Jeremy Cherfas

A space for mostly short form stuff and responses to things I see elsewhere.

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For all the joy of the #indieweb, and the pleasure of civil discourse, I am becoming incredibly confused by aspects of micro.blog. There’s the question of titleless posts, of which is this is one as an experiment, versus status updates. There are posts that appear to be contributions to an interesting conversation but aren’t because they have been cross-posted automatically from elsewhere. And there is the lack of a scroll back, which means that as I follow more people and choose not to check in the middle of my night, stuff vanishes irretrievably from my timeline.

There are also issues with Known that are nothing to do with micro.blog.

None of this is insurmountable. For me, though, it does add friction.

Jeremy Cherfaspublished this 09 January 2018

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@jeremycherfas Thanks, Known, for helpfully adding a title. Maybe I’ll go back and redo as a status update.

jeremycherfas, Jan 09 2018 on micro.blog

@jeremycherfas 2018-01-08 would have been ignored?

cn, Jan 09 2018 on micro.blog

@cn and 2018-01-09 would have been today. 🤡

cn, Jan 09 2018 on micro.blog

@cn Maybe. I’ll have to try that.

jeremycherfas, Jan 09 2018 on micro.blog

@jeremycherfas it worked yesterday: definitely.cn/2018/2018...

cn, Jan 09 2018 on micro.blog

Drawing a perfectly straight line from The Crown s02e05 (Lord Altrincham) to It’s A Royal Knockout and beyond.

I’m not sure I want links to open in micro.app. There doesn't seem to be a setting to change that behaviour.

Jeremy Cherfaspublished this 07 January 2018

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@jeremycherfas press–and–hold, then share?

cn, Jan 07 2018 on micro.blog

@cn I’m talking about links from other people, in the OS X app.

jeremycherfas, Jan 07 2018 on micro.blog

@jeremycherfas I have @khoi’s Bumpr installed so don’t even think about it…

cn, Jan 07 2018 on micro.blog

@cn Cool, and presumably you can set useful defaults.

jeremycherfas, Jan 07 2018 on micro.blog

@jeremycherfas www.flickr.com/photos/cd...

cn, Jan 07 2018 on micro.blog

@jeremycherfas Bumpr is system default browser, it picks up those you have installed; and shows them monochromatically when not running.

cn, Jan 07 2018 on micro.blog

@cn On my list to investigate further tomorrow. Thanks.

jeremycherfas, Jan 07 2018 on micro.blog

@jeremycherfas Thanks for the feedback. There's no setting, but we could add one if people would find it useful. Often I like to check out a web page quickly, then tap the Safari icon if I want to keep a tab open.

manton, Jan 07 2018 on micro.blog

@jeremycherfas Oh, the Mac app? There's no built-in browser in the app, so all the links should open in Safari or Chrome. You're not seeing that?

manton, Jan 07 2018 on micro.blog

@manton Definitely in the Mac app, and I have a screenshot to prove it. But my Known install is borked for images, and I’m not seeing how to attach it here, in the Mac app.

jeremycherfas, Jan 08 2018 on micro.blog

@jeremycherfas I don’t know how/if Known handles photo posts as replies / @manton

cn, Jan 08 2018 on micro.blog

@cn It's worse than that. My Known won't upload a photo from the desktop, although it is perfectly happy with OwnYourGram. May have to go your route and share to Flickr.

jeremycherfas, Jan 08 2018 on micro.blog

@jeremycherfas an Apache configuration issue?
It has been a while since I’ve configured the feathered server…

cn, Jan 08 2018 on micro.blog

Screen grab
I've had some odd things happen on micro.blog lately, to whit links opening within the micro.blog app. To confirm I'm not nuts, I grabbed a screenshot, but when I attempted to create a reply at my Known install, Known refuses to upload the image. This is nothing new, but I had forgotten wabout it and it hasn't been enough of a problem to devote any energy to. At least, not so far.
So, this post exists in an attempt to get the screen grab into the conversation at micro.blog.
While I was about it, I also fancied that perhaps my OS X micro app might be out of date, so I checked on that, and got another odd error.
Error message
The thing is, micro.blog is in my Applications folder, so I'm none the wiser. Is Version 1.0b11 (12) up to date?

