Aaron Parecki

Day 28: Updating Syndication Property in Quill #100DaysOfIndieWeb

As the Micropub spec has evolved, there have been some minor changes to how Quill used to do things. Today I added a configuration option to allow you to change the name of the property used to indicate the syndication targets.
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Tue, Jan 17, 2017 10:02am -08:00 #100daysofindieweb #quill #micropub
Day 27 - Echoes

Day 27. Solo piano again. There's a half-measure delay added to the piano. The track that plays the delay is adjusted to make it sound far away, by boosting the high EQ and dropping the low frequencies, and adding a "stereo spread" effect to make it sound like it's coming from both sides. This sounds way more interesting with headphones so you can hear that effect better.
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Mon, Jan 16, 2017 9:25pm -08:00 #100daysofmusic
Got stuck in a research hole looking for a new laptop/travel bag. Can't quite find anything that fits all my requirements though. Must be able to fit the following:

• Laptop: 7.75" x 11"
• Keyboard: 5.5" x 15.25"
• Headphones: flattens to 6.5"x7.5"x1.5" or collapses to 6.5"x5"x3"
• Kindle, notebooks: 5"x7"
• DSLR: 3.5" x 4.5" x 6"
• Battery: 3.5" x 6.5" x .75"
• Various wires and cords

For reference, I can currently fit everything in my small Tumi sling bag, except the keyboard sticks out the top by an inch and so I can't zip up the compartment. That bag would be perfect if it were just a little taller.

I want something that doesn't *look* like a backpack, and is nice enough looking to carry in a semi-professional setting. Most backpacks with two straps are too casual looking, and most of the one-strap slings are too small. More zippers are generally good, since I tend to carry lots of little things that would all get lost in a single compartment.

The only ones I've found so far that are close are:

• https://www.amazon.com/Targus-13-3-Inch-Tablet-Backpack-TSB80704/dp/B00KVLM9GQ
• https://www.amazon.com/Victorinox-31374701-Travel-Sling/dp/B00Q845R8W
• https://www.amazon.com/Victoriatourist-Travel-Canvas-Shoulder-Lightweight/dp/B01HU9EE1Y

Any suggestions?

Portland, Oregon, USA

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Mon, Jan 16, 2017 3:53pm -08:00 #bag #travel
Day 27: Parsing meta http-equiv and returning status code in XRay #100DaysOfIndieWeb

Today I closed a long-standing request on XRay to return the HTTP status code from the retrieved page, as well as parsing the <meta http-equiv="Status" content="410 Gone"> tag in the HTML. I also now return the final URL that XRay retrieved the document from, after following any HTTP redirects that were sent.
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Mon, Jan 16, 2017 1:08pm -08:00 #100daysofindieweb #xray #indieweb
Day 26 - Sherlock at Dawn

Day 26. Time for another mashup! This is the Sherlock opening theme orchestrated and arranged like Nina Simone's "Feeling Good." These are always fun to do because I get to deconstruct two different songs and then put them back together. I also included the audio from the original Nina Simone track since she does a solo introduction in the song, and it lined up pretty well without a lot of cuts! The video is the Sherlock intro sequence mixed with some video of a Nina Simone concert.
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Sun, Jan 15, 2017 9:13pm -08:00 #100daysofmusic
Day 26: Tag tokens and publish date for Quill #100DaysOfIndieWeb

Last week, Barry Frost released Micropublish, a Micropub client written in Ruby. It's a very slick interface for posting a few kinds of posts. I noticed that his "category" field looked really nice, and discovered that he was using a Bootstrap plugin called "Token Field". Today I added this plugin to Quill, so now everywhere that you previously had to enter tags as comma-separated values, it's now using this "token field" UI.
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Sun, Jan 15, 2017 11:22am -08:00 #quill #indieweb #100daysofindieweb
Day 25 - The Archives

Day 25. I got started much earlier today, and appreciated having the extra time to work on this! I'm reasonably happy with it, although I think the last phrase could use some more build-up, to emphasize the hesitation and quiet ending even more. The video is from my visit to the Internet Archive in San Francisco yesterday. The Internet Archive main office is in an old church. These are just two of the racks of live servers that power archive.org.
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Sat, Jan 14, 2017 6:04pm -08:00 #100daysofmusic
Week in Review #100DaysOfIndieWeb

aaronparecki.comDay 18: I updated my reposts to show the full contents of the post I reposted rather than just the URL.Day 19: I updated my website to automatically fetch the contents of my reposted URLs when I make new reposts.Day 24: I updated my reply posts to be able to show the full contents of the post I'm replying to.Day 25: I updated my website to automatically fetch the contents of the posts I reply to.XRayDay 20: I added Instagram support to XRay, so now XRay returns data when given Instagram URLs.Day 21: I added Twitter support to XRay, although you need to pass your own OAuth keys to XRay in order for it to fetch tweets.Day 22: I updated a few things in XRay to make it easier to deploy to shared hosting, and simplified its dependencies.LibrariesDay 23: I published my timezone lookup tools as a standalone library, and updated XRay and Quill to use the library instead of the duplicated class.
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Sat, Jan 14, 2017 10:48am -08:00 #100daysofindieweb #indieweb #xray #p3k
Day 25: Automatically Fetching Reply Contexts for p3k #100DaysOfIndieWeb

Today I worked on automatically expanding the contents of my reply contexts whenever a new post is created. I also have a utility to fetch the reply context for older posts. I ran it for the first page of replies on my replies feed, and I'm super excited that they are looking pretty good now!
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Sat, Jan 14, 2017 10:36am -08:00 #100daysofindieweb #indieweb #p3k
Day 24 - The Cheat

Day 24. I was out and about in San Francisco most of the day, so didn't get started on this until I was finally in the MAX on the ride home from the Portland airport. I started this on my phone, which meant I was relatively limited in what I could do, so I started putting some loops from Garage Band on the iPhone together. I never made it an explicit rule not to use loops, but I've always felt bad about doing that. This one is almost entirely just various loops assembled together. But it was more important to me to get something done than to not use loops, so here we are.
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Fri, Jan 13, 2017 11:56pm -08:00 #100daysofmusic
at TriMet Portland International Airport MAX Station

Portland, Oregon • Fri, January 13, 2017 10:19pm

45.588618 -122.592768

Guess who came to pick me up from the airport! — with anomalily

Portland, OR, United States

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Fri, Jan 13, 2017 10:19pm -08:00
at Portland International Airport (PDX)

Portland, Oregon • Fri, January 13, 2017 10:07pm

45.58905 -122.593004

Back to the snow!

Portland, OR, United States

Fri, Jan 13, 2017 10:07pm -08:00
Yep looks legit #earthquakedetector #internetarchive

Internet Archive in San Francisco, California, USA

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Fri, Jan 13, 2017 8:27pm -08:00 #earthquakedetector #internetarchive
Day 24: Displaying Reply Context in p3k #100DaysOfIndieWeb

Following last week's work on displaying full repost content, I modified those templates to be used to display reply context in my reply posts.
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Fri, Jan 13, 2017 6:51pm -08:00 #100daysofindieweb #indieweb #p3k
Lunch at the @internetarchive

San Francisco, California, USA

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Fri, Jan 13, 2017 12:07pm -08:00
at Internet Archive

San Francisco, California • Fri, January 13, 2017 12:02pm

37.782501 -122.471846

Lunch!

San Francisco, CA, United States

Fri, Jan 13, 2017 12:02pm -08:00
at San Antonio Caltrain Station

Mountain View, California • Fri, January 13, 2017 8:20am

37.407426 -122.107329

Mountain View, CA, United States

Fri, Jan 13, 2017 8:20am -08:00
at The Hotel Aria

Mountain View, California • Fri, January 13, 2017 7:45am

37.404639 -122.116873

bkfst

Mountain View, CA, United States

Fri, Jan 13, 2017 7:45am -08:00
Day 23 - Absinthe

Day 23. Back at my hotel in the evening, I couldn't for the life of me figure out how to get started tonight. Lily suggested that I call her and she could sing something to me over the phone. So we chatted on Facetime for a few minutes, and she sang some random words that she read from around the apartment, in something resembling a tune. I took a tiny slice of the call, pitch corrected and retimed it like crazy, and then built up some other instruments around it. This was an interesting exercise in learning the pitch correction and retiming tools in Logic, and I also learned a great way to record Facetime calls from my phone in high quality. I'm not thrilled with the end result, and am kind of frustrated that I couldn't seem to get motivated tonight, but I guess it's okay to have an off night now and then. Oh and I shot this video while waiting for my Lyft back to my hotel.
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Thu, Jan 12, 2017 11:03pm -08:00 #100daysofmusic
This is the closest thing I've seen to actual authentication in the amateur radio community. #echolink

Mountain View, California, USA

Thu, Jan 12, 2017 8:04pm -08:00 #echolink #hamradio

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