#indieweb 2017-01-13

2017-01-13 UTC
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KevinMarks_
Domains I registered through the old google.com/a short cut is now g suite and very cumbersome to renew
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KevinMarks_
I should document this with screenshots
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Loqi
agreed.
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aaronpk
whoa they moved the domain registration stuff to g suite tooo?
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KevinMarks_
That's where I am now redirected
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gRegorLove
What's g suite?
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tantek
aaronpk: add to Upcoming on /site-deaths?
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KevinMarks_
Email addresses at the base
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Loqi
[indieweb] "Switching back to RSS" by Michael Runcieman on 2017-01-12 https://michael.runcieman.com/2017/switching-back-to-rss
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bignose
do we still love Atom syndication as a standard>
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bignose
do we still love Atom syndication as a standard?
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KartikPrabhu
"we" being?
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KartikPrabhu
what is atom?
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Loqi
Atom is an XML format for publishing feeds that was developed as a more formally specified alternative to RSS https://indieweb.org/Atom
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Loqi
Just generated the first draft of this week's newsletter! https://indieweb.org/this-week/2017-01-13.html I'll generate a draft again tomorrow, so please add to it before then! https://indieweb.org/this-week#How_to
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KartikPrabhu
what is side-file?
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Loqi
The sidefile-antipattern is a violation of the DRY principle by the use of secondary files (typically in some one-off XML format) to provide information that is a duplicate of information available in primary files on a website (in HTML), and is an antipattern due to typical DRY violation problems such as out-of-date, missing, corrupted, or outright false data https://indieweb.org/side_file
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KartikPrabhu
also see ^
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aaronpk
the only thing i use atom/rss for is podcast feeds because that's the industry standard for it and unlikely to change. also the only reason i feel comfortable sharing that link is because I have an XSLT file on it so that it actually looks decent when viewed in a browser as opposed to sending people a link to a pile of XML. basically making the XML file the primary content rather than a side file.
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KartikPrabhu
well I generate my Atom from h-feed
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aaronpk
i let granary do that for me :)
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KartikPrabhu
does it do response-contexts?
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aaronpk
no idea. example?
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KartikPrabhu
yeah me is checking
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KartikPrabhu
ooh it does
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aaronpk
whoa what xml format is that?
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KartikPrabhu
oops sorry
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KartikPrabhu
does not do response context for Atom
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aaronpk
what would that even look like?
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aaronpk
embedded in the content?
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KartikPrabhu
that is what I was thinking for hfeed2atom
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KartikPrabhu
like append "in reply to <url>" in the content
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aaronpk
i guess that would make sense
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aaronpk
maybe suggest it on the granary repo?
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KartikPrabhu
!tell snarfed: HOw about adding response-contexts to granary h-feed to Atom conversion?
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Loqi
Ok, I'll tell them that when I see them next
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KartikPrabhu
that way i don't have to write one in hfeed2atom and can also retire it :P
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KevinMarks_
Would a source element work for the reply context? Or is that just for reposts? https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4287#section-4.2.11
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KevinMarks_
There was a gdata way of nesting feed within feed, but it wasn't pretty. Microformats in content is probably better
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aaronpk
the real question is whether any readers would do anything with it, since that's really the only reason to publish an atom/rss feed
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tantek
good evening #indieweb
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tantek
kinda surprised aaronpk didn't submit Webmention REC to indienews ;) (reading https://indieweb.org/this-week/2017-01-13.html)
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aaronpk
oh yeah good idea
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tantek
Own all your data!
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Loqi
[indienews] New post: "Webmention is a W3C Recommendation" https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/6052 (from https://aaronparecki.com/2017/01/12/29/)
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Loqi
yay!
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miklb
GWG does bridgy publish work with posts done via micropub?
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GWG
miklb, stay tuned
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GWG
I want it to
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miklb
ok. I guess I need to look at the micropub plugin and see if it supports syndicate-to then?
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GWG
It does, there is a filter, but a syndication plugin needs to hook it
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miklb
but on a positive note, I was able to post a micropub note to my new WP site, so that's good progress all things considered
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miklb
thanks. I'll take a stab at it once I have the major bugs in my theme ironed out.
