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# 00:21 kylewm that's actually kind of an interesting case of js;dr, the article IS on archive.org, but the archive.org copy is also js-only
# 00:22 kylewm wondering how they could possibly mirror a javascript site
# 00:27 tantek kylewm: re: "centralization is just a projection of current trends" - that's one of the reasons we need not just 10 but 100s, preferably 1000s of indieweb "implementations"
# 00:28 tantek kylewm: it's possible if you curl the article you might get enough content to view
# 00:28 tantek and it's only on "user" browsers where Forbes does the interstitial (maybe server side?) and other JS nonsense
# 00:29 tantek KartikPrabhu: the future will be friendlier to ownyourdata because we are building that future
# 00:30 tantek KartikPrabhu: how is it that you are ascribing the building of negatives?
# 00:30 tantek you can't "not build the future" - that's called letting others build the future
# 00:30 KartikPrabhu tantek: ok. both Medium and Facebook are building the future where you don't ownyourdata
# 00:31 tantek no they are building syndication services, nothing more ;)
# 00:32 tantek and they're prototyping interesting/friendly UX - that's useful too.
# 00:32 tantek we shall add the best of their distinctiveness to our own. their UX ideas will be assimilated.
# 00:32 KartikPrabhu doesn't matter, unless hosting you own website becomes as easy as logging on the Medium
# 00:33 tantek KartikPrabhu: your "most people" based reasoning is trivially debunkable.
# 00:33 tantek e.g. "most people" don't believe in (actively dispute) Theory of Evolution
# 00:34 tantek that doesn't mean the Theory of Evolution is not true, nor not useful, nor not going to "win".
# 00:34 KartikPrabhu this isn't about some theory of science, but about how the people of the future will post on the web
# 00:34 tantek you can in aggregate, just as you can ignore that most people don't believe in (actively dispute) Theory of Evolution
# 00:35 tantek point is, you can't use "most people" to prove that something will fail
# 00:35 tantek that's the debunking of your argument based on "how most people use"
# 00:35 tantek as implying that that's the model that will succeed
# 00:36 Loqi tantek meant to say: we can cause it, by outbuilding
# 00:37 tantek I have complete confidence that we'll transition builders, creatives to their own sites, and silos will be left with the equivalent of what happened to MySpace etc.
# 00:37 tantek KartikPrabhu: we *are* outbuilding them - adding features now at a pace even individually faster than they are.
# 00:37 tantek we may not have caught up to nor passed their feature sets *yet*, emphasis on the *yet*
# 00:38 tantek we also haven't caught up yet in usability / ease of use - but I'm confident we'll catch up there - and pass them
# 00:38 tantek KartikPrabhu: this isn't just theoretical idealism
# 00:39 tantek In two years, I *crushed* branch - a silo - funded by @ev's Obvious corporation
# 00:40 KartikPrabhu I am just skeptical if indieweb will ever transition to "most people"
# 00:40 tantek My post *won*. Branch, the silo, and all their posts, *lost*.
# 00:40 tantek KartikPrabhu: want to see which transition to most people first? IndieWeb or Theory of Evolution?
# 00:40 Loqi tantek meant to say: KartikPrabhu: want to see which transitions to most people first? IndieWeb or Theory of Evolution?
# 00:40 tantek I'll be happy with a level of indieweb usage that matches the Theory of Evolution. ;)
# 00:41 KartikPrabhu most of the people I know don't care if their silos shutdown. they move on to the next one
# 00:42 tantek KartikPrabhu: nah, I get to compare against any silo, especially one that Ev himself funded via Obvious, to dispute his point
# 00:43 tantek simple competitive science, we're going to defeat the smaller silos before we defeat the larger ones
# 00:43 tantek hence I'm giving you evidence that we are on our way. we have had victories.
# 00:43 tantek KartikPrabhu: no problem, every time a silo shuts down, we beat it.
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# 00:44 tantek BTW kylewm yes I tried Forbes.com in Archive.org and that's why I changed my tweet/note from what I first said here
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# 00:45 tantek and I provided the example of t.co being dead to history
# 00:47 kylewm crosses fingers that KevinMarks' possed from known.kevinmarks.com...
# 00:48 tantek coming up with round two re: branch - thanks to Kartik's prodding
# 00:54 tantek sad thing is - it would have taken the *tiniest fraction* of what was invested in Branch to setup a static archive of the whole thing.
