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Woo! Didn’t know about Laravel’s automatically casting JSON columns to arrays.

In reply to https://jan.boddez.net/notes/febdaa0f92.

On the one hand: this is nice. On the other: sucks that this is still different from how Microsub likes things.

In reply to https://jan.boddez.net/notes/a2d08abc6e.

I used to store all dates in UTC, yet had my app timezone set to where I’m at. I would then use that to convert relevant dates at the very last moment (i.e., in the view). But … cursor pagination uses your app’s timezone setting to produce its SQL; hence the error. So I now have my timezone set to UTC and will use a user-specific setting for displaying dates and times! Seems we’re good again.

Guess it doesn’t always “just work.” ☹️

Turns out Laravel’s just added cursor pagination. (Yay!)

You don’t ask “the algorithm” for a recommendation—it foists them on you whether you want them or not. A more apt metaphor would be that you walked by a record shop once and the store worker came out and followed you down the street, into your home, and watched your every move for the rest of your life.

Anyone know if MPD should follow location headers? Radio streams would somehow cut out after a second or two, so I one by one visited their URLs in my web browser, noticed the various redirects, and updated the streams accordingly. All good again (for now).

Cool, eh? I run a similar set of filters for wallabag, and have added the same functionality—I use XPath, but the idea’s the same—to my own feed reader/Microsub server.

Bookmarked https://wptavern.com/it-is-time-for-wordpress-theme-authors-to-step-up-their-block-pattern-game.

While part of me still wants to build somewhat complex layouts using nothing but HTML and CSS, these WordPress block pattern examples are really, really nice. I mean, in a WordPress context. Sure as heck beats shortcode wizardry.

Does my feed reader, a responsive web app, really need Micropub integration? I mean, I can simply long-press-to-Indigenous. On desktop, there’s text expanders, bookmarklets, or both.

Which one is better?

A Microsub reader.

A feed aggregator and reader (and Microsub server).

Bookmarked https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/someone-has-to-run-the-fabs.

We shouldn’t stop kids from taking hard STEM classes just because we’re worried that they’ll have a better chance of becoming rich STEMlords; instead, we should just tax the STEMlords more[.]

In reply to https://jan.boddez.net/notes/5c95a6da7e.

My feed reader’s “timeline” moves really slow, so I’m not at all interested in anything “infinite scrolling” or optimized for “real-time” updates. It’s to do with marking new items as read, which using traditional pagination will “bump up” remaining items from, e.g., page 2 to page 1, meaning the (previously generated) link to page 2 may now lead to an empty page and those items might stay overlooked for a little while.

Adding cursor-based pagination to my RSS reader, to get rid of some (very) minor annoyances. (Note that Microsub’s paging—https://indieweb.org/Microsub-spec#Example_Paging_Workflow—works a bit different, still. Yay.)

Bookmarked https://aaronparecki.com/2021/04/13/26/indieauth.