#dev 2021-06-17

2021-06-17 UTC
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@willnorris ↩️ Would you be willing to put an explicit license on https://github.com/petergoes/petergoes.nl/blob/main/_automations/store-webmentions.mjs? Just something like: // SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT (or license of your choice) at the top? (twitter.com/_/status/1405323519739654147)
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[tantek] Tomorrow is the 10-year anniversary of this blog post: https://tantek.com/2011/168/b1/practices-good-open-web-standards-development — I'm considering blogging a "quick" update. Thoughts?
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Loqi [tantek]: capjamesg left you a message 2 days, 14 hours ago: I just printed off your face and it worked.
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[tantek] whoa
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Loqi [Tantek Çelik] 10 Practices for Good Open Web Standards Development
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@willnorris ↩️ thanks! And your process is working great. Just merged my first set of webmentions (https://github.com/willnorris/willnorris.com/pull/22). Still need to improve rendering for replies and mentions, but working well: https://willnorris.com/2021/06/mac-and-cheese/#webmentions (twitter.com/_/status/1405405458601414666)
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capjamesg What is thermal printing?
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Loqi capjamesg: petermolnar left you a message 9 hours, 50 minutes ago: I have a laptop, which is synced to a home server, which is synced to a rented server in Germany; the servers run FreeBSD on ZFS filesystem, which takes care of the snapshots. Given that most of my life's content - photos, documents, etc - are digital these days, and that once we had been burglered, I don't feel OK without off-site backups.
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Loqi It looks like we don't have a page for "thermal printing" yet. Would you like to create it? (Or just say "thermal printing is ____", a sentence describing the term)
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capjamesg Thermal printing is a method of printing that uses heat to display text and images on specially-made thermal paper.
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Loqi ok
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capjamesg Thermal printing << https://nordprojects.co/projects/littleprinters/
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Loqi ok, I added "https://nordprojects.co/projects/littleprinters/" to a brand new "See Also" section of /Thermal_printing https://indieweb.org/wiki/index.php?diff=76100&oldid=76099
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capjamesg Little Printer is a thermal printer developed by Berg London that let you curate publications to print on-demand.
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capjamesg Loqi?
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Saphire Oh nice
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Saphire Can you make your own printer to opt into it?
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capjamesg With the Little Printer? I'm not sure.
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capjamesg Some people are building a cloud around it I think: tinyprinter.club
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capjamesg Well, not a cloud so much as the infrastructure to revive old Little Printers.
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petermolnar capjamesg: regarding home backups & all, if you ever want to upgrade from a raspi, but you want to keep it physically tiny, there are machines like https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/desktops-and-all-in-ones/thinkcentre/m-series-thin-clients/M600-Thin-/p/11TC1MTM60010KH which used to go for peanuts on ebay
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capjamesg petermolnar I'm using a usb now. My raspberry pi is for the printer at the moment. I don't have any other use cases. I just feel like a usb might not be the most reliable medium in the world.
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petermolnar usb is reasonably reliable; I'm using 3 x usb drives in my home "server" 24x7, and so far so good for well over a year now.
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petermolnar the only thing to keep in mind with usb devices is their power needs
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capjamesg Power needs?
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petermolnar yes; usb 2.0 by spec gives you max 500ma; usb 3.0 900ma. Some devices need more, than that, and if they don't get it, either the device or the source can get hurt.
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doosboox I've never actually consider the power needs for my thumb drives
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doosboox I've just assumed it to be negligible.
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petermolnar those usually are
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petermolnar but a usb ssd for example is not
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capjamesg I am in the same boat doosboox. That's helpful, petermolnar.
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capjamesg petermolnar++
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Loqi petermolnar has 3 karma in this channel over the last year (33 in all channels)
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capjamesg I guess the question on my mind is: are there any negative effects to having a regular usb drive plugged into a laptop 24/7?
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petermolnar not really, although I'd probably turn off journaling on the filesystem of it
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capjamesg The flash drive is ext2 which doesn't have journaling I don't think.
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petermolnar ext2 indeed doesn't have journaling
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capjamesg petermolnar what's the best way to monitor backups for errors?
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[manton] I posted this morning about the potential for a Goodreads-like app based on Micro.blog and/or IndieWeb data. We’ve been improving the books support in Micro.blog from Micropub read-of posting, to linking to IndieBookClub for creating new posts, to now having an API for managing bookshelves. It feels like there is another of a foundation to really build something. https://www.manton.org/2021/06/17/building-on-the.html
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Loqi [Manton Reece] Building on the Micro.blog books API
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[schmarty] manton++
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Loqi manton has 18 karma in this channel over the last year (25 in all channels)
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[tw2113_Slack_] ooh
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[snarfed] .>>>>……………..
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[snarfed] sorry, disregard
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