# 00:55 tantek KartikPrabhu: your handwringing / pessimism about the silos doing better is not very different than points made by Brian Oberkirch 2 years ago in his Branch post
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# 01:01 tantek since KevinMarks did a native retweet and no other responses
# 01:02 KartikPrabhu tantek: I do not disagree with anything in your post, or the work done here. I am just a social cynic, a town crier if you will
# 01:03 tantek KartikPrabhu: more time building than crying/cynicing ;)
# 01:04 tantek (the old tweet relegated only to the #Indiewebcamp archives ;) )
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# 02:38 aaronpk small font, even smaller font in a very long sidebar
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# 04:22 kylewm does anyone have a suggestion for how to know when to use the "link" parameter (creates an embedded link preview thing) when publishing to Facebook? I want to do it in a generic way for bridgy publish
# 04:23 aaronpk probably if there is a URL in the post that is not the domain that is publishing
# 04:24 kylewm "not the domain that is publishing" -- that's what I said too! but snarfed said he would want the preview if linking to his own domain
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# 04:24 aaronpk I know some people don't want the preview if it's their own post
# 04:25 [tantek] I agree with snarfed, always preview by default as that's the existing FB UI behavior.
# 04:25 kylewm I think if there's a link in the content of your post, it's relatively safe to say you want a preview for it
# 04:25 kylewm pretty clear we don't want a preview as the "See Original" link
# 04:25 aaronpk well it's like how I stopped adding the link to my post in my FB copy because I didn't like how giant it made my small notes
# 04:26 [tantek] Kevinmarka apparently I was *too* good at swapping that memory out to the wiki so I could reuse those cells for other purposes.
# 04:27 [tantek] Yeah for notes it doesn't matter. But for photo (note) posts, it might still make sense so the photo shows up in the preview?
# 04:30 [tantek] Yes for sure. However there are also notes with photos in the middle of them.
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# 04:50 kylewm previously I'd written that u-featured should mean a Facebook link with that photo as the preview, and u-photo should mean a Facebook photo
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# 05:02 KartikPrabhu kylewm: that shouds about right. but it would be fine to fall back on first u-photo as preview link
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# 05:19 snarfed thanks to KartikPrabhu for the inspiration and kylewm for plenty of help!
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# 12:55 GWG pfefferle: Good morning. Any news?
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# 14:30 voxpelli Next HWC Malmö: Thursday 24/9 Will try to update wiki asap
# 14:31 voxpelli Jeena: I'm still up to demo Swat0 on Wednesday – how about you?
# 14:32 Jeena oh damn, I'm not sure yet, it will be tight because I didn't have any time this week, I started last week to at least resend webmentions on updates and new comments
# 14:33 Jeena but I got stuck on how to display and store those external 3rd party comments
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# 14:41 voxpelli Yeah, the showing can be tricky, although you can cheat by just showing a few levels deep, will still be able to complete Swat0
# 14:41 voxpelli I did crazy recursive Postgres queries so I show an infinite depth
# 14:42 voxpelli Haven't ensured that the style doesn't break after X levels though
# 14:49 Jeena do you have a m2m relation between for example notes so you a note has and belongs to many notes?
# 14:52 voxpelli I think I save entries and what normalized URL:s each and everyone mentions and then I recursively add all mentions the normalized URL:s of the top matching entries until no more can be found
# 14:54 aaronpk interesting, I was planning on a much more flat storage approach
# 14:54 aaronpk basically deciding which posts a comment should appear on, and adding a reference to it in each post's list of comments
# 14:55 voxpelli I just extended what I had and tried to get it to work by adding as little extra as possible :)
# 14:57 voxpelli My entries table is basically just a giant cache of all marked up pages I have had a reason to fetch
# 14:57 voxpelli Thinking I may just as well build a reply context embed eventually as well as Salmentions will require me to fetch the data anyway
# 15:00 Jeena yeah sqlite but behind ruby on rails so I can upgrade if needed
# 15:02 voxpelli Jeena: on line 284 here you'll find my crazy WITH RECURSIVE query
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# 15:20 Jeena hehe I have never seen with recursive in SQL
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# 15:36 ben_thatmustbeme rhiaro: once you have relocated, i have a woman i met at devopsdays who would be interested in helping organize an IWC
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# 16:24 rhiaro R2ZER0, moredhel, KitB: if you're coming to IWC, converge on 2.35, MF1 has people in and all my officemates just left (cc tbrb)
# 16:24 Loqi rhiaro meant to say: R2ZER0, moredhel, KitB: when you come to IWC, converge on 2.35, MF1 has people in and all my officemates just left (cc tbrb)
# 16:24 moredhel hehe :p, cool. I'm heading back to my old flat first, then will head over
# 16:26 rhiaro So who wants to break last week's 8 hour HWC record?
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# 16:30 moredhel hehe, my mind my fall out of my head if I do that
# 16:36 KevinMarks noterlive does a tweet preview and length countdown, whcih is hadny
# 16:40 rhiaro I have three computers in front of me, one with IRC, one with phd/academic work I'm lagging on, one with potential for HWC... This will help with productivity, right?
