Aaron Parecki

I think this is the first time in the 100days project that I've worked on a project that is not my own! Today I added support for JSON requests to Known's Micropub endpoint. I also added support for JSON checkins that OwnYourSwarm sends.

Today I wrote up documentation on OwnYourSwarm. It actually took quite a bit longer than I expected to write everything up. The documentation walks through each component:

I'm pretty excited to say that OwnYourSwarm is now backfeeding likes and comments from Swarm checkins!

OwnYourSwarm will now send webmentions for all the coins that Swarm awards to your checkins!

An interesting feature of the Swarm app is how it handles photos uploaded to checkins. If you check in and attach a photo, the checkin is actually created before the photo is uploaded. If you're on a spotty Internet connection, you'll see this because your checkin will exist and you'll get points for it, but there won't be a photo yet. The app will then continue to upload the photo separately, retrying if it fails. This is actually a really great app design on the part of Foursquare, but does lead to some tricks with the API.

Sometimes, I've posted content to my website that is directed at a specific group, such as a mailing list or an IRC channel. When viewed on my website, these posts end up looking out of context.

I realized that I had actually made a few of the Micropub.rocks tests more strict than they should have been. There were a few tests about uploading photos, when really the thing they were testing was how to upload files of any sort. The spec even mentions video and audio explicitly, so the test suite should accept those as well.

Today I added support for person-tags and mentioning users to OwnYourSwarm. If you tag someone in your Swarm checkin (e.g. tap the + icon and find them in the list), then it will be converted to a person-tag in the h-entry. In addition, any usernames you mention in the text of your checkin will cause the content to be sent to your Micropub endpoint as HTML, including hyperlinks for the names of people mentioned.

Now that I can post checkins on my website, the next step is to automatically copy my checkins from Swarm! I still like the experience of Swarm, and I still get value out of their analysis of my checkins, so I don't see myself leaving Swarm anytime soon. This way, I get the best of both worlds.

I finally have checkins on my website!

Short update today, I just added a page to the Quill docs that documents the Favoriting interface. 

Beginning a slow project of updating the docs about the IndieAuth spec, today I started by updating a few pages on the wiki. Right now, most of the docs about IndieAuth (the spec), and how to use it, live across a variety of pages on the wiki, grouped together at https://indieweb.org/Category:IndieAuth.

Now that Marty has published a few episodes of his audio version of the "This Week in the IndieWeb" newsletter, I thought it would be fun to highlight those and other IndieWeb podcasts in the newsletter itself.

Today I added an option to OwnYourGram to opt in to receiving an h-card as the location property instead of a geo:// URI. On the dashboard, there is a setting to toggle between receiving a geo:// URI with file uploads, and an h-card location with a reference to the Instagram photo URL.

Quill now supports posting RSVPs! When you are replying to a URL that is an h-event, Quill will add an RSVP field to the post and let you choose between "Yes", "No", "Maybe" and "Interested".

A couple days ago, I switched most of my *.p3k.io domains over to individual Let's Encrypt certificates. It was relatively easy for the apps that are running on my main server. However, XRay is actually running on Google App Engine, which means my streamlined workflow for requesting and renewing certificates doesn't apply.

Sadly, Clef is shutting down in a couple months. If you haven't heard of it, it was a clever way to use your email and a mobile app to sign in to websites. I had integrated Clef logins to indieauth.com as one way to authenticate your email address. Since they are shutting down in June, I am proactively removing it from the website right now.

Normally I wouldn't have let this kind of change qualify for my #100Days project, but I was blocked from using any of my indieweb tools, and I feel like there's a good lesson here.

I finished the remaining tests for Micropub clients today! 

Today I started working on the update tests for Micropub.rocks. There is a bit more involved with these tests than tests for simpler things like creating posts, since the site has to create a dummy post that can be edited.