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Excited to announce that next week's Homebrew Website Club will be at DreamHost! https://indieweb.org/events/2017-02-08-homebrew-website-club #indieweb #pdxstartupweek -
Day 43: Timezone Support for IndieNews #100DaysOfIndieWeb
Today I added support to IndieNews for storing and displaying the timezone of submitted posts. Previously, all the dates were stored and displayed as UTC, which can be misleading such as when a post is submitted after 5pm in Pacific time since the post then has the date of the following day in UTC.continue reading... -
Portland, Oregon • Tue, January 31, 2017 5:12pmSetting up for DonutJS
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Day 42 - Sprinkles
Day 42. I'm heading to DonutJS tonight to film the evening's talks. I threw this together to use as the intro/outro music after I publish them. It's a re-creation in a similar style to the stock music I've used on those videos before, so nothing fancy. The video is the background of the donutjs.club website.continue reading... -
Day 42: New Sleep Posts from FitBit #100DaysOfIndieWeb
I should have known this one would take longer than I expected.My Jawbone UP finally died, so I replaced it with a FitBit. I've really enjoyed the Jawbones, but I'm not confident in the future of the company's wearables department. I decided to take the plunge and dive in to the FitBit ecosystem instead. I got a new FitBit Charge 2, which among other things includes a heart rate monitor which I'm excited about. But step one was rewriting my sleep import script to pull sleep data from FitBit instead of Jawbone.continue reading... -
I have high hopes for @manton2's http://micro.blog Kickstarter project! Today's the last day to back it! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/manton/indie-microblogging-owning-your-short-form-writing #indieweb
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Day 41 - Anticipation
Day 41. I originally thought I would use a clean pulse synth sound for this one, but then decided it sounded better as a piano sound instead. I also added a bass line that mirrors the piano's low notes to fill out the sound. The bass line has an EQ filter that moves around during the sustained parts in order to give it a sense of motion until the next phrase comes in. I have a whole second part I want to add to this, but this was getting long and I was getting tired, so I stopped there. At the end, I added a very subtle crackling filter that fades in and out during the middle.continue reading... -
If you're interested in PGP encryption, come to the Beer of Trust key-signing party next week! Beginners welcome! http://calagator.org/events/1250471374
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Chris Aldrich
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Jan 30
@aaronpk I was just *about* to buy one myself. The news doesn't sound *so* grim that I shouldn't though... hmmm, maybe after 2/22?
Yeah they did say they'll be getting in to the smart watch market, and the Charge 2 is already very close to a smart watch minus the apps. I will remain optimistic. -
Day 41: Easier Posting to IndieNews #100DaysOfIndieWeb
Following up on yesterday's update of adding a Webmention form on IndieNews' Webmention endpoint, today I finished building out the UI for submitting to IndieNews from a browser.Now the "Submit" link includes a form where you can paste in your post's URL, in case your website doesn't send Webmentions automatically.continue reading... -
Chris Aldrich
http://stream.boffosocko.com/profile/chrisaldrich
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Jan 30
@100daysindieweb Hooray for helping out the less Indie-capable! From a UI perspective, some might not quite know what you mean by IndieNews URL, to put in the proper one. I suspect it's there to differentiate between the various languages, in which case perhaps a dropdown with the different language versions instead of a more ominous empty box might be better? Gen2+ are more likely to be confused. Additionally, how many do you suppose will find/hit the endpoint this way? Perhaps updating news.Indieweb.org to have the submission box on the submissions page like the one you added on day 9 (https://aaronparecki.com/2016/12/29/9/day-9) to your own site would be even more helpful? Or perhaps even easier, adding the URL for the endpoint to https://news.indieweb.org/how-to-submit-a-post in the documentation and listing it as alternative option. (Or were you keeping this for a lighter Day 41 on a busy Monday?) I can't believe it's been 40 days already!!! Kudos again.
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Aw man, and I *just* bought a new @FitBit too! http://www.theverge.com/2017/1/30/14439028/fibit-layoffs-q4-earnings-report-weak-holiday-sales
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Day 40 - Melancholy
Day 40. This is mostly me playing the piano live. In a few places I adjusted the timing, and I added a couple notes that I wouldn't have otherwise been able to reach. I doubled the piano with two slightly different piano sounds, and they are panned hard left and hard right. This adds a bit of depth to it. I added the drum track at a relatively low volume to kind of keep things moving a bit more than it would without the drums. This one came out a lot more melancholy than I thought it was going to despite it being in a major key.continue reading... -
If you haven't figured out what all these videos I've been posting are, I figured I'd give a quick update.
Starting at the end of December, I've been writing and publishing one short song per day. They usually end up being a brief sketch, but the goal is to publish something "finished" enough that it could be used in a podcast, TV show, background music, or something similar.
I'm now 40 days into the project, just under half way done! It's been a really interesting experiment so far. Not that these can all be considered complete, but I've now written more songs in the last 40 days than I have ever before, so I'd already consider this a success. The pressure to start and finish something each day is pretty intense. I'm not always happy with each one I publish, but this is more about exercising my ability to come up with something new every day than it is about making something "perfect".
If you want to catch up on the 40 things I've published so far, I've been publishing them to a bunch of different platforms so you have no excuse not to listen to them ;-)
• Podcast available on iTunes and Google Play (search "100 Days of Music")
• Podcast feed: http://podcasts.aaronparecki.com/100daysofmusic/feed.xml
• Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/aaronpk/sets/100-days-of-music
• Add to your Amazon Alexa flash briefing: https://www.amazon.com/Aaron-Parecki-100-Days-Music/dp/B01N1YPGPX/
• And of course my website: https://aaronparecki.com/tag/100daysofmusic
