#indiewebcamp 2014-12-31

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snarfed
aww. kind of but not entirely. sorry, didn't mean it backhanded :P
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kylewm
no no I didn't take it that way
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snarfed
shows that you liked it but doesn't leak any content
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kylewm
ohhh, interesting, i also don't think that was intentional
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GWG
kylewm: Sorry for the delay. Jetpack requires a Wordpress.com account, even for features that shouldn't need any account
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kylewm
snarfed: that raises an interesting point though; I wonder what would happen if i tried to RT a private post
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snarfed
kylewm: i think you can't
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kylewm
I think it would post on my site just fine (which is probably wrong) and error out on the API call
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kylewm
that url design sucks too...
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GWG
I often like your design
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kylewm
thanks GWG :)
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kylewm
GWG: so with the jetpack thing, is it becoming more integral to wordpress.org?
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GWG
You still have the option of not installing it
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GWG
Look at what is in it
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kylewm
so you have the option but you miss out on a lot of features
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kylewm
basically?
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GWG
There is a developer who took the Jetpack stuff and removed the dependency on having a Wordpress.com account, for example
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kylewm
GWG: that seems good? sorry i'm having trouble following the thread of " Wordpress.com is trying to take over Wordpress.org"
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GWG
kylewm: Basically, there is this giant plugin, that requires a third-party service, even though most of the features do not.
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GWG
I feel like they could be developing some of these things as core
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@kevinmarks
"@mechapoetic: love how wordpress sends me emails asking me to approve my own pingbacks" #indieweb
(twitter.com/_/status/550083566483537920)
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GWG
I'm wondering if anyone is worried that marking up content will make them at risk for inappropriate scraping
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tantek
GWG - scrapers gonna scrape. They're too lazy to bother with proper parsing. So quite the opposite. The expected effect of markup on that risk vector is negligible if anything.
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GWG
tantek: I'm just preparing my pro-IWC arguments
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GWG
I know someone will be asking about protecting their articles
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tantek
if people are looking for excuses to be afraid of things, they can find plenty
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tantek
it's an attitude thing, can't really help hypochondriacs / chicken-littlers in that regard.
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tantek
no matter what you say they'll find something to freak out about.
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GWG
I'm a worrier. I hope it is in moderation
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tantek
GWG - as long as it doesn't freeze you into inaction, you're probably ok ;)
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danlyke
GWG - what's your model for misuse? My hope is that marking up my content will make it easier to scrape, therefore easier for searches and intelligent links, etc.
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tantek
danlyke - exactly - glass is half full :)
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danlyke
yeah, anything else is essentially DRM through obscurity. I mean, I could render to PNGs and serve that up, but... eeewww.
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danlyke
Though I have been thinking about "I only want to show this content to certain people".
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gRegor`
what is private post?
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Loqi
It looks like we don't have a page for "private post" yet. Would you like to create it? https://indiewebcamp.com/wiki/index.php?action=edit&title=private+post
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danlyke
gRegor` I already have some of my source files marked up with "don't show this", I should stuff that into a database, give it a token and some sort of auth for serving it up, and attempt to load the elided parts of the document via JavaScript after load. If I choose to stay with this "render everything to static pages" model...
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gRegor`
Cool
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KartikPrabhu
GWG it is impossible for any thing on the internet to be protected from download in a fool-proof way. Having a clear copyright statement and understanding it is the only way
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GWG
danlyke: Posted without attribution
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danlyke
GWG yeah, republishing and faking stuff is a thing. Hopefully whatever discovery/search mechanism we end up building will be better at sourcing stuff than Google is.
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tantek
aside: have already updated CASSIS with the new utility functions I needed for my "like" posts implementation
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tantek
(including one bug fix in year-day handling!)
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Loqi
bear: GWG left you a message 5 days, 1 hour ago: Looking at nginx cipher list, RC4 is there
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KartikPrabhu
thoughts wrt to response-context and copyright. If I "like" a photo I'd want to display it is the response-context on my site, but this might be restricted by copyright (maybe it is under fair-use but who knows). Should response-context do some sort of license-discovery to avoid reproducing copy-righted images?
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bear
i've just successfully out-niced the person
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bear
he is apologizing
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GWG
bear: You are a very nice person.
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KartikPrabhu
bear: link to the discussion?
