2015-08-01 UTC
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# 01:43 aaronpk i'm not a very good data point, I don't go on facebook often
# 01:45 tantek huh, having difficulty deciding where to document this
# 01:46 tantek I think I need to expand webactions - this is a hole
# 01:46 tantek because those are buttons you might put on your indie event
# 01:46 tantek and if you have a FB POSSE copy, perhaps a fallback webaction to do so on FB
# 01:48 tantek should be careful what he documents as part of EVERYTHING then.
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# 01:53 tantek like why repost are the next most important post type for you to support on your site
# 01:53 tantek vs. say, indie events, or indie rsvps (or do you already support those?), or indie invitations
# 02:02 tantek ben_thatmustbeme: my list of things to write about just keeps growing
# 02:02 tantek I come up with them faster than I can write them :/
# 02:02 tantek also it's a good way to collect a bunch, and then pick which one seems the most interesting/useful/positive to write about
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# 02:04 ben_thatmustbeme tantek: different levels of indentation? i think the represent that your browser hasn't finished loading the images... also represent bad CSS on my part possibly
# 02:04 aaronpk maybe you should publish that on tantek.com/blog-this.txt .. maybe even make a flashy site encouraging others to the same ;)
# 02:05 tantek aaronpk - ugh, many of these things I'm glad I never get around to blogging
# 02:05 ben_thatmustbeme kylewm: different levels of indentation? i think the represent that your browser hasn't finished loading the images... also represent bad CSS on my part possibly
# 02:06 kylewm ah yeah, my browser doesn't load hotlinked images from Facebook
# 02:06 tantek like all the things where I want to complain badly about something. only a few of those get published. and I try to only post them about bigcos/products ("punch up" as it were, per benwerd)
# 02:06 Loqi ben_thatmustbeme meant to say: tantek: i have TOBLOG/ with just a bunch of files
# 02:06 kylewm so it's probably a combination of that and no clearfix
# 02:06 tantek ben_thatmustbeme: how do you order the files within the folder?
# 02:07 ben_thatmustbeme i name them appropriately at the time and whatever looks interesting i pull up and work on
# 02:07 tantek one reason a blog-this.txt works well for me is that when I go fishing for something to blog it's all in one file, and I can collapse similar subjects, or split a subject in half VERY easily without hassling with new files, file names, all that carp
# 02:08 tantek because usually such blog-this thoughts aren't fully formed / well formed anyway, and thus their fuzzy boundaries lend well to be collected together, separated only by 70 chars of "-" like ----------------------- ...
# 02:08 ben_thatmustbeme yeah, some of those are defunct as i have now written about them but made the blog post way way shorter and so i just keep them to maintain history
# 02:08 tantek aaronpk - sometimes when I'm not ready to blog something but am collecting partially formed thoughts, I wiki it somewhere
# 02:09 tantek other times I'll try to post at least post a note that's an atomic building block of a larger post
# 02:09 tantek especially if it's an idea I want to get out there
# 02:09 tantek I feel like "responses" are not in the spirit of the 100 words 100 days thing
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# 02:13 ben_thatmustbeme or to put it more cleanly, i'm using 100 days to get me more social, not so much blogging
# 02:13 tantek for me it's pretty bad. I have "post this ASAP - like today" posts to write (which take weeks or months to get to :/), "post this in a timely manner because the sooner the bigger impact it will have" (which often get upgraded to the previous list), and then blog-this.txt where everything else goes
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# 02:15 tantek is digging himself into an RSVP documentation hole he really doesn't have time for.
# 02:21 tantek I need to get it out of my head otherwise it slows down thinking about other things
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# 02:31 tantek.com edited /webactions (+1757) "Why event specific, Why fallback silo webactions, add a bunch of event/RSVP webactions suggestions inline in other sections too" (
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# 02:34 tantek do you provide only the same Reply / Repost / Like buttons on them too?