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miklb
I also need to check my mf2 markup before I get too far into that as well
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[jeremycherfas]
aaronpk Not exactly unexpected that ADN is shutting down. And Dalton’s explanation is, er, disingenuous.
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ncollig
Hey everyone, I'm trying to implement h-event on the hwc.brussels website. We're using the Avada theme (not using an IndieWeb ready intentionally). Any tips on how to tackle this? I installed the IndieWeb plugins, but then not sure how to proceed or where to search for a solution.
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Loqi
ncollig: tantek left you a message 10 hours, 43 minutes ago: check out https://indieweb.org/Events#May !
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Loqi
guten morgen
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Zegnat
ncollig, I am not familiar with WordPress. But I think one of the IndieWeb plugins gives you post-types, so if there is an event post-type, that would be the way to go.
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Zegnat
Ping GWG
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Zegnat
And maybe ping pfefferle - not sure who does the post-types plugin
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ncollig
Zegnat: Thanks! I already installed the IndieWeb plugins, uf2, post kinds etc. With a IndieWeb compliant theme, it works, but with Avada, I create a normal post with the h-event class, but when I rsvp it doesn't seem to receive the rsvp.
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Zegnat
Is it the receiving of RSVPs that doesn’t work, or the creation of the h-event?
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GWG
Did someone call?
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ncollig
So, I took the simple code example from http://microformats.org/wiki/h-event and copy pasted it into my WP post. The pages displays correctly. (but can I verify it's interpreted as an event?)
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Loqi
h-event
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GWG
I do the Post Kinds plugin. But I haven't gotten rsvp in there yet
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GWG
Or h-event
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ncollig
Ah that's why there's no 'event' post type in the selection. :-) I was wondering.
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GWG
WordPress posts are h-entry. It would require a different design.
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GWG
I hope to add RSVP sooner. I am not sure when I might tackle event
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ncollig
So for the moment, can we forget the idea of having a working event/rsvp setup without an IndieWeb compliant theme? (I mean, without being a developer and doing it myself)
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ncollig
Or is it worth exploring the matter?
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GWG
Well, if you paste the code into the content, you'd have a nested h-event inside an h-entry. Which theoretically would work
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GWG
Not ideal, but..
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ncollig
Yes. That's what I did. And is there a way to check if rsvp's are received and to display them on the event page?
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ncollig
I rsvps to the event I created by nesting h-event in h-entry, but nothing seems to arrive on my wordpress (no comments on the post).
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GWG
Yes, Webmentions and the Semantic Linkbacks plugin should receive RSVPS and add them as comments
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ncollig
Any idea how to monitor why they wouldn't?
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Zegnat
Hmm, yeah, even if the hwc.brussels Wordpress does not understand the RSVP, it is still an u-in-reply-to and should be picked up
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GWG
Well, if a Webmention is sent, it should be, aw Zegnat said, picked up, even if incorrectly parsed
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GWG
Are there comments awaiting moderation?
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ncollig
No :-(
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GWG
Odd.
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GWG
What site is sending the RSVP?
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ncollig
ncollig.net
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ncollig
And as a URL to reply to, I use the wordpress generated URL, for example https://hwc.brussels/fr/event-test-2/ (page on which I'm trying the h-event now)
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GWG
And that site has Webmentions?
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ncollig
Yes, it's a Known, and I have successfully used it to rsvp earlier, when testing Indieweb compliant themes on the same hwc.brussels WP
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ncollig
Oh! Wait!
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ncollig
Now it's working! Jeez...don't know why...except that I rsvp'd to the default page, not the /fr/ (qTranslate) page.
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Zegnat
If translated versions each get their own comment thread, that would make sense
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Zegnat
Doesn't make much sense for RSVPs thought. As it is the same event...
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ncollig
Yeah but on the other hand, now when I load https://hwc.brussels/fr/event-test-2/ it displays the comment nontheless
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ncollig
So it seems to be the same comment feed.
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ncollig
Well, one problem is out of the way, I'll test further and see if there's really a problem with translated event pages or if I did something wrong.
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Zegnat
Does Wordpress not do webmentions live, but on a wpcron? Maybe the mention was received but just not handled yet.
