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2023-05-16 UTC
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loqi.me created /RST (+51) "prompted by [tantek] and dfn added by bkil" (view diff)
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www.svenknebel.de posts edited /RST (-21) "redirect" (view diff)
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tantek.com edited /reStructuredText (+115) "link summary syntax reference, SA MD" (view diff)
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tantek.com edited /markdown (+23) "SA reStructuredText" (view diff)
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tantek.com edited /reStructuredText (-38) "not really easy to read (plenty of odd punctuation), and a stretch to call it WYSIWYG" (view diff)
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tantek.com edited /reStructuredText (+232) "warning, not indieweb relevant, should be deleted" (view diff)
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[tantek] I'm looking for other organizers to help out with a potential IWC Berlin 9-10 September, because I'm not sure I can make it in-person (looking like I have to travel that weekend to W3C TPAC)
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capjamesg Is btconf that early in the month?
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tantek.com edited /Planning (+285) "/* Berlin */ might not be able to make it in-person, looking for another co-organizer" (view diff)
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[tantek] capjamesg, see: https://indieweb.org/Planning#Berlin for such info/details
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capjamesg Oh wow.
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capjamesg I may be able to make it!
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capjamesg I thought it was way later.
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[tantek] definitely add yourself / notes to the Plan in progress!
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[tantek] and encourage others to do so (e.g. at HWCs)
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capjamesg Re: rST, I don't like it.
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[tantek] yeah, same for its inline-markup. it's block-level markup may have some ideas worth re-using. Overall though I agree capjamesg. It feels like something made-up for a very narrow vertical purpose (documenting Python code)
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capjamesg I have used rST for documenting a few libraries. Every time I have issues.
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capjamesg A preference for heading underlines equal to the length of the heading (so when you change your heading, you shuold change your markup).
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capjamesg The weird linking syntax.
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capjamesg ` <link>`_ or something like that.
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capjamesg Forgetting === vs. --- vs ~~~
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capjamesg That link thing is so annoying. Five characters -- three different glyphs! -- to add a link.
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[tantek] weirdlinkingsyntax--
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Loqi weirdlinkingsyntax has -1 karma over the last year
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capjamesg rST supports definition lists though.
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capjamesg TIL.
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[tantek] capjamesg, what are your use-cases for definition lists? Have you ever needed them in posts? (I have one but then again I'm also the only person that implemented his own footnotes syntax auto-markup-and-linking AFAIK)
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[tantek] like LMK if you see someone (anyone) else using footnotes in notes posts e.g. on Mastodon
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capjamesg I don't have one; it was more of an observation.
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capjamesg I have used them for various misc. reasons on my site.
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[tantek] features without use-cases are bloat
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capjamesg Listing projects, contact information.
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capjamesg But I wrote them in HTML.
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capjamesg Not rST.
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[tantek] good call. HTML is more maintainable
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capjamesg ++
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[tantek] HTML++
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Loqi HTML has 1 karma in this channel over the last year (3 in all channels)
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capjamesg I choose the simplest tool for the job, in this order: plain text -> markdown -> HTML.
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capjamesg (meaning I default to plain text, then markdown, then HTML)
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capjamesg HTML++
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Loqi HTML has 2 karma in this channel over the last year (4 in all channels)
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[tantek] capjamesg, when I'm done with auto-linking, you'll be able to skip that middle step
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[tantek] auto-linked plain text -> HTML
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loqi.me created /trigger_warning (+28) "prompted by [tantek] and redirect added by [tantek]" (view diff)
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tantek.com created /BBCode (+375) "prompted by capjamesg, stub with use-cases from chrisbergr" (view diff)
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[tantek] idea for next IWS — IndieWeb jargon bingo — for use during the introduction / keynotes
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gRegor Heh
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gRegor what is bingo
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Loqi IndieWeb Bingo is a game played by IndieWebCamp attendees to see how many community members they can meet https://indieweb.org/bingo
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aaronpk hahaha oh no
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Loqi nice
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christian.hockenberger.us edited /BBCode (+734) "Added myself to IndieWeb examples" (view diff)
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[chrisbergr] I'm missing my avatar :(
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sknebel the file your template links to is 404
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sknebel https://indieweb.org/Template:chrisbergr -> https://christian.hockenberger.us/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2019/09/chris.jpg
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[chrisbergr] Ah thanks, of course this does not exist anymore.