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# 02:37 tantek so people can RSVP right there from Monocle / Woodwind to events they see in their stream
# 02:38 tantek assuming their server supports micropub for creating RSVP posts of course
# 02:38 tantek and even Invitation posts - though that could be a more interesting UI
# 02:39 tantek e.g. user clicks "Invite" button under an event in their reader, and their reader shows them a checkbox selectable list of all the people they follow in the reader (since you have that information)
# 02:39 tantek that should be sufficient information to construct an /invitation post and publish it via micropub to their site
# 02:40 tantek ben_thatmustbeme: does mobilepub support creating RSVP posts?
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# 02:45 tantek surrounds the RSVP documentation hole with those questions as warning signs, exits hole.
# 02:46 tantek I also wonder if it would be useful at all for readers if they were able to extract those webaction buttons from posts directly
# 02:47 tantek that is, what if the webactions were somehow properties (nested objects?) of their h-entry
# 02:47 tantek could readers then read those, and show them, clickable, as part of their UI on the posts?
# 02:48 tantek no need to require micropub for webactions, that's the point. however, if we do define how to publish / parse webactions, then readers can *upgrade* them to micropub if the user is signed in with micropub
# 02:49 KartikPrabhu tantek: no not for webactions. I was thinking in the context of posting to my site but with an "inline micropub interface" borrwoed from say Quill
# 02:50 tantek sure, you could do that for yourself. what about others viewing your posts?
# 02:50 tantek I think we already decided we don't want to make (or teach!) users to give their micropub credentials to every site they read.
# 02:50 tantek logged in = webaction buttons directly linking to endpoints on that logged in site.
# 02:51 tantek logged in with micropub auth = webaction buttons that do micropub directly
# 02:51 KartikPrabhu not just webaction, but if it is a self-log-in to own site then also "new post"
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# 02:59 tantek KartikPrabhu: indie-config is how we solve that
# 03:00 tantek.com edited /webactions (+1267) "/* Brainstorming */ as part of post h-entry, reader upgrading webactions to micropub, sites upgrading webactions to micropub" (
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# 03:00 tantek KartikPrabhu: no - that's the point of indie-config it works purely with JS on the posting site, and JS on the site of the person doing the browsing
# 03:01 tantek you can obviously do much more with a browser add-on, which is what BarnabyWalters did the previous year at /2013/UK
# 03:02 tantek I have a funny feeling this is what all the "Actions" spec stuff that was being discussed in socialwg at TPAC 2014 was about.
# 03:10 GWG Why are you reading about webactions?
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# 03:14 GWG I was talking about it the other day with him
# 03:14 GWG I fear a tantekless chat will be less lively
# 03:30 GWG tantek: You are very active though.
# 03:30 GWG Either way, I'll be here waiting for WordPress people
# 03:40 tantek GWG, communities adapt and evolve. One person's absence (or silence) is another's opportunity to speak up more.
# 03:47 GWG tantek: "Better to Remain Silent and Be Thought a Fool than to Speak and Remove All Doubt"
# 03:49 wagle how the hey do I change my visible profile in twitter?
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# 04:08 wagle cant create an account, "try again in a moment" for 10 minutes now
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# 04:12 tantek wagle, perhaps consider posting about it and asking @AppDotNet about it?
# 04:14 wagle oh.. it barfs if you already have an account?
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# 04:34 wagle wheee. i have bazillions of wp plugins now
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# 04:41 GWG Let me check on my test site. I did the last push to that plugin
