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2019-01-21 Upgrading my Monthly Summary Pages
2018-12-17 Blocking Domains in webmention.io
2018-10-27 Some OwnYourSwarm Updates
2018-10-15 Portable Wireless Live Video Rig
2018-08-01 The Steno Gherkin
2018-07-07 OAuth for the Open Web
2018-06-30 Sending your First Webmention from Scratch
2018-06-23 Your final updates for IndieWeb Summit!
2018-06-03 Improving the HTML type="url" Field
2018-05-27 Dropping Twitter Support on IndieAuth.com
2018-05-26 You're Invited to IndieWeb Summit!
2018-04-20 An IndieWeb reader: My new home on the internet
2018-04-09 A MetaWeblog to Micropub Gateway
2018-04-01 First Quarter 2018 in Review
2018-03-29 php-mf2 v0.4.3: Optional HTML5 Support
2018-03-12 Building an IndieWeb Reader
2018-02-07 IndieAuth-Client-PHP 0.3.1
2018-02-05 OwnYourGram Updates
2018-01-23 WebSub and IndieAuth Published on w3.org!
2018-01-21 Pixel Art!
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  • Upgrading my Monthly Summary Pages

    Inspired by cleverdevil's monthly summary pages, I started working on my own version of them on my website!
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    7 likes 2 reposts
    Mon, Jan 21, 2019 8:49pm -08:00 #indieweb #p3k
  • Blocking Domains in webmention.io

    For the past week or so, I've been getting a series of Pingbacks from a spam blog that reposts a blog post a couple times a day as a new post each time. It's up to about 220 copies of the post, each one having sent me a Pingback, and each one showing up in my reader as a notification, which also causes it to be sent to my phone.
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    4 likes 1 bookmark 2 replies 2 mentions
    Mon, Dec 17, 2018 1:24pm -08:00 #webmention #p3k #block #spam
  • Some OwnYourSwarm Updates

    Today I launched some updates to OwnYourSwarm, the service that sends your Swarm checkins to your own website. It does this by watching your Swarm account and sending checkins to your site via Micropub. 
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    8 likes 2 reposts 1 bookmark 1 mention
    Sat, Oct 27, 2018 3:40pm -07:00 #ownyourswarm #indieweb
  • Portable Wireless Live Video Rig

    I've been looking for ways to slim down the amount of equipment I need to bring to record conferences talks, both to make it easier to travel to other cities, as well as to speed up the setup time during an event.
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    18 likes 4 reposts 4 replies 10 mentions
    Mon, Oct 15, 2018 9:01am -07:00 #video #livestream
  • The Steno Gherkin

    Ever since Donut.js has had live captions for their talks every month, I've been curious about how people can learn to type that fast. That led me down quite the rabbit hole of internet research, where I stumbled into the open source stenography community, largely pioneered by Mirabai Knight, who does the captions for Donut.js! (small world!)
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    3 likes 5 mentions
    Wed, Aug 1, 2018 7:50pm -07:00 #steno #plover #gherkin #keyboard
  • OAuth for the Open Web

    OAuth has become the de facto standard for authorization and authentication on the web. Nearly every company with an API used by third party developers has implemented OAuth to enable people to build apps on top of it.
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    Sat, Jul 7, 2018 9:30am -07:00 #indieauth #oauth #oauth2 #indieweb
  • Sending your First Webmention from Scratch

    Webmention is one of the fundamental indieweb building blocks. It enables rich interactions between websites, like posting a comment or favorite on one site from another site. This post will walk you through the simplest way to get started sending webmentions to other sites so that you can use your own site to join the conversations happening on the Indie Web.
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    34 likes 4 reposts 10 bookmarks 140 replies 113 mentions 3 RSVPs
    Sat, Jun 30, 2018 8:35pm -07:00 #webmention #indieweb #tutorial #microformats
  • IndieWeb Summit 2018 Attendees

    Your final updates for IndieWeb Summit!

    Hello! Only a couple more days before we all come together for IndieWeb Summit! I am very much looking forward to the week, and I hope you all have a fantastic time while you're in Portland.
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    1 like 1 reply
    Sat, Jun 23, 2018 1:01pm -07:00 #indieweb #indiewebsummit
  • Improving the HTML type="url" Field

    Using the HTML <input type="url"> field is normally a good idea when you're asking the user to enter a URL. It doesn't make a huge difference on desktop browsers, but makes it a lot easier on mobile browsers. On iOS, when you've focused on a URL input field, the keyboard switches to a slightly different layout with different keys optimized for entering URLs.
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    3 likes 1 bookmark 4 replies 2 mentions
    Sun, Jun 3, 2018 7:50am -07:00 #indieweb #websignin #indielogin
  • Dropping Twitter Support on IndieAuth.com

    I've made the difficult decision to drop support for Twitter authentication on IndieAuth.com. Some time last week, Twitter rolled out a change to the website which broke how IndieAuth.com verifies that a website and Twitter account belong to the same person.
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    2 likes 3 replies 3 mentions
    Sun, May 27, 2018 5:01pm -07:00 #indieauth #indielogin #twitter
  • You're Invited to IndieWeb Summit!