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# 16:50 tbrb desktop, laptop, ultrabook, tablet, laptop, watch
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# 17:05 M-kegan Somewhat surreal since with an irc bridge in the same room you get irc to slack bridge *for free* without needing to even know about matrix
# 17:05 M-kegan Which is kinda the whole point
# 17:07 M-kegan Do you know how featureful the slack apis are? I'm just using webhooks but obviously I'd like to create actual users on slack and not be limited to bing words or a certain channel
# 17:08 aaronpk don't think you can create actual users, but you can use the name and icon param to make the webhook user look like other users
# 17:09 aaronpk and afaik you can only get the global web hook per channel
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# 17:11 M-kegan Can you programmatically create webhooks?
# 17:11 M-kegan And can you be notified when new channels are made? 0:)
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# 17:23 rhiaro HWC Edinburgh currently: tbrb, R2ZER0, Kongaloosh
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# 17:36 Zegnat rhiaro: how many hours are planned for you guys this time around
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# 17:44 Zegnat rhiaro, tbrb, R2ZER0_, Kongaloosh ++ just don’t leave
# 17:45 Kongaloosh well, the door is not only locked from the inside, but the outside.
# 17:45 rhiaro Need a swipe card to get out... I'm the only one who has one.
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# 18:01 rhiaro After 1.5 hours of HWC, R2ZER0 finally connects his laptop to the internet.
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# 18:19 moredhel Rhiaro, you in IF?
# 18:19 moredhel Could you send a minion to let me in?
# 18:47 GWG I am working on an article now I will not be POSSEing to Facebook
# 18:49 GWG I decided to write another Indieweb article.
# 18:49 GWG Trying to figure out how to explain Microformats in terms of utility
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# 18:53 GWG The why in the wiki isn't really helpful
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# 19:00 GWG Anyone have any suggestions on that?
# 19:01 rhiaro went to get coffee and recruited a new HWC member in the kitchen
# 19:06 GWG pictures Rhiaro on a street corner preaching the way of the IndieWeb
# 19:07 rhiaro It happened that he was looking for a hacknight anyway. It was an easy sell.
# 19:08 GWG I didn't think you would, but it was sn amusing thought
# 19:10 GWG My coworkers have to be shown where the power switch is.
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# 19:11 snarfed1 hah. classic joke: what's the first thing AOL tech support asks when you call?
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# 20:57 [tantek] Kylewm I've POSSEd an entire article to FB via Bridgy Publish before IIRC. Not a regular thing though.
# 20:57 rhiaro Can still take one of me and moredhel if that's useful..
# 20:58 [tantek] And note to self take photo half hour after meetup start!
# 20:58 rhiaro Half an hour after the meetup starts is usually still just me, or me and tbrb
# 20:58 rhiaro people come and go, that's why it's more difficult
# 20:58 rhiaro An hour or an hour and a half in is usually peak
# 20:59 [tantek] Take photos every 30 min or so then. Ok to have a collage of informal shots.
# 20:59 kylewm tantek: when you're back at a computer, it'd be awesome if you could dig up an example of an article possed to facebook
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# 22:41 kylewm shareaholic.com, is that another one of those ironic URLs?
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# 23:29 Loqi Ok, I'll tell them that when I see them next
# 23:31 KartikPrabhu wants to write a long detailed reply. Such question arise from time to time and is basically first-world tunnel vision
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# 23:43 [tantek] Write a short pithy reply instead, with a strong first sentence hook, ellipsed on Twitter, with a PSL to the original with a few more sentences on your own site. No need to be thorough. Just make a quick couple of points.
# 23:44 [tantek] Thought I made such an update though maybe it was in my head.
# 23:45 GWG tantek, I need help improving an answer on the wiki. Why Microformats
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# 23:57 GWG gRegorLove: But that doesn't explain to someone why they should use them