Geeky

Web user, Jan 08 2018 on jeremycherfas.net

Hey @jack: the link to caption all of my photos at [Why My Photos Remain on My Hard Drive](https://www.baty.net/2017/why-my-photos-remain-on-my-hard-drive/) is broken. Probably because it may be relative. Just chasing up on @bsag's recommendations.

Jeremy Cherfaspublished this 07 January 2018

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@jeremycherfas Fixed, thanks! Sorry for the bad link.

jack, Jan 07 2018 on micro.blog

@jack No problem, and easy enough to fix locally. I’m trying hard to develop a new workflow before abandoning the old, and as I have bleated often before, I would really like a return to separate programs for image manipulation and catalogue and metadata

jeremycherfas, Jan 07 2018 on micro.blog

Mozart in the Jungle (Amazon Prime) is really rather fun, based on the one episode we have watched.

In so many respects, marijuana is a mirror of food, as noted at the mothership https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/marijuana-goes-mainstream

A late contender for the best thing about #food I have read all year. Michael Lewis's feature Made in the U.S.D.A. goes inside Trump’s cruel campaign against the U.S.D.A.’s scientists https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/11/usda-food-stamps-school-lunch-trump-administration

Patreon is stepping back, and that’s great. But there announcement prompted me to do something about supporting the podcast, and I’m not going to change that.

Happens to the best of us

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Had to abandon the latest Gravy podcast because the levels were so all over the place. Pity; it seemed pretty interesting.

What is @dropbox actually doing when it is "indexing," why does it need to do it so often, and why does it hog my computer while it does it?

Jeremy Cherfaspublished this 07 December 2017

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Hi there, when it’s Indexing, in short it’s checking what files are currently in the Dropbox folder and preparing them in case syncing is required. This does require processing power to do so, but if you constantly have high CPU usage, check this out URL: dropbox.com/help/desktop-w…

Dropbox Support, Dec 07 2017 on twitter.com

@DropboxSupport I've fixed permissions and checked for symlinks; thanks. The only app accessing often is nvALT. So, we'll see if things improve. I hope so.

Jeremy Cherfas, Dec 08 2017 on stream.jeremycherfas.net

I've fixed permissions and checked for symlinks; thanks. The only app accessing often is nvALT. So, we'll see if things improve. I hope so.

Eat This Podcast, Dec 08 2017 on twitter.com

We hope so too! Have a great weekend 😉

Dropbox Support, Dec 08 2017 on twitter.com

Also on: @EatPodcast

Fascinating conversation with Jess Phillips on @tppolitics_ especially the bit at about 29:15 when she said: “We are basically retweeting away our liberty.”

And yes, I am aware of the irony. Which is why I posted this on my own site first

Horses for courses

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During the virtual IWC tonight, we were discussing third-party clients for publishing to websites, essentially Micropub clients and MarsEdit. And it occurred to us more or less simultaneously, that I do not use Micropub for the site that supports it out of the box, whereas I do use a client for the site that does not support Micropub out of the box. And that is because the post-creation UI is nice and simple for Known, and a right mess for WordPress.

So, just to be difficult, I'm using Quill for the first time in a long while to create a Post in Known.

#IndieWeb

Jeremy Cherfaspublished this 29 November 2017

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It's exactly the ease and simplicity of WithKnown that keeps me coming back to it too.

Chris Aldrich, Nov 29 2017 on stream.boffosocko.com

Getting set for virtual Homebrew Website Club. Want to join us? https://indieweb.org/events/2017-11-29-homebrew-website-club#Virtual_European_Time

Dropping the cash to try fsnotes

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A cup of coffee here, a cup of coffee there, pretty soon you're talking about a bottle of wine. Nevertheless, I thought it worth dropping 2.5 coffees to check out fsnotes, which bills itself as a "lightweight notational velocity reinvention".

I depend totally on nvALT as my general place for keeping scraps, vital information, inchoate thoughts and more besides, and the one thing that has always bugged me has been the inability to have more than one folder. Mainly, I envisage using an additional folder as an archive; notes that I truly believe I have finished with but that I really do not want to throw away because there might be something in them I need later. NvALT's blazing search speed would be fabulous for that kind of treasure hunt, but I honestly don't want currently dead notes cluttering up my view of all that stuff.

I asked about multiple folders 21 days ago and a couple of days ago the developer, Oleksandr Glushchenko, delivered just that. Definitely deserving of my support.

