#indiewebcamp 2016-02-13

2016-02-13 UTC
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tbrb
tantek: Yup, will get it added to the wiki in the morning, about to head off for the night
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Loqi
tbrb: tantek left you a message 36 minutes ago: is there a HWC Edi next week or the week after? http://indiewebcamp.com/irc/2016-02-12/line/1455321069469
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Loqi
[mention] someone wrote a post that linked to https://webmention.io/notification/ZMXKueMqFqQTCUXbcVkyng
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gRegorLove
Working with Mediawiki templates can be a pain.
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gRegorLove
I just want to be able to inject a class="u-url" on a wiki link to [[page]], but looks like the template will just have to take the full URL and build the link.
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aaronpk
"just" and "mediawiki" rarely belong in the same sentence
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gRegorLove
Heh, true
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Schnitz
wow. The soundcloud might go down link from fact.mag now has 2.2k annotations on tumblr
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Schnitz
for tumblr, thats huge
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Schnitz
SILO death is affecting people
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Schnitz
sc dearth: people ask on tumblr, where should I go then, me: indieweb! they: nah... me: then go home. LOL
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Schnitz
it could well be that the upcoming wave of silo deaths will simply drive a lot of people out of the internet and back into reality, some fraction to indieweb
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Loqi
[indieweb] "SoundCloud could be forced to close after $44m losses" http://belp.audio/post/139204500177
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Loqi
[indieweb] "grtwhtgrvty:
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Loqi
[indieweb] "JAHMONI - Useless Images" http://belp.audio/post/139202407252
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oliverpattison
I'm sort of new here – when an article is marked as a stub, how should we go about filling it in if we know things that are missing?
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aaronpk
in general, feel free to add to any page
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aaronpk
a wiki is always a work in progress :)
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oliverpattison
aaronpk, I remember you asked a couple of days ago about AWS ACM certs: I wrote a walkthrough for implementing with static sites https://olivermak.es/2016/01/aws-tls-certificate-with-jekyll/
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aaronpk
very cool
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oliverpattison
SNI is a pretty big limitation though – if you go HTTPS-only with SNI (the cheap option) Windows XP and Android 2/3 are left out
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aaronpk
definitely link that from http://indiewebcamp.com/https
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oliverpattison
yep – I'll add it!
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oliverpattison
if you don't choose SNI and want HTTPS for even older clients, it's prohibitively expensive for indieweb at $600/month
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oliverpattison
or you can go HTTP/HTTPS optional and support all clients
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aaronpk
windows XP was EOL almost 2 years ago now so I don't really feel bad about that
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oliverpattison
me neither – I go HTTPS-only for now
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oliverpattison
but I'm keeping an open mind about it
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aaronpk
I always thought amazon's pricing for that was a little nuts
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oliverpattison
yes, but it's super-cheap for cloudfront now – pennies really
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oliverpattison
and free certs
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aaronpk
I thought it was free on cloudfront? I'm running a site there and I haven't paid yet
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aaronpk
oops i always get those confused. i meant cloudflare
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oliverpattison
ACM part is free, cloudfront is fractions of a penny more if you go HTTPS
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aaronpk
alright too many acronyms/jargon. let's see...
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aaronpk
what is CloudFront?
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Loqi
Cloudfront is the CDN service provided by Amazon, see https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront for more details https://indiewebcamp.com/Cloudfront
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oliverpattison
but for a low-traffic site, it's 70 cents per month floor (S3+Route53+CloudFront)
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aaronpk
what is CloudFlare?
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Loqi
CloudFlare is a service to, in their own words, "supercharge your website" https://indiewebcamp.com/CloudFlare
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aaronpk
what is SNI?
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Loqi
It looks like we don't have a page for "SNI" yet. Would you like to create it? https://indiewebcamp.com/s/10Dw
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aaronpk
what is ACM?
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Loqi
It looks like we don't have a page for "ACM" yet. Would you like to create it? https://indiewebcamp.com/s/10Dx
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oliverpattison
wow, I can definitely fill in that CloudFront stub
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aaronpk
awesome
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aaronpk
also feel free to create those other two, just say "ACM is .... "
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oliverpattison
IRC newbie question: how do you get your name hyperlinked properly?
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aaronpk
that's an indiewebcamp thing. add yourself to https://indiewebcamp.com/irc-people !
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oliverpattison
thanks – that is great
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aaronpk
it occurs to me that now that we have people regularly joining the chat from Slack and the indiewebcamp.com web interface, we shouldn't really call this IRC anymore, since IRC is really just thing that broadcasts the messages around
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oliverpattison
hm – Slack? where do I sign up for that?