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bear
twitter replied that my report is not a violation of their TOS... *sigh*
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@anant_ebooks
Website Club 18:30 indieweb: silo: ttk.me t4SD3.
(twitter.com/_/status/550114503309144064)
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tantek
at least they included my permashortcitation :P
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tantek
^^^ GWG *that* is how you deal with people scraping/copying your content - you seed it with watermark text codes like permashort citations that all link / lead back to your site
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GWG
tantek: I've gotten to shortlinks...
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GWG
Haven't gotten to permashort citations
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GWG
Since I installed a shortener based on your work, I have to see if I can get it to generate them
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kylewm.com
moved /gittip to /Gratipay "Gittip was rebranded as Gratipay Sept 2014"
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kylewm.com
created /Gittip (+22) "Redirected page to [[Gratipay]]"
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kylewm.com
edited /Gratipay (+18) "s/gittip/Gratipay"
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tantek
I'm wondering if it makes sense to keep track on a post when was the last time it deliberately sent webmentions to any links inside.
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tantek
does anyone here keep data like that with their posts storage? when that post last sent webmentions for its links?
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KartikPrabhu
i used to do it in my previous webmention sending scheme
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KartikPrabhu
i.e I kept track of the links i sent mentions to, the idea being to send mentions to new links of the post was edited
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KartikPrabhu
I ditched that for plumbing reasons but i still think it is useful
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@rurasyqinula
RT @t: @DocPop I’ll see your “blog more”, raise you with: Own your notes, stop throwing them @Twitter. http://indiewebcamp.com/ownyourdata (ttk.me t4Zt3)
(twitter.com/_/status/550153149701689344)
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@rurasyqinula
RT @t: @DocPop says right there on the home page @4c4d gave you: Beyond Blogging and Decentralization http://indiewebcamp.com/#Beyond_Blogging_and_Decentralization (ttk.me t4Zt2)
(twitter.com/_/status/550153152604164097)
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@rurasyqinula
RT @t: #indieweb "likes": notification design -> text design -> hypertext design -> markup code: http://indiewebcamp.com/like#Brainstorming (ttk.me t4Zt1)
(twitter.com/_/status/550153155569528832)
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tantek
KartikPrabhu: that makes a lot of sense - keeping track which links you pinged so you don't have to reping them.
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Loqi
[bridgy] Canten ERSAHAN favorited a tweet that linked to http://indiewebcamp.com/ownyourdata (https://twitter.com/t/status/549748369766490112)
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KartikPrabhu
tantek: yes. that was my initial idea but my autosend for webmentions broke and so currently I have ditched that. I hope to go back once I get auto-sending running again
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KartikPrabhu
someone really likes your tweets tantek
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kylewm
tantek: cweiske has thing like that, but going even further, where you could mouseover a link and see the send history for it, success/failure etc
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tantek
neat!
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tantek
alright, time to start trying a few manual likes
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KartikPrabhu
kylewm: ooo thats sounds nifty!
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kylewm
KartikPrabhu: you've seen it haven't you? I can't find the screenshots now :(
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KartikPrabhu
kylewm: no i don;t recall seeing this. but it i awesome. one could also add a button to send a mention!
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@kevinmarks
@jaythenerdkid how does that work? (I don't know Tumblr well enough, but there might be an #Indieweb answer)
(twitter.com/_/status/550221556387831808)
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@StoryAlley
Still need Sci-Fi, Kids, Paranormal, Historical, & Non-fiction books to feature. http://storytelleralley.com/?q=content/were-looking-few-good-authors #indieauth #indieauthor #smallpress
(twitter.com/_/status/550282632559603714)
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@KNRwrites
RT @StoryAlley: Still need Sci-Fi, Kids, Paranormal, Historical, & Non-fiction books to feature. http://storytelleralley.com/?q=content/were-looking-few-good-authors #indieauth #indieau…
(twitter.com/_/status/550282956309532672)
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@dodgingstones
RT @StoryAlley: Still need Sci-Fi, Kids, Paranormal, Historical, & Non-fiction books to feature. http://storytelleralley.com/?q=content/were-looking-few-good-authors #indieauth #indieau…
(twitter.com/_/status/550284384050638848)
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@brennannovak
@hugoroyd also, rad to have you on the #IndieWeb using @withknown :)
(twitter.com/_/status/550288253954560001)
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@hugoroyd
@brennannovak yes, me too, that's one of the reasons why @withknown rocks: indieweb technos for the rest of us ;-)
(twitter.com/_/status/550288731664822272)
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tantek
good morning #indiewebcamp!
