Aaron Parecki

Coming to some very pragmatic platform opinions. Shared hosts can't support all the features modern users rightly expect. #indieweb

I wrote a breakdown of the Pac-Man ghost AI including a step by step interactive demo which visualizes the process: http://aranasaurus.com/2015/01/10/pac-man-ghost-ai-demo/

Tomorrow 9:30AM. Start here, finish at CