Aaron Parecki
Hi, I'm Aaron, co-founder of IndieWebCamp. I maintain oauth.net, write and consult about OAuth, and am the editor of the W3C Webmention and Micropub specifications, and co-editor of WebSub.
I wrote 100 songs in 100 days! I've been tracking my location since 2008, and write down everything I eat and drink. I've spoken at conferences around the world about owning your data, OAuth, quantified self, and explained why R is a vowel.
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IndieWebCamp
Founder
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W3C
Editor
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W7APK
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OAuth Consulting
Backpedal Productions
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I've been really enjoying the Flash Briefing in the mornings, but I have a request. There are several feeds which don't update as often as others (some update multiple times a day, some every few days). When I'm listening to the news in the morning, it's incredibly frustrating to hear a duplicate of what I heard the previous day. However right now my only option is to tell Alexa to skip that item, or just remove it from the list. I would prefer if Alexa could keep track of whether she's already played a particular item, and quietly skip over it if there is nothing new in that particular feed. This would make the experience much better, and I'd be able to add a lot more flash briefing sources without worrying about hearing old content!
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Seriously Simple Podcasting: Including all Episodes in the Podcast RSS Feed
Seriously Simple Podcasting is a great Wordpress plugin for hosting your own podcast. However, the number of episodes it includes in the RSS feed is tied to the number of items you include in all your other RSS feeds as well.
If you want your podcast listeners to be able to find old episodes, you'll need to make sure that all your podcasts appear in the feed all the time, since some clients like iTunes will treat your RSS feed as authoritative, and delete episodes from their directory when they disappear from the feed.
This podcast has almost 30 episodes, not just 10! Tonight I took a plunge into the WordPress plugin to see why it was only including the last 10 posts. It turns out the plugin will actually show the number of posts of all your other RSS feeds, and also provides a hook to override that. Why they don't expose that in the interface I don't know.
So, rather than making all your RSS feeds show all of your posts (which will slow down your site and use a lot more of your server's bandwidth), I wrote a plugin that overrides the default setting!
Download this plugin to your plugins folder, and enable it in the WordPress panel! You can download the zip linked below, or just copy and paste this super tiny amount of code into a file in your plugins folder.
Download Zip<?php /* Plugin Name: Include All Podcast Episodes in RSS Feed Plugin URI: https://aaronparecki.com/ssp-include-all-episodes-in-rss-feed Description: This plugin enables displaying all podcast episodes in the Seriously Simple Podcast feed Version: 1.0 Author: Aaron Parecki Author URI: https://aaronparecki.com License: CC0 */ add_filter('ssp_feed_number_of_posts', 'ssp_modify_number_of_posts_in_feed'); function ssp_modify_number_of_posts_in_feed( $n ) { return 10000; }Note that after you install the plugin, you'll have to change something about your podcast (upload a new episode, change the description of an episode, whatever) in order to get the plugin to regenerate the RSS feed since it seems to cache it.
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Took my new bike radio rig out for a spin tonight! It's a 40 amp-hour rechargeable battery powering a 50 watt radio in the side bag, connected to a roll-up antenna hanging from the bike flag. The cable runs along the bike frame up the handlebars to the radio faceplate attached to a magnetic phone mount. Was able to check in to the ARES net tonight without any trouble! First time on air with the new radio! #w7apk #hamradio
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What do you do with way too much zucchini? Make zucchini chips! Thinly slice zucchini and top with oil, salt, garlic powder, and cayenne pepper. Bake at 250 degrees for about an hour until they get crispy! #zucchini #cooking #easyrecipes
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Attempting an Instant Pot hot sauce recipe tonight! • 2 cups cherry tomatoes • 2 carrots • 1 small onion • 1.5 cups habaneros • 4 cloves garlic • 1 cup rice vinegar • 1 cup water • 1/2 cup Mustard • 1/2 tsp xanthan gum Chop the carrots, onion, garlic and habaneros. They don't have to be super fine. Sauté the onions in the instant pot until translucent. Add everything and set to high pressure for 4 minutes. Let the pressure come down naturally, or you'll get a room full of capsaicin and you will regret it. Blend with an immersion blender. Notes on the outcome of this recipe will follow!
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Hey @namecheap I know @cloudflare is great, but it's really frustrating to get interrupted by a CAPTCHA in the middle of checkout! 😠
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The https://webmention.io dashboard just got a whole lot more useful! You can now see the last few dozen webmentions you've received, and delete them if you want! This is the first step towards a "block" feature in webmention.io: https://indieweb.org/block Thanks to @tantek for the inspiration!
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Attempted to make tater tots tonight. Started in the pressure cooker and the potatoes were really small so they got way too soft. kept going anyway. Went through two frying pans to fry all these. the first one is now covered in black charcoal. Turns out those cheap bags of frozen tater tots are totally worth it.
