#benwerdStruggling with sessions in Chrome vs Firefox on redirect. It's like Chrome is obeying some rule that I don't understand - I'm redirecting between two sites and it's not behaving as I would expect
#Loqibenwerd: tantek left you a message 1 day, 10 hours ago: want to start gathering ideas/thoughts on IndieWebCamp DC here? http://indiewebcamp.com/2014/DC
#mattlbenwerd: chrome has some weird internal cache thing too... make sure you flush everything and run it in incognito
#benwerdmm, I can't ask my users to run in incognito mode. It's so weird. I set a session and redirect - and on FF that's a-ok. On Chrome it doesn't work at all. But unreliably depending on situation. So I'm confused; guess I'm not seeing the pattern.
#mattlif you bring devtools and then click on the gear, you can disable all those caches. it'll help you debug it.
#benwerdSo I'm slightly wrong: it's the Twitter OAuth workflow. Works beautifully in FF. In Chrome, I get a 401 error from Twitter. Encoding issue, I wonder? I'm baffled.
#snarfedbenwerd: can you auth w/other twitter apps?
#snarfedyou mean, if the tweet is the same text as the post, or a prefix, then you assume it's posse, otherwise not?
#snarfedsadly that doesn't work for me. i often posse longer posts with a pithy twitter-specific teaser
#KevinMarks_If it contains any other twitter entities than the post link it is probably a link slap
#KevinMarks_Thing is, if you get replies they may be to the teaser, as a lot of people don't read the article
#snarfedKevinMarks_: right. all true…and kind of goes to my point. it's all shades of gray. it's hard to find a heuristic that's good in all cases
#snarfedthe commits attached to the issue i mentioned somewhat address this. they demote many links in bridgy webmentions to mentions instead of replies/likes/etc
#indie-visitorI am new to using this chat and the indie web as well :) I am curious if anyone can read this and is around. I have an idea/site that I am interested in sharing and seeing what people think.
#ryan020So I am a newbie to the indie web and I am not super techie with web development. As I stumbled on the indie web for the first time I noticed I had to search around for blog posts or articles regarding it. I thought that there should be a site that linked to all these types of posts regarding the indie web... Thinking it would be nice, ya know? So I registered a domain and begin getting a wordpress blog set-up. Plans were and ar
#ryan020During development of it I notice theindieweb.com was available so I grabbed it. That is we're the site is hosted now. It's live. Of course I am planning to add more posts, but I wanted to see what people thought of the idea. I don't want to muddy the waters or anything.
#KartikPrabhuryan020: you have seen http://indiewebcamp.com/ yes? It is a wiki and it is a live documentation of ideas that people have implemented or plan to
#kylewmryan020: your first post cut off after "plans were and are"
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#ryan020After that, the first post said... To continue to update it. Did the second post come through?
#KevinMarksFriendsplus.me is a PESATAS service for Google+
#KartikPrabhuryan020: yes, the second one did come through. There is a char-limit on each post
#ryan020@kartik yes I have seen it. Although it took some looking around to find the the section where there are links to post, articles and videos. And for some people it's just easier if one site focuses on one thing. And I think articles, post and videos are important and potentially have the need to be signaled out and done the way I have planned to. Make sense?
#KartikPrabhuryan020: i don't think people here will object to you collecting articles about the indieweb on your own site. But as a curiosity, why not just attempt to improve the wiki? the wiki is supposed to cater to new comers also
#ryan020I think the content I am talking about can teach somebody what the indie web is in general and keep them updated on it. If I were to send certain people I know here, I feel they would get the feeling this isn't for them or something. I say that only because here is a lot of development talk here. It seems more for the makers. I
#ryan020It's really debatable. And I guess we will see lol. I just don't want people here to feel like there's a problem with me doing. I don't think that would be good.
#KartikPrabhuit most likely won't be an issue but of course I can't speak for everyone :P
#ryan020I understand :). Thank you for the feedback.
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#elliottuckerbenward_: had the same problem with Twitter plugin yesterday, yes, needed to clear everything for it to work in Chrome. Spent a bit trying to debug but it's all SSL. Worked in the end so I'm keeping quiet.
