#indieweb 2024-11-24

2024-11-24 UTC
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librehash Hey what's going on indieweb members
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librehash My name is James. Black dude here. Referred someone to the principles that you guys had on your site when they asked me the question "why don't you just join tech"
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capjamesg[d] Welcome! 👋
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capjamesg[d] Do you have a personal website?
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librehash Yes. But then Google Domains sold their entire business to Squarespace and my domain got lost in the vortex during renewal time (which I'm still kind of pissed about)
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librehash Now the costs for .com domains have soared through the roof.
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[aciccarello] That sounds discouraging. I migrated away from Google domains when I heard they sold.
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[aciccarello] Today I'm taking another hack at Omnibear. Hopefully a full travel day is what I need to make some progress
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GWG Omnibear...there's a name I haven't heard in a while
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[aciccarello] Yeah, it's currently blocked by needing to be updated to chrome's new standards and there's a refactor in progress
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[aciccarello] I've never created a browser extension before so that seems like the complicated part to me. But the refactor will probably take as much work.
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[aciccarello] What is Omnibear?
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Loqi Omnibear is a browser extension for posting text notes, replies, bookmarks, and likes to your website using Micropub https://indieweb.org/Omnibear
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[aciccarello] I might remove the Twitter and Facebook specific functionality. I could see mastodon and bluesky reply options being more useful.
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[aciccarello] And metaformats which would really bring my contributions full circle
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[aciccarello] But I have to get things working first
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librehash I don't think creating a browser extension is too difficult to be honest. Seems like you create a normal code repo, then add a manifest file to it before its ultimately 'compressed' into the proper format for the browser itself (if I remember correctly). The repo for your extension is ultimately composed of javascript, html & css files before ultimately being compressed into zip (Chrome) or XPI (firefox).
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[aciccarello] Honestly Keith Grant already did most of the work but there are some stricter API requirements from Chrome so I'll have to learn.
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[tantek] there may have been API change for Firefox addons also which prevented the latest version from building
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[tantek] aciccarello, were you able to get the repo transfer process started to the indieweb org on GitHub?
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[tantek] Maybe this is more of a #indieweb-dev chat
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[aciccarello] I'm hoping to have something to show before starting any transfers