#LoqiGeocoding is the process of turning a text form location (such as an address or name of a place) into a set of geographical coordinates https://indieweb.org/geocoding
#doosbooxIndieweb is a bit of an experiment for me. I have an interest in social media solutions, and am exploring what it means to develop things that adhere to standards. So far I haven’t indiewebified my page much (just h-card). I’m considering implementing webmention (send and receive). How easy would you say that is?
#doosboox[snarfed]: I’d like to do as much as possible myself. I like to get a feel for how hard it is; decentralisation or federation can’t be sustainably attained if the complexity of a standard or eco system is too high
#doosboox[snarfed]: selfhosted alternatives are good, but being able to do it myself is better :)
#GWGdoosboox: I mix self hosted and self made myself
#[snarfed]we’re definitely agreed on https://indieweb.org/plurality and diversity of implementations! most people shouldn’t have to write code to join the indieweb, but if you want to, please do!
#[snarfed]sending webmentions is pretty straightforward, receiving takes a bit more work, but both are totally doable
#superkuhReceiving can be easy'ish if you don't care about implementing the full spec and just receive. I just send with cURL and receive by logging POSTs to the URL endpoint.
#doosbooxI figure the complexity is in parsing html and getting elements for both, and for receiving I’ll have to make an app server I guess
#[tantek]none of the complexity is in parsing html. there are well tested parser libraries for that.
#[tantek]that's kind of a big misconception (about parsing html)
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#GWG [tantek]: I have trouble in the post parsing step still
#GWGAs in, massaging inconsistent data into something consistent
#GWGWe've had that talk, but I'm still not sure what you call xray and Parse This except maybe normalization libraries
#GWGFor example, I always wrap a set of h-entrys in an h-feed, not all sites do, so I need to do some work post parser on that
#[tantek]GWG, sure, there's additional work, depending on the use-case you are implementing. That's usually how any kind of data processing works.