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GWG
It does sending them on a wpcron, but just for background processing, no delay.
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GWG
It uses the wpcron set up for Pingbacks
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ncollig
Yeah, when I rsvp'd on the EN page, it seems to have picked it up immediately.
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Zegnat
Then that is me officially out of ideas.
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GWG
So, you want a Webmention sent to the English page to mirror to other languages?
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GWG
Interesting scenario, never thought about it.
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ncollig
Ideally, so that people can switch language but still see the same attending people on the event.
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GWG
I will file an issue
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GWG
That requires some thoughts
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ncollig
So that someone visiting in FR for example can see that there are people attending, even if only EN people have rsvp so far.
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ncollig
Alright
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ncollig
Let me know if I can be of any help testing
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Zegnat
Will you do every page in EN, FR, and NL for Brussels?
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GWG
I opened an issue to discuss on the Webmention plugin Github.
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GWG
If you want to add to it...
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ncollig
I'll have a look! Many thanks already for your help here! \o/
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GWG
I am always happy to help
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[kevinmarks]
Is this Google's "though shalt not.mix languages on a page" nonsense again?
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GWG
And I am curious about multi language in WordPress. Not something I have explored
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ncollig
qTranslate seems to work very well for pages, but I haven't really tested with Posts, comments etc.
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ncollig
What's the url of the 'official' webmention github?
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ncollig
Or the one you opened an issue on...I don't find it
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cweiske
w3c/webmention
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Zegnat
KevinMarks I shall mix languages as much as I want, provided I use proper lang attributes
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[kevinmarks]
Gwg: Stephanie Booth's Basic Bilingual plugin is a good example
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[kevinmarks]
I like her framing that everyone is imperfectly multilingual
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Zegnat
sebsel’s seblog.nl is a nice example of bilingual IndieWeb. Uses lang="en" on all h-entry DIVs that aren't written in Dutch.
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GWG
cweiske, I opened the issue on the WordPress Webmentions plugin repo
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Zegnat
KevinMarks do you have a link for her “framing”?
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GWG
WordPress 4.7 did a bunch of work with locales. I want to see if any applies.
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GWG
I didn't focus much on it
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[dariusdunlap]
I’m thinking of heading up to SF today for the Internet Archive Lunch. Anyone else want to come along? (Driving from Half Moon Bay, either via San Mateo or Pacifica.)
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[dariusdunlap]
Hay! That’s Kevin Marks coming out of my speakers! :slightly_smiling_face: (stupid auto-play)
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Loqi
microformats2 parsing brainstorming
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aaronpk
[dariusdunlap] I might be able to make it!
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[dariusdunlap]
You know, I’m really enjoying the Ubuntu 16.04 LTS auto-updates with email notifications.
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[dariusdunlap]
aaronpk - See you there. And let me know if a pickup would be helpful. Happy to go a little out of my way to give you a ride.
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[kevinmarks]
It's Gillmor Gang time
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Loqi
rise and shine!
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tantek
KevinMarks, Webmention!
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tantek
I think that's the biggest indieweb news of the week
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tantek
Plus, give the HWC Brussels folks a shout out since they're getting started
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sebsel
voxpelli how should I document that? Just add myself to the list with you and Stephanie?
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tantek
what is HWC Brussels?
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Loqi
It looks like we don't have a page for "HWC Brussels" yet. Would you like to create it?
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tantek
literally hwc.brussels
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tantek
(when did cities start getting their own TLDs?!?)
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voxpelli
sebsel: something like that + would be great if you could follow up some of the parser issues and give some feedback there
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sebsel
tantek Amsterdam has one too!
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tantek
sebsel - wat! you have hwc.amsterdam?
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sebsel
voxpelli I'll start by adding myself!
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sebsel
No, .amsterdam exists.
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voxpelli
sebsel: ideally we could start getting readers that can be language aware and remove all content of foreign languages
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tantek
sebsel oops well better get hwc. then :)
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tantek
since hwc(.)nl is taken
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sebsel
but we're the Netherlands now :P I'm not living in Amsterdam anymore.
