Aaron Parecki

It's very convenient to be able to quickly share a link to a code snippet, which is something I've mostly done using gist.github.com. While often the code snippets are sort of throwaway, I still feel bad that I'm posting them in a place that I don't control.

I've been wanting to improve the layout of my blog post archive pages for some time. Previously, the page just listed out the full contents of the last 20 posts, and you could continue navigating back 20 posts at a time. I realize that some people like reading the full posts on the archive page, rather than having to click into each one, but it wasn't easy to just skim the post titles to get a sense of what was on the page.

Ever since launching the new version of my website in 2016, I haven't had the special meta tags that Facebook, Twitter and Slack use for showing the nice preview of links shared. It's been annoying me a bit when I share a link to a blog post that they don't look good there.

Curious what I was up to in 2017? So am I! Thankfully I developed a pretty regular habit of writing short blog posts any time I finished something, so I have a nice collection of posts to draw from for this year-in-review post!

Transportation

I'm super happy to be able to add myself to the list of people who publish weather info in their posts!

Remember the old 80x15 badges we used to put on our websites? I just updated our IndieWebCamp badge with the new logo! You can use this on your own site by copying the HTML below! Feel free to download the image and host it yourself too.

My #newwwyear goal this year was to make my likes and reposts automatically POSSE to Twitter when I favorite a Tweet URL.

Swarm has had a feature for a long time where you can allow your friends to check you in. It's more than just tagging a friend in a checkin, since it actually creates a full-fledged checkin on the other person's account. It's an interesting feature of Swarm, and not something I've seen elsewhere.

At IndieWebCamp Austin, I was inspired by the discussion at the Payments session. In the session, we talked about the recent Patreon fee change disaster, and how creators could use their own websites to accept payments from their supporters.

It's been a long time coming, but I've finally published a proper IndieAuth spec!

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.