#indieweb 2023-12-18

2023-12-18 UTC
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[Joe_Crawford] I had a great time!
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[chrisaldrich] [Joe_Crawford]++ for putting camp together
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Loqi [Joe_Crawford] has 1 karma in this channel over the last year (7 in all channels)
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capjamesg [Joe_Crawford]++
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Loqi [Joe_Crawford] has 2 karma in this channel over the last year (8 in all channels)
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[fluffy] Nice to hear that there’s now a Ticket Auth receiver implementation! @GWG++
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Loqi @GWG has 2 karma in this channel over the last year (51 in all channels)
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GWG [fluffy]: I built it in 2021. I just am tweaking it.
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[fluffy] ah
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GWG It isn't tied to anything yet but a storage cache.
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GWG You sent me a ticket in 2021 also
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[fluffy] Sensible.
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[fluffy] I have a vague memory of that happening
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GWG I want to iterate.
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GWG [fluffy]: Does subject in equal me out?
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[fluffy] I think so? It’s been forever since I’ve looked at this in detail
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[fluffy] and of course this all predates the recent changes
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GWG [fluffy]: Not much changed in Ticketing save the rebrand
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[fluffy] this is a #indieweb-dev topic though
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Loqi [indienews] New post: "Choosing between ideas for blog posts" https://tracydurnell.com/2023/12/18/choosing-between-ideas-for-blog-posts/
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Loqi [indienews] New post: "Giving context to a blogroll" https://minutestomidnight.co.uk/blog/giving-context-to-a-blogroll/
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rubenwardy what is indienews
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Loqi IndieNews is an indieweb news aggregator, similar to Hacker News, which only accepts submissions via webmention https://indieweb.org/IndieNews
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rubenwardy > they’re still worth doing even if you care about SEO; just make sure Google isn’t allowed to crawl your links page using a robots.txt directive or <meta> tag.
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rubenwardy Huh, do I need to `noindex` my blog roll?
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sknebel what are you quoting from?
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rubenwardy https://starbreaker.org/links/ from the "giving context to a blog roll" lnk
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c​apjamesg IndieWeb mentions in https://xeiaso.net/talks/how-my-website-works/
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c​apjamesg From 9m - 11m POSSE and Webmentions are discussed.
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c​apjamesg Note that this talk is _highly_ technical. Discussions about it should be in #dev.
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[KevinMarks] Interesting https://mastodoncontentmover.github.io/
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capjamesg Should I make the content on my website wider?
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capjamesg Example page: https://jamesg.blog/2023/12/18/wolfram-documentation-review/
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capjamesg Right now, the content width is 35em.
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Loqi [preview] Advent of Technical Writing: Reviewing the Wolfram Language Documentation
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gRegor I usually aim for ~75 characters of text per line for readability
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gRegor what is typography
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Loqi Typography is the art/science of making text attractive and readable https://indieweb.org/typography
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[tantek] yeah, 60-70chars per line is the rough guide I use
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[Joe_Crawford] One can set max width in ch units which can be useful to play with to see if it works with a particular layout
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capjamesg Does anyone want to try my new scavenger hunt game?
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capjamesg My site has four backgrounds. Find them all. A message will appear when you do.
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gRegor ooh, neat
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gRegor Do we get a /badge if we find them all? :)
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[tantek] what are badges
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Loqi A badge (AKA achievement) on the IndieWeb is a post or home page button showing completion of an accomplishment or self-expressed support for a cause, often for finishing a specific task or passing a test like a validator, displayable with a unique code per person or generically with a sticker image; there are prototypes for creating, issuing, and displaying peer-to-peer IndieWeb badges via Webmention https://indieweb.org/badges
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capjamesg You'll see a message.
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gRegor Did you draw them? Nice and festive.
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capjamesg No :D
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gRegor 2 down...
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gRegor Hm, 3 now. I've clicked every navigation link in the header and footer
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gRegor 404 on https://jamesg.blog/magic btw
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[tantek] same for me!
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[tantek] was just going to say lol magic wand gave me 404
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capjamesg Oh so that was used for something.
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capjamesg Oops.
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[tantek] capjamesg, in your Dark Mode, if you scroll to the bottom, the holiday lights are still inside a white rectangle
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capjamesg ...?
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capjamesg I'm in dark mode and it works for me.
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capjamesg It is a transparent png: https://jamesg.blog/assets/lights.png
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gRegor Huh, I can't find this fourth one anywhere
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gRegor Missing the "chair" one
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capjamesg So you dug around in the source code, too? :D
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gRegor I mean, of course!
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capjamesg We have two contestants thus far.
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gRegor Not yet stooping to dev console to add it to localstorage :D
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capjamesg That's cheating.
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capjamesg And I will ask you to tell me which URLs you found the backgrounds on :D
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capjamesg (ideally privately so as not to spoil the game)
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gRegor I'll have to go back through. I feel like I've gone through every obvious link so far, only found 3.
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gRegor Probably missing something sneaky
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capjamesg You have already found the sneakiest one.
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gRegor 🤔
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sknebel I think I might have missed the alert first time round :D
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capjamesg We have four participants who have completed the challenge now.
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capjamesg Added a new feature to my site that tracks how many articles you have viewed.
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capjamesg (client-side)
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capjamesg You can add ?ac to the end of any blog post to see the count.
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capjamesg (starting today)
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