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petermolnar
good morning tantek
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Loqi
petermolnar: tantek left you a message on 12/19 at 5:19pm: do you have a feature you'd like to launch and start using on your site 2015-01-01? check /ownyourdata and /indiemark for some ideas.
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petermolnar
I have a topic for today: now that many of us enabled SSL ( TLS ) for their websites can someone share their opinion on ssl ciphers and cpu usage? :)
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tantek
welcome back petermolnar!
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petermolnar
I've recently found that my server ends up in TCP timeouts from blitz.io's point of view after a massive amount of concurrency; after changing the allowed ssl ciphers, this was drastically reduced
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bear
petermolnar - some of the older ciphers are indeed very cpu intensive. I found that the Mozilla OpSec team does a great job of outlining which ciphers to use and why: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Server_Side_TLS
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petermolnar
any opinions on relatively fast/non-resource hungry but still secury, forward secrecy friendly ciphers?
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bear
that link offers three different configuration options based on what your client side requirements are
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bear
another source of slowness can be an older version of OpenSSL - make sure your OS has a more recent version (for security and speed reasons)
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petermolnar
I tried to use modern ones, excluding 3DES and similar but I'll read the mozilla pae
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petermolnar
also, latest openssl is compiled into nginx, so that cannot really be the case
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bear
k, I asked not knowing you were using nginx (which gets a hearty +1 from me :)
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petermolnar
I've left apache bedind a long time ago and used lighttpd only for an embedded project, nginx for the win :)
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bear
you can improve your nginx performance by tweaking some of the settings - which are listed in that page for nginx: ssl_session_cache, ssl_dhparam specifically
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@t
I've got #indieweb like posts working on my site. 2015-01-01 personal site ship commitment done! (ttk.me t4Zv1)
(twitter.com/_/status/550332142514077696)
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@AnastasiaAshman
highlights of 2014: seeing @benwerd launch the #indieweb venture @withknown
(twitter.com/_/status/550332175649103872)
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@Ang
RT @t: I've got #indieweb like posts working on my site. 2015-01-01 personal site ship commitment done! (ttk.me t4Zv1)
(twitter.com/_/status/550332373943201792)
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@codebear
RT @t: I've got #indieweb like posts working on my site. 2015-01-01 personal site ship commitment done! (ttk.me t4Zv1)
(twitter.com/_/status/550332442398449664)
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@rurasyqinula
RT @t: I've got #indieweb like posts working on my site. 2015-01-01 personal site ship commitment done! (ttk.me t4Zv1)
(twitter.com/_/status/550332576779759616)
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GWG
Petermolnar, bear... I need to do that. I just tweaked my SSL settings based on the mozilla intermediate ciphers and got my grade uo. It had dropped to a B
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bear
what is your domain name?
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Loqi
It looks like we don't have a page for "your domain name" yet. Would you like to create it? https://indiewebcamp.com/wiki/index.php?action=edit&title=your+domain+name
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GWG
Me or petermolnar?
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bear
gwg -you
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GWG
david.shanske.com
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bear
oh, you need to update your config to increase your B score
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GWG
I did. I am at A now
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bear
cool
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tantek
still manually using Bridgy to POSSE faves of tweets to Twitter, and manually using curl to send webmentions, but I've got indieweb like posts working!
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bear
^5 @t - nice!
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GWG
Was that commitment by the end of 01-01 or beginning?
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tantek
by the end of 2015-001
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tantek
any commitment *for* 2015-001 is assumed inclusive, thus til the end of that day.
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tantek
thanks bear!
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tantek
you'll be seeing some nice presentational touches with the clustering of likes on my home page
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bear
schedules some time to review that CSS so he can "borrow" it
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tantek
there's not much CSS to it actually - it's almost all very deliberate text/prose design
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neuro`
Good morning
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GWG
Bear , I may do that too. I think I may dump the bootstrap.
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tantek
GWG, bear, all documented here very explicitly step by step: http://indiewebcamp.com/like#inline_hypertext_design
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tantek
there's almost no CSS to it - it really is about publishing smarts (for the clustering, comma delimited, using "and" between the last pair with/without a comma etc.)
