This is perhaps the single best strip I have seen all year.
A space for mostly short form stuff and responses to things I see elsewhere.
Absolutely we need more and better tools, but the basics are definitely there for the major CMSs and even more so for people who are comfortable developing their own sites.
Just wondering why @adactio's sparklines contain only 131 points on the x-axis. Maybe because a day on which nothing is posted is not recorded? Getting ready to publish my own first sparkline and want to do the right thing.
Chris Aldrich's clever solution for not drawing attention to visible but "hidden" links doesn't quite work as advertised, at least not for me in Firefox on OSX.
This post opened a whole can of worms relating to Grav's public comments plugin. Despite being authored by "Team Grav" it hasn't been touched for going on two years and just doesn't work. It sends the notification email correctly, but does not acknowledge the comment and does not save the data.
I've taken a first look at the code, and it seems like I might just be able to wrap my head around it, but I will need hours free to do that. Hours that I do not currently have.
I could disable public comments again, and just accept Webmentions (which this post is intended to test). But although Comments are rare, some are worthwhile beyond mere affirmation, so I am loathe to do that.
P.s. It also raises again the need to fix Known's HTML-escaping problem, and makes me wonder why the comment is truncated when it gets to jeremycherfas.net -- which means looking at the templates there in more detail.
A feed reader that offers control over deletion of old posts is good, I agree. A combination of age of post and number of posts per poster would be great. Like "delete all except the previous five posts per feed". Wouldn't work in MB, of course ...
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@jeremycherfas are you sure you want that ;o)
, Jan 07 2019 on micro.blog
@cn Genius truncation strikes again. But yes. If I want it for others, they should have it for me.
, Jan 07 2019 on micro.blog
Because it is an inescapable law of journalism that a simple yes/no question in a headline almost always requires a "No". And in this particular case, I do not believe blogging waned in 2018. QED.
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@jeremycherfas Definitely one of my favorite Nancy comic strips in a long time.
, Dec 13 2018 on micro.blog
@jeremycherfas Olivia Jaimes is great and I love her Nancy reboot. Thanks also for the link to the comics RSS! I had been slogging through the gocomics website previously and now my life is improved
, Dec 13 2018 on micro.blog
@vasta I find the reboot gives me enormous pleasure every time.
, Dec 13 2018 on micro.blog
Not a crazy idea at all. And it reminds me that I failed to link to a very impressive presentation by the very impressive David Runciman. https://www.talkingpoliticspodcast.com/blog/2018/129-democracy-for-young-people He would give 6-year olds the vote.
How Long Should a Podcast Be?
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Podnews has a piece that many podcasters could usefully read. The bit that resonated was this quote from Roman Mars:
If you have 100,000 listeners and you edit out one useless minute you are saving 100,000 wasted minutes in the world. You’re practically a hero.
Not quite a hero, I can at least count myself a mini-hero.
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Replied to How Long Should a Podcast Be? by Jeremy CherfasJeremy Cherfas (Jeremy Cherfas) Podnews has a piece that many podcasters could usefully read. The bit that resonated was this quote from Roman Mars:
If you have 100,000 listeners and you edit out one useless minute you are saving 100,000 wasted minutes in the world. You’re practically a hero.
Not quite a hero, I can at least count myself a mini-hero. Definitely some sage advice. I recall The Economist going a step further in their analysis a few years back and providing visuals on a 4 minute video: The hidden cost of Gangnam Style: What humanity could achieve if it weren’t galloping in front of computer screens
The hidden cost of Gangnam Style
I think that you capture something important here Jeremy. For me what matters is how much effort has been given to edit the content and remove the cruft.
2018-12-11
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Spammers say the sweetest things:
Jeremy cherfas is the well known writer of this century. He is famous for the suppleness that are still like by many of the people. We should also read the blogs about him to gain knowledge for our own self.
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@cn Re: OwnYourGram I'm all set up for watching logs in real time now, but not seeing a way to either resend or nudge OwnYourGram. Can you tell me what I’m looking for?
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@jeremycherfas OK, found it.
, Nov 25 2018 on micro.blog
@jeremycherfas it’s stopped working for me 🤡
, Nov 25 2018 on micro.blog
@cn Oh perfect!. Remind me why we do this stuff.
, Nov 25 2018 on micro.blog
@jeremycherfas [sado]masochism
, Nov 25 2018 on micro.blog
@cn Anyway, I think I now have a sensible debug report that I have added to the issue.