#techlifewebryan020: You can skim the irc logs for links to things that are going on. They are updated in real time: http://indiewebcamp.com/irc/today . Lots of it is developer speak but its a great way to learn.
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#JarOfGreenHello from Scotland! I'm working on an Open Source group calendar project that may be of interest to the indieweb community and wandered if anyone wanted to chat?
#JarOfGreenIt's a calendar wiki for groups and communities to use, http://ican.openacalendar.org/ The software is already in use in several areas and doing well, got shortlisted for award up in Scotland! Anyway, if anyone is curious happy to chat, contact details on site
#JarOfGreenCan I add that and be compatible with Schema markup? If so then yeah ... I've never been opposed to microformats in general, I was just never sure which ones are the best to use :-/
#tantekJarOfGreen: yes you can use both if you like no problem.
#tantekthere are folks here with experience with both too, e.g. KartikPrabhu (he's often around).
#aaronpkkylewm: hm I think probably because I'm only looking for a like-of property that is a URL
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#kylewmaaronpk: we were talking about bridgy's "webmentions for blogs" feature and how it backfeeds comments to blogspot by posting a comment as the blog author https://www.brid.gy/about#user
#kylewmso it would say "Kevin Marks says... @aaronpk retweeted this on twitter", as if he were obsessively commenting about himself
#snarfedi know it's the minority opinion here, and it's easy to conflate with silo hate (e.g. disqus)…but i do still like native, form-based commenting
#aaronpkeven when I switched to facebook comments which cut out all the spam, they were just not useful comments
#snarfedaaronpk: oh sure. definitely a tradeoff, and site owners can decide for themselves
#aaronpkI wonder what it is about my posts that were getting different kinds of comments
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#snarfedeh, it's largely the usual internet commenting debate. my posts are usually either personal, purely functional (like those two), or kinda abstract essays, none of which really incite emotional responses
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#snarfedmore importantly, you probably have more readers than me :P
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#kylewmfwiw i don't hate disqus because it's a silo, i hate it because it's slow and frequently broken :)
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#KevinMarksKnown will let you create an account and comment by posting, though that is not obvious (and not ideal)
#mowens.comedited /website-analytics (+1896) "/* Adds Mixpanel, New Relic, and Twitter Analytics to the list. Adds links to services. Adds mowens.com as examples of usage. */" (view diff)
#KevinMarksI may turn that on and see how it works
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#aaronpkdone! you'll need to make your membership public if you want it to show the indieweb logo on your github
#mkoInteresting. I didn't realize you had to manually make Orgs public. I thought the default was Public.
#aaronpkyeah it's bit me a couple times, we use org membership for access control for a few things at esri, but it doesn't even show up to apps using the API unless you're a public member
#SRCRI know the feeling :) I have many ideas in my head about a cool Indieweb site, but I'm to dumb/lazy/lack of attention span to create it
#KartikPrabhuSRCR: I do make stuff just not in php :P
#mkoYeah. I abandoned PHP about 6 years ago. Have barely looked back since.
#mkoI do think it's still the easiest thing for mass audiences to set up for their own website, though.
#mkoBut, you know, selfdogfooding and all is why I chose Node.js :-)
#KartikPrabhumko: you mean PHP-based things like Wordpress and Known
#SRCRI can do everything, but only at beginners level and because I lack a complete vocabulari (please correct this one Loqi) in any language it takes me aged.
#KartikPrabhudidn't know a word of python before that
#mkoKartikPrabhu: I specifically mean getting a server set up with PHP so you can run PHP-based things like WordPress, Known, or whatnot is the easiest type of server configuration for most people to get set up.
#elliottuckerPHP is still good for websites as it has so many html generating shortcuts. Not a fan though. So hideous.
#KartikPrabhumko: is it because server/hosting services have optimised it with one-click install and such?
#SRCRTrue, my current site is in Craft CMS, that looks very promissing, enough room to play with but not really coding..