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GWG
It is just the third time I've thrown my design out the window since March
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tantek
there's an example of clustering of liking two things in quick succession on my home page now
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tantek
I like that I was the 2nd indieweb like on https://aaronparecki.com/replies/2014/12/26/1/indieweb-20150101 and the only person to *only* indieweb like it :)
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bear
I really enjoy the compact formatting of likes that page shows and *really* enjoy that it's html with a smidge of css
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GWG
The only thing I am on the fence about is the time
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bear
yea, I may do it differently as I don't (yet) group by day within a post
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aaronpk
good morning!
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aaronpk
congrats tantek!
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aaronpk
interesting that the entry on your home page that contains two likes also has its own permalink!
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snarfed
congrats tantek!
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snarfed
glad to see you ended up on a similar 'likes [link]' text design as mine
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snarfed
esp since you did a ton of research and actually care about UI and design, and i just did the dumbest thing and generally abdicated all responsibility :P
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petermolnar
bear re SSL topic: I ended up sticking to my original ciphers, the mozilla ones were indeed giving worse security results
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petermolnar
these by the way: DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:AES128-GCM-SHA:AES128-SHA:DES-CBC3-SHA:TLS_DHE_DSS_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:!LOW:!MEDIUM:!RC2:!RC4:!SEED:!MD5:!aNULL:!eNULL:!EDH:!EXP:!ADH:!PSK:!DES;
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@cstanhope
RT @t: I've got #indieweb like posts working on my site. 2015-01-01 personal site ship commitment done! (ttk.me t4Zv1)
(twitter.com/_/status/550345043395887104)
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davidpeach.co.uk
edited /User:Davidpeach.co.uk (+537) "Added indieweb related post links"
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GWG
I've decided to go back to what I didn't do last year
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GWG
An indieweb/mf2 version of _s, the unstyled starter theme for WordPress
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GWG
The last time, I went the easy way and added in bootstrap. This time I'm going strapless.
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aaronpk
!tell tantek is your home page h-feed intentionally a child of your h-card? I haven't seen that pattern on anyone else's site before
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Loqi
Ok, I'll tell him that when I see him next
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@sirmlivesey
@c_r_5 @withknown @kevinmarks IndieWebCamp ran an event in the UK this year, hoping to get to any this year. So much good stuff coming.
(twitter.com/_/status/550371654904610819)
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davidjohnmead.com
edited /Known (+407) "/* Issues moving from WordPress */"
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GWG
davidmead: We'll miss you
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davidmead
i’m not completely moved off WP yet @gwg, hence the “issues” ;-)
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emmak_
aaronpk: what are your thoughts on supporting multiple syndicate-to's in micropub?
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Loqi
emmak_: tantek left you a message on 12/19 at 5:25pm: congrats on owningyourreader per http://indiewebcamp.com/irc/2014-12-17#t1418872365318 ! that's pretty awesome.
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Loqi
emmak_: tantek left you a message on 12/19 at 5:25pm: do you have a feature you'd like to launch and start using on your site 2015-01-01? check /ownyourdata and /indiemark for some ideas.
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emmak_
half the documentation shows php-style arrays, the other half (and quill) seem to use comma delimited lists
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aaronpk
emmak_: the general consensus is to use query string array syntax even though it's not officially part of form-encoding
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aaronpk
if you find comma lists in the /micropub page feel free to update
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aaronparecki.com
edited /Micropub (-29) "/* Simple Example */ use single syndication target for the "simple example""
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tantek
hey Loqi, gimme
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Loqi
tantek: aaronpk left you a message 43 minutes ago: is your home page h-feed intentionally a child of your h-card? I haven't seen that pattern on anyone else's site before
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tantek
yes - intentional. the home page - tantek.com - *is* me - and I just happen to show a little recent updates feed as *part* of it (also side bar description, other profiles, etc.)
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aaronpk
interesting
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tantek
should I put a <link rel="feed" href="#updates"/> for discovery? ;)
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aaronpk
I don't know
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tantek
I suppose I'll wait for someone writing reader functionality for their website to ask - if it would help them at all - or if they're just happy to do "first h-feed" discovery
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aaronpk
when I consume microformats I do so from the parsed object, so it's kind of hard to find the "first h-feed" because it may be a child of any object at any depth
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aaronpk
but i'm not actually working on this right now. just happened to look at your home page to see how the likes ended up in the parsed mf2 version and noticed that
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tantek
I've strated using the <body class="h-*"> as the "what is this page primarily about?" thing to answer
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tantek
instead of the meta og:type crap
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emmak_
tantek: my indie reader is able to read your site, but i forgot how its doing that
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emmak_
it took several iterations to get to that point though
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tantek
this is for better link-previews based on visible markup instead of invisible metacrap
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tantek
emmak - I'd be curious to know what work you had to do to get your indie reader to consume / show my site
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tantek
or at least my primary feed
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tantek
since presumably that's what it is showing?