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olivermak.es
edited /IRC_People (+101) "/* Nicknames */ adding oliverpattison"
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oliverpattison
thanks for the help
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oliverpattison
I just attended the first DC meeting last week – glad to finally check in here
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aaronpk
awesome!
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oliverpattison
will be adding more indieweb stuff to my site as I dig in
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oliverpattison
thanks for your help – have a good weekend
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aaronpk
you too!
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[kevinmarks]
We could call it webchat with irc and slack mirrors
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[aaronpk]
Argh. silo.pub checking for whether the post contains the username being mentioned is case sensitive so it added the capitalized version of the username I replied to and now that tweet looks ridiculous
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[kevinmarks]
Normalising to the caps they use on twitter seems a reasonable heuristic
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[aaronpk]
Yeah Twitter usernames are case insensitive
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[aaronpk]
Or whatever the name for how the OS X file system works is
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Jeena
Do we have an example of a photographer with a indieweb website?
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petermolnar
Schnitz: re "it could well be that the upcoming wave of silo deaths will simply drive a lot of people out of the internet and back into reality, some fraction to indieweb" -> https://petermolnar.eu/exodus/ last paragraph
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Schnitz
petermolnar reading...
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Schnitz
petermolnar great article, reposting...
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GWG
Good morning, all
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Schnitz
mornin' GWG
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[oliverpattison]
I think this new ACM page should actually be moved to something like “AWS Certificate Manager” but I don’t know the best practice (new to this wiki) – does that sound right?
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[aaronpk]
Yep! Usually better to use the full name for the page and then a redirect for the acronym
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[oliverpattison]
good, I’ll move it
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[aaronpk]
You can click the "move" button to give it a new na me and it makes the redirect for you
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olivermak.es
moved /ACM to /AWS_Certificate_Manager "use most commonly used name instead of acronym"
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[jgarber]
I’m really digging shaners proposed new logo (https://indiewebcamp.com/logo#Proposed_New_Logo). Has there been thought to how that treatment would work as a square icon (for Slack, GitHub, etc.)
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Loqi
[jgarber]: tantek left you a message 17 hours, 13 minutes ago: will there be a HWC in DC in 2 weeks? Please add it to https://indiewebcamp.com/events/2016-02-24-homebrew-website-club#Where ! http://indiewebcamp.com/irc/2016-02-12/line/1455320872341
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sixtwothree.org
edited /logo (+17) "/* Adopt {{shaners}}'s proposal */ Add self to supporters of {{shakers}} proposal."
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tantek
what are settings?
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Loqi
It looks like we don't have a page for "settings" yet. Would you like to create it? https://indiewebcamp.com/s/10Dy
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tantek
settings are a common silo feature that allows users to edit various aspects of their profile, including [[security]], [[privacy]], [[block]]ing, [[language]], [[notifications]], etc.
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loqi.me
created /settings (+210) "prompted by tantek https://indiewebcamp.com/irc/2016-02-13/line/1455383335568 and dfn added by tantek"
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tantek
what are preferences?
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Loqi
It looks like we don't have a page for "preferences" yet. Would you like to create it? https://indiewebcamp.com/s/10Dz
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tantek
preferences are /settings
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loqi.me
created /preferences (+21) "prompted by tantek https://indiewebcamp.com/irc/2016-02-13/line/1455383478282 and dfn added by tantek"
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[shaners]
thanks jgarber !
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[jgarber]
shaners Not a problem! And apologies for the autocorrect to `{{shakers}}` in that wiki update message. :stuck_out_tongue:
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[shaners]
The Shakers had a pretty righteous design philosophy
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tantek
what are publics?
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Loqi
publics are the combined set of people who make up the readership or audience of a post https://indiewebcamp.com/publics
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[shaners]
Shaker design philosophy
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[shaners]
!tell aaronpk loqi feature request: try to fetch name/contents for pasted URLs like tweet URLs. If there are mf2, give a little preview in the channel. If not, do nothing.
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Loqi
Ok, I'll tell them that when I see them next
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aaronpk
it's been on my list for a while :)
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[shaners]
Oh. Hi! Good morning. :smile:
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aaronpk
it will come as part of me adding reply contexts back to my site
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aaronpk
having written code to generate this sort of "link preview" from microformats data a number of times now, I only want to write it one more time and turn it into a service so that I don't have to think about it again
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tantek
I think that's on the /Loqi feature request list right?
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tantek
(or should be)
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tantek
aaronpk: do you have a name for link preview as a service?
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aaronpk
I think we talked about this the other day? I mentioned "Scribe" but you had some other ideas
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[shaners]
aaronpk: when you roll these services, do you also build an underlying package/library that does the core thing? So someone could re-use the functionality in their app without standing up a full service.
