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Jeremy Cherfas

ongoing by Tim Bray · Murder at Adolf’s Cottage

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Jeremy Cherfas

ongoing by Tim Bray · Murder at Adolf’s Cottage

PESOS+from+%3Ca+href%3D%27https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reading.am%2Fp%2F4Njk%2Fhttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.tbray.org%2Fongoing%2FWhen%2F201x%2F2017%2F09%2F03%2FMurder-chez-Hitler%27%3Ereading.am%3C%2Fa%3E

Jeremy Cherfas

Still puzzled by why some photo posts in Known go through to micro.blog with an image and others don’t. Almost all are PESOS from Instagram. I thought I had an explanation, but it doesn’t hold up.

Jeremy Cherfas

Crossed the wide Pecos ...

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Playing Lyle Lovett singing Texas River Song, even though I know it's a stretch, to celebrate having eaten a giant bowl of my own dogfood.

A couple of weeks ago I followed Chris Aldrich to reading.am, which is a neat little spot for just putting down a marker for something that you're reading. I wanted more. I wanted to be able to save links to the things I marked. And now, a little over two weeks later, I've done it.

I have a PHP file that fetches the RSS feeds of things I've marked in reading.am, looks for any that are new since the last time the program ran, and then POSTS the results to Known's micropub endpoint. PESOS for my bookmarks!

There is no way I could have done it without amazing help from people on the IndieWeb IRC, and it isn't perfect by any means. There's more work to be done, for sure, before I even think about sharing the code.

But hey, it works.

And, as my main helper said, "Launch early and iterate often".

I'll be doing that.