First impressions are that fsnotes is every bit as fast as nvALT. I haven't been able to give multiple folders a good workout yet, because I only have one big folder of notes. My minor niggle is that the display of links is different from nvALT's. A well-formed Markdown link is clickable in the preview mode, but not in "native" mode. I suppose I could fix that easily enough in my existing notes, and it need not be a problem going forward, but it is an annoyance right now that might stop me switching completely over to fsnotes.

Maybe I'll raise an issue on github for that.

Little Beans Bring Big Farm Losses as Global Glut Mashes Exports, via Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-22/little-beans-bring-big-farm-losses-as-global-glut...

So was the International Year of Pulses a success or a failure?

Colin Tudge explains the crucial difference between @OFRC and @oxfordfarming. The R stands for Real, and also for Radical. Start from what you want, then work out how do do it. http://www.campaignforrealfarming.org/2017/11/why-the-oxford-real-farming-conference-is-distinct-and...

Seeing White from John Biewen and Scene on Radio was far and away the most interesting and valuable series this year. @nwquah

(Partially) fixing webmention display

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Rather happy to have scratched a long-standing itch into submission. I use the semantic-linkbacks plugin to display webmentions on one of my WordPress sites. It has an option for displaying webmentions as facepiles, which keeps things neat. But my WordPress theme also displays webmentions as comments, which is mostly redundant. Not entirely, though, because a few webmentions contain actual content, which is not visible in the facepile. I could completely void display of the webmentions, but that loses the little bit of content there.

Fortunately, the latest master of the plugin has settings to display the facepile for each kind of webmention, so I could stop it making facepiles for actual mentions. Then all I needed to do was hide the theme's display of any webmentions that are just likes or reposts. And that is easily done by adding

.p-like {
	display: none;
}

.p-repost {
	display: none;
}

to styles.css.

I'll probably have to revisit that if I ever get any other kinds of webmention, but for now I am content.

#indieweb #webmention

Just a quick check that I can take advantage of the new, twice-as-nice Twitter.

Jeremy Cherfaspublished this 16 November 2017

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Nov 16 2017 on twitter.com

Or what?

Chris Selk, Nov 16 2017 on twitter.com

Or nothing.

Eat This Podcast, Nov 16 2017 on twitter.com

@jeremycherfas twice as long, certainly. Twice as nice? Not certain about that.

dgold, Nov 16 2017 on micro.blog

@dgold Where's that sarcasm or irony punctuation mark when you need it?

jeremycherfas, Nov 16 2017 on micro.blog

Also on: @EatPodcast

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As suggestedby @mrhenko, a test post containing a photo but no title.

Jeremy Cherfaspublished this 12 November 2017

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@jeremycherfas tried a Known Photo post?

cn, Nov 12 2017 on micro.blog

@cn That requires changes to the feed I am giving micro.blog, which I am about to do.

jeremycherfas, Nov 12 2017 on micro.blog

@jeremycherfas I have statusupdates, an photos feeds pulled here…

cn, Nov 12 2017 on micro.blog

@cn and

cn, Nov 12 2017 on micro.blog

A post with a photo, for testing purposes

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Just an old snap.

Jeremy Cherfaspublished this 12 November 2017

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@jeremycherfas And of course the image itself is not displayed. That's fine. It shows I can upload images to both Posts and Photos from the desktop machine, but still no joy from the iPhone.

jeremycherfas, Nov 12 2017 on micro.blog

Narrowing things down. I can post a photo to Known from my desktop with OS X.

I don’t expect it to show up on micro.blog because that gets a feed of selected categories only, and Photos isn’t one of them.

How about an image in a post?

Jeremy Cherfaspublished this 12 November 2017

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@jeremycherfas I think micro.blog only extracts photos from posts that doesn't have a title and that are 280 characters or less in length. Posts with titles only gets displayed as the title and a link back to the post.

MrHenko, Nov 12 2017 on micro.blog

@MrHenko Thanks for the tip. I'll try that.

jeremycherfas, Nov 12 2017 on micro.blog

@jeremycherfas You're welcome!

MrHenko, Nov 12 2017 on micro.blog

@MrHenko Oh well, back to the drawing board.

jeremycherfas, Nov 12 2017 on micro.blog

@jeremycherfas It seems like your software gives untitled posts a title, "untitled". I've had to battle various WordPress themes trying to do the same thing. It's quite anoying when it happens.

