snarfedif you wanted to get really exotic…i was trying to think of how to do it with something like unhosted or hoodie (indie/open source) or https://www.parse.com/ (commercial)
LoqiPAAS (Platform as a Service) is a hosting environment typically for a web applications written in scripting languages (python, ruby, node) and usually offers simplified setup and maintenance tools compared to a VPS https://indiewebcamp.com/PaaS
kylewmsnarfed: I think Heroku was but they're taking it away! $7/month isn't going to break the bank, but it's a lot for little proof of concept projects, especially if you have more than one
snarfedpick a dollar amount you value your time at, and even if it's low, e.g. $10/hr, a few hrs on ops saved here and there buys you many months on a PaaS
GWGsnarfed: But, my question for you, as you lean toward marking up inside the content box and I lean toward doing it outside same...do you think there is a point in taking the work I did, moving it out of Post Kinds, and having it, if Post Kinds is not installed, like your Micropub plugin, doing the markup itself in the content box? It isn't a use case I need, but I want to advance WordPress as an Indieweb platform, so it might be one someone else wants,
snarfedsmall amounts of money are real constraints for some people, and worth remembering…but honsetly i think many of us in communities like this overvalue our money and undervalue our time
snarfedtantek: you're just (re)stating the issue. again, i think it's valid, just separate from the question of whether to spend $$$ on ops (PaaS) vs time on ops (VM, etc)
GWGsnarfed: Either way, I wrote the web action stuff as a standalone file I included in Post Kinds. Taking it out and making it its own thing is just a matter of some minor tweaks.
snarfedi also think the thought process for evaluating lock-in, etc. is a bit different when you're developing a single app/service vs an indie web site or CMS that people will run their indie web sites on, e.g. Known
bengoIf you are willing to worry about a bit more than just 'git push'ing some code, the cloud ecosystem is definitely getting to a point where you can run your own Heroku-like on your own VMs (hosted on any cloud like ec2, gce, backspace, whatever)
tantekit was one of the driving motivations / inspirations for ActivityStreams - some way to have a common model instead of having to create separate snowflake bits of code to talk to each of those services
bengobut as I've seen first-users of it, sometimes their use-case is better served by initiating the requests than getting a publicly-accessible hook URL on the web
aaronpkI've been making more Foursquare lists recently, which is now pushing the priority of adding venues to my site, because I really want those lists on my own site!
aaronpkThe other day I got an email immediately followed by a "withdraw" request email. Presumably email clients that understand that will actually delete the email for me
LoqiFriendFeed was a silo for posting content, as well as an aggregator of feeds and posts from other sites, and notably the inventor of the "Like" button in 2007 https://indiewebcamp.com/FriendFeed
aaronpkit's neat because when I sent the PR I didn't have to do anything special, and Travis just ran the tests for me and tells me everything passed. At one point in the thread it was showing me that the tests failed in some older versions of ruby
LoqiOAuth is an authorization protocol created to replace the need for client applications of a service (e.g. a silo) to ask for your username and password to the service in order to access the service on your behalf https://indiewebcamp.com/oauth
aaronpkoh I didn't realize... "I worked for Yahoo when Geocities died, and I wrote a lengthy email plea to then CEO Carol Bartz that we should aid in its archiving"
frznI started to develop a solution to hold all my contact info and friends in a private server/app. I think this is what keeps me most from leaving these silos.
dariusdunlapAnd maybe another contributor to problems is that I set everything up as a “blog network” (Wordpress MU, like on wordpress.org) with multiple blogs running off the same instance of wordpress.
dariusdunlapIve got a few things sorted, but now I’m trying to make some posting work, and I’m getting some strange errors. Then I notice that my wordpress is showing http://darius.dunlaps.net, instead of https://… and I’m getting the redirect is breaking some things,
dariusdunlapYeah, I’ve got it setup in nginx, so everything DOES go to https, but some things still mess up… It seems that things that use wordpress.com account connection info get http://darius.dunlaps.net from there.
dariusdunlapoh, crap. “Alert! These directions are for single installs of WordPress only. If you are using WordPress MultiSite, you will need to manually edit your database.”
GWGIndieweb Post Kinds, Syndication Links, recently Simple Location in the repository. Also, while I'm not the developer, I have contributed to the Indieweb Plugin, Semantic Linkbacks, Micropub, and the Webmention Plugin.
dariusdunlapI’m not sure I follow hte purpose of the syndication links here. For example, my post earlier today got to twitter, and your twitter responce came back into my comment stream (via Brid.gy) just fine.
dariusdunlapBTW, it looks like I got the https fixed in my wordpress config. Had to edit wp_options/siteurl and wp_options/home in the MySQL database. (I had already setup Nginx to redirect everything to https)
kylewmsnarfed: i have a question about your micropub for hosted blogs draft .... specifically "The endpoint should identify the silo and domain, e.g. /tumblr/mysite.com" ... is there a reason not to have everyone use the same endpoint (e.g. /micropub)?
snarfedkylewm: related note, i wonder if there are cases where the domain they indieauth with is different than their blog's domain, and whether in any of those cases the translation isn't obvious
snarfedbridgy both stores the user's domains the (blog) silo tells it about, and does a couple simple silo lookups of domains and post urls, so you should be fine
kylewmsnarfed: so if they've indieauth with epeusepigone.com and their blogspot api account is epeus.blogspot.com, I *think* the blogger api is the only trustworthy source that can tell me that those two refer to the same site