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#waterpigs.co.ukcreated /monoculture (+851) "Created page with "{{stub}} Monoculture refers to one piece of software dominating (or trying to dominate) it’s field, often by being limited to communicating with other instances of the same co..."" (view diff)
#barnabywalters!tell tantek, aaronpk I started http://indiewebcamp.com/monoculture but but have sneaky feeling a) not well written and b) the same topics are covered elsewhere — would appreciate a look over :)
#tommorrisbarnabywalters: monoculture is a great idea for a page
#barnabywalterstommorris: it’s something I remember discussing here before, but I wanted a page to link to when writing that note about Ghost promoting monoculture
#tommorrisI just know far too many interesting lovely people who should be writing about themselves - because they have interesting things to say - but don't because of fear.
#barnabywaltersI might point my parents towards that — now I’m in iceland my parents read my notes, and my mum was trying to censor me remotely, saying it’s my “professional voice online”. I wasn’t sure how to rreply
#Loqibarnabywalters meant to say: I might point my parents towards that — now I’m in iceland my parents read my notes, and my mum was trying to censor me remotely, saying it’s my “professional voice online”. I wasn’t sure how to reply
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#Loqitantek: barnabywalters left you a message 2 hours, 12 minutes ago: aaronpk I started http://indiewebcamp.com/monoculture but but have sneaky feeling a) not well written and b) the same topics are covered elsewhere — would appreciate a look over :)
#tantek.comedited /monoculture (+1893) "add information from antipattern page, more links, re-order: description, examples, disadvantages, avoiding, antidotes, see also" (view diff)
#tommorristantek: popped it up there. feel free to shunt it around.
#tantekmakes sense - I don't have any better ideas
#tommorrisso, I was thinking today about how to post to Google Plus. The conclusion I'm coming to is hilarious: PhantomJS and GhostDriver
#tommorrisYeah. Google's commitment to openness is making it so I have to use a fake WebKit browser to artificially simulate user interaction to post to G+
#tantekthe whole point of POSSE is to reach your friend where they read stuff, and if you don't have any friends paying attention to G+, then what's the point of crossposting there?
#tantektommorris, do you have access to the individual location components in "Congress House, Great Russell Street, London" or do you get that from a service as an opaque string?
#tantekand while your (tommorris) use of "geo" will "work", it's unfortunately still a (known) abuse of the abbr title
#tommorrisnominatim needs a lot of improvement. it's nice that it is open data: it means if it is broken you can fix it. but it's still a long way from perfect.
#barnabywalterstommorris: how does one contribute to it? by adding data to OSM or by working on the nominatim code?
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#tommorrisbarnabywalters: both. I mostly do it by finding things that are broken in OSM when I checkin.
#barnabywalterstommorris: I often add address info to POIs and areas, I’m assuming that has some effect…?
#tommorrisI was in Retro Bar, a gay bar in The Strand. I checked in and Nominatim said I was in Chinatown. which meant that it was obviously going to it as the suburb marker. but The Strand isn't in Chinatown
#tommorrisso, I go in and edit Chinatown from being a node (Nominatim was using it as the suburb because it was the nearest suburb marker) and restrict the area to just the area around Gerrard St
#barnabywaltersthe format is A4 pages split into three columns — state, UI and annotations
#barnabywaltersunfortunately the scanner chopped some of the edges off but I don’t think too much was lost
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#barnabywaltersthere are some more in my notebook which I’ll draw up larger tonight, including venue page layout
#shanersbarnabywalters: what is the "live" checkbox do?
#barnabywaltersbriansuda and I also did some brainstorming of route UI (e.g. “I just walked up this mountain, here’s the route w/ speed+elevation data”)
#shanersbarnabywalters: what DOES the "live" checkbox do?
#tantekaaronpk, we were discussing the pattern of using an illustrative image with each blog post so it gets picked up in link-previews on link sharing sites/UIs like FB/Tw/G+ etc. Crystal's blog has some good examples: http://skinnywhitegirl.com/blog/
#tanteknote how the summary image in the aggregate view is not necessarily the same as the image on the permalink
#tantek(or sometimes not even an image but a video - at the permalink)
#cyg^aaronpk I don't get on IRC that much but my email is stuart@vacord.com and vacord.com is the screen printing site if you wanna talk more about shirts. I'll come back in next time I get on IRC tho
#tantekaaronpk, t-shirts? we could also do something like embroidered patches which people could choose to put on any particular item of clothing or bag or ...