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A new finger service

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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

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A new finger service Daniel <me@sc1f1dan.com> - 2026-05-17 03:30 -0700
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