tantek!tell shaners re: h2vs - dang, yeah, my web host upgraded their PHP (or default php.ini) and it caused more warnings / breaks in a bunch of code, looks like H2VX got hit too. Interesting/challenging webhost / indieweb maintenance problem.
[shaners]Tantek: Hosts like Heroku let/require you to specify the version of your language and framework that you’re running in some config file. In my case, it’s a Gemfile where I specify my Ruby version.
Loqi[shaners]: tantek left you a message 1 minute ago: re: h2vs - dang, yeah, my web host upgraded their PHP (or default php.ini) and it caused more warnings / breaks in a bunch of code, looks like H2VX got hit too. Interesting/challenging webhost / indieweb maintenance problem. http://indiewebcamp.com/irc/2015-10-11/line/1444608076643
tantekgot it. appreciate the distinction about Heroku. documenting such features will be a good way to help people decide what kind of webhost they want.
ben_thatmustbemeaaronpk: whats wrong with just using url[]= for both your local and the remote one you are adding? you can easily distinguish a local url from non-local
petermolnargood morning, indieweb; I've got a question for those who still do/use RSS: do you add pictures as attachment? If yes, do you use 'enclosure' or 'media:group' ?
Zegnatpetermolnar: I think the bigger question is how many RSS readers support the picture element. It might not make sense to add attachments if only 1% has problems with newer HTML
GWGpetermolnar: The REST API infrastructure comes in in 4.4, with the new endpoints in 4.5 as of now. I'd expect that after that, there may be a proposal to disable parts of XMLRPC by default that may gain traction.
GWGpetermolnar: 4.4 is a much bigger release. And closing tickets is a major push this time. I'm hoping that continues in the future. We don't need as many new features if they can clean up things.
GWGpetermolnar: All of my other approaches have met with limited success. This at least, even if I fail, gets me credentials and a reputation I could bank on.
benwerdtantek: "Signed feeds" should have been "signed feed requests" - authed API requests that then can result in personalized content being sent back in the feed, allowing for some level of per-post privacy
tantekGWG, my point is that if you actually collect specific examples for from->to self-mentions, you may find patterns or usage, clusters, that will help inform a good presentational design.
tantekasking to figure out "abstract self->mention" -> "presentation" is a form of plumbing-first design, since the fact of the mention is just plumbing, a link. Absent the reason *why* that link exists, there's little chance of designing a user-centric presentation
tantekGWG, for example, see the various different kinds of footer sections here, many of which are based on "self-mentions" at a plumbing level, but indicate very different user-centric use-cases: http://indiewebcamp.com/posts#Footer_sections
tantekdocument examples like, post A links to post B, and from the context clearly it means "previously" or, here is a new post on the subject, or ... (insert specific author intention here)
GWGtantek: My concerns come from the fact I am embedded in the WordPress ecosystem. Where PIngbacks are built-in, but disabled by many and ignored by most.
GWGtantek: My argument is that if no one sees the benefit of it in presentation, the desire to not deal with spam overrides the desire to have the feature in the first place.
tantekGWG then yes - I agree, any incremental (and quick) presentational improvements you can make over the status quo are good, however I hope you don't stop there, and do document specific examples in the hopes of coming up with even better presentation.
GWGTo snarfed's comment, I'm for replacing with a summary if one is expressly set. But I'm against doing it if one is not unless a better way then the text around it is suggested.
snarfedGWG: like i mentioned, another alternative is the first N words of the content, which at least wouldn't have the same problems as text around link
snarfedalso some of this probably comes down to personal preference. e.g. i strongly prefer text around link, warts and all, instead of the current "this was mentioned on X,"
aaronpkit'd be possible to set up a web service on amazon that would serve bare domains for people, proxying it to whatever host they are actualyl running
bearA load balancer is a device (or software) that acts as a reverse proxy for a web service or network that allows you to balance the load across multiple servers on a network
bearA reverse proxy is a type of service that allows resources to be requested by a client to be resolved by any number of servers without the client being aware of those servers
bearA CDN (aka Content Delivery Network) is a network of distributed servers that deliver content based on the requesting clients geographical location
aaronpki'm actually quite curious how tantek.com would work on cloudflare. might end up preventing the bandwidth overages by letting it serve cached content
danlykeYeah, I'm still amazed at the startup time for Perl to parse my CGI libraries, but also half-thinking that maybe I should just port my remaining Perl to C++.
danlykeAnd I implemented caching for much of the page rendering, so though the startup time is still slow, I'm not rendering markdown to HTML with every request any more...