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tantek
there are at least two more potential minifeeds on that page that I have not (yet) marked up as h-feed
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aaronpk
the parsed mf2 version of the page doesn't care what element a class is on, so I don't see the significance of putting the class on the <body> tag except for adding clarity for humans reading the source code
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GWG
I'm still confused about h-feed in general
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tantek
recent articles, and speaking & events
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GWG
Does anyone have a great example of a homepage marked up with formats and a single post page?
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tantek
aaronpk - the significance of putting it on <body> is that *there is one <body> for the page at it represents all that is visible on the page*
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tantek
by putting an h-something on <body>, you are saying "this page *is* an h-something"
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aaronpk
sure but that meaning doesn't make it into the parsed version
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npdoty
is there a recommended microformat parser as browser extension?
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tantek
true - that meaning is at the HTML level
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npdoty
so that I can test how my output will be parsed?
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tantek
it's intended as a replacement for all the meta tags that attempt to say what is the primary purpose of a page
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emmak_
tantek: i think i had to recursively search for all h-feeds on the page (ie. h-feeds nested in other microformats)
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emmak_
if it fails to find h-feeds, it falls back to reading all top-level h-entries
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aaronpk
npdoty: try http://pin13.net/mf2 if you want to see the raw parsed version, or http://indiewebify.me to check semantics
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tantek
putting a microformats2 class on <body> == saying what the primary purpose of the page is
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npdoty
aaronpk, does this pin13.net parser recognize h-cite?
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aaronpk
the pin13.net parser will just show you the parsed version of the page as a JSON document. it doesn't care about specific class names or mf2 objects
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npdoty
I just get different results from pasting in the HTML vs. running the javascript bookmarklet
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npdoty
ah, because the bookmarklet just passes the url, expecting it to be publicly dereferenceable
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npdoty
sorry, was debugging
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npdoty
aaronpk++
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Loqi
aaronpk has 643 karma
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npdoty
thanks for the pointer to the web page, which works for me
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tantek
emmak - how did the "likes" show up in your reader that I posted this morning?
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tantek
did they look reasonable in your reader's presentation?
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emmak
!tell tantek your likes appeared as a normal note in my reader, i don't have any special formatting for likes
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Loqi
Ok, I'll tell him that when I see him next
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voxpelli
consistent predictable datetime parsing in javascript – what a joy – the Date.parse() is a real mess :/
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voxpelli
sometimes it parses dates as UTC, sometimes as local time, and different engines support different formats
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kylewm
that is a mess in Python and Java too.
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kylewm
i guess it must be difficult ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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emmak
!tell tantek wait nevermind, it didn't seem to pick up your likes at all
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Loqi
Ok, I'll tell him that when I see him next
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bear
in python any datetime parsed that doesn't have TZ info will just be that, a datetime without TZ
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bear
you can then coerce it to any TZ
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voxpelli
that's good, then you can decide yourself how to handle it
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bear
nods
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kylewm
my issue with python is that strptime doesn't recognize timezones at all, in some versions of python
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kylewm
(also not thrilled that there is a method called strptime)
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voxpelli
thankfully I finally found a library providing a proper parsing mechanism just now, looking promising: http://momentjs.com/docs/#/parsing/utc/
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bear
the gotcha with strptime is which base object you call it from - if that base object groks TZ then you will get it to parse the time zone info
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kylewm
bear, I believe that is true in Python3 but not 2... ref http://stackoverflow.com/a/3306887/682648
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@FredrikAarhus
Got to love Knight Rider - Of Montreal, such a catchy one #synth #hipsteraidworker #neonrun #indieweb #synth https://twitter.com/FredrikAarhus/status/550399643138658305/photo/1
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GWG
Anyone around for a design opinion?
