#dev 2024-11-22

2024-11-22 UTC
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[tantek]
!tell [keithjgrant] it looks like maybe you could use some help with the work to update Omnibear, get it back into the Firefox Add-ons site etc. https://github.com/keithjgrant/omnibear would you be open to transferring it to the IndieWeb org on GitHub https://github.com/indieweb/ and enabling folks to help move it forward in a shared contributor fashion?
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Loqi
Ok, I'll tell them that when I see them next
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Loqi
[preview] [keithjgrant] omnibear: A Micropub browser extension
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Loqi
[preview] [Keith J. Grant] Hey Indieweb friends... I've decided to let my registration of https://omnibear.com lapse (it's good til February). If anybody is interested in taking over that project, I'm up for a domain transfer. Anthony Ciccarello has indicated some interest, so...
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[tantek]
oooh thanks gRegor
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[tantek]
I think transferring the GH to the IndieWeb org so those of us with some marginal time / understanding of Add-ons can help get it back in shape would be good
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gRegor
Agreed
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[tantek]
!tell aaronpk WDYT of adding the http://omnibear.com domain to the set of IndieWeb-related domains we pay for via Open Collective? I think the project was useful/valuable enough to enough people to merit having the community keep the site around
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Loqi
Ok, I'll tell them that when I see them next
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gRegor
what is omnibear
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Loqi
Omnibear is a browser extension for posting text notes, replies, bookmarks, and likes to your website using Micropub https://indieweb.org/Omnibear
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[tantek]
looks like a fairly straightforward static site to maintain too, perhaps we can even maintain that in the IndieWeb GH
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aaronpk
sounds like #indieweb-meta
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[mattl]
Just added a skip navigation link I worked on today to every page on https://mat.tl
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[mattl]
Just hit Tab and it'll show up.
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[Joe_Crawford]
Very nice [mattl]++
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Loqi
[mattl] has 14 karma in this channel over the last year (40 in all channels)
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[Joe_Crawford]
James' comment about learning `conic-gradient()` has me playing with a sheet of things one can do with a conic gradient in codepen. Suggestions welcome. https://codepen.io/artlung/pen/XWvvbYG
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[mattl]
https://teamlh.social -- this is a weird one... custom subdomains for your sports team fandom.
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[mattl]
Added to every page on http://Libre.fm too
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capjamesg[d]
[Joe_Crawford]++
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Loqi
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capjamesg[d]
I love that!
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[Caleb_Hearth]
↩️ Would you be open to a change that checked for the required data being sent? i.e., the webfinger requests that you’d need to provide from http://brid.gy are answered correctly by the server? I have mastodon running on a subdomain but to be findable by my domain name I also need to be able to respond on my root domain to queries. For simplicity I’m currently reverse proxying so it reponds 200. I’d be happy to set up somethi
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[Caleb_Hearth]
the background pinged multiple servers with the webfinger request and responded appropriately on my server if http://fed.brid.gy would respect that.
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[snarfed]
↩️ honestly, I'm reluctant to add this kind of complexity. we've already seen issues (and extended debugging) with people trying to use both eg BF and the WordPress AP or Friends plugins for the same site, whether on the same domain or subdomains
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[Joe_Crawford]
solid additions there yes!
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[schmarty]
Oh heck yeah
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[tantek]
Finally
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[Joe_Crawford]
I showed off a CodePen I was working on yesterday to do the same CSS shape 2 different ways. I added 2 more, plus made it a details element that gives more information about the technique. https://codepen.io/artlung/pen/ZEgdxaG
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[tantek]
aaronpk, I feel a "follow button" is Microsub adjacent. As in there should be a mechanism or API or something a website can hook into to initiate a Microsub "follow"
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[tantek]
some combination of a web action + Microsub API
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[tantek]
that would be a way to build a cross-site/service "follow" button. publishing sites would publish the necessary markup to initiate a follow action, and reader services (Microsub clients) would support the necessary registration / activation APIs to route such actions into Microsub API calls from the Microsub client to the Microsub server to perform the "follow" of a site or list of sites
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[tantek]
[benatwork] you worked on a universal follow button and have thought about this a lot. Wonder what your thoughts are about finding a way to connect such a UI widget to a protocol like that
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[benatwork]
I’d love the first part - button goes to service or services of my choice. I’d want it to go to the draft interface for that service though so I could tweak
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[tantek]
what do you mean by "draft interface"? is that an interaction users see when they follow a Bluesky "Starter Pack"?
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gRegor
I'm looking into alternative captcha systems to Google's ReCaptcha. Anyone have experience/recommendations? Reviewed https://altcha.org/docs/proof-of-work/ a bit so far
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gRegor
what is captcha
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Loqi
It looks like we don't have a page for "captcha" yet. Would you like to create it? (Or just say "captcha is ____", a sentence describing the term)
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gRegor
what is recaptcha
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Loqi
It looks like we don't have a page for "recaptcha" yet. Would you like to create it? (Or just say "recaptcha is ____", a sentence describing the term)
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[tantek]
hmm, are there IndieWeb use-cases for a captcha?
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[tantek]
or is anyone using captchas on their personal sites today?
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gRegor
This is a more general dev question, yeah, not for my personal site. Could be helpful with a /local_comments form though
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superkuh
I kind of use security through obscurity for my comment system. Appending @say/comment goes here to any URL isnot something most bots understand.
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gRegor
Context here is a public "contact us" form. Has CSRF protection and a honeypot field, both catch a lot, but still quite a bit of spam coming through.
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[aciccarello]
I think cloudflare has their own captcha too