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sebsel
I actually registered indieweb.nl wednesday in the train to hwc. It links to .org now
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voxpelli
notices hwc.events if also available
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voxpelli
Would be neat to have a IndieNews style HWC catalogue
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tantek
what is Netherlands?
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Loqi
It looks like we don't have a page for "Netherlands" yet. Would you like to create it?
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tantek
sebsel ^^^ go for it :)
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tantek
what is NYC?
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Loqi
NYC is an abbreviation for New York City, a big city on the East Coast of the United States, and the location of the following IndieWebCamps: https://indieweb.org/NYC
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tantek
what is SF?
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sebsel
What is The Netherlands?
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Loqi
It looks like we don't have a page for "The Netherlands" yet. Would you like to create it?
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sebsel
The Netherlands is a country in Western Europe, also known as Holland or for it’s capital Amsterdam.
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sebsel
Netherlands is [[The Netherlands]]
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sebsel
oh no, that went wrong :(
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sebsel
fixes on the wiki itself
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tantek
sebsel oops I hope I did not just conflict your edit!
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sebsel
oh well it's chaos now anyway
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sebsel
opens new tabs
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sebsel
Shouldn't the HWC page link back to those location pages?
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sebsel
(it feels a bit like DRY violation this way)
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tantek
sebsel yes!
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tantek
the location pages are still kinda new
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sebsel
they are useful I think!
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tantek
I think so too, hopefully they will help with community discovery
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tantek
plus it gives a little mini home page for each city to edit as they please
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tantek
I mean look at how cool hwc.brussels is :)
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sebsel
haha, yeah
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Loqi
awesome
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gRegorLove
Good morning, indieweb
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KevinMarks1
does autolink need to add .brussels?
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tantek
KevinMarks: likely :) I may wait for the Brussels folks to file the issue ;)
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gRegorLove
Anyone with Vine videos you want to backup, should do so before January 17. Apparently you won't be able to download them from the app after that point: http://help.vine.co/post/152688513385/discontinuing-the-vine-app-faqs Unsure if you still can from the website after that point (hopefully?)
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gRegorLove
Interestingly they're updating the app on the 17th to "Vine Camera" so you can still take videos with it and post directly to Twitter or just save locally.
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gRegorLove
What is Vine?
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Loqi
Vine was a service for sharing six-second-long looping videos https://indieweb.org/Vine
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tantek
gRegorLove: sounds like a "pivot"
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gRegorLove
"Will my videos loop on Twitter? Yes! When we update the Vine app to be the Vine Camera in January, videos that are under 6.5s will loop – whether you post them from the Vine Camera or upload them directly to Twitter."
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gRegorLove
Interesting feature there. Sounds like it turns Twitter into Vine, as long as you upload a video under 6.5s, from any source.
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sebsel
what is hyves?
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Loqi
Hyves was a social network silo, mostly popular in The Netherlands, and was discontinued in 2013 https://indieweb.org/Hyves
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sebsel
tantek You might like that ^^^ :)
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@keithjgrant
I somehow missed the emergence of Webmentions. Could be the key to decentralizing social networks on the web. https://indieweb.org/Webmention%23Bridgy
(twitter.com/_/status/819989976641404928)
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tantek
exactly
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KevinMarks1
I remeber Hyves from openSocial
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@keithjgrant
This is huge. Really hoping to implement on my blog & do a couple write-ups in the coming months QT [@w3c] Webmention is a W3C Recommendation http://ift.tt/2jIXtN2
(twitter.com/_/status/819989796676366336)
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tantek
KevinMarks how was GG?
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sebsel
what is Birmingham?
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Loqi
It looks like we don't have a page for "Birmingham" yet. Would you like to create it?
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sebsel
Birmingham is [[homebrewbrum]]
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sebsel
It's a nice idea, those location based pages... but there aren't many yet :/
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sebsel
it still feels a bit wrong.
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sebsel
what is San Francisco?
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Loqi
It looks like we don't have a page for "San Francisco" yet. Would you like to create it?
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sebsel
San Francisco is [[SF]]
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sebsel
tantek: also, you just created 'HWC Brussels', shouldn't that be just 'Brussels' then?
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sebsel
!meme all the wikigardening
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sebsel
meh, know your memes :(
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tantek
meme all the wikigardening!
