Having a diagram doesn't make it clearer, making it clearer makes it clearer.
Words to live by from a how-to-do-slides post that didn't contain a lot new for me. Except for the bit about showing websites.
Define "significant". Many, many people are very happily using microformats to interact with one another. Micro.blog is built on microformats. Not enough for you?
While he was worrying like a terrier at the word "content" I believe John Philpin wasn't giving "own" quite the same third-degree. If, as some say, possession is nine-tenths of the law, then all those various places where he stores his stuff, even temporarily, could be said in some sense to own it. I quite like that thing you see inside books, that "The Author asserts their moral rights ..." There's nothing to stop you stealing it (well, aside from the law, in some cases, for people with deep pockets) but at least you know it would be immoral to do so.
Tomorrow is apparently International Podcast Day. Naturally, I am spending today editing a podcast that will go out on Monday.
I see that there is a service that offers to back up a journalist's pieces "independent from any publisher and ready to stay with you for your entire career" https://
Another reason to love RSS (or feeds in general). Actually, the same reason. After about four years of inactivity, a site I like springs back to life and I don't need to do anything to find out. http://
Didn’t Jesus say “no guacamole for immigrant haters”? I don't think he did, but maybe he should have.
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Sounds nothing like **My** bubba. https://
Can I blame flying on Sunday morning for the raging sore throat I developed yesterday evening?
The one thing worse than no hotel WiFi is flaky hotel WiFi. Just as you think you might be able to get something useful done, BAM!, it pulls the rug out from under you.
Had an amazing nine-course tasting menu last night at The Edinburgh Food Studio. Photos would have ruined the experience. From the single radish to begin to the dram of Old Perth 1996 to finish it was a delight for eyes, nose and mouth. Superb all round.
The lack of threading at micro.blog saves me a lot of time in the morning. Time that I then spend going to my site to write this because posting on iOS is broken for me and the error message offers not even the slightest clue.
Next stop, Edinburgh 🛫🎧
I wonder how easy it is to count the corpses of yeast and lactobacillus cells in a baked loaf?
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Is there any way to get more helpful diagnostic information out of iOS app when it fails to post? Error Sending Post doesn't help much.
Also, why don’t @mentions from the OSX app give clickable links?
I was going to recommend @lioncourt for Micro Monday, but I’m making a last minute switch to @belle for her open explanation of an accident that could have happened to any of us.
Well, not me, because I'm not a developer, but, you know.
2018-08-31
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In the latest , there's a certain irony to the juxtaposition of item 5 -- “The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and a seal.” – Mark Twain -- and item 2 -- "Giant container ships are just as responsible for pollution as cars". How hard would it have been to check? For example, BBC Radio 4's More or Less
Listened to the first episode of Bundyville, because it was on 99PI. Instant subscribe. Very fine narrative podcast about an important subject.
Twitter weirdness. Ability to follow links seems to have changed. In Safari, with mu-block, I can click on a link shared directly by someone, but not on a link in a retweet. Is this a change in behaviour, or something I simply never noticed before? Or both.
#indieweb
Far and away the weirdest nagware I've ever seen. A website distributing PDFs of academic papers requires me to wait 120 seconds until I can download, but the clock ticks only while I am on that site. I can't go and do anything else. Of course, I can also "donate".
Terrific. FB Just banned a friend's link to my latest podcast episode (Brown v. White; Our Daily Bread 23). Twice, for reasons unspoken that I can only imagine. They did not ban my link to the same post.
Managed to find some time to join [virtual Homebrew Website Club](https://
After enjoying a lovely day off yesterday, I've been paying for it today. Haven’t been away from the desk for more than about half an hour at a time. Mind you, most of that was to make a bread, and now that I’m done, I think I’ll go for a walk while the microbes do their thing.
How I wish Prince had written a song called Purple Grain.
Episode 01 of my contribution to Dog Days of Podcasting is up. [The Abundance of Nature](https://
I'm going to be exploring the history of wheat and bread every day in August.
Lots of people learning the lessons of the 2008 financial crash ten years on. It cannot be said too often, but Garrett Hardin foresaw the appeal of "privatise the profits, commonise the costs" many, many years ago.
The resurrection of blogrolls and webrings continues apace. I wonder whether this post will get me included.
Yes, it can be boring to read things in grey and white with a little bit of blue, but if all you're looking for is something worth investigating in more detail (which I am) then that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make. And in some RSS readers (like Newsblur, the one I use now) I do have the option of seeing the story as the author intended, more or less.
