#indieweb 2025-03-08

2025-03-08 UTC
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[artlung] Recent Chris Hayes interview on Marc Maron podcast namechecks RSS, “Really Simple Syndication,” web pages, and open protocols.
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[artlung] My girlfriend: “how’s it feel to hear your arguments parroted back to you?”
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[artlung] Roughly 50 minutes in.
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[aciccarello] I have some old electronics I'm planning on posting on ebay. I'm tempted to use ebay's api to display those on my website
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[aciccarello] I don't think I can justify that though 😅
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[aciccarello] Anyone want to buy a Zune or iPhone 3G??
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aaronpk I've still got my iPhone 3G in a drawer but thanks 😂
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[tw2113] i'm using my iPhone 4s right now
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[tw2113] it's my timer/alarm clock
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[Jo] i like how sometimes trends emerge here, like a while ago lots of people got into 88x31 buttons again because we talked about them on the wiki and now i'm seeing people pick up the concept of lots of /pages. i think its really nice how we inspire each other and brainstorm :^)
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sanari Hi guys
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sanari how are ya gentlemans?
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sanari ALL THE INDIE BELONGS TO US
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hacknorris how i am? i am not
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cophee [Jo]: they're so fun
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Loqi [Jo] has 14 karma in this channel over the last year (30 in all channels)
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capjamesg[d] [Jo]++ Great observation!
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capjamesg[d] Speaking of buttons, I just found https://web.badges.world/
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hacknorris when i had site i had bigger one…
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greg.just.greg 3961 badges!
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Bubblegumdrop I miss 88x31 buttons honestly
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Bubblegumdrop I used to have a bunch on my old site
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capjamesg[d] I have a collection on https://jamesg.blog/buttons
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capjamesg[d] [edit] I have a collection on https://jamesg.blog/buttons
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[artlung] Anil Dash quasi-verified that it was his "Wherever your podcasts" essay likely influenced Chris Hayes. https://bsky.app/profile/anildash.com/post/3ljtxv7rhyk2e
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[tantek] Who is Chris Hayes?
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[tantek] What is 88x31
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Loqi 88x31 pixels was a very popular web badge/button image size in the 1990s, especially among freewheeling and independent sites created on services like GeoCities, and there are IndieWeb 88x31 badges you may use https://indieweb.org/88x31
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[tantek] capjamesg[d] that badges world site is on the /buttons page but maybe it's time for a dedicated 80x15 page to move that stuff too
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[artlung] https://www.wtfpod.com/podcast/episode-1621-chris-hayes
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[artlung] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Hayes
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[artlung] https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/719661/the-sirens-call-by-chris-hayes/
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[tantek] Got it. Talking head
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[artlung] I would say _journalist_ but you’re not wrong.
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capjamesg[d] https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/866577279223595022/1347989900338790510/Frame_33.png?ex=67cdd4ec&is=67cc836c&hm=6b8f76388fbcdc0fdb43e44c1cc9e0f040957f666fcc5bfcf3990d1a9d8cb8e0&
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capjamesg[d] [Jo]
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[Jo] capjamesg++ cute!!
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Loqi capjamesg has 78 karma in this channel over the last year (214 in all channels)
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Lars-Christian Good evening! Mentioned the reading history page on my website when it went live a while back. Said I'd share the write-up when I had finished it. I finally did.
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Lars-Christian https://lars-christian.com/posts/2025-03-08-replacing-goodreads-the-indieweb-way/
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Lars-Christian For anyone who wants to read incredibly boring details about how my reading history page is set up and why :D
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[Trevor_Morris] Nice. I started tracking the books I read with my son last year. I looked around at good external places, with the idea of syncing them in, but they severally lacked APIs. So I gave up and just add them "manually" now (well, with the ISBN number and some basic lookup to grab basic data) – https://www.trovster.com/books is mainly kids books, though!
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Lars-Christian I like that @[Trevor_Morris] looks great
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Lars-Christian And big fan of tracking what you read with your son! I only started tracking books we're reading together more recently as we embarked on the Narnia Chronicles.
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Lars-Christian I really enjoyed your activities page https://www.trovster.com/activities @[Trevor_Morris]
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Lars-Christian Have you written about how you put that together? My next project is replacing Strava with something displaying my exercise data on my own website.
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[Trevor_Morris] The data is sync from Strava.
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Lars-Christian Are you handling FIT files on your end? Or pulling a bunch of data points from each activity?
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[Trevor_Morris] I use the Strava app to sync the data to my database schema.
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Lars-Christian Ah, nice, thanks!
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[Trevor_Morris] https://github.com/RichieMcMullen/laravel-strava is the API SDK I use. Quite a bit of code for saving data, streams, photos and then outputting it all!
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Loqi friendly reminder [Trevor_Morris], it seems like this conversation is more appropriate for #indieweb-dev (database, schema, API)
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Loqi [preview] [RichieMcMullen] laravel-strava: A laravel package to access data from the Strava API.
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Lars-Christian Thanks for sharing the link. It's a total overkill for my use case though ^_^
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Lars-Christian Since I've stopped syncing to Strava, I've reverted to tracking my workouts in a spreadsheet. Only log type, time, distance and HR avg and max, and comments on each activity.
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Lars-Christian The fit files all live somewhere, I guess. But I just don't keep track of all the details. Made a little app to automate extracting the data from healthkit to my spreadsheet.
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Lars-Christian But your activity section is really inspiring, even if I'll never have that kind of detail in what I do!
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[Trevor_Morris] Ah! I need a way to get my data out of health - I’m manually entering them at the moment, using the Fitness app. I’ve started looking at a shortcut to sync to my api but I’ve not finished it. You made an iOS app to access the data?
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Lars-Christian Yeah just a super simple app to export the activity data. If you're just looking for overall health data, you can probably get using Shortcut. (But for some ridiculous reason they don't support data per activity through Shortcut)
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Lars-Christian That wasn't very clear... If you want general activity data (steps, calories, minutes, etc) you can get it through Shortcut. If you want data tied to a specific activity (workout) there's no way to do that with Shortcut
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[Trevor_Morris] Ah, OK. Well, my workouts go to Strava, so it’s the general data I need. I got so far, but it was a pain to build up. I need a better way to test. The mirroring might help me. It’s on my list.
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