TwtxtReader

@aelaraji

@prologic @bender is it normal that twtxtapp's <tab> (white space) between the timestamps and posts look a bit shorter than the ones from jenny? just noticed that and thought maybe it's someting you'd want to know.

The Rectangle highlights the whitespaces from Jenny and the Ellipse is over the ones from twtxtapp.

vor ≈26 Tagen | #aktb7qluroat | |

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@david | #aktb7qluroat

It should be a tab (I saw \t on twtd source, but sure find odd the space difference. The code, on twtd goes like:

line := created.Format(time.RFC3339) + "\t" + strings.ReplaceAll(text, "\n", "
") + "\n"

Hopefully @prologic chimes in.

vor ≈26 Tagen | #g76ctkf77bw6 | |

@prologic | #aktb7qluroat

This is just browser rendering

vor ≈26 Tagen | #vfyi42g3isi2 | |

@lyse | #aktb7qluroat

@aelaraji @david @prologic It depends on the tab size, but often, a tab aligns the following character to next column that is a multiple of eight.

1      8       |16     |24     |32
2026-07-12T08:11:34+02:00      Here goes the text
2026-07-12T06:11:34Z   Here goes the text

vor ≈26 Tagen | #zx234af7tc3b | |

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@david | #zx234af7tc3b

Interesting! I figure that’s why so many people prefer spaces to tabs when coding. A space comes across as more “predictable” than a TAB.

vor ≈26 Tagen | #lbwl3o7l26j5 | |

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@lyse | #lbwl3o7l26j5

@david Exactly. Spaces are fixed, tabs always break the layout when the tab sizes are different.

vor ≈26 Tagen | #mftv6yt3wsfb | |

@aelaraji | #zx234af7tc3b

@lyse That explains a lot! Thank you.

vor ≈26 Tagen | #wciqv7v6qq63 | |

@itsericwoodward | #aktb7qluroat

@aelaraji @david @prologic It looks like tab stops to me, every 8 characters, and the tab character jumps to the next stop (hence different tab widths based on where the tab occurs in relation to the next tab stop).

vor ≈26 Tagen | #k44cdr5na2gw | |