Notes tagged indieweb

If you’ve wondered about an “IndieWeb” site but don’t know where to start: Make what you need.

Wasn’t immediately clear to me that https://github.com/aaronpk/Static-Maps-API-PHP runs just fine on my shared hosting setup as well. (Yay!)

Added a job to my feed aggregator/Microsub server that quickly validates mf2 media, i.e., the URLs that end up in entries’ photo and video arrays, by means of a HEAD request. If the server returns a 404 (or similar), the URL is probably faulty (e.g., the result of a misplaced u-photo tag), and the item removed from the list. No more (well, definitely less) “broken images” below posts!

What if I used Indigenous to send “read” posts to my site and then have my server automatically push these articles—i.e., for URLs—to a specific “feed” in my reader? Same way I treat YouTube vids, kind of. I’d no longer need a separate read-it-later app!

It doesn’t make sense to display someone’s entire blog post underneath yours just because they casually mentioned it.

I often explicitly add things like, “In reply to …,” to notes like this, to offer some context to passers-by and RSS subscribers alike. And then forget to keep these sentences out of my e-content, so that social readers, which already pick up the microformats in them, don’t go and display the same information twice. Details matter.

Got reminded of my own /feeds page today. This site only offers 3 “true” RSS feeds: one for regular blog posts (articles), one for shorter status updates (notes), and one for both. That said: most of this site’s sections double as a h-feed; you can even follow search results! Moreover, both articles and notes are marked up using microformats, for social readers to do their thing.

In case anyone out there wanted to automatically convert (some of) their wallabag bookmarks into WordPress posts (or notes, or whatever). https://github.com/janboddez/import-from-wallabag

An alternative for Post Kinds (and my—even simpler than Shortnotes—https://github.com/janboddez/indieweb-custom-post-types)?

My feed reader, current status. Just because. Still runs on just about any hosting environment, still supports h-feeds. No Micropub, yet. (Well, Micropub works. Interface still missing.)

In reply to https://jan.boddez.net/notes/89b9eb948a.

Learned about HTML Purifier’s “Allowed” (rather than “AllowedElements”) setting, and that PicoFeed strips empty HTML tags by default. Anyway, entries that contain tables now look good!

Added “unread counts” to my RSS reader’s Microsub implementation. Fun fact: the reader itself—the new one—doesn’t display them. But Microsub clients will. Some (not very) creative use of Laravel’s hasManyThrough, withCount, and $casts array is all it took!

Did I already mention I brought back figure and figcaption support to my “soon-to-be-social” reader? Makes posts look so much better!

Looks like the IndieAuth Client for PHP dropped the me param when it exchanged getAccessToken() for exchangeAuthorizationCode() around when it moved to the 1.0.0 version, and that WordPress’s IndieAuth plugin never fully caught up, I’m thinking because Aperture hadn’t upgraded till now (and no one is foolish enough to self-host it, let alone the very latest version). (Also, please correct me if I’m wrong.)

Bookmarked http://dissertation.jackjamieson.net/.

Jack Jamieson on Yarns, his Microsub plugin for WordPress:

Essentially, I wanted to replace my Twitter timeline with a timeline of IndieWeb posts.