#dev 2021-03-23

2021-03-23 UTC
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[tantek] how "safe" is it to have a self-editing PHP file? or is this one of those things where no don't even go down that path because there's no way to actually contain the potential mess
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[tantek] self-editing as in it's a PHP file that generates a form with itself as the submission handling script, then as part of running, it takes the form input and rewrites itself accordingly
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[tantek] lol: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1977890/self-modifying-php-script
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[tantek] "On first sight this sounds like a Bad Idea™." 😂
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jacky lol I love those answers
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jacky but yeah I wonder if just doing an inclusion would be good
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jacky especially b/c PHP has a way to load and execute PHP on the fly
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jacky that could serve as a self-editing one
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jacky in a 'sandbox'
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[chrisaldrich] I'll have to check but I wonder if the https://html5up.net/ set ups have proper microformats embedded? That could be a fun little project for people who want their own linktree-like card sites as a starter site entry into the IndieWeb.
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[tantek] jacky, yeah I'm considering that kind of setup also, in a "single folder" perspective rather than a single-file perspective
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[tantek] where all the files in the folder would be their own submission targets, and then they would include a common php file for "processing"
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[tantek] ok I searched for it and there's surprisingly little besides that Stack Overflow Q&A
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[tantek] this means either it's VERY HARD to get right and make it work, or it's a VERY BAD IDEA from a security perspective, or perhaps both. because it has that feel of a "fun programming problem that someone must have solved purely for the cool factor"
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[tantek] wondering if I have to use flat file ops or if I could actually load/save PHP code embedded in <script> blocks via PHPDOM APIs
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@kevinmarks ↩️ I like the idea of connecting the different Ghost instances into a network. Have you looked at the Social reader work going on in #indieweb with microsub, micropub and webmention? That could be a good fit. https://indieweb.org/social_reader (twitter.com/_/status/1374348597374910464)
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[ccozkan] hey everybody👋 so i recently developed auto generated weekly newsletter web app for the projects on hackernews. it is a ruby on rails app. it checks for new projects everyhour and later on wednesday it sends a newsletter to subscribers with a confirmed email.
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[ccozkan] i thought it might be useful in some way in indieweb community too by changing the current source. i think source can be an api or an rss feed. if it can be useful, i would love to help. you can check the source at
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[ccozkan] https://github.com/ccozkan/showhn.paperboy.digital
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Loqi [ccozkan] showhn.paperboy.digital: Autogenerated weekly newsletter of 'Show HackerNews' projects
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jacky that looks cool [ccozkan]!
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jacky do you have an issue/ticket on GitHub so one could subscribe to those changes re: making it more IndieWeb-friendly?
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jacky https://indieweb.org/Webmention-brainstorming#fetching_stored_Webmentions if anyone has thoughts on this
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[KevinMarks] Mention.tech does it without auth as all the data is public anyway
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jacky yeah but I'd need auth mainly to prevent it from being just random
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jacky granted, I can see the case for no auth if it's being pulled into a static site
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jacky or if they're queried against by a social reader to show reactions to a post if it's not shown on a site
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jacky what is cloudinary
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Loqi Cloudinary is a hosting and management service for images and video which can be used as an image proxy https://indieweb.org/Cloudinary