#indieweb 2020-05-09

2020-05-09 UTC
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[Katherine] hi friends, i was wondering if there are any services you can point me towards where i can create blog posts via SMS?
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amiiboh [Katherine] You might be able to daisy chain together some odds and ends using the fact that Google Voice can forward messages to your email
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[Katherine] oh interesting.... and then have the email push to a blog somehow?
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amiiboh Yeah I'm not sure what to do with it off hand once it's in your email, but it's def the quick and dirty way to get SMS into somewhere you can manipulate it
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[Katherine] all of the content i can find online around it is through wordpress
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amiiboh You'd need to strip out all the other stuff somehow before sending it on
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amiiboh What are you trying to do exactly?
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[Katherine] i want to make a website for me and my friends to share links to articles under a common domain
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[Katherine] i registered the domain, and basically i want my friends to be able to send texts with a URL and a short description to accompany the post
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[Katherine] then itll appear on the site like a light weight blog
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[Katherine] so i guess i need a script to read through the gmail emails and then convert it to a post using some blog framework
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amiiboh [Katherine] you can probably do something with the default SMS > Email that is built into SMS?
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amiiboh isn't that a thing?
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[Katherine] yeah. but i think its also okay if they send an email rather than a text message
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[Katherine] to create the blog post
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amiiboh That'd be far easier
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amiiboh and you'd have more text to work with
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[chrisaldrich] [Katherine] are you building it with WordPress?
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[Katherine] no, i was considering using wordpress... would that be the best solution? i thought it'd be nice to do something indie rather than wordpress but im not ideologically strict lol
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[chrisaldrich] WordPress is definitely indie!
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GWG Did someone say WordPress?
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GWG Thrice?
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[chrisaldrich] There are lots of ways to do what you're talking about. I do know that WP can do what you're looking for by email without a lot of work.
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[chrisaldrich] See https://wordpress.com/support/post-by-email/
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[chrisaldrich] If you're self hosting the .org version you may need Jetpack as a plugin to do it.
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[chrisaldrich] For simple UI from mobile, it might also recommend trying a micropub client like Quill to post bookmarks.
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[chrisaldrich] What is Quill?
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Loqi Quill is a simple app for posting text notes to your website using Micropub https://indieweb.org/Quill
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amiiboh If using iPhone the Wordpress iPhone app probably has a share sheet as well, but I'm not sure, haven't used it lately
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[chrisaldrich] Known might also be a good CMS for a circle of friends sharing posts like that. It also supports micropub.
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[chrisaldrich] What is Known?
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Loqi Known is an open publishing / community platform project https://indieweb.org/Known
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[chrisaldrich] Hey GWG how goes it?
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GWG I'm converting weather codes into icons
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[chrisaldrich] Which icon set has the best weather support?
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jacky wait is Known stalled or just like not a paid service anymore?
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jacky checks
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jacky wow okay
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jacky the Known wiki page on the IndieWeb is great
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jacky has some nits
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jacky but the taxonomy is like a fast way to see where and how this fits in the greater ecosystem
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jacky it looks like that table is custom tho
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[chrisaldrich] I think I made that table based on the one in the wordpress page. ;)
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GWG [chrisaldrich]: https://erikflowers.github.io/weather-icons/
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[chrisaldrich] 222 weather icons! Wow.
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GWG It needs a new maintainer.
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Loqi [jeremycherfas] has 6 karma in this channel over the last year (31 in all channels)
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[chrisaldrich] [jeremycherfas]++
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doubleloop Morning, IndieWeb
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[jgmac1106] https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/7/21250556/google-lens-copy-paste-handwritten-notes-computer-phone-ios-android
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jeremycherfas good morning IndieWeb
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jeremycherfas So, the bridge from Slack to IRC; it seems to ignore the first thing I post in Slack after an absence. Is that correct?
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doubleloop Morning jeremycherfas
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doubleloop I see two posts from you just now, same as on chat.indieweb.org
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jeremycherfas There was an earlier one that earned kudos from Chrisaldrich. I'm not saying it needs to be here, just curious.
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sknebel it obviously shouldn't eat messages
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jeremycherfas As I say, it really is not important.
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sknebel the bridge not working is kind of important
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[Rose] What IW things are people working on this weekend?
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j605 I ran this on my website and was confused by some of the message, https://whatwg.org/validator/, “The itemprop attribute was specified, but the element is not a property of any item.” for props that I added like dt-published
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j605 it looks like something I need to fix but it does work
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j605 shrugs
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jeremycherfas Morning [Rose]
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sknebel hi everyone
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jeremycherfas I'm in the middle of writing a streams & gardens post.
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sknebel [Rose]: maybe a few small posts or tweaks. some larger things on the list again, but doesn't feel like this weekend is the one where they're going to happen. :D
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[Rose] I've decided to fix the problem of people not following instructions and getting annoyed with Swarm posts appearing in my RSS feed by migrating that part of my site to micro.rosemaryorchard.com. For now this'll be hosted on micro.blog.
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[Rose] (If they followed my blog category as suggested it wouldn't happen, but they don't and I've been unable to convince people they should.)
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jeremycherfas People. Every time.
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sknebel heh.
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sknebel and might play with a personal wiki again. it's not entirely what I want, but until I figured out what I want it might help anyways
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[Rose] I like the idea of that. Something is better than nothing and all that :)
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Zegnat [Rose]: what are they following on your site instead then? The main (firehose?) feed?
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[KevinMarks] quill has post by email too
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[Rose] Yes. They're following the everything feed.
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Zegnat I guess there is something to be said for making the everything feed harder to discover. Kinda like aaronpk’s /all
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[Rose] Unfortunately the default WordPress feed is everything
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[Rose] I did make it harder to discover for a while using a redirect to force people to the blog feed, but it was causing issues.
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[KevinMarks] [Katherine] - if you sign into https://quill.p3k.io/ then go to https://quill.p3k.io/email you get a pot by email address
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[jgmac1106] been loving having personal wiki
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[jgmac1106] still tell everyoen I know and they will just say buit why not just google docs....
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[jgmac1106] sknebel did get mf2 and webmentions working with dokuwiki, has some annoying bits but was easier for me than wikimedia..everyone else using tiddlywiki or mediawiki'
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[snarfed] thoughts? https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy/issues/942
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Loqi [snarfed] #942 Twitter: how to handle backfeed on threads?
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[tantek] what is linkblogging
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Loqi It looks like we don't have a page for "linkblogging" yet. Would you like to create it? (Or just say "linkblogging is ____", a sentence describing the term)
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[tantek] hmmm
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[tantek] linkblogging is /bookmark
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Loqi ok
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[tantek] snarfed, interesting question. I feel there is overlap with a couple of related questions / use-cases. 1. having tweet buttons next to paragraphs or specific sentences allowing the reader to post just that bit of text and a link to the article, 2. marginalia, including backfeeding from tweets about specific paragraphs / sentences
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[snarfed] wow, maybe! those are loosely related but only very loosely