Microblog

So, I, uh, did revive my Mastodon-to-WordPress sync thingy, I mean, plugin. It’s very basic, which is good. (More advanced features, like improved reply contexts, should probably be the subject of an add-on plugin. Like, eventually.) https://github.com/janboddez/import-from-mastodon

Bookmarked https://github.com/neild3r/vscode-php-docblocker.

You hire a freelancer (or start experimenting yourself).

[W]here should I go if I want to find a developer to work with on an idea?

Funny thing. Since I’ve switched to SimplePie, I see a lot more “image previews,” thanks the enclosure tag. Now, if only I could get it to parse media:content …

Going to just drop this here: https://ryangjchandler.co.uk/posts/parsing-markdown-with-php-autolinking-and-strikethrough

Switching between the Parsedown Extra and Markdown Extra libraries for PHP. One doesn’t convert > to blockquote inside <div markdown="1"></div> and the other doesn’t support ~~ for strikethrough text.

Recently watched the Fear Street trilogy, Turbo Kid, and La Gomera (The Whistlers), and now I’m wondering if I should revisit, or clarify, my “rating system,” which goes up to four stars. One star would be “interesting,” two stars “entertaining,” three stars very good and four almost impossibly awesome. As for the films above, I’d probably give them one or two stars each, like so: ★★☆☆. (Should probably drop that fourth star, too, and not be such an a—hole.)

There’s no technical reason you couldn’t stay in touch with Facebook friends without being [a] Facebook user. You can switch phone companies or email providers without walking away from the family, community and customers you’re connected to.

[B]eing banned for something as dumb as this would make a good story.

Because Zeldman had made the switch.

Why did you start using WordPress?

It’s my still limited understanding of all things #IndieWeb, undoubtedly, but all of this feels like it’d be easier if we stopped trying to mimic Facebook products and just accept semantic HTML and be done with it.

I’ve modified my feed reader to accept figure and figcaption—I mean, why not?—but because of how microformats feeds are parsed, images themselves are stripped from photo posts, to be shown underneath, leaving the caption rather lonely. One way to deal with this is interpret photo posts’ content as (mostly) plain text, I guess.

Bookmarked https://github.com/maximevaillancourt/digital-garden-jekyll-template.

Bookmarked https://financien.belgium.be/nl/particulieren/internationaal/grensarbeiders/akkoorden-covid-19.

This week I had some fun with spicy-sections, an experimental custom element that turns a bunch of headings and content into tabs.