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[Sophia_wood] Does anyone text themselves to post to their blog?
# [Sophia_wood] I am pondering this flow.
# [Sophia_wood] Yup - I'd like to text myself and have it post - just trying to figure out if there is a best-practice flow.
# [Sophia_wood] it is one of my options this year for a site that I am concidering.
# [Sophia_wood] I could use shortcuts, watchdog, and other things, but I'm not sure what the best approach is.
# [Sophia_wood] This year's journal is in a numbers file (spreadsheet). I run a script and it updates.
# [Sophia_wood] Just playing with ideas.
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# jacky1 the only thing I could see being good for is setting a AIM/ICQ-like status
# [morgan] I just checked out a youtube video from a conference and Im actually pretty impressed with the "Ask ✨" apparently Gemini made transcript notes?
# [morgan] Like i made one of the talks, and Im somehow OK with what its showing
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[aciccarello] [Sophia_wood] I've been pretty happy now that I have a micropub endpoint set up
# [aciccarello] It's made it a lot easier to post from my phone
# [Al_Abut] “Text to blog” was the original use case for Twitter that I loved so much. It was even pre-group texts.
# [Al_Abut] Could be fun to bring that back
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[Murray] That was pretty much the sole reason I got a Twitter account back in 2007. I was off traveling, and had a very good phone package that gave me free SMS in about 80% of the countries I was planning to visit to some predefined numbers. I made Twitter's text line one of those contacts, and could keep way more friends/family updated on what I was doing as a result 😄
# [Murray] (and though very few of them had Twitter, or even knew what it was, I also had a self-hosted blog, my first proper website, with a Twitter integration, so messages just appeared on the homepage magically. Internet cost a fortune, and was all web café stuff, so this was a great cost saver)
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capjamesg TIL about the "download" a tag attribute: https://css-tricks.com/building-good-download-button/
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# [Al_Abut] “Buttons do things, links go places” is a nice and tidy summation.
# [Al_Abut] [Murray] nice! Same here, Twitter was purely to stay in touch at first. My first year in SF was the last year of nursing school for my fiancé back in my hometown, so I’d text quick updates on work breaks. She had no idea that it had a web interface or that others followed me or any of it, it was glorified one-to-many SMS.
# [Al_Abut] [jeremycherfas] perfect timing, I’ve been toiling away on microformats for photos for the first time in the last few days and that page has helpful tips that I didn’t see. I got so caught up in cleaning up the table of contents that I didn’t scroll down and see the rest of it 😂
# [Al_Abut] So I'm curious about the classes for descriptions. The example has `p-content` on a paragraph and an entry with one photo. I’m sure that’s fine, I don’t have a feel for what’s correct yet and I’m fumbling around as I learn, but is it better to have `p-summary` instead when the photo is the content? And then `e-content` for when it’s multiple photos?
# [Al_Abut] Or `e-content` when it’s a combo of photos and commentary?
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# [Al_Abut] Ah, so `u-photo` when it’s a “photo post” with just pic(s) and `e-content` when it’s more of a blog post narrative with photos dispersed throughout?
# [Al_Abut] I'm still honing in on what this weekend’s project will be and one option is to recreate the format of my rss feed with microformats so I can swap it out without anyone noticing in their readers. Then I can keep expanding what kinds of things get thrown into the feed without ever having to deal with rss again.
# [Al_Abut] One question I had about that was whether to keep the same url for the current rss.xml and just redirect to the new one hosted by Granary, like [capjamesg] does.
# [Al_Abut] I might get on a roll and knock out that project before the Sunday create day comes around. I feel like I’m picking up steam on microformats now that I’ve got my head around some of the basics.
# capjamesg Mine was /feeds/posts.xml IIRC.
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[KevinMarks] This is interesting for building a planet like interface to bsky, or maybe a mastodon-alike local cache https://docs.bsky.app/blog/introducing-tap
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