MrHenko, Nov 12 2017 on micro.blog

@MrHenko Yes. I remember all the discussion about WordPress doing that. But I didn't think it would affect me.

jeremycherfas, Nov 12 2017 on micro.blog

Blast. I can’t seem to upload images to micro.blog or to WithKnown. I’ll have to work on that tomorrow.

So, double the characters for all on Twitter. Does this mean twice the outrage and hate, or will there be an outbreak of finely expressed, carefully nuanced peace, love and understanding?

Jeremy Cherfaspublished this 08 November 2017

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@jeremycherfas we can hope, I always seem to post shorter than any limit…

cn, Nov 08 2017 on micro.blog

iTunes 12.7.0 or maybe OS X 10.13 has stolen my song artwork. That is, it no longer appears in preview, although it is still visible in iTunes. I need this for podcast cover art. So here's hoping that it is there and will show in podcast players.

It is odd how [John’ prizewinning post](http://johnjohnston.info/blog/wordpress-wild-and-freehe-though-that-he-knew-what-love-wa/) gives too many redirects when I first go there, and is fine if I reload. @c

Jeremy Cherfaspublished this 04 November 2017

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@jeremycherfas on which device/browser? Worked first time for me iPhone 5/iOS 10.x Safari. I worry about the Mills&Boon proofreaders…

cn, Nov 04 2017 on micro.blog

@cn OS X Safari. Those proofreaders have probably had too much high-proof juice.

jeremycherfas, Nov 04 2017 on micro.blog

@jeremycherfas I was starting from micro.blog in the browser. Did you start from the app on [High] Sierra?

cn, Nov 04 2017 on micro.blog

@cn I can't honestly remember. I think I may have started from @c's post on his Known Stream. Why does where you start matter?

jeremycherfas, Nov 04 2017 on micro.blog

@jeremycherfas I wondered if it was within browser or jumping to the browser #itshouldnotmatter

cn, Nov 04 2017 on micro.blog

@jeremycherfas @c I've seen this before I wish I knew. But I've done a lot of potential silly things to my blog over the years. Any ideas very welcome?

johnjohnston, Nov 04 2017 on micro.blog

@cn with over 100 novels a month there is bound to be the odd slip up.

johnjohnston, Nov 04 2017 on micro.blog

@johnjohnston Not a clue, I’m afraid.

jeremycherfas, Nov 04 2017 on micro.blog

If it's interesting, I'll listen, regardless of audio quality

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Ah, the old chestnut about audio quality of podcasts. So I'll give my standard answer. If what you're saying is interesting, audio quality is less important. Asymcar is my goto example for that. And if what you say is not interesting, no level of production value will make me listen longer.

In between is a grey area. So, specifically addressing Henrik's question, that microcast was perfectly OK, except that once we had dealt with the weather and the question, I had had enough. On all outdoor recording wind noise, handling noise and bumps are the most distressing to me because they are always a shock to my ears. But if I know it is going to be over in three minutes, I can survive.

I've recorded outdoors and walking along myself, almost always with either the built-in microphone on the earbuds or else with an external Zoom iQ-6. The Zoom is actually worse, because it is so much more sensitive to wind and handling. A few times, when I was doing Dog Days of Podcasting, I cheated and recorded while walking along only to shadow myself with a decent mic when I got home. That's fun because you get the spontaneity of unscripted speech with much better sound quality.

It may be a fine Saturday morning, but that doesn’t mean I can lie in bed forever.

Puzzled that my feed from reading.am does not seem to have updated since three days ago, and I know I have added things since then. Went there to check and discovered I was no longer logged in. But then, why did the pages I marked as "reading" not tell me that I wasn't logged in? Bad!

Test: Reconnected to the old DB, deleted all previous tokens, re-authorised. The suspense is killing me.

Jeremy Cherfaspublished this 27 October 2017

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@jeremycherfas I count this a win.

jeremycherfas, Oct 27 2017 on micro.blog

@jeremycherfas winning is always good.

matigo, Oct 27 2017 on micro.blog

@matigo the next question is: can @jeremycherfas post an image to micro.blog/stream from the macOS app?

cn, Oct 27 2017 on micro.blog

@matigo It is. Good to see you here.

jeremycherfas, Oct 27 2017 on micro.blog

@cn Hadn't considered that. I mean, can't think Of circumstances in which I would want to. I can see wanting to from ios, but not Mac.

jeremycherfas, Oct 27 2017 on micro.blog

@jeremycherfas I have this version substituted

cn, Oct 27 2017 on micro.blog

@matigo Good to see you here

sumudu, Oct 27 2017 on micro.blog

Doing a clean install of Known at Dreamhost to trouble shoot my issues with micro.blog (and the instructions). I **will** get this sorted out.

