Notes

(Random thought: having your source files on your server, and having it build and save the final HTML is not too different from a “dynamic” site plus page caching.)

https://github.com/thephpleague/html-to-markdown is probably the way to go here. (Yes, it uses Composer, but that’s become pretty much the standard now, and for good reason [and the PHP League packages are high quality].)

Hehe. What I do is file a million tiny GitHub issues, like, during lunch breaks and stuff, to revisit later and then totally forget about them.

Or, wait. It accepts a since_id, but it’s not actually used. Looks like min_id is. https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/blob/d48e6c5d67f2f9ba8a4a6f838cfba70a3eb7978a/app/Http/Controllers/Api/ApiV1Controller.php#L539

Also, Laravel Passport should provide a revoke route … but may require a DELETE method. https://github.com/laravel/passport/blob/ab9e2045e0d8649cd84de411d0332bdd5fe763a3/src/RouteRegistrar.php#L85

All fine of course, except I’ve been doing it wrong, thinking the API would more or less perfectly match Mastodon’s.

Note to self: I don’t think Pixelfed’s API supports revoking access tokens, or a since_id parameter (like, when getting the most recent statuses).

Weaver’s Iron Law of Blockchain: When somebody says you can solve X with blockchain, they don’t understand X, and you can ignore them.

That’s what I do, too. I use “notes” for short status updates, and for quick replies and “bookmarks” (like this one). But I’ve also published “long-form” replies—which I would like to see more of—before, and have, on occasion, added u-bookmark-of to in-article links.

Even though I can use my blog posts to reply or like other people’s posts — as I’ve done here and here — I’ve recently decided to employ a second type of layout: notes.

Which is, of course, exactly what has happened with my crossposting plugins. :-)

Or I could split this off into a plugin of its own, which would also allow folks to run them both at the same time. (But then both plugins would be, like, 98% the same. And I’d have to maintain all that, twice.)

Found out this morning that a small tweak to https://github.com/janboddez/import-from-mastodon will make it work with Pixelfed, too. Thing is, Pixelfed’s access tokens do in fact expire, so rather than just check if authorization is still okay (the plugin’s current behavior), I should probably attempt to renew (Pixelfed) tokens that are about to expire, too.

One of the biggest days in the punk calendar year is today, May 16, because of the song by Lagwagon.

It’s been over two years, but I’ve updated my “/now” page! And, yes, it has become a list of things I’ve yet to finish.

These “emoji” archives are kind of cool! Reminded me of Aaron Parecki’s avatars, that reflect any emoji present in his notes. (Turns out, of course, Aaron has an actual emoji archive, too. 😊)

My favorite programming trick.

With the early return pattern, you check for the opposite of the thing you want, and return early to end the function when that’s the case.

This reduces nested if statements, and makes your code a bit easier to read.

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