    IndieWeb Summit is soon, and is shaping up to be an exciting event! We're hosting IndieWeb Summit the same week as the (final) Open Source Bridge, in case you needed another reason to visit Portland! IndieWeb Summit will be Tuesday-Wednesday June 26-27th, with a pre-party the Monday evening before.
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    3 likes 1 repost 7 replies
    Sat, May 26, 2018 6:40pm -07:00 #indieweb #indiewebsummit #indiewebcamp
  • An IndieWeb reader: My new home on the internet

    I have a new home on the internet. I don’t visit the Twitter home timeline or the Facebook news feed anymore. I don’t open the Instagram app except when I post a photo. I still have accounts there — I just don’t visit those sites anymore. Instead, I have my own new space on the internet where everything I’m interested in is consolidated, and I can read and reply to things from there. But before I go too far into my new online home — an IndieWeb reader — some background.
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    39 likes 6 reposts 2 bookmarks 42 replies 25 mentions
    Fri, Apr 20, 2018 9:00am -07:00 #indieweb #monocle #reader #microsub
  • A MetaWeblog to Micropub Gateway

    I’m always looking for fun and better ways to publish content to my website. There are several nice writing apps now, such as Byword for MacOS, which lets you write in Markdown and then converts it into HTML. Many of these kinds of apps have an option to publish to a Wordpress site, using Wordpress’ XML-RPC interface, which is more or less the MetaWeblog API.
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    8 likes 1 repost 4 replies
    Mon, Apr 9, 2018 9:12am -07:00 #micropub #indieweb #xmlrpc #metaweblog
  • First Quarter 2018 in Review

    JanuaryEvents
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    1 like 3 mentions
    Sun, Apr 1, 2018 4:42pm -07:00 #review
  • php-mf2 v0.4.3: Optional HTML5 Support

    This release includes support for using an alternative HTML parser that understands HTML5 tags.
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    Thu, Mar 29, 2018 11:42am -07:00 #microformats
  • Building an IndieWeb Reader

    Over the last several months, I've been slowly putting the pieces in place to be able to build a solid indieweb reader. Today, I feel like I finally have enough in place to consider this functional enough that I am now using it every day!
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    60 likes 12 reposts 5 bookmarks 37 replies 40 mentions 1 RSVP
    Mon, Mar 12, 2018 5:03pm -07:00 #indieweb #monocle #aperture #microsub #micropub #watchtower #reader
  • IndieAuth-Client-PHP 0.3.1

    This release includes two new methods for quickly developing an IndieAuth client.
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    2 replies 1 mention
    Wed, Feb 7, 2018 11:30am -08:00 #indieauth #indieweb
  • OwnYourGram Updates

    Just pushed a few changes to OwnYourGram this morning! Here's what changed:
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    3 likes 1 mention
    Mon, Feb 5, 2018 10:12am -08:00 #ownyourgram #indieweb #changelog
  • WebSub and IndieAuth Published on w3.org!

    Today, we published the last of the two W3C specs I am editing! WebSub was published as a W3C Recommendation, and IndieAuth was published as a Working Group Note.
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    22 likes 23 reposts 1 bookmark 7 replies 5 mentions
    Tue, Jan 23, 2018 6:28pm -08:00 #websub #indieauth #w3c #standards
  • Pixel Art!

    I just finished my IndieWebCamp hack day project, and I'm pretty excited about it!
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    2 likes 4 mentions
    Sun, Jan 21, 2018 2:11pm -05:00 #indiewebcamp #pixel #art #p3k
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Hi, I'm Aaron Parecki, Director of Identity Standards at Okta, and co-founder of IndieWebCamp. I maintain oauth.net, write and consult about OAuth, and participate in the OAuth Working Group at the IETF. I also help people learn about video production and livestreaming. (detailed bio)

I've been tracking my location since 2008 and I wrote 100 songs in 100 days. I've spoken at conferences around the world about owning your data, OAuth, quantified self, and explained why R is a vowel. Read more.

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