The ongoing saga of attempting to connect micro.blog to Known

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More good help from Manton, cleverdevil and others, but alas no nearer (although I may have eliminated some possibilities).

I was allowing both HTTP and HTTPS. There could have been some kind of mismatch, I suppose, but after editing .htaccess to force SSL, it made no difference to micro.blog's OS X app.
Then thought that possibly a different endpoint would help (despite the fact that I know all the same details are on the home page).
Pointed micro.blog first at /profile and then at /profile/jeremy; still no good.

At this stage, given that Manton managed to get everything working from a clean install of Known out of the box, I think I need to try the same. If that works, well, if nothing else, it works.

I had been fretting about losing data, but if I install into a new sub-domain and it works there, I can always edit the config.ini to point back at the old database. It will be a good opportunity to see how good the instructions are to install at Dreamhost. Last time I managed without any instructions, and I also didn't write up my experiences. This could be an opportunity to pay back.

#indieweb

I really want to use micro.blog and WithKnown, but ...

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I have never yet been able to post from my micro.blog to this stream, although the feed from here is reliably picked up there, and brid.gy reliably pulls replies from there to here. @manton suggested we move my complaints to help@micro.blog, but I can see no way of actually engaging with that account. So this afternoon, I decided to attempt to go back to the beginning.

It was a miserable failure.

Here's how it went:

Revoke all current authorisations for micro.blog
There were four of them, two from yesterday when I last tried.
Launch OS X app
OK!
“If you’re using WordPress or another server, first open the preferences window and enter your web site URL to set it up for posting within the app.”
Roger that. But the old website was still there. Is that going to be a problem?
Start a new post; the old website is there at the bottom. This is going to be a problem.
Same old Same old; Error sending post.
Post does not arrive at micro.blog
Post does not arrive at WithKnown
WithKnown Error log is empty.
Access log shows no sign of anything from recent attempt to post from micro.blog
Check to make sure I have up to date micro.blog app
“Micro.blog can’t be updated when it’s running from a read-only volume like a disk image or an optical drive.” Move Micro.blog to Applications folder using Finder, relaunch it from there, and try again.
Strange. Check path to micro.blog.
Path is “/Applications/Micro.blog.app”.
Check the App Store; disappointed but also content that there is not an update.
Delete web site URL from preferences; quit micro.blog, mostly for superstitious reasons; launch micro.blog.
Very strange; web site URL is still there. Or back? Maybe the app pulls it from micro.blog?
Repeat; same outcome. Superstition justified. Go to my account at micro.blog.
See I have three App tokens. The one for MarsEdit is definitely pointless, as I am not hosted at micro.blog. Remove it.
Throw caution to the winds; remove the tokens for IOS and OS X
OK, IOS now says “Internal Server Error” on attempting to connect. I think I ought to sign out now and then sign back in.
Phew. All is good. And I have a new app token.
On iOS, try to write a new post; insert my Known site; authorise micro.blog; write a test post. Post it.
“Error sending post”. Tear hair out, as now I do not seem to be able to post to micro.blog from iOS app.
Go back to 22; remove iOS app token and authorisation token at WithKnown.
Log back in. Can no longer post without adding WithKnown, and posting gives an error, as at 26.
Try again from OS X; same error as at 8.
Post to WithKnown; feed is picked up.

Any and all suggestions gratefully received.