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[shaners]
I like Scribe for this.
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aaronpk
[shaners]: sometimes the service is built on top of a library, but other times it doesn't really make sense to
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[jgarber]
Slack refers to this as “unfurling” https://api.slack.com/docs/unfurling
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[shaners]
I think T mentioned Monk? Or maybe that was for an archiver?
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[jgarber]
Clever pun with “url” in there…
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aaronpk
like, not sure how Telegraph would be a library other than the mention-client that it wraps
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aaronpk
but yes for this one, I will start by writing a library
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[shaners]
jgarber: You may not know that aaronpk has a naming convention for all of his p3k related projects: https://indiewebcamp.com/p3k_naming_convention
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[shaners]
aaronpk: :+1::skin-tone-2: makes sense
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aaronpk
on a totally different note, I just upgraded a mediawiki install that is older than the indiewebcamp wiki, and it went pretty smoothly
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aaronpk
the skin isn't compatible with the new version though
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[jgarber]
shaners aaronpk Would "penny-farthing" be too steampunk or just steampunk enough?
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[shaners]
I know nothing about steam punk. :shrug:
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aaronpk
i'm kind of wondering if it would be a good idea to upgrade the wiki (finally) and switch to the default medaiwiki "vector" skin
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tantek.com
edited /settings (+689) "add silo examples, FB settings, privacy in particular, forward link to future section / content"
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[shaners]
aaronpk: +1
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aaronpk
maybe coordinate with the launch of the new logo
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tantek
aaronpk: do we know what will break when we do?
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tantek
is not a fan of upgrading without being able to easily revert
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tantek
has too much experience with upgrades breaking things more often than not
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tantek.com
edited /privacy (+2254) "walk down a particular Facebook Privacy settings rabbithole and document breadcrumbs"
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tantek
shaners I suspect you may have more steampunk intuition than you realize
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tantek
is seriously considering switching all past public FB posts to friends-only
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tantek
has anyone done this?
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aaronpk
of course i'm not gonna do it in a way that isn't irreversible
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tantek
It's not a silo-quit, but I do see it as a silo-de-emphasis of sorts, since it's a deliberate limiting of searchability/discoverability of your FB POSSE copies, as well as who can see them by default, past/present/future.
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aaronpk
step 1) back everything up. step 2) set up new mediawiki code with a copy of the database. step 3) run the upgrade script, then fiddle with updating extensions and such. step 4) swap domain names to launch the new site
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tantek
aaronpk: I'm not sure I care about FB posts not being public, not being reversible.
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tantek
Especially since I can still selectively flip posts to public on demand (e.g. as citations for indieweb POSSE examples etc.)
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tantek
I have this general feeling that by taking silo profiles private, I am de-emphasizing them for public discovery, and thus shifting that emphasis for public discovery to my own site. That feels like an indieweb step forward.
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aaronpk
i was talking about the wiki
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tantek
ah right of course
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[shaners]
you two are like Abbot and Costello
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[shaners]
tantek: you’re right. i prolly have picked up some steampunk knowledge by nerd osmosis.
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tantek.com
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petermolnar
tantek I've exported my FB past and manually deleted all of my {posts,likes}, nearly all of my photos, and lots of my comments; whatever was public is public on my site now, the rest is archived; no one will ever scroll back my facebook wall that far anyway, so what's the point?
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tantek
petermolnar: interesting, do you do that periodically? or did you close your FB account afterwards?
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petermolnar
I'm not liking anything anymore at all; no posting ( I had exceptions POSSEd, they were deleted lately as well )
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aaronpk
hm making everything friends only seems like not a bad idea
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petermolnar
for the comments... I hate FB comments but I had to learn that some of my friends "require" it, so I think about them as ephemeral words
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aaronpk
i don't think i care about having any public content on facebook, i'd rather direct people to my site who don't know me
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tantek
aaronpk: indeed. I'm trying to be very deliberate about it and documenting the steps so others can explore without having to commit (or even have a FB account)
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tantek.com
edited /privacy (+1571) "/* Facebook */ add a bunch of screenshots, search engines privacy setting"
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tantek
for anyone interested in privacy / FB settings, please review: https://indiewebcamp.com/privacy#Facebook and see if that makes sense / reads reasonably
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tantek
aaronpk, I'm also considering doing the same with Twitter, that is flipping my Twitter to private
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tantek
and thus again encouraging new/other people to click on my site in my profile there
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aaronpk
that feels more drastic than facebook for some reason
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tantek
going to think about it today (for both)
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aaronpk
i think public twitter still has value to me
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tantek
It's more drastic because 1. you can't flip individual tweets to be public, 2. public tweets with hashtags have much more affect/discovery than public FB posts with hashtags
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aaronpk
yeah, it's the hashtag thing for me. being able to participate in public discussions that happen on a hashtag
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tantek
Except what happens when a public account rewteets a private tweet? Is that even possible?
