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I wrote a minimalist finger server in gleam (git.sr.ht)
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Partying like it's 1977!

I recently stumbled on the finger protocol through happynetbox and thought it was pretty cool, so I wrote a finger server that reads user data from text files. It's a pretty simple protocol, but I think it's a fun way to enable a simple smolnet-style status page :)

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[–] [S] 1 point 2 months ago

I mean, you can if you want. But the finger spec doesn't actually specify a format for the returned data, so anything can be in there. Fingies just reads da

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