#indieweb

Jeremy Cherfaspublished this 25 October 2017

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@manton I have done what I can.

jeremycherfas, Oct 25 2017 on micro.blog

@jeremycherfas When I said help@micro.blog, I meant just send an email! :-) Sorry about the confusion. Looking over your post again.

manton, Oct 25 2017 on micro.blog

@manton not that it helps @jeremycherfas, since he’s on Apache and I’m using nginx, I have logs of how it handshakes…

cn, Oct 25 2017 on micro.blog

@manton Thanks. I can wait.

jeremycherfas, Oct 25 2017 on micro.blog

@jeremycherfas Since I know some people can post to Known without issues, we should figure out what is different about your instance. Is it self-hosted? Are there any version differences that could effect Micropub support?

manton, Oct 25 2017 on micro.blog

@jeremycherfas wow, ouch. That's a lot of hurt. Hope you can work with Manton to figure it out!

nitinkhanna, Oct 25 2017 on micro.blog

@cn are there multiple versions of the micropub plugin that you and @jeremycherfas use?

nitinkhanna, Oct 25 2017 on micro.blog

@nitinkhanna afaik it’s what comes packaged with Known, 0.9.9 from withknown.com open source section …

cn, Oct 26 2017 on micro.blog

@nitinkhanna Thanks. But truly, in the greater scheme of things, it’s not that big a deal. I just had some time to devote to the problem.

jeremycherfas, Oct 26 2017 on micro.blog

@cn hmmm. I should download withKnown open source and play with it. As of right now, I just use the hosted version...

nitinkhanna, Oct 26 2017 on micro.blog

@nitinkhanna pi–powered because I’m not expecting much traffic

cn, Oct 26 2017 on micro.blog

@cn oh! That's what I should do with my pi!!! But how do I open it to the web? Is there a tut I can follow?

nitinkhanna, Oct 26 2017 on micro.blog

@nitinkhanna routers and firewall pinhole stuff, or nginx/fcgi php bits?

cn, Oct 26 2017 on micro.blog

@nitinkhanna originally said pi was for mail only; took to hacking the mailinabox config to suit myself

cn, Oct 26 2017 on micro.blog

@cn router stuff. On second thought, I'll look into one of those tunnel thingies.

nitinkhanna, Oct 26 2017 on micro.blog

@nitinkhanna The latest version is 0.2 with no updates that I can see. @cn

jeremycherfas, Oct 27 2017 on micro.blog

@jeremycherfas hmmm. Thanks. I had some trouble installing withKnown on WEMP. I'll try again next week when I have some time.

nitinkhanna, Oct 27 2017 on micro.blog

@jeremycherfas

IndiePub 0.2
by Known

Packaged with Known 0.9.9

Mine worked, then I modified it with @cleverdevil’s change for image uploads

Needed latest Sierra before Micro.blog on macOS worked happily

@nitinkhana

cn, Oct 27 2017 on micro.blog

@nitinkhanna my nginx config seems to mostly work…

cn, Oct 27 2017 on micro.blog

@cn may I take a peek at it? Mine seems to keep 404ing. I copied some parts of the nginx config recommended by Known (in their folder) but to no avail.

nitinkhanna, Oct 27 2017 on micro.blog

@nitinkhanna gist.github.com/anonymous... #quickhatchetjob

cn, Oct 27 2017 on micro.blog

@cn hmmm. Thanks! I think I need to fix the location / part...

nitinkhanna, Oct 27 2017 on micro.blog

@nitinkhanna did the botched gist help?

cn, Oct 30 2017 on micro.blog

@cn not tried it yet. Gonna try it first thing tomorrow morning...

nitinkhanna, Oct 30 2017 on micro.blog

@nitinkhanna I noticed I omitted the line with index.php 🙈

cn, Oct 30 2017 on micro.blog

Am I now completely shut out of micro.blog, and if so why?

Jeremy Cherfaspublished this 25 October 2017

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@jeremycherfas Not entirely; micro.blog still sees my feed. So, whehn I post what I have been through, it will show up here. That's a blessing, I suppose.

jeremycherfas, Oct 25 2017 on micro.blog

@jeremycherfas micro.blog sees my feed(s); and I, despite being an imposter, filed a bug too

cn, Oct 25 2017 on micro.blog

Wouldn't it be nice if micro.blog could talk to WithKnown as well as listening to it.

Jeremy Cherfaspublished this 20 October 2017

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@jeremycherfas we’d need something like brid.gy?

cn, Oct 20 2017 on micro.blog

I'm still a little hazy on the plumbing details of all the bits and pieces of IndieWeb but I would have thought that if withKnown has a micropub endpoint and micro.blog can send to the WordPress endpoint, it ought to be able to send to WithKnown. But I'm probably exposing my ignorance. And maybe it is on the roadmap.