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tantek
Does that make that tweet public?
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aaronpk
i totally tested this before but i forgot
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aaronpk
but i'm pretty sure it doesn't make it public
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bupkes
I believe that you can't do a native RT when the account is locked
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tantek
that would be one UI solution yes
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[kevinmarks]
That's right, they grey out the retweet button
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[kevinmarks]
You can do a manual link post, not sure what it does there
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aaronpk
probably just says the tweet is unavailable
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tantek
like a quoted tweet?
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bupkes
of course people sometimes C+V it and do a manual RT but that is a nasty thing to do.
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[kevinmarks]
Or screenshot and post
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bupkes
yeah.
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[kevinmarks]
It's also a bit odd when you @ reply a private account, as the threading fails for non followers
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[kevinmarks]
But an account that isn't in altquinn's follows can't
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[kevinmarks]
It feels odd to reply to private accounts from a public one
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bupkes
Agreed. In a way it would seem to make more sense to make meesages from a public account to a private one be private too.
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tantek
part of Twitter's limitation that doesn't support per tweet privacy
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@maradydd
Considering deleting my @StackOverflow account. Haven't wanted to login in years, and my answers are now being farmed for editing rep.
(twitter.com/_/status/696656959706112000)
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tantek
what does "being farmed for editing rep" mean though?
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tantek
what is Stack Overflow?
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Loqi
Stack Overflow is a question and answer silo specifically for programmers https://indiewebcamp.com/Stack_Overflow
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tantek.com
edited /silo-quits (+407) "Meredith L Patterson considering quitting Stack Overflow"
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[kevinmarks]
Stack overflow Gamification naturally attracts people who game it
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tantek
what is a fortnight?
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Loqi
It looks like we don't have a page for "fortnight" yet. Would you like to create it? https://indiewebcamp.com/s/10E0
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tantek
fortnight is two weeks, the term a shortening of fo(u)rt(een-)night(s); fortnightly means every fortnight, the typical frequency of [[Homebrew Website Club]] meetups. See also [[Events]].
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loqi.me
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tantek
calumryan++
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Loqi
calumryan has 1 karma
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aaronpk
I realized that since 1999, i've rewritten my site completely almost exactly every 3-4 years
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aaronpk
i'm really curious what in 2020 is going to cause me to rewrite this again
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tantek
might as well budget time in advance for the next one :)
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tantek
aaronpk: I have a feeling. Everything realtime, like as realtime (low latency) as IRC.
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aaronpk
interesting
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tantek
orders of magnitude change in performance like that usually requires a rewrite / re-architecture
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aaronpk
the concept of my home page being a reverse chronological stream of posts was pretty far-fetched back in 2002
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aaronpk
until recently, I always had a separate site which was my "blog"
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tantek
not at all, blogs (as home pages!) were established back then.
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tantek
I myself started blogging in 2002 and thought for sure I was "late" to blogging
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aaronpk
aaronparecki.com was always more of a portfolio, or business card
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aaronpk
certainly not blog-like content
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tantek.com
edited /Posts_about_the_IndieWeb (+225) "Calum Ryan - Taking part in the IndieWeb"
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aaronpk
yeah i don't mean in general, just the way i thought about my own site was that way
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tantek
my home page was a series of CSS experiments for a long time
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aaronpk
(tho I did have a mini status update feed on my home page which I could post to via SMS in 2005)
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tantek.com
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@benwerd
@cleverdevil @withknown That's possibly the easiest (besides the icky option of hardcoding the indieweb reply microformats).
(twitter.com/_/status/698607165657878528)
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Loqi
[indieweb] "@cleverdevil @withknown That's possibly the easiest (besides the icky option of hardcoding the indieweb reply microformats)." by Ben Werdmüller http://werd.io/2016/cleverdevil-withknown-thats-possibly-the-easiest-besides-the-icky-option
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@raretrack
Got my @withknown hosted on @ReclaimHosting upreved to v0.9.0.4, signed up for #Convoy and now I can #POSSE again :) #indieweb
(twitter.com/_/status/698609390673211392)
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[shaners]
tantek: if you’re still interested in text posts about reading books: https://twitter.com/blithe/status/698605025493266432
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tantek.com
edited /read (+332) "/* Silo Examples */ Twitter approximations"
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tantek
shaners, cool. If you find other such posts on Twitter, feel free to add them to https://indiewebcamp.com/read#Twitter
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[shaners]
Maaaaaaybe :wink:
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