#dev 2025-06-27

2025-06-27 UTC
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[schmarty] aaronpk's design out loud for a photo client reminded me of an itch of my own. i often write long-form on my laptop using quill's "big" editor. i often want to insert photos from my phone, but these are independent and non-sync'd devices, so i usually end up sending them to myself over a chat app to upload to quill.
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[schmarty] i'd like a "remote upload" feature that allows me to peer-to-peer my phone to the active editing session in quill. i actually have the plumbing for this!
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[schmarty] https://schmarty.net/qc/ (source: https://git.schmarty.net/schmarty/QRChat) is a little peer-to-peer chat that uses a websocket library called Trystero and QR codes to share their discovery information. once connected, clients can share files.
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[schmarty] so, in theory, i could smoosh a management interface for this into quill (enable remote uploads, show QR code, show connected status), and show uploaded photos in quill's existing tool for inserting photos.
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[mattl] do you have an iPhone?
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[schmarty] for better and worse, i do
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[mattl] I ask because I was surprised by the iPhone mirroring feature letting me literally drag a photo from Photos on the phone into a WordPress blog I was editing.
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[mattl] On my Mac.
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[schmarty] haha, oh right, i forgot that exists! i don't have any Mac laptops or desktops, unfortunately.
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aaronpk Whoa I didn't know the mirroring feature could do that
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[tantek] Same
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aaronfc @schmarty, I made this for a similar reason https://quickopy.com/ a while ago. I haven't updated it in ages. And it does not support images, but if you are interested I could use the extra motivation of helping somebody to do it.
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aaronfc BTW, it's not safe at all – it is using firebase and I think with a bit of tinkering someone could read other messages exchanged... but I made it mostly for personal use.
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aaronfc oh never mind, that's basically what you have in schmarty.net/qc
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[schmarty] thanks, aaronfc! I like your lunar challenge idea!
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[manton] [tantek] Thanks for the discussion about web page archiving… I’ve written up http://Micro.blog’s policy here: https://help.micro.blog/t/hosting-longevity/3901
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[tantek] [manton]++ really well written and love the detail about bookmarks too! Would you consider expanding that to all kinds of responses? E.g. if you reply to someone's post, consider archiving the original too
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Loqi [manton] has 4 karma in this channel over the last year (32 in all channels)
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[tantek] longevity << Service example: https://help.micro.blog/t/hosting-after-subscription-ends/3901
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Loqi ok, I added "Service example: https://help.micro.blog/t/hosting-after-subscription-ends/3901" to the "See Also" section of /longevity https://indieweb.org/wiki/index.php?diff=102530&oldid=102348
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[manton] [tantek] Actually I didn’t explain that well. In most cases we actually archive any link to someone else’s blog, whether it’s bookmarked or not. So if I post a link to your blog, we save a copy of your post, and if your blog goes offline I can manually update to point to the archived copy. I’ll have to figure out how to explain this better!
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[mattl] I like the idea of “save my stuff” but the idea of “save other people’s stuff because I linked to it” might be something I want to turn off.
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[KevinMarks] Saving it to public repositories like http://archive.org and http://archive.is seems a reasonable approach, given that you want the state at the time you linked to it, rather than what it may have turned into in the mean time
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[tantek] Yeah the internet archive approach is best for "archive other people's posts" for both that reason and then you don't have to worry about anyone's deletion requests
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gRegor !tell btrem I experimented with authenticated ICS. Interested to see if this works for you. Notes: https://gregorlove.com/2025/06/here-is-what-i/
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Loqi Ok, I'll tell them that when I see them next
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[manton] I’m okay handling deletion requests. I expect to be very rare. Also, it’s such a difficult problem… Once a post is out there, it’s hard to put it back in the bottle, e.g. screenshots of deleted tweets and other things.
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perryflynn this tool allows an easy and fine grained download of google fonts: https://gwfh.mranftl.com/fonts/roboto-mono?subsets=latin,latin-ext
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perryflynn my fake term has now a movable and resizable window also some more attributes on the web component to control the behavior better: https://svr.ls/term
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