Jeremy Cherfas, Oct 20 2017 on stream.jeremycherfas.net

@jeremycherfas Posting to Known should work via Micropub, from the Micro.blog iOS or Mac app. @cleverdevil, isn't that what you do?

manton, Oct 23 2017 on micro.blog

@manton @jeremycherfas yup, I post to my Known site with the Micro.blog iOS and macOS app frequently. Works pretty well!

cleverdevil, Oct 23 2017 on micro.blog

@cleverdevil @manton Never worked for me. Maybe because I’m not hosted here? My Known stream is picked up here reliably though.

jeremycherfas, Oct 24 2017 on micro.blog

@jeremycherfas posts come across, at–mentions don’t get parsed for me

cn, Oct 24 2017 on micro.blog

@jeremycherfas It's independent of hosting. Should prompt for your site if you choose "WordPress or compatible weblog" in the Settings and then start a new post.

manton, Oct 24 2017 on micro.blog

@manton Nope. Not in the iOS app, nor in the OS X app. I've authorised more than once and still get the error. Willing to try almost anything.

jeremycherfas, Oct 24 2017 on micro.blog

@jeremycherfas If you don't mind, let's move this to help@micro.blog if you can forward the error there and any info about the Known instance. Would love to get it resolved.

manton, Oct 24 2017 on micro.blog

@manton @help I have no further information about the error than that microblog says it cannot post. If you want me to look at logs it will have to wait till tomorrow.

jeremycherfas, Oct 24 2017 on micro.blog

Following people from inside the micro.blog iOS app currently seems impossible. There's no search that I can see. If I get to their mb page and click follow I am supposed to log in again. I just want to help @jeffperry if I can.

Jeremy Cherfaspublished this 18 October 2017

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@jeremycherfas try Discover

cn, Oct 18 2017 on micro.blog

@cn Thanks so much. I'm sure I had not noticed the search there before.

jeremycherfas, Oct 18 2017 on micro.blog

@jeremycherfas if you click through to someone’s profile, there’s a follow link in the top right.

dgold, Oct 18 2017 on micro.blog

@dgold Right. But I was having difficulty *finding * the profile.

jeremycherfas, Oct 18 2017 on micro.blog

@jeremycherfas Maybe I misunderstand your post. I clicked on @jeffperry, his profile/TL opened, I tapped on „follow“ - done.

kulturnation, Oct 18 2017 on micro.blog

@jeremycherfas Ah, I misunderstood your post :) Search would be great, I agree. But on the otherhand, for me it is fine to build my follow-community by „recommendation“ - you interact with Jeff Perry, I look at his profile and decide to follow or not.

kulturnation, Oct 18 2017 on micro.blog

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Danielle Watson, Jan 05 2021 on stream.jeremycherfas.net

Just set a reminder for three months time so that I can continue to enjoy a chronological, ad-free, unmessedaboutwith stream of photos from Instagram, thanks to instagram-atom.appspot.com

Ok. I will boycott twitter today. As I post less than once a day on average, I'm not sure anyone will notice.

Jeremy Cherfaspublished this 13 October 2017

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@jeremycherfas I’m botcotting it too

cn, Oct 13 2017 on micro.blog

"botcotting" is the possibly accidental neologism of the day. As my POSSEs to that particular silo are manual, I cannot use it. But I admire the heck out of it.

Jeremy Cherfas, Oct 13 2017 on stream.jeremycherfas.net

@cn Hmn. My self-hosted post replying doesn't seem to have come through. stream.jeremycherfas.net/2017/botc... I wonder, should I have used @cn rather than rely on u-in-reply-to

jeremycherfas, Oct 13 2017 on micro.blog

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"Love” is not a common or usual name of an ingredient" I just love how the #FDA took Nashoba Brook Bakery to task. Because, truly, it is important to make sure that labels always tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth, right? https://www.foodpolitics.com/2017/10/fda-says-love-is-not-a-food-ingredient/

By what insane twisted logic of airport security theatre is it OK to have soft cheese in the hold but not in the cabin? Bereft

Jeremy Cherfaspublished this 03 October 2017

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Oct 03 2017 on twitter.com

@jeremycherfas but what of spray cheese?

eli, Oct 03 2017 on micro.blog

@eli probably safe, as long as it is less than 100ml.

jeremycherfas, Oct 04 2017 on micro.blog

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All packed and ready for trip that culminates at #hearsay17, hoping that cheap Irish airline doesn't notice the weight of my handbag.

Must we copy everything?

