#indieweb 2020-11-07

2020-11-07 UTC
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lahacker is there a better name for "personal website"?
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GWG lahacker: Digital home?
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lahacker heh that possibly crossed my mind
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lahacker i feel like there's an opportunity for a unique name.. "Sign in to the editor with your ..."
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lahacker an editor can have a homepage..
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lahacker home seems ambiguous
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lahacker IndieWebsite could be an editor, reader, aggregator..
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lahacker pod :P
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[snarfed] careful inventing new terms. rarely worth the user confusion
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lahacker yeah.. naming is hard.. blog?
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aaronpk what's wrong with personal website?
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lahacker IndieWeb personal website has web in it twice
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lahacker personal website w/o a reference to IndieWeb is lacking a critical descriptor imo
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lahacker just wondering if there was something obvious i was missing.. thanks
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jacky I def see why this might come up
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jacky esp in language for a tool
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jacky it's straightforward to say "personal website" and I think it's fine tbh
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jacky building these tools makes you notice how many assumptions other remote service have and how important it is to be a bit opportunistic when working with indieweb stuff
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jacky (like just b/c you can send webmentions to a site doesn't mean they also have a way to view all of the Webmentions sent to a particular URL - which would be handy for microsub clients to surface engagement)
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jacky but I think all of us know that here :)
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[chrisaldrich] Is anyone else doing NaNoWriMo and posting about it on their site?
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[chrisaldrich] What is NaNoWriMo?
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Loqi National Novel Writing Month (typically shortened NaNoWriMo) is a challenge to write a 50,000-word novel (or other extended work) in the month of November https://indieweb.org/NaNoWriMo
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jacky I've thought about doing NaNoWriMo
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jacky If I don't start on the 7th, it's not happening lol
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vilhalmer I'm nearing the one year anniversary of my "I have a blog" blog post which means it will be time for the "it has been one year since my last post" blog post
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jacky lmfao
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sknebel :D
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mayakate[m] Cassidy was the one who answered my emailed Q about API use!
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mayakate[m] I haven't decided for my own use yet whether I want to regard a data file I keep for my site as the canonical Project entity, or just link posts to the Ravelry project. Partly that's because I haven't decided whether I want to update about projects serially in posts, or modify a more perennial description. (I'm sure this has analogues for other people in less fiber-based contexts) Anyway, I've got a chunk of writing but
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mayakate[m] I'll publish a blog post after I've had time to get something set up with the API.
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ShinyCyril Hello all! I came across your community on HN a couple of weeks ago and have been meaning to get involved.
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ShinyCyril So just popped in to say hi, and look forward to participating in the future :)
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KartikPrabhu welcome ShinyCyril
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KartikPrabhu do you have a personal website?
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ShinyCyril Thanks! I've not had one for a couple of years — been meaning to get one running again, hence my interest in IndieWeb. Currently cooking up something up involving solar and 4G — we'll see how that pans out!
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ShinyCyril Archive of my old website is here though, if you're curious: https://web.archive.org/web/20180830162854/https://mikeanthonywild.com/
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gbmor hey everyone, I'm new as well (even though i've idled here for a while, never spoken). i'm a pubnix-dweller, so it appears we probably have similar values.
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ShinyCyril hey gbmor
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gbmor how goes?
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ShinyCyril good thanks - was just browsing through some of your projects. There's some really cool stuff there!
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gbmor oh thanks!!
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gbmor ShinyCyril: working on anything fun?
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ShinyCyril started thinking about how to get my blog up and running again, and then got captivated by the idea of scattering a few little 4G-connected embedded devices around to serve it from. So currently I'm trying to build a low-power Linux kernel for a Raspberry Pi!
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ShinyCyril And then got lost down the rabbit hole that is IPFS...
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ShinyCyril Seems like you have plenty of projects on your plate at the moment! Working on anything in paritcular?
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gbmor sounds like a fun thing to tackle!
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gbmor not lately, which means a couple of the ones i really like have languished. like the gemini server and the currency simulation
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gbmor i mean the public-access system is active, but the others i need to put more time into
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gbmor the microblogging thing needs a rewrite of its db functionality which i've been putting off lol
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ShinyCyril ah Gemini — something else to add to my ever-growing list of things to check out!
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gbmor lol i have one of those lists too
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gbmor the mailing list is very very active if you're interested in the development of the protocol
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ShinyCyril yeah I'll check that out
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ShinyCyril but it will have to wait until tomorrow as it's late here, so I'm checking out for the night!
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ShinyCyril have a good weekend!
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petermolnar !tell lahacker "homepage".
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Loqi Ok, I'll tell them that when I see them next
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petermolnar I never liked the personal website expression, given I genuinely think of my page as my home on the net
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[Raphael_Luckom] I struggle with picking a tld. I don't think I'm an organization, definitely not a company.
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[Raphael_Luckom] I use `.com` though, which I guess I think of as short for `.commoner`
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petermolnar .net ?
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maxwelljoslyn uuu
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maxwelljoslyn Raphael: Ha, never heard anyone make that connection before.
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GWG The old TLDs don't mean what they used to
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GWG People use .tv for media, but it's actually a country.
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GWG I use .us as Us, not U.S.
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GWG Others use .me as Me instead of the country it represents
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GWG Etc
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GWG And don't get me started on the new TLD land rush
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GWG I bought a .casa in June
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[Raphael_Luckom] yeah I spend an hour or so trying to think of a way to get `luck.om` or similar, but `.om` is the country code for Oman and the registrar seems to be a state-controlled thing. Once a year I decide to question all my domain choices and I spend an anxious evening after which I've spent $50 on tlds I'll never use.
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[Raphael_Luckom] *spent
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[Raphael_Luckom] In the short time I've been paying attention, it seems like more personal sites use things like webmentions and microformats than use things like ActivityPub. Is that accurate or is it just my availability bias?
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aaronpk Personal sites? Absolutely
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aaronpk there's a lot of activitypub servers for sure but those tend to be group or public shared sites
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[Raphael_Luckom] that's the impression I was getting. It seems like activitypub and microformats both include taxonomies of _types of social data._ I'd like to have the advantages of both a good taxonomy and a good federation model.
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[Raphael_Luckom] initially I was thinking of making an activitypub server whose job was to be the online agent of a specific person--using the activitypub taxonomy but in an individually-federated system. But the more I look at microformats, the more they seem to fulfill that use case
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[schmarty] [Raphael_Luckom] some folks do both! aaronpk runs his own setup that federates. Bridgy Fed is a service that sort of converts between the microformats+webmention space and activitypub space
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sknebel Next Events: Online Indiewebcamp East https://indieweb.org/2020/East, Homebrew Website Club Meetups https://events.indieweb.org/tag/hwc, Code of conduct: https://indieweb.org/code-of-conduct, log https://chat.indieweb.org/today
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petermolnar > I use `.com` though, which I guess I think of as short for `.commoner` - continuing that logic: .ci as citizen?
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petermolnar I see, there is no top level .ci, only secondary, like .net.ci (networked citizen?), int.ci (intelligent citizen?), .com.ci (common citizen?)
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cambridgeport90 Hi all.
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cambridgeport90 Hi all.
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alex11 cambridgeport90, hi
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cambridgeport90 I haven't been up here for a while.
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[Raphael_Luckom] [schmarty] thanks! that's exactly what I was wondering--whether there was something that kinda unifies the namespace. I'll check out Bridgy Fed.
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[Raphael_Luckom] yeah, the `.ci` idea is the concept I was looking for.
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