#dev 2023-12-02

2023-12-02 UTC
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h​avacow [KevinMarks]: "For years I’ve tried to explain the difference between a section and an article, and almost nobody gets it."
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h​avacow I still don't tbh. Every once in a while I look at my markup and think, "why am I using so many sections? Should they be an article? Let me check MDN Web Docs... huh? What? Okay maybe this is fine. It's probably okay. At least it's not a bunch of divs. Maybe I should use divs?!"
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gRegor I feel like it was theoretically more useful for the outline algorithm, but that was never implemented and removed. May still be useful if accessibility tools use it, idk. (or just to have fewer divs)
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h​avacow My usual concern is whether or not search engines care but it seems that they don't.
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gRegor yeah, haven't heard of any penalties or issues
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aaronpk ah crap i forgot that I had moved a bunch of domains have their DNS hosted by my registrar instead of hosting, and there is no certbot plugin for the registrar DNS, so now a bunch of my certs are going to expire
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gRegor oh no
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GWG Nothing like late night adding identifier URL validation functions to my IndieAuth code. Need some tests also.
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GWG Finished URL validation unit tests. This is usually where [snarfed] gives testing an up
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[jacky] aaronpk: are most of the projects co-located? certbot might be able to do that for you automatically now
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[jacky] I've given in and set mine to check every two weeks (b/c I do not trust myself to actually remember monthly lol)
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aaronpk it used to be entirely automated, but there's no DNS plugin for namecheap like there is for linode
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aaronpk i use the DNS method because some of them are wildcard certs
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[jacky] ah I was afraid of that bit (it being wildcard certs)
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[jacky] that kept me away from using that b/c of that little part of complexity
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aaronpk it's really nice once it's set up tho
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[jacky] actually this doesn't look so bad now
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[jacky] it's been some time and I gave into letting Dokku manage things
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[jacky] I use DNSimple mainly so I could see this being a few API calls in a script
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[jacky] but then the word "script" halts my ability to do anything else
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[jacky] I won't write a script but sign me up for a greenfield project lol
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aaronpk oh the other nice thing about the DNS method is you don't have to wire up hosting for the files
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aaronpk ooh, looks like you can work around it with CNAMEs
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sknebel you can do that
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sknebel and I think I've seen plugins for namecheap, but namecheap doesnt give everyone api access
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aaronpk i have no idea how to install a certbot plugin now that i installed certbot through the ubuntu package
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aaronpk (plugins that aren't bundled with the main package)
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aaronpk anyway looks like I can use a single DNS zone hosted on Linode for everything, and point to it with CNAMEs
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sknebel yes, that should work
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sknebel I've done that with a self-hosted zone at some point because my DNS provider doesnt have an API
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aaronpk adds it to the list for after the sun goes down
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sknebel aaronpk: theres also https://github.com/joohoi/acme-dns
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sknebel although on closer look that doesnt look that maintained anymore, so going wiht linode is probably better
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[jacky] does `/opt/eff.org/cerbot/venv` exist for you? that's where I have my dokku plugin wired up from
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[jacky] it uses a nginx thing via a docker container now tho
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superkuh You could always self sign.
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aaronpk Yeah no docker thanks
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s​tarrwulfe @snarfed -- This happened FYI:
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s​tarrwulfe https://mastodon.cloud/@jlgatewood/111513351423193762
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s​tarrwulfe Crossing fingers. 🤞🏾
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IWDiscord <s​tarrwulfe#0>
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gRegor For anyone interested in stats, some IndieAuth sign in stats via https://indiebookclub.biz/review/2023. Didn't get into how many posts were micropub or not, though I could.
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Loqi [preview] 2023 Year in Review
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s​tarrwulfe gRegor: Why am I just now learning about this site?!
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gRegor not sure, too many indieweb projects! haha
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s​tarrwulfe I'll go ahead and see if I can help push that needle with some of my reads as well.
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s​tarrwulfe (There needs to be something like this for movies, tv shows, and video games. Guess it's on me to make it happen...)
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gRegor I was just writing a post to share on Mastodon and started "I don't post about it often..." haha. It mostly runs on autopilot, last update was last November.
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gRegor yeah there's definitely been wider discussion about /watch /listen etc. post types and similarities
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gRegor what is sparkles
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Loqi Sparkles is a Micropub client that supports posting articles, notes, replies, likes, rsvps, photos, bookmarks, movie watch, and book read posts to your site https://indieweb.org/Sparkles
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gRegor Haven't used it but that supports movies and books too
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gRegor The author benji is a regular at HWC Pacific
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[snarfed] thanks starrwulfe!
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GWG I just added reviews to my site...need to review more stuff