Short status updates that may end up elsewhere, too.
Jan Boddez
Turns out the funky character that causes SimplePie (and, frankly, Firefox) to choke on https://css-irl.info/rss.xml is a “File Separator.” And that preg_replace('/[\x1C-\x1F]/', '', $xml) is what “fixes” it.
Added a functions.php, WordPress-style, to a Laravel app.
TIL there’s a Hide Admin Bar plugin for WordPress! Well, you don’t need it. Just disable the admin bar in your user settings. (This is especially true for single-user installs.)
Found a bug in SimplePie, dangit, which means I can’t currently use it as is.
Simply can’t see slugs or snails without also thinking of the Ramones’ Teenage Lobotomy (and, subsequently, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes’ version of Sloop John B).
Looking to further simplify my RSS reader and move certain bits of functionality to a kind of plugin system. These would probably be Composer packages, and use both built-in Laravel magic and Eventy for WP-style filters.
Bookmarked https://dayoneapp.com/blog/day-one-at-automattic.
Hadn’t heard of Day One, yet. “Safely protecting memories and creating a 100% personal space” sure sounds like a digital garden of sorts. Oh, and they’re being acquired by Automattic, which is aiming for a very direct influence over 99% of the web, benevolent-dictator style. </mild sarcasm>
Bookmarked https://basicscroll.electerious.com/.
Dedju, my Micropub image uploads are kapot.
I’ve pretty much fully redone my X-Ray fork. In it, I’m offloading XML feeds to SimplePie rather than PicoFeed. This gets me better relative URL resolution and lets me skip HTML sanitization. (I’m running everything through X-Ray’s sanitizer anyway, which I’ve modified to support HTML5 elements and CodePen iframe embeds. I may now even get consistent results, yay!) As a result, I no longer have to maintain a separate PicoFeed fork. Ideally, I could one day build my reader around just SimplePie, but its microformats support isn’t quite there, yet.
Interestingly, SimplePie supports e-content but not, e.g., p-summary.
It doesn’t make sense to display someone’s entire blog post underneath yours just because they casually mentioned it.
Adding support for CodePen embeds to F-Stop, my “not so social”—I’ve temporarily disabled Micropub—feed reader.