#mkoKartikPrabhu: Most "hosting server" configurations come preinstalled with LAMP (anecdotally, at least).
#KartikPrabhumko: it would seem Node.js based services are catching up though
#elliottuckerJust realised I forgot a major part in my Nginx post. It doesn't work without code change! To the updates!
#mkoKartikPrabhu: Yes, but not in pricing. You can basically get a LAMP server for sub-$100/year while most of the Node.js services are around $20/mo at the low end.
#mkoDigitalOcean is one of the better Node.js hosts as well, I believe. It's just a bit involved in order to get Node.js set up for a novice user (i.e. a one-clicker).
#mkoHeroku can be pretty solid, too, as it is sub $10/mo for some personal websites
#rasculall distros digitalocean provides can install node.js with a single command
#mkoOh? When did they add that functionality, rascul?
#rasculKevinMarks_ some numbers on that might be interesting to see
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#KevinMarks_rascul: this was anecdotal, though I've had lightweight node things up on there or a while with a single free dyno and not been billed anything
#rasculi've not been billed anything for my python stuff i had there either
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#rasculi prefer openshift though, except that it takes longer to deploy
#rasculdeploy as in the stuff it does when you 'git push'
#KevinMarks_my site is really static hosting; I should just throw it on S3 or google cloud
#KevinMarks_(I did try but s3 is such a pain to config that this is easier
#KevinMarks_pasting various XML and JSON incantations into fields that don't validate anything
#KevinMarks_then the posting API is a similar black art
#kylewmI had a similarly miserable experience trying to host a Pelican site on S3
#kylewmthink I got it eventually to work but it felt very fragile :)
#rasculgithub pages can be good for free static hosting
#KevinMarks_I was configuring a static site yesterday, and despite having exactly the same thing a day before I still had 3 tries at getting it to resolve
#rasculmoon probably wasn't at the proper angle to reflect light into the window at just the right spot to enable your site to resolve
#KevinMarks_what was that about "do it by hand until it hurts"
#tantekKartikPrabhu: great that someone wants to curate their own set of articles about the indieweb!
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#tantek.comedited /MediaWiki:Sidebar (+15) "in case you're looking for "Posts" or "Videos" about the indieweb and don't semantically associate that with "News"" (view diff)
#tantek"it took some looking around to find the the section where there are links to post, articles and videos" lol - really? the first link in the sidebar not obvious enough? alrighty, I'll add ", Posts, Videos" to make it more obvious.
#KartikPrabhutantek: yeah I was very confused about the claims
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#kylewmpeople may be conditioned to ignore "News" (or sidebars in general?) from many project pages with rarely/poorly updated news pages
#tantekbtw - this is a common "novice" design error: "And for some people it's just easier if one site focuses on one thing. And I think articles, post and videos are important and potentially have the need to be signaled[sic] out"
#tantekwhat it really means is: "For *me* it's just easier if *a new site I find* focuses on one thing. And the *next thing* *I* need right now is to see articles, post and videos"
#tantekand then when they master those, or get caught up on those, then their priorities change, and they stop maintaining their single purpose site
#tantekcontinuing from ryan020: "[t]here is a lot of development talk here. It seems more for the makers." both of these are true.
#tantekthat's the point we're at right now, and we should not be ashamed of that but rather admit it freely and openly, recognize it, and provide a glimmer of hope by linking to http://indiewebcamp.com/generations
#tantek!tell ryan020 looking forward to seeing your blog about useful indieweb articles! please share your URL here when you start posting to it.
#tantekwith any luck, perhaps we can help ryan020 turn his blog from intro indieweb articles, into a saga of his own learning about and building/deploying his own indieweb presence.
#tanteksnarfed, ah, he's started posting - cool. hopefully he'll update his twitter and facebook sidebar links to link to his profile instead of just their top level
#KartikPrabhutantek: it would have been beter if ryan020 had maintained a curated list as a page on his own domain
#tantekat least he's blogging on an indie domain - that's a good start!
#tantekKevinMarks ^^^ homework assignment. Let's try to de-mystify discussions here a bit by at least providing simple short definitions of the terms used.