#dev 2020-11-23
2020-11-23 UTC
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@dletorey My super-talented friend has written about cacheing webmentions and eleventy @eleven_ty #indieWeb (twitter.com/_/status/1330893854686449665)
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sknebel another CA doing free certs using ACME: https://zerossl.com/
# [Raphael_Luckom] AWS doesn't charge for any SSL cert that's in use on an endpoint (possibly only public ones, I forget). I see that as being directly due to competition from efforts like this. It's great.
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@hacklinesapp Level up with yesterdays most popular link https://hacklines.com/editions/2020-11-22/weeknotes-datasette-indieauth-datasette-graphql-pycon-argentina (twitter.com/_/status/1330919159115509760)
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@ambrwlsn90 ↩️ Hey, Max! Thanks for your post on webmentions with Eleventy. It let me get a quick start while I learned more about them. I'm working on tweaking my webmention UI a little this evening. And I'll be crediting you in a blog post coming soon ☺️ (twitter.com/_/status/1330937543412609025)
# [Raphael_Luckom] Is there a way that people feel about URI templates as described in https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6570 ? They look like a good option for something I'm doing--wondering about opinions, experiences with using them.
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[KevinMarks] DNS is the worst system we have, except for all the others? https://hackernoon.com/ten-terrible-attempts-to-make-the-inter-planetary-file-system-human-friendly-e4e95df0c6fa?ref=hackernoon.com
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petermolnar along the lines of "everything scales, until it doesn't"?
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[schmarty] haha i wasn't sure what jacky meant by the original post until i got to the end and found it
# [schmarty] with an expired TLS cert 😂
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# [schmarty] ah and that write-up is from 2017! which is (ironically for me) about when i let my namecoin registration expire (got snapped up 8 months later by a squatter)
# [schmarty] yeah it's part of why i decided to just drift away from namecoin and zeronet when i was playing with them.
# [schmarty] i would set a calendar reminder for "about every 4 months" to go load up my namecoin wallet and let it sync and then spend a teeny amount of namecoin to keep my entries updated
# [schmarty] it was not intuitive and provided like no benefit but i did it for a while just because i didn't want to lose the name.
# [schmarty] knowing that any name that gets registered and then expires will be squatted. but eventually i forgot and it happened and here i am not really worse off, haha.
# [schmarty] i don't think anyone in this room is saying namecoin is better than anything in particular, if that is what your questions referred to, aaronpk :}
# [schmarty] *question singular
# [schmarty] it was! sadly i think it would have been not too hard to make this a good experience??
# [schmarty] but with the main namecoin client it was all the problems of a cryptocurrency (run your own wallet, sync a ton of network history, buy some tokens from _somewhere)_ plus a no-interface textbox for actually registering data, where updates are rate limited and take like an hour to get confirmed each time.
# [schmarty] it was satisfying to visit <my short name>.bit in the zeronet browser and have it work after getting it all set up but what a pain.
# [schmarty] hehehe. at least, most or all of the consumers of namecoin records expect a JSON object with some keys
# [schmarty] but the namecoin chain itself just lets you jam whatever in there and spammers / squatters just jam text and URLs and emails for how to pay them to unsquat or where to get scammed out of bitcoin
# [schmarty] i _think_ i had found a tool that let me put in some common records and it would spit out JSON to paste in, but that was a huge missing part of using it at all
# [schmarty] there was very little (and no "official" or "supported") documentation for turning simple needs like "how do i make it so browser or client X shows the content i want at <myname>.bit?" into practical steps
# [schmarty] i was able to cobble it together thanks to blog posts from several random folks, as per internet tradition. :}
# [KevinMarks] if there's one thing cryptocurrency is good at, it's encouraging people to build scams
# [schmarty] feels like a 🤝 meme in the making
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# [KevinMarks] does this belong with eat what you cook? https://ahungry.com/blog/2020-11-17-Write-Code-Like-You-Write-a-Recipe.html
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@AmyVernon @estherschindler With a really long story first that I desperately try to scroll fast to find the actual start to the recipe but I’m on mobile and have to scroll up and down five times before I finally find the temperature I’m supposed to heat the oven to? (twitter.com/_/status/1330972256118460420)
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