> I guess hiring a card designer wasn’t in the budget this year.
Simple and straightforward explanation of how the design of the card inside the envelope makes all the difference.
Another test of Quill editor
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Writing something nice again, but I have enabled the Markdown plugin on Known.
And maybe a headline too
Like this
Utterly bizarre; when I went to write a new post, the above was already there. In other words, the content of the post from Quill, without the block quote.
>This should be a markdown block quote.
I'm knackered. Will try some more tomorrow.
Another test of Quill editor
1 min read
Writing something nice again, but I have enabled the Markdown plugin on Known.
So need something in HTML, like this block quote
And maybe a headline too
Like this
Completely mystified by editing a bookmark in @withknown
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I cannot get my head around how @withknown is handling posts.
I bookmark a page, with a quote from the page:
I don't like the yellow behind the text. So I click on edit, expecting to be able to at least look around.
Where is the quote?
Beats me.
A podcast about the Indieweb
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Further to my note about a new #podcast about #indieweb things, I listened to Marty McGuire's rendering of This Week in the Indieweb. I really enjoyed it, even though I had read the text version. Production and audio were top notch, and it was very clear. My only quibbles concern the pace and the audience.
Even as a native English speaker, and despite Marty's very clear diction, it seemed a bit speedy to me. I wonder whether less fluent listeners manage to get it all.
A second, similar point, about the audience. In my estimate, as a newcomer to indieweb and a less than expert person, some of the stuff whizzed right by me. But if I were familiar with it all, I'd probably be keeping up with the IRC channels and the indieweb.org pages and so I'm not too sure why I'd need an audio version. But that's just a matter of choice.
The slightly bigger question is, would there be an audience for a more discursive podcast about the indieweb? Marty would be in favour. So would Chris Aldrich, who started this ball rolling for me. There's a fair bit of audio tagged indieweb at huff duffer, but nothing, apparently, dedicated to the topic.
We certainly have the technology to produce something that captures the history, what's happening now and how things might develop. There's no way I could do that on my own -- not least because I don't know enough to ask intelligent questions -- but with a co-host or two it would be a really interesting project.
Don't you want me to read your stuff?
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Further to this morning's minirant about blocking Instapaper, I've now discovered that some sites -- I'm looking at you, HuffPo -- don't want me to be able to speed read, which I'm doing with a nifty little thing called Spritz. Or maybe they're just unaware there's a problem. The good news is that HuffPo does not appear to block Instapaper, so in the fullness of time, I will read the piece anyway. It looks really interesting.
Plugging away
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Bummed out by the fact that Quill wasn't enabling me to syndicate directly to Twitter, I followed up on some good advice from Daniel Gold: Back to basics, uninstall and reinstall plugins one by one. Shades of WordPress. So I did that, and here's what I found:
With IndieSyndicate configured (*via* silo.pub) I can posts to Twitter just fine, but Quill still does not see that as a Syndication target and Quill cannot post to my site.
In retrospect, that's obvious, because there is no endpoint at my site.
So I enabled IndiePub and now Quill posts fine, but it still does not see any Syndication target.
I probably just have to live with that. At least for now.
Finally, re-enabled Brid.gy and everything looks good once again.
Just for the record, here, I've decided that for now I do not need these plugins: Static pages, Firefox, Events, Custom JS, Custom CSS, Comics, Audio, API tester. That may change in time.
Brazilian peppertree packs power to knock out antibiotic-resistant bacteria
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Extract disarms MRSA. But Quill bookmark fails to pull in URL, which is https://