, Nov 25 2018 on micro.blog
I don't follow Dave Winer religiously, so I don't know whether he revisited his predictions for what Twitter was or would become. I do know that @brentsimmons stopped narrating his work there less than a year after he started. YMMV.
Updated to latest HEAD of WithKnown and hoping that might solve the multiple-photo problem. Better create a multiple photo post on Instagram, then.
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@jeremycherfas Alas, no end in sight.
, Nov 22 2018 on micro.blog
@jeremycherfas it worked for me, can send my copy of Micropub/Endpoint.php if that would help?
, Nov 22 2018 on micro.blog
@cn I just did a pull; is that enough?
, Nov 22 2018 on micro.blog
@jeremycherfas potentially, does your copy now have the recent debug changes etc?
, Nov 22 2018 on micro.blog
@jeremycherfas I didn’t do anything with hashtags, so do not know their effect on a multi–photo post
, Nov 22 2018 on micro.blog
@cn I don’t know for sure. I've asked Marcus on Twitter where I find the debug stuff.
And I’ve given up on hashtags because Known strips them.
, Nov 22 2018 on micro.blog
@jeremycherfas it shows up in my nginx error log; it will depend on web server, and host …
, Nov 22 2018 on micro.blog
@cn Apache. Dreamhost. I will take a look.
, Nov 23 2018 on micro.blog
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@jeremycherfas posts like this appear on micro.blog without their context 🙃
, Nov 18 2018 on micro.blog
@cn Indeed they do. And it is annoying, I know. But I haven’t figured out how to provide a feed that includes replies to things here but not to things somewhere else.
, Nov 18 2018 on micro.blog
Tiny bit peeved that for the first time this morning trails.io refused to record my activity. Coincidentally, or not, a popup informed me that my Pro subscription would end soonish. I confess I didn't hear the start countdown beeps, so I should have checked.
In a word, yes. Or no, if you think that maybe the userbase is not the people who supply the content, but the people who supply the advertisements.
Kudos to @rosenblawg and Bryce Stucki for prompting the first ever retraction and correction by CDC http://retractionwatch.com/2018/11/15/in-a-first-u-s-cdc-retracts-replaces-study-about-suicide-risk-...
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I always enjoy a touch of schadenfreude -- who doesn't -- and this story makes me feel for the 37 Signals crew. My normal suspicion would be that the big publisher made all their advance back on the first printing, after which they don't actually have much further interest. 10,000 copies of a $27 book and a mid six-figure advance? Yes, that could be it.
I really like @sebsel's idea of push without notifications, as described by @adactio, but I think I would like it even more if there were some way I could _ask_ if there was anything new rather than have to visit the site. Notify myself, if you like.
Great shame I'm not flying today
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Meetup location:
* 41.802416°, 12.617251° or
* N41°48.145', E12°37.035' or
* N41°48'8.7", E12°37'2.1"
DJIA adjusted for location east
of the 30W longitude
For the first time since I started checking, today's geohash location is actually somewhere I could easily have reached.
Once again, thanks to @cn for alerting me to a bug that hits every time I upgrade Grav. I applied the same fix again, so with luck all will be well again.
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@jeremycherfas Ignore me; something else is screwy.
, Nov 07 2018 on micro.blog
Terrific 99pi on the role of art and illustration in the dinosaur revolution https://overcast.fm/+DC83Lgo
Trying to remember that weird illustrated book about future evolution.
Feeling good about the changes at Flickr
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So interesting to see some of the changes that are happening at Flickr. I'd more or less given up on it as a place to share some of my images, and now I'm beginning to think it is becoming more attractive again. I've been a paying user for a long, long time, without really thinking about it. I'm not too bothered about the "silo" aspects of the site, as I have copies of the images themselves. I suppose I ought to look into grabbing comments, likes and so on, but not with all that much urgency. It's the images that count.
The thing I find most interesting about this most recent blog post is this:
Lastly, we looked at our members and found a clear line between Free and Pro accounts: the overwhelming majority of Pros have more than 1,000 photos on Flickr, and the vast majority of Free members have fewer than 1,000. We believe we’ve landed on a fair and generous place to draw the line.
I'd love to see the raw histogram of number of images and videos per user.
2018-11-01
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So, that's what an Overton window is. Thanks to Alice Bartlett for prompting me to find out.
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@jeremycherfas I think about the Overton Window just about every day now.