TFW when you realise it has been way too long since you did the human cron job thing.
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Finished reading: Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere by Jan Morris, ISBN: 9780571204687
Quick reminder that a 3-hour [virtual Homebrew Website Club](https://
Great explanation and interesting change, though I personally don't like such a dark background. One thing I noticed, the blue of the date-as-permalink in comments is really intense, to the point of distraction. For me.
A little problem with Known's Micropub endpoint
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One of the developers of Sunlit, a photo-sharing app that is part of the Micro.blog ecosystem, contacted me to say that “the images on your site have a MIME type of application/data”. I’d like to say I understood immediately what the problem was and what it meant, but I had to do some learning first. It wasn’t as simple as the extension, the bit after the filename that indicates whether it is a JPEG or PNG kind of image. Rather, it was about what my server tells your browser about the image.
To backtrack, Known stores all files as blobs that contain the actual file data, the 1s and 0s. Your browser, when it receives a post from my server, can often sniff out what kind of thing (image, audio, text etc) that blob of data represents and do a good job of showing it to you. Normally, you wouldn’t even notice. One clue is that if you right-click on an image, and ask to open it in a new tab, it actually gets downloaded instead, I suppose because the new tab doesn’t know what else to do with it.
Anyway, I confirmed that the source file for most images did not have an extension (which would have told the browser directly how to deal with it). Most, but not all. Files I had uploaded to my site directly did have an extension and the correct MIME type. The “bad” files had come from OwnYourGram or Quill, both of which are part of the joyful #IndieWeb. They use a standard called Micropub to send things to a suitably equipped website.
It seemed unlikely that both Quill and OYG would fail to send the requisite information to identify a photo, so I went digging into the code that Known uses to decide what to do with a post sent by Micropub. I made a bit of progress but although I could see more or less what was happening, I couldn’t see how to make it right.
Fortunately Aaron Parecki, who built Quill and OwnYourGram (and so much else), was around and gave me the clue I needed to investigate: curl -I example.com/file.
One beautiful feature of Quill is that if it is sending a photo and if the receiving site has a media endpoint for receiving files (which Known does) it uploads the file, shows you a preview and tells you the location of the file. With that, the curl command shows that the temporary file has the correct description of Content-Type: image/jpeg. Once Known has processed the whole post from Quill, though, the file that contains the image shows as Content-Type: application/data.
Somewhere between receiving the temporary file from Quill and storing it permanently, Known fails to give it the proper MIME type.
I wish I knew enough to discover where the problem lies. Most likely Marcus Povey – who keeps the wheels spinning at Known – will be able to do the needful, now that I have submitted an issue. And Sunlit will be able to share my photos far and wide.
2018-06-11
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It's all about power. Where the Dublin Gastronomy Symposium leads, the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cooking and the Agricultural History Society follow.
Very happy to report that exist.io now includes browsing past calendar months.
Excellent news; thanks. Now to find all those hard-coded class names ...
I feed @WithKnown into micro.blog and POSSE to Twitter just fine. Known also makes it easy to feed micro.blog only certain kinds of post because the RSS is easy to adapt.
Oh rats. I thought I could use Omnibear to post a photo, but it doesn't seem to do that.
So many fascinating bits of data in Apple's Podcast Analytics beta, but no easy way to extract it for further processing, as far as I can tell.
Anyone using OwnYourGram with the latest master of @WithKnown? Since updating, my photos no longer come back to my site. Everything else is improved, but no actual image. I have no idea why this is happening, and would welcome clues.
2018-05-27
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@phoneboy kindly shared a he said he had received.
As I suspected, it looks to me like common or garden spam, hence the scare quotes. Of course, I can't be absolutely certain without digging further into the actual URLs, which I'm not about to do, but everything about these comments screams pingbacks or trackbacks. And the solution is obviously Akismet which, to be honest, I am suprised Phoneboy has not already installed and activated.
The day may come when webmention spam is a thing, and #indieweb people have been thinking about a protocol called Vouch for that eventuality.
Quick reminder. Virtual Homebrew Website Club to talk about anything IndieWeb-related will start in about 40 minutes, using Mumble. Details at https://
People of Europe's timezones!
There will be a [virtual Homebrew Website Club meeting](https://
Feel free to drop in and discuss anything IndieWeb.