# 04:42 GWG wagle: I can click that link on my site. Strange.
# 04:43 GWG wagle: Happy to try and troubleshoot it.
# 04:44 wagle i dont see a dir for a indieweb-installer plugin
# 04:45 wagle root@wagle:/var/www/html/wp-content/plugins# ls
# 04:45 wagle akismet index.php indieweb micropub syndication-links webmention wordpress-webactions-master wp-latex
# 04:45 wagle hum indieauth indieweb-post-kinds semantic-linkbacks tfo-graphviz wordpress-indieweb-press-this-master wordpress-webmention-for-comments-master
# 04:47 GWG You could try uninstalling the plugin and reinstalling it. I'm not sure why it isn't on your list
# 04:48 GWG I meant just the WordPress Indieweb Plugin
# 04:48 GWG It's just an installer. It doesn't do anything on its own
# 04:51 KartikPrabhu oh man! looks like hfeed2atom does not work on my likes which don't have content...
# 04:54 GWG wagle: What are you looking to do specifically?
# 04:56 wagle plugins -> installed plugins -> indieweb getting started -> Other Install Plugins
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# 04:57 GWG wagle: The theme shouldn't affect the admin page.
# 04:57 GWG wagle: I just followed the same path and it went to the page.
# 04:57 GWG wagle: What version of WordPress are you running?
# 05:00 GWG There's nothing in the plugin that should cause that that I can think of. Usually that message comes with an actual file permissions issue.
# 05:02 GWG If you are using the Wordpress.org version, it would be plugins/indieweb
# 05:03 GWG Try deleting it entirely, and installing it again and see if it sets the permissions up properly.
# 05:05 GWG If it doesn't work, it isn't the end of the world. As mentioned, by itself it does nothing but install other plugins.
# 05:06 tantek KartikPrabhu: if you'd like an example what likes could/should look like in an Atom feed, see tantek.com/updates.atom
# 05:07 tantek and for bonus points, consider supporting AS1/Atom <object-type> as well (view source to see)
# 05:09 wagle ok, i'm using indieweb plugin to install EVERYTHING, and when I do that, the installer tab off the main plugins menu disappears
# 05:10 wagle and i get the insufficient perms thing agan
# 05:11 GWG If you install everything, then it has nothing to install, and can't generate the list.
# 05:11 GWG Hmm...I've never actually tried installing all plugins.
# 05:11 KartikPrabhu tantek: aah cool! thanks. might not end up using AS1/atom but presentation would be a good help
# 05:11 wagle and i'm doing all the installing from inside wordpress
# 05:13 GWG wagle: I just reproduced your bug
# 05:13 KartikPrabhu tantek: your like entry does not have an actual <title> in Atom which is supposed to be a required attribute
# 05:13 GWG The bug is that it disables the menu item if you install and activate all items.
# 05:13 wagle makes note to self to started labelng message with GWG
# 05:14 GWG wagle: Then if you try to access the page, it generates the error you had
# 05:14 wagle it seems to still have a list of plugins to install?
# 05:16 GWG wagle: I've filed an issue. I may have to figure out how to hide the link on the options page the same way
# 05:17 GWG wagle: It's a feature of the Plugin Activation system the Indieweb plugin uses neither I nor pfefferle thought of.
# 05:17 GWG No one so far, I guess, has installed every plugin
# 05:18 GWG If you disable one of them, even if you don't uninstall, the link will work again
# 05:20 wagle GWG: ah.. i dont know what they do, so enabled all of them to see what was what
# 05:21 GWG wagle: The Getting Started Page is sort of a basic explanation.
# 05:21 GWG I'd recommend you start with Webmentions and Semantic Linkbacks
# 05:21 GWG Post Kinds tries to give you outgoing replies by marking up your posts.
# 05:22 GWG Syndication Links gives you rel=me links, rel=syndication links, etc.
# 05:22 GWG MicroPub gives you the ability to post using a Micropub client.
# 05:22 GWG Hum is a URL shortener, if you want one of those.
# 05:23 GWG Indieauth allows you to log in using Indieauth..which you'd need the rel=me links for.
# 05:24 GWG It's linked in the plugin, actully.
# 05:24 KartikPrabhu ok. was just wondering why you are manually listing them in IRC instead of pointing to that link
# 05:24 GWG KartikPrabhu: Intellectual exercise, I suppose.
# 05:26 wagle ya, i now have a list of plugins to fgure out (my list of installed ones)
# 05:26 GWG KartikPrabhu: I've been trying to follow WordPress documentation standard practices all day, I guess I'm in documentation mode.