, Nov 01 2018 on micro.blog
@bitdepth I now have a name for it, which I did not have before.
, Nov 01 2018 on micro.blog
Quick thank-you to @fiona for posting the link to Mike Hapgood’s The Garden and the Stream: A Technopastoral
So much to read and think about. And to compare with the Zettelkasten approach to tending one's garden.
Leaving Trieste on a glorious day; blue skies and clear. Pity it wasn’t like this the past couple of days, but all in all it was better than expected and the city is beautiful. People said Why are you going? Because it is there. And I’m glad we did.
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Successfully updated WithKnown to latest master with no (apparent) ill effects. Now to see whether it permits things that it previously did not.
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@jeremycherfas It does! Oh happy day.
, Oct 24 2018 on micro.blog
@jeremycherfas which things?
, Oct 24 2018 on micro.blog
@cn Handling photo uploads via Micropub, for one.
, Oct 24 2018 on micro.blog
@jeremycherfas it’s not quite the same, though… Micropub pictures aren’t Photo entities, more pictures in Posts, how it works has yet to make sense to me.
, Oct 24 2018 on micro.blog
@cn Not quite, I agree. But good enough for the few occasions on which I want it. Next might be handling html entities. Or description in bookmarks.
, Oct 25 2018 on micro.blog
Points you raised very valid points in your post. It really happened some person do not have the right idea. But with your awesome tips, one can easily identify it. You should check Geek Squad Support USA for any help related to home appliance and electronics
Well, this is exciting, and a little bit scary. Proposal for the book of Our Daily Bread is on its way to publisher. Now to wait. Fortunately, baking with natural leavens teaches patience.
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@jeremycherfas All the best!
, Oct 18 2018 on micro.blog
@jeremycherfas Congratulations! Keeping my fingers crossed for you.
, Oct 18 2018 on micro.blog
@Sylari Thanks very much.
, Oct 18 2018 on micro.blog
@vasta Thanks. I've done the best I can, now it is out of my hands.
, Oct 18 2018 on micro.blog
best of luck.
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Thanks. I'll be insufferable here if it is accepted.
, Oct 18 2018 on twitter.com
you'll be tolerated.
, Oct 18 2018 on twitter.com
Good luck to you!!!
, Oct 18 2018 on twitter.com
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I wish I agreed that a code of conduct shouldn't be necessary, that the law and common sense should be enough to ensure good behaviour. Alas, I think the very point that common sense is uncommon, and that there's no argument against "I thought I was behaving decently" make some kind of fallback necessary. A code of conduct is not, of course, a legal agreement or contract, but the same reasoning applies: Hope for the best, but plan for the worst.
I'll be sorry not to see Christian at Nürnberg.
@cn @lioncourt @vasta Should be fixed now, although the update and the fix exposed a couple of other “issues”.
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@jeremycherfas there’s always something else… 🤔🙃
, Oct 17 2018 on micro.blog
@cn Words to live by.
, Oct 17 2018 on micro.blog
Nice post, but alas, when I liked it on my stream all it picked up was your author name as Title and the automated summary. I know it is all about the plumbing, but this is one of my chief niggles about automated syndication (by me) -- that there is so much variability in what is sent and received that it kind of makes a mockery of the process.
So I'm doing the manual thing now, to make sure this finds its way back to you, in case the other one doesn't.
Gérard Rubaud has died. A great pioneer baker. Sad news.
http://www.farine-mc.com/2018/10/r-i-p-gerard-rubaud-1941-2018.html
The value of charts -- podcast or otherwise -- as a measure of worth, as opposed to merely popularity, is deeply suspect. In all kinds of rankings, people like what other people like, so popular stuff becomes more popular. Which is why I am highly ambivalent any time I so much as glance at podcast charts. Either people like what I'm doing, or they don't, but asking whether they like my output more or less than someone else's is pointless. Mostly.
An unrelated mystery: why would someone who has their own domain in their own name not want that domain to be more popular by, you know, publishing on it?
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So hard to decide on someone for micro.monday -- so with no further justification, I suggest @grayareas
Anyone using micro.blog through Launch Center Pro? I can generate a post. Wondering how to just open the app, if possible.
My main concern has been that even while IndieWeb principles, patterns, and protocols are re-usable in many ways, the main part of examples are written in PHP. We might need more examples in multiple languages to widen up the ecosystem of interconnected self-hosted sites.
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