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GWG
http://notizblog.org/ - This is pfefferle's blog
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neuro`
It's very clean
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GWG
This is my blog
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GWG
If you notice, what they both have in common is a box around the h-entry
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GWG
pfefferle's site is themed using his theme, called Sempress, which is the only MF2 theme in the WordPress repository.
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GWG
Mine uses a theme I created, not in said repository.
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GWG
I'm thinking of taking some of the stuff I like about his, and mine, and merging them into something new
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GWG
Mostly because I want to eliminate bootstrap on mine, and his and mine both have a common ancestor
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GWG
The box around an entry seems very popular now
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kylewm
Known and p3k are also good examples of box-around-the-entry
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GWG
What do you all think of it?
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voxpelli
I like the box-around-entry style, I use it on http://voxpelli.com/
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voxpelli
I very much need to make my design responsive though and not sure how I'm going to adapt the box-style to phone screens – probably doesn't work as well there
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aaronpk
i like it too, obviously ;)
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kylewm
the boxes let you pack entries in closer together
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GWG
Both Sempress and my theme are based on _s. Early on, it was suggested that an _s fork that was mf2 compliant be made. I did a little of that. Then I tried to get _s to go mf2 compliant. They closed the issue. Some I'm bringing back the project on my own
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GWG
But, since the two themes that are mf2 compliant both use the bounding box style, I was thinking of building it in.
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voxpelli
I guess a subtheme can always override the CSS if they don't like the style so sounds like a good idea to me
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kodfabrik.se
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GWG
I just want to encourage more mf2 compliant WordPress themes.
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GWG
Not sure how to do that, other than giving out a starter theme.
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voxpelli
That's probably the best way to do it for WordPress
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voxpelli
Are there any other reliable options for retrieving avatars than a nickname-cache? Seeing a lot of broken Twitter-avatar on old posts in my WebMention endpoint
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aaronpk
voxpelli: for twitter you can use the unofficial https://twitter.com/aaronpk/profile_image trick
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obra
aaronpk! I had no idea that existed
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tantek
voxpelli: or http://indiewebcamp.com/webvatar for sites in general
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Loqi
tantek: emmak left you a message 2 hours, 1 minute ago: your likes appeared as a normal note in my reader, i don't have any special formatting for likes
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Loqi
tantek: emmak left you a message 1 hour, 46 minutes ago: wait nevermind, it didn't seem to pick up your likes at all
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tantek
emmak - I wonder why - does your reader depend on particular h-entry fields being there? it should be able to read and show the likes without knowing about likes
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aaronpk
it should show the "name" property, correct?
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emmak
tantek: its probably a bug
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emmak
likes in the feed isn't something i've seen on anyone else
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emmak
's blog or tested much
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tantek
aaronpk - correct
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tantek
it's another way of doing something note-like
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tantek
I went with a minimal markup approach to see what could work
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aaronpk
man I really need a reader
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tantek
is it in your itches?
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aaronpk
i think so
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tantek
I have a feeling that owningmylikes (only/first posting likes on my own site) will drive me in that direction as well
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tantek
because it seems like my most common action when "reading" e.g. Twitter stream/lists/profiles is *favoriting*
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tantek
alternatively - Greasemonkey script overrides clicking Twitter's favorite star into posting a like on my site - that might actually be easier
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tantek
have to think about how I want to capture this as an itch
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aaronpk
oh yeah, I should dig that up. I had that working with "reply" a while back
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aaronpk
i still want a reader though because I mostly don't even read things on twitter.com anyway
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GWG
Am I back? Had a split?
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snarfed
aaronpk: do you use an rss/atom feed reader?
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snarfed
(probably obvious where this is going :P)
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GWG
snarfed: What do you do again?
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snarfed
GWG: sorry?
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snarfed
you mean like, my job?
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GWG
I meant, for reading content
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snarfed
ahahaha sorry
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snarfed
newsblur and http://twitter-atom.appspot.com/ and friends (fb, instagram, etc)
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GWG
I tried newsblur...
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GWG
I switched to tt-rss.
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kylewm
I am frustrated; I really like feedbin but the UI can't keep up with the volume of a twitter feed
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GWG
I may try the Twitter atom thing though
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snarfed
kylewm: ah yeah i saw your earlier msg
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kylewm
newsblur looks so cluttered by comparison
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GWG
kylewm: I'm not sure if tt-rss can, but it would be your own server, so...
