#indieweb 2021-11-24
2021-11-24 UTC
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[chrisaldrich] Some Googling about, some slapdash, baling wire, and duct tape and we've got something mostly automated to handwrite a /note post on paper with pen, take a photo which autosaves to Google Drive that does OCR into Google Docs which is picked up by IFTTT that does a webhook to Micropub draft post to my website which then auto syndicates to Twitter, Mastodon, and Micropub. https://boffosocko.com/2021/11/23/55798697/ 🎉
# [chrisaldrich] The most manual part of the process that happened was going in and manually adding the photo to underline the process, something which I don't plan on doing regularly.
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# [chrisaldrich] IndieWebCommunity++ for building blocks that allowed me, with some minor prior experience and almost no real code, to wire this up in about 20 minutes.
# [chrisaldrich] Poor community is dramatically under-karma'd...
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# [chrisaldrich] Does physically writing out your notes and articles on paper redefine a whole new level of /manual_until_it_hurts?
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[KevinMarks] That is a neat bit of code chaining
# [chrisaldrich] How do I indicate the syndication link to the paper copy? It's a nice way to have a paper copy of your website for archival purposes. Now I'm wondering how to bind up a pack of cards to make a book at the end of the year...
# [chrisaldrich] Entertainingly, the OCR was so seriously crisp in the process that it picked up the letters "Dia" of Diamond printed in tiny lettering on the cap of my pen and I had to edit it out.
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vikanezrimaya paper website
# vikanezrimaya this feels like a new level of retro
# vikanezrimaya * level of an amalgamation between retro, * retro and modern tech
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[tantek] On two separate occasions where network access was unavailable or unreliable I talked folks into using sticky notes to do analog Twitter instead: https://twitter.com/analogger
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[jeremycherfas] Transparent acetate overlay that fits the cards, with the syndication urls printed on it.
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capjamesg[d] community++
# capjamesg[d] [chrisaldrich]++
# capjamesg[d] Amazing work!
# capjamesg[d] This should be documented somewhere on the wiki, although I cannot think where would be most appropriate.
# capjamesg[d] /nostalgia to convey the retro feel. Maybe /blogging more broadly?
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petermolnar make it an art project that is aimed to visualize deterioration over centuries and raise some money?
# capjamesg[d] :joy'
# petermolnar So yes, bridgy publish to metallic disc, please.
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# petermolnar I used to display the EXIF date of photos
# petermolnar but came to the conclusion that that too much data displayed
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[chrisbergr] My swarm checkins are dated to the time of the checkin, Everything else has, apart from the PESOS flickr images, the published time. At flickr this is unfortunately not displayed, but only a time from the EXIF information.
# [jeremycherfas] Craig Mod is on one of his long walks across Japan so probably will not be able to answer.
# [KevinMarks] my usage has changed - it used to be dodgeball-like to help nearby friends see where I was, but now I tend to to do it as I leave and add photos. That's mainly because I no longer live in the right kind of place for dodgeball to work
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[grantcodes] I do that of showing the creation time of photos by default via photo.postrchild.com (though currently broken)
# [grantcodes] Off the top my head there are different mf2 properties for things like created and updated dates which I use. Normally I make a gallery which is dated for the day it was published, and each photo post shows it's taken date.
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[tantek]1 GWG, my most recent photo post: https://tantek.com/2021/221/t1/finished-rodeovalley-trailrace — I'm using ordinal dates for my hashdatetagging: #2021_219
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Loqi [Tantek Çelik] Finished #RodeoValley 30k #trailRace in 5:10:43 on Saturday. In the photo I’m massaging a midsection cramp while power hiking uphill, and grinning because I knew I was almost at the top of the last big climb of the course.
First race post lockdown... https://fastly.4sqi.net/img/general/width960/476_9_gqB6h_tK8iyjBEb886XpboOcF8bsEgT_wl76vckqI.jpg
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# [tantek]1 GWG, I'm also considering perhaps different rules for inclusion for a photo archive vs a general post archive, I have to think about it some more
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# [tantek]1 for now I'm fairly certain I want to include such hashdatetagged posts in *both* archives of the published date and the hashdate
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# [tantek]1 though for checkin posts (assuming eventual backfill integration into my own site), I would include those *only* on the annotated "Post" date as noted in the caption on the checkin, and not include them on their "published date" archive
# [tantek]1 however I may solve that at backfill import time, that is, as part of that import, have it parse out the "Post" date from the caption, and use that as the "published date" for the checkin posts on my own site
# [tantek]1 if so, I'm not sure what I'd do with the Swarm "published date" in those instances. I might save it as the post's "creation" date, which would result in the odd situation of the published date being *before* the created date.
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KartikPrabhu https://paperwebsite.com/ very interesting idea
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# [chrisaldrich]1 Swarm has a functionality that will ask you minutes to hours later if you want to add a checkin to your timeline after-the-fact, presumably based on GPS data, so you can check in with a reasonable date/timestamp and add photos. If they guessed the wrong location, they give the option to choose from other nearby venues.
# [chrisaldrich]1 They don't always do this for me, but very frequently they'll pop up greyed out reminders in my timeline to add later even for locations that I only made short <5 minute stops at.
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# [tantek]1 [chrisaldrich] because I only allow Swarm location access while using the app, I don't get those kind of background after-the-fact check-in suggestions
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# capjamesg[d] Has anyone built their own digital garden / wiki solution?
# capjamesg[d] What is a digital garden?
# Loqi A commonplace book (or commonplaces) are a way to compile and store knowledge, usually by writing information into books, notebooks, card catalogs, or in more modern settings on one's own website https://indieweb.org/digital_garden
# [tantek]1 capjamesg[d], going to suggest #indieweb-dev for the "built" ... "solution" type of questions 🙂
# [chrisaldrich]1 What is handwriting?
# Loqi Handwriting is a great, tactile, time-tested method for creating content, so who wouldn't want to use it as part of a user interface for posting to one's personal website? https://indieweb.org/handwriting
# [chrisaldrich]1 Additions, modifications, ideas welcome ^^, particularly alternate redirect page names one may look for on such a topic.
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# capjamesg[d] I didn’t want to disrupt the flow [tantek]. Will do.
# [tantek]1 can relate 🙂
# capjamesg[d] What is OCR?
# Loqi It looks like we don't have a page for "OCR" yet. Would you like to create it? (Or just say "OCR is ____", a sentence describing the term)
# capjamesg[d] OCR is the way in which technology can recognize individual characters and words that are written out or present in a physical document.
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# capjamesg[d] Just added that to prevent the OCR stub link.
# capjamesg[d] What is Optical Character Recognition?
# Loqi It looks like we don't have a page for "Optical Character Recognition" yet. Would you like to create it? (Or just say "Optical Character Recognition is ____", a sentence describing the term)
# capjamesg[d] Optical Character Recognition is OCR.
# capjamesg[d] I’ll add IndieWeb relevance tomorrow re: exploration of written sites.
# [tantek]1 otherwise it makes a one word definition stub page
# [tantek]1 what is Optical Character Recognition
# Loqi Optical Character Recognition is OCR https://indieweb.org/Optical_Character_Recognition
# capjamesg[d] Oh no!
# capjamesg[d] Apologies.
# [tantek]1 well it's a common enough "error" that I think aaronpk may be considering fixing it
# [tantek]1 like, if the thing following " is " is a single word, or perhaps if the thing following " is " is *precisely* the name of an existing wiki page
# [tantek]1 oh cool! when did that get fixed? and yes a trimpunct on the end would be good
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# [KevinMarks] is trimpunct a function in German?
# [KevinMarks] I suppose that would be TrimPunkt
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