# 05:26 GWG wagle: Any specific things I can help with?
# 05:26 wagle what happens when one of the github based ones gets updated?
# 05:27 GWG wagle: The Indieweb plugin has the ability to update them. That's the latest feature of the plugin installer it uses.
# 05:28 GWG Even the ones that are on the WordPress repository do their development on Github
# 05:28 wagle i'm currently looking at sempress theme, looks rather cluttered, but mayb I can unclutter it
# 05:29 GWG wagle: There is an alternative if you want to write your own theme.
# 05:29 wagle GWG: just thought maybe the wordpress server couldnt tell if a github was updated
# 05:30 GWG It is what I use every time I make another theme.
# 05:32 wagle i thought i'd stick to off-the-shelf until I understood
# 05:33 GWG I've only been hacking on WordPress extensively since I joined up in here.
# 05:34 GWG There weren't tools to do what I wanted.
# 05:34 wagle yeah, the indieweb stuff seems pretty slick
# 05:36 GWG wagle: The idea was to have a mini-directory of Indieweb Plugins.
# 05:42 wagle I didnt, but the ones that are in sidebar 2 are listed only once
# 05:44 GWG If you set some in the bars, the repeat will likely go away.
# 05:45 wagle added a rel-me widget, nothing happened.. will try harder
# 05:48 wagle now to unsquander all that precious vertical whitespace... 8)
# 05:49 wagle the sempress theme has its own notion of sidebars
# 05:52 GWG wagle: I'm stepping away, but if you need anything, just leave me a message. I lurk 24/7
# 05:52 GWG wagle: Any issues or features with the Indieweb stuff, you can file an issue on the development Github and it is usually addressed.
# 05:53 wagle oh, just in case you are still here, or whenever, I'm urrently figuring out how to install mf2_s
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# 05:54 GWG wagle: Manually only right now. It's not in the installer as it isn't a full theme. It's a starter theme.
# 05:55 wagle git clone into the themes dir is my current theory
# 05:55 wagle thought i'd see what it did, since the sempress doesnt want to fit on a screen
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# 07:33 tantek KartikPrabhu: interesting! the feed validator certainly didn't complain.
# 07:34 tantek e.g. <title type="xhtml"> <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"/> </title>
# 07:35 KartikPrabhu yeah. I guess itis strictly not valid or something. You think an empty title for notes in general is OK?
# 07:35 tantek see that's what happens you do dumb things in a format like REQUIRED elements, people just stick in empty ones to pacify the validators
# 07:36 KartikPrabhu I see. So maybe hfeed2atom should also put empty title's in case no actual "name" property is found
# 07:36 tantek it might be an empty string, but there's always one
# 07:36 KartikPrabhu currently I check is name is supposed to be a title, i.e. whether name has been auto-generated from content
# 07:41 KartikPrabhu because if "name" is empty and "content" is also empty it throws error. Maybe in that case hfeed2atom should put the empty title like your feed does
# 07:42 KartikPrabhu cool! will think about that strategy. Will help with my emtpy-content likes and possibly snarfed's feed too
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# 09:08 tantek hmm - Google seems to be finding my minutes old posts again
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# 16:10 Loqi Ok, I'll tell them that when I see them next
# 16:11 Loqi Ok, I'll tell them that when I see them next
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# 16:39 kylewm hi tantek, sure! I cannot attend on the 12th, but can host on the 26th
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# 19:30 KartikPrabhu !tell tantek: intersting that Feedly does not pick up XML for your title when it is empty, but picks it up when not empty! :P
# 19:30 Loqi Ok, I'll tell him that when I see him next
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# 20:51 aaronpk jonnybarnes: i keep running in to you on the internet!
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