Aaron Parecki

This post is part of the IndieWeb Challenge to ship something every day of December!

Tantek had an idea for a community challenge to ship some sort of IndieWeb feature every day of December. Anyone can contribute, just make sure you blog about it!

Here is a writeup of how I built a desk bell for Kickstarter pledge alerts using a Raspberry Pi Zero and a solenoid.

Why Passwordless Logins?

After far too long, I finally launched support for importing multi-photos from Instagram via OwnYourGram!

Note: I will be keeping this post up to date based on the latest plans.

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. 

Below are notes from my workshop at the Quantified Self 2017 conference in Amsterdam. Thanks to everyone who participated in the workshop!

I'm excited to announce that Micropub is now a W3C Recommendation! It's been a long road, but we made it! This is the final stage in the W3C spec lifecycle, and means that the spec has gone through several stages of review, and all parts of the spec have been implemented by at least two people.

I just added my favorite new relatively unimportant feature to my website!

I am on the fence about whether to count today's sprint towards this goal. I started this morning by diving into catching up on accounting in my 3 Quickbooks files, which is something I've been trying to get better about doing regularly since I finally filed my taxes on time for the first time in 6 years. I spent a little over 2.5 hours on the accounting, and managed to get all caught up. (Of course I didn't screenshot that for obvious reasons.) So on that front, it was a successful morning. However, it was also over 80 degrees today which is way hotter than my comfort level and we don't have A/C in the apartment. This led to a relatively unproductive afternoon, and I never got enough energy up to do anything more creative. So on that front, I didn't make progress on my more interesting projects today. Overall, at least I have another data point to reaffirm that I am definitely more productive in the mornings!

At the end of March, I finished my #100DaysOfIndieWeb and #100DaysOfMusic projects. It was a lot of fun to focus on those during the winter months, but I'm also glad to free up my days now that they are done. It turns out 100 days is a lot of days, and I don't think I'll do such a hard #100days project again. However I did enjoy the focus I was able to achieve, and enjoyed knowing every day what I needed to work on. So for the month of May, I'm starting a new, slightly different experiment.

I'm super excited to announce that DreamHost will be hosting our Homebrew Website Club PDX meetups for the rest of 2017! We've got all the dates planned out, so put them on your calendar! 

The Micropub implementation report summaries had gotten kind of scattered around various URLs, so today I cleaned it up and consolidated everything. I also added the number of submitted reports to the home page, along with links, so that they are much easier to find.

I normally don't like to launch a feature that's this rough around the edges, but I decided to anyway. I added a section to the OwnYourSwarm dashboard that will let you import a specific checkin by its Foursquare checkin ID.