Jeremy Cherfas

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

I really do not understand the nofilter tag on Instagram. Is it really that meaningful to point out that you just snapped a shot and didn't mess with it later?

Jeremy Cherfaspublished this 25 April 2018

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@jeremycherfas tagging for the sake of tagging?

cn, Apr 25 2018 on micro.blog

@jeremycherfas It's never crossed my mind to use it. Not sure I even pay attention to it either. Mind you, I also rarely use any of the filters. I try to avoid any tweaking of my photos, as I prefer to have taken a good shot in the first place.

vanessa, Apr 25 2018 on micro.blog

I think the point is often times vibrant photos are because they put some sort of color distorting filter on. So when people snapped real 100% accurate vibrant colored photos, they started using that hashtag to point that out. I’m haven’t followed its use recently though.

Eddie Hinkle, Apr 25 2018 on eddiehinkle.com

@jeremycherfas now that I have an iPhone 8 Plus, I've never been more unimpressed with #nofilter because every photo looks amazing & worse with a filter.

Seslor, Apr 25 2018 on micro.blog

@Seslor Good point. I’m happy with my 6+. No idea how it could be surpassed, but I guess it can be.

jeremycherfas, Apr 26 2018 on micro.blog

Replied to a post on miklb.com :

Me neither! Came up yesterday in a MOOC I am studying. It's the little things ...

Replied to a post on twitter.com :

You could do worse than look at @WithKnown for a reasonably simple solution. It isn't quite as easy to use, but it isn't that difficult either.

Jeremy Cherfaspublished this 18 April 2018

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Apr 19 2018 on twitter.com

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Andrew Shopland, Apr 19 2018 on twitter.com

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Also on: @EatPodcast

Managed about an hour of "gardening" before the drizzle began. So that's good.

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Replied to a post on islandinthenet.com :

Absolutely correct. The people are eager and willing to help, and I would not have got anywhere without them. Which is why I am careful to say that I see no deliberate effort to exclude anyone. But as you say, it isn't ready for everyone either. Nor will it be, I don't think.

#indieweb

Jeremy Cherfaspublished this 16 April 2018

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@jeremycherfas and ... ? :o

matigo, Apr 16 2018 on micro.blog

@matigo And nothing. That's it. For now.

jeremycherfas, Apr 16 2018 on micro.blog

2018-04-11

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Digging into how withknown creates RSS feeds, I can see two things.

One is that for a status post, which has no title, `<title>` is a truncated version of the post content, although the level of truncation seems to vary. Not sure why.

The other is that even status posts, with a truncated `<title>`, have a full `<description>` that includes `p-name` and `e-content` and even `entry-content`.

But micro.blog does not seem to read `<description>` at least not when it is coming from my withknown RSS feed.

Puzzling.

Jeremy Cherfaspublished this 11 April 2018

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@jeremycherfas Be your own parser.

jeremycherfas, Mar 25 2018 on micro.blog

@jeremycherfas Can you ever use a naked < ???

jeremycherfas, Mar 25 2018 on micro.blog

@jeremycherfas Obbiously you can. But maybe not a <.

jeremycherfas, Mar 25 2018 on micro.blog

@jeremycherfas Oh boy; Another wrinkle. In reading <description> from my RSS feed, microblog converts <title> Into ``. Again, I have no idea whose behaviour is correct here.

jeremycherfas, Mar 25 2018 on micro.blog

Is there, anywhere, a definitive guide to how micro.blog truncates posts it receives via RSS?

Jeremy Cherfaspublished this 10 April 2018

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@jeremycherfas Cool. Micro.blog tries to be smart about those kind of truncated titles in a feed, but misses it sometimes. So if there's a way to just remove the title from the feed, it will be more consistent.

manton, Mar 25 2018 on micro.blog

@jeremycherfas I checked your feed. The truncation is happening in your feed, not Micro.blog. Your RSS title is a truncated version of the post. (Micro.blog has special support for detecting this up to a point, but it can't catch everything.)

manton, Mar 25 2018 on micro.blog

@manton That's the weird part, I think. It was a status post. Has no title to begin with. I'd better look more closely at how Known builds the feed.

Thanks.

jeremycherfas, Mar 25 2018 on micro.blog

@jeremycherfas @matigo @cn Yes, this help page describes the rules. If you think anything's missing from there, let me know and I'll update it.

manton, Mar 25 2018 on micro.blog

@manton This is the bit that concerns me:

If the post has no title and is over 280 characters, the text is truncated with a link back to the full post on your site.

What sets the length at which the post is truncated? Sometimes it seems awfully short, as in my post immediately before the root of this one. If I knew for sure, I could write appropriately.

// @matigo @cn

jeremycherfas, Mar 25 2018 on micro.blog

@matigo Jeremy and I (and others) know there are a number of unwritten rules to posting // @jeremycherfas

cn, Mar 25 2018 on micro.blog

@cn these rules are incomplete based on experience. The system has evolved a bit in the months since :P

// @jeremycherfas

matigo, Mar 25 2018 on micro.blog

@jeremycherfas @matigo some answers here?

cn, Mar 25 2018 on micro.blog

@matigo 'deed it would.

jeremycherfas, Mar 25 2018 on micro.blog

@jeremycherfas that would be useful …

matigo, Mar 25 2018 on micro.blog

Strange question, I know, but ... Is there any way I can restrict access to a post in WP without having to make people jump through **any** hoops to see it?

There are lots of solutions that allow only registered users to see a specific post. What I want ideally is a link I can give people that will work for them and not for anyone else. A page hidden from anyone who does not have that link.

The idea is to give email subscribers and other supporters access either exclusively or well in advance of the general public.

Just read a horrible coinage: autonomobile. Cars were never automobile without a driver. We are still waiting for a truly automobile means of transport.