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tantek
sebsel - yes I suppose - I think I created it because I saw they had a website
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sebsel
wikigarden all the things!
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sebsel
ah and it's a redirect now anyway :/
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sebsel
shall I remove the red location-links on /HWC then?
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@xtof_fr
@LucBizeul merci d'être passé. Pour info mon oncle #claude vs #marcel > https://christophe.ducamp.me/2017/01/13/mon-oncle-claude #socialdesign #xfn #indieweb
(twitter.com/_/status/820004896980303874)
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tantek
sebsel, you can prod the leaders of each city's HWC into creating their cities :)
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tantek
whoa what
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Zegnat
Who's the leader of the Netherlands then, tantek?
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tantek
you tell me :)
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sebsel
We should fight that out in #indieweb-nl Zegnat ;)
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tantek
s/leader/co-organizers
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tantek
it tends to be a do-ocracy
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Zegnat
Fisticuffs!
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sebsel
do-ocracy is nice!
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Zegnat
Oh, sebsel, I read you were sad that the Internet Archive had no Hyves backup? But I think the Archive Team might have one! I seem to recall I was running their warrior software to help them back-up Hyves.
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GWG
Good morrow
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Loqi
[indieweb] "This is one of the great motivators behind the #IndieWeb movement: a place to experiment and own your content. Thanks, @rachelandrew!" by Andrew Jacobs on 2017-01-13 http://www.funwhilelost.com/2017/this-is-one-of-the-great-motivators-behind-the-indieweb
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GWG
I hope to accomplish something this weekend Indieweb ish
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KevinMarks
I think the php version of apache shindig came from hyves
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miklb
GWG does the bridgy plugin allow for no link back or should I submit a pull request for that?
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GWG
It doesn't allow per post settings, which is currently a feature request.
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miklb
heads off to find git repo :-)
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GWG
If you want it to never appear, there is a global setting
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miklb
I'd want it on a per post option. I prefer notes to not link back, but articles to link.
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GWG
miklb, I have a PR for that waiting for me
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GWG
From someone. I can look to merge it.
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GWG
Check my PRs
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Loqi
Just generated this week's newsletter! You still have a few minutes to make changes, and I'll re-generate it 10 minutes before it gets sent out at 3pm Pacific time. https://indieweb.org/this-week/2017-01-13.html
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GWG
miklb, tell you what, I will look to merge it today
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miklb
GWG oh, cool. If you'd like another test, I can try it later.
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gRegorLove
GWG, miklb Bridgy does have a "maybe" option too; only include the link if the contents are truncated
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miklb
I see that's an option in the pull request. I wasn't familiar with it.
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GWG
miklb, I was going to make the rounds of my plugins with bugfixes now that my location project is at a stopping point before I tackled something bigger. I will just delay PRs for Micropub and handle the Bridgy Publish items on my agenda.
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GWG
Besides, I still want to hook Bridgy Publish into Micropub and that would be a great advantage
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Loqi
Generated the final version of the newsletter! This will be sent out at 3pm Pacific time. https://indieweb.org/this-week/2017-01-13.html
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tantek
it's after 15:00 Pacific and I don't see a tweet!
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Loqi
[indieweb] "The IndieWeb and Journalism" by Chris Aldrich on 2017-01-13 http://boffosocko.com/2017/01/13/the-indieweb-and-journalism/
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Loqi
[indieweb] "The IndieWeb and Journalism" by ChrisAldrich on 2017-01-13 https://medium.com/boffo-socko/the-indieweb-and-journalism-fefaa97880c3?source=rss------journalism-5
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Loqi
[indieweb] "@MarinaSGerner I liked your work (and your website) so much, I had to write about it: http://boffosocko.com/2017/01/13/the-indieweb-and-journalism/" by Chris Aldrich on 2017-01-13 http://stream.boffosocko.com/2017/marinasgerner-i-liked-your-work-and-your-website-so-much
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tantek
chrisaldrich++ great article
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Loqi
chrisaldrich has 10 karma in this channel (12 overall)
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tantek
what is journalism?
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Loqi
It looks like we don't have a page for "journalism" yet. Would you like to create it?