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I dunno. I see this Add a "tweetstorm" UI for chaining status updates with chained POSSE tweets and I think of something I wrote a while back: Or you could write a blog post. Does the #IndieWeb really need to make indie copies of everything the silos offer? Even the workarounds?

Maybe I misunderstand, and a feature like this is what weans people off the silo pap. All I know is, I don't think it would work for me.

Jeremy Cherfaspublished this 21 September 2017

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Sep 21 2017 on snarfed.org

I think there are a couple of ways to accomplish the underlying goal (viz. getting people to post on their own sites while keeping the ability to POSSE to silos). It would be kind of silly, in my opinion, to reproduce the “tweetstorm” UI on a blog where you aren’t restricted to 140-character chunks. But it would make sense to offer a UI to compose a blog post normally and then automatically break it into tweet-sized pieces for POSSEing to Twitter. The blog version would appear like a normal blog post; the Twitter version would appear like a “normal” tweetstorm.

Benjamin Esham, Sep 21 2017 on stream.jeremycherfas.net

hmmm. I don't think I'd tweetstorm a blogpost. Perhaps, if it were a huge post, I'd want to put some choice quotes into a tweetstorm all with links back to the anchors in the post. But the UI thing is a little overboard.

Of course, I tweetstorm my posts which also head to Known, 10Centuries, and micro.blog. But that is an external tool. I wouldn't want Known to change their UI to accommodate twitter.

nitin, Sep 22 2017 on stream.jeremycherfas.net

I haven't used it,but I think Jared Sinclair's Stormcrow app is intended to build a tweetstorm from z bigger chunk of text, so it would be reasonably easy to use either before or after writing the blog post, if that's what you're doing. There's clearly a difference between text and tweetstorm, though, and, like @nitin, i would prefer to promote something I had written with selected tweets.

Jeremy Cherfas, Sep 22 2017 on stream.jeremycherfas.net

Automatically breaking it into tweet-sized pieces for POSSEing, or put some choice quotes into a tweetstorm both sounds useful, but neither *are* tweetstorming (verb), nor does either accomplish the goal, which is to switch from using silo first posting for whatever the person's tweetstorming use-case is, to using their own site first. Solving B and C doesn't solve A, nor does telling the user they should do B or C instead of A. More in the comment on the issue https://github.com/idno/Known/issues/1907#issuecomment-331301413 (linked from username)

github.com/tantek, Sep 25 2017 on stream.jeremycherfas.net

Wouldn't it be cool if micro.blog had whatever it takes to work with Launch Centre under iOS?

I'm sure I wrote this yesterday, but it seems to have vanished without trace.

Rockin' my imposter status

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Finished the first phase of moving two WordPress driven sites from one hosting service to another this morning. I was a bit wary, having read all the things that can go wrong, and I took a few wrong turns into dead ends. But I managed to back out and didn't screw up too badly on the first one. The screwing up I did accomplish was mainly the result of my impatience, doing things in quick succession when I should have given them time to settle down in between. But I learned my lessons, and this morning's transfer went much more smoothly. Scarily so, in fact.

There's plenty left to do, moving various ancillary things, all part of an ongoing effort to tidy up in general, but I don't foresee any more difficulties, touch wood.

And in case anyone cares, I couldn't have done it nearly as easily without the Duplicator plugin for WordPress, which truly is a life saver.

The tools change, the job remains the same

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Funny, as I continue slowly to bring old posts in, to see what I wrote about my tools, in 2007 and then again in 2013.

The conclusion remains as it ever was; although the tools change, the jobs they need to do remain more or less the same. Find things and write about them.

Quick gotcha: I moved this WithKnown site from shared hosting to a VPS yesterday, and today photos were not displaying and not uploading. Turned out that in the move the path to the Uploads directory had not changed. Fixed that, and all seems to be well again. I hope.

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. #IndieWeb 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.

Jeremy Cherfaspublished this 03 September 2017

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@jeremycherfas Apologies for all the posts. This explains why.

jeremycherfas, Sep 03 2017 on micro.blog

@jeremycherfas Where is the THIS?

Ron, Sep 03 2017 on micro.blog

@Ron It was the post of mine to which that was a reply. Not sure how I can link to it here. Maybe this will work stream.jeremycherfas.net/2017/cros...

jeremycherfas, Sep 03 2017 on micro.blog