February 10, 2013

X84 Telnet Server

I got an email this weekend from Jeff Quast who writes:
I've been writing a telnet BBS in python since about 2003. It has many similarities in your MUD. Initially we had a hand-crafted simple socket telnet daemon, then later twisted, but when we decided to get rid of twisted for a pure-python solution, I discovered your miniboa source.
It has been modified quite a bit for more advanced telnet negotiations, I encourage you to take a look. You will find NAWS, TTYPE, and even NEW_ENVIRON negotiation. I plan to release x/84 to pypi within a day or so[.]

I really enjoy it when someone dusts off my brain-addled code and manages to hammer it into something useful.  You can check out his project here;

https://github.com/jquast/x84

January 28, 2013

New Development Server


I've treated myself to the sparkly-new, dedicated development server pictured above.  It's a Raspberry-PI.  I'm happy to say my http+websocket server runs really well on it.  I'm also pleased to report that the websocket code now works with Chrome, Firefox (aka Iceweasel),  and Opera.