I managed to fix a long-standing niggle with my #indieweb practice this afternoon, thanks to some great help from cweiske and others. For the longest time Quill, a micropub client that I can use to publish here, wasn't showing me an option to syndicate directly to Twitter. That meant that I tended reply to tweets and stuff right there in the silo and not bring them back here. Fair enough, especially when a reply without context is like an egg without salt. But we figured it out, in part by that old standby of "switch it off and then switch it back on again". That got things working, and was enough of an impetus to upgrade WithKnown to the latest build. And so far, everything looks good.
@PhilVincent Just discovered #10DoT and went looking for your chart. Page not found. Which, to me, suggests the need for an 11th day, devoted to the #indieweb and what it means to own your content.
IndieWeb generation 4 and hosted domains | Manton Reece
Owning your content isn’t about portable software. It’s about portable URLs and data. It’s about domain names.
Cannot say this often enough.
A great intro to micro.blog and how it fits more generally into the #indieweb ecosystem. But I had to laugh at Eli saying that since he discovered micro.blog he is now a full-time PHP developer. I have just spent all morning, literally, trying to improve the sandpit ii8n which I play with PHP, and have just about given up, utterly defeated. How anyone ever gets XDebug to work is completely beyond me. VSCode, Atom, even PHPStorm all require the most astonishing acrobatics which I have simply been unable to perform. Now what?
Aaron Davis wonders "when are you an actual ‘citizen’, that is when do you belong to, in or are a part of the Indieweb?" To me, "belong to", "in" and "part" signify slightly different depths of commitment, none of which conveys "citizenship". The way I understand it, citizenship is granted by some other authority. You can't just claim it for yourself.
I like Kartik Prabhu's idea that posting to a domain you own is all it takes. "Everything else is a bonus". But that's a little like Robinson Crusoe being a citizen of his island. Interaction with others matters too.
#indiewebcitizen #indieweb
@SlackHQ I like the extra functionality of, eg, reminding myself about messages and the overall usability of Slack. I wouldn't want to be tied to a closed silo though. Bridging with IRC allows #indieweb people to own their messages.
The good news is that #indieweb -- the main channel for which I want both IRC and Slack -- should be OK as it uses the Slack API. Or so I am reliably informed ...
The worst possible feedback: it works for me.
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One of the good things about WordPress is how flexible it seems on the surface, able to perform all sorts of wizardry. One of the bad things about WordPress is how that very flexibility often makes it extremely difficult to achieve any sort of wizardry. That seems particularly true of anything to do with the #indieweb.
So I was surprised to learn that Aaron Davis was having difficulty implementing a
Surprised because I run fornacalia.com with a ZenPress child theme and cannot recall any difficulties in setting that up. I think there may have been some issues with capitalisation of various names, but beyond that, I'm at a loss. I'd love to help -- but not sure how best to do that.
Maybe I should just share my child theme.