#dev 2026-07-16

2026-07-16 UTC
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WinnerWind [schmarty]: there's a difference between URI and URL?
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[schmarty] what is uri?
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Loqi URI is an abbreviation for Uniform Resource Identifier which was a late 1990s to early 2000s term intended as broader in meaning than URL https://indieweb.org/uri
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thestudyofstarlight It was originally "URL" but as URL-like structures began to be used for things other than web addresses we adopted "URI" as the operative term.
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thestudyofstarlight (uniform resource __locator__ --> uniform resource __identifier__)
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[pcarrier] my understanding: URLs are URIs. URLs tell you not only what the thing is, but also the method of retrieval. isbn:0-439-02348-3 would be a URI not a URL.
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aaronpk uhoh, some Swarm API updates coming that I haven't fully grasped, but might mean I have to make some significant changes to OwnYourSwarm https://docs.foursquare.com/fsq-developers-places/reference/authentication#3rd-party-authentication-enterprise-customers-only
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[snarfed] oof sorry aaronpk
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[snarfed] cue the calculus on every single change like this of whether it's worth updating code for
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aaronpk i think what i'm going to have to do is direct everyone to make their own API keys and provide them to the service
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[snarfed] sigh yeah
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doesnm comic chat opensourced https://github.com/microsoft/comic-chat
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Loqi [preview] [microsoft] comic-chat: Source code for the ComicChat IRC client
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aaronpk I have ~25 users active in the last 2 months, which is an annoying amount because that feels like too many to just give up on, but not enough to justify the work
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[snarfed] yup, totally understand
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[tantek] thestudyofstarlight, before URL it was named UDI! https://tantek.com/2014/304/b1/url-started-as-udi-conversation-w3c-tpac
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[capjamesg] [tantek]++ great read!
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gRegor interesting!
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gRegor speaking of Swarm, hadn't opened it in a while and was surprised by the black and white logo
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[tantek] thanks [capjamesg]. felt like I'd uncovered some connected dots across a bit of web tech history that was not well understood or even documented so at least it's now out there for (re)discovery
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[social] [tantek]++ this is really good and helpful
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[tantek] Thanks [social]. Occasionally I seem to blog something useful to reference 🙂
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[social] I think you quite often do. I hadn’t seen this before and it feels like I should have.
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[capjamesg] More than occasionally!
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jorisvandijk Another mac post... https://jorisvandijk.com/posts/control-fn/
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Loqi [preview] Joris van Dijk
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