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snarfed
my twitter list is pretty low volume, so i dunno
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kylewm
snarfed, ah that's what i was going to ask, if you are following a specific list rather than all your followees
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snarfed
definitely
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kylewm
it is also a little frustrating because all of them seem to give more prominent presentation to the feed owner rather than the post author
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snarfed
yeah, hard to fight that on the publisher end
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snarfed
at a higher level, it makes me sad that we here often seem to reject existing readers entirely, just because of the feed sidefile plumbing debate
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snarfed
when most of the effort and value in readers is the UX and functionality they enable
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kylewm
GWG, I ran tt-rss for a while, I seem to remember it had a lot of trouble with some particular feeds i wanted to sub to
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kylewm
they had minor errors or something that other readers could cope with
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kylewm
snarfed++ I agree with you, only recently come around to that opinion
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Loqi
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snarfed
kylewm: re the bs4 mirror, i don't actually care whose name it's under
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snarfed
most of the existing submodules are other people's :P
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snarfed
but if you want it to be under snarfed/, works for me
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voxpelli_
KevinMarks made a h-entry to atom/rss converter so really no reason to disregard old school readers anymore from that perspective either
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KevinMarks
other way round
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KevinMarks
I made an atom/rss to h-entry converter
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KevinMarks
ben made the reverse
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snarfed
voxpelli_++
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Loqi
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snarfed
KevinMarks++
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Loqi
KevinMarks has 74 karma
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voxpelli_
Ah, well that's even better :)
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kylewm
KevinMarks, which ben? too many bens
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snarfed
i love how much we here prioritize use cases over plumbing - at least for indieweb sites, which are generally small data/traffic - so when we occasionally get worked up about the odd bit of plumbing best practice, like "no sidefiles," it catches me off guard
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snarfed
meh, anyway
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neuro`
Happy new year
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snarfed
i guess i understand that skew and stale sidefiles result in suboptimal UX in feed readers. which is fair. still, weighed against the use cases existing readers already provide, and all…
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snarfed
more importantly:
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snarfed
barnabywalters++ too
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kylewm
GWG: do you not have that problem with tt-rss?
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Loqi
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aaronpk
snarfed: I haven't used an rss reader in ages, actually long before google reader shut down (I was using google reader)
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aaronpk
My issue isn't that there aren't any mf2 readers, it's that the traditional rss readers aren't built around the model I want to consume by
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voxpelli_
snarfed: speaking of feeds btw – been involved in https://github.com/Reboot-RSS/reboot-rss ? Know Superfeedr-Julien and some from my employer Bloglovin has tried to look into how to move along RSS there
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aaronpk
Also I want my reader to support micropub but that's a separate point
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aaronpk
So no I don't actually think that existing readers offer me much which is why I'm not trying to solve it that way (converting mf2 to rss and using an existing reader)
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GWG
kylewm: With some feeds. Not with the majority of them.
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GWG
aaronpk: What model is that?
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voxpelli_
"feed reader" is a very broad term, often eg. a podcatcher is technically a feed reader but with a different UX on top
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aaronpk
I should probably write this up as a 2015 goal :-)
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Loqi
definitely
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snarfed
voxpelli_: i have heard of it! but haven't followed closely
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clintpatty
Are you including the features/model you want in a reader in that? Or is the reader the goal?
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voxpelli_
snarfed: eg the WebMention in RSS idea is intriguing: https://github.com/Reboot-RSS/reboot-rss/issues/11
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aaronpk
clintpatty: the post would be about what I want in a reader app
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snarfed
voxpelli_: definitely! some readers have taken stabs at that before (actions inside the reader). and aaronpk clearly wants it
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voxpelli_
snarfed: we definitely have some actions at Bloglovin :)
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snarfed
i've also suggested to julien that he could send webmentions proactively for all feed items that superfeedr processes
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snarfed
maybe opt in, maybe blanket. it's *huge* volume, but he liked the idea
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voxpelli_
if one initially only do it for feed items that contain a WebMention endpoint defined in it then the volume should be manageable
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snarfed
s/manageable/tiny/ :P
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voxpelli_
And I guess that would be easy to add for most people with feeds, like everyone with the WordPress plugin
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snarfed
the main benefit would be sending on behalf of sites that *don't* do it themselves yet
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voxpelli_
Ah, right, mixed up outgoing with incoming :P
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GWG
aaronpk: I want to read that.