:
dictionary - definitions via API movie query -
movie info via API baseball - schedules, scores,
and league standings via API
The baseball portal will be expanded to include
a lot more information. The sub-fingers will
be updated with the respective triggers as
new features come online. Once I'm satisfied
with that, I'll move on to other ideas in the
toolbelt. I want this finger to be dope as hell.
Anyway, if you're a smolnet nerd and curious,
411 below.
--
Daniel
sysop | air & wave bbs
finger | info@bbs.airandwave.net
movie query - movie info via API
Sort of a shameless plug. I've created a finger service that serves as a companion to my BBS.It's good to keep finger alive. I added you to my H3TEXT > . Looks good
Old, underused protocols doing cool shit is hella rad.
For the non-US crowd: baseball is our national pastime, whether the
rest of the planet finds that remotely interesting or not.
On Sun, 17 May 2026 03:30:29 -0700, Daniel wrote:
Old, underused protocols doing cool shit is hella rad.
No cap.
For the non-US crowd: baseball is our national pastime, whether the
rest of the planet finds that remotely interesting or not.
Pity you couldn?t get the rest of the world involved in some kind of competitive series ...
Although you know what they say about polls and statistics. Still, it's fairly clear that baseball no longer has the same pull on the national consciousness that it once did.
On 2026-05-18, SpallsHurgenson(NG) wrote:
[...]
Although you know what they say about polls and statistics. Still, it's
fairly clear that baseball no longer has the same pull on the national
consciousness that it once did.
I guess you could say people are getting rain checks on baseball?
Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> writes:
On 2026-05-18, SpallsHurgenson(NG) wrote:
[...]
Although you know what they say about polls and statistics. Still, it's >>> fairly clear that baseball no longer has the same pull on the national
consciousness that it once did.
I guess you could say people are getting rain checks on baseball?
They cannot afford tickets. The prices are ridiculous; a family
of four might pay $500 to attend a single game (more or less depending
on the seat and concessions).
On the other hand, baseball is popular in much of latin america,
and massively popular in Japan and Korea.
On 2026-05-17, Daniel <me@sc1f1dan.com> wrote:
movie query - movie info via API
I like this feature, thanks!
Hello,
On 2026-05-17, Ben Collver <bencollver@tilde.pink> wrote:
On 2026-05-17, Daniel <me@sc1f1dan.com> wrote:
movie query - movie info via API
I like this feature, thanks!
I like it too. But actually I have a question. Is it possible
to query info for two movies that has the same title? For ins-
tance I tried to query info about The Girl Who Leapt Through
Time, the 1983 Japanese movie, but it gave me information about
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, the 2006 Japanese anime version
of this story.
To formulate it differently, if I
$ finger the_girl_who_leapt_through_time@bbs.airandwave.net
I have all information about the 2006 anime version. How can I
get information about the live action movie of 1983?
Thank you very much Daniel for this very appreciated service :)
I am thrilled you are enjoying it. Do try using my wikipedia finger
if you also need more information.
I just added a podcast feature after two days of coding. You can
search for podcasts, lists the episodes, and output the episode
data. Each feed comes with the url to stream/download the content
with your media player. Until yesterday, I had no other way to
consume podcasts other than with a podcast app my tablet.
I added search results, with a guide on how to call the exact movie.
I just tested it with 'the_girl_who' and got this result. Should
work better from now on.
Hello,
On 2026-06-14, Daniel <me@sc1f1dan.com> wrote:
I am thrilled you are enjoying it. Do try using my wikipedia finger
if you also need more information.
I just added a podcast feature after two days of coding. You can
search for podcasts, lists the episodes, and output the episode
data. Each feed comes with the url to stream/download the content
with your media player. Until yesterday, I had no other way to
consume podcasts other than with a podcast app my tablet.
Great! I've read about your wikipedia service on finger (I can't
remember where, maybe on your personnal finger?) but didn't had the
chance to try it yet.
I added search results, with a guide on how to call the exact movie.
I just tested it with 'the_girl_who' and got this result. Should
work better from now on.
That is super great! Thank you very much for the hard work :)
I live with a very limited data plan 4G uplink to the internet, so
browsing the surface web is not really an option for me. Finding
services and ressources like the ones your propose to retrieve usefull informations is a gem for me. Needless to say that the fact all is
served via finger is clearly a plus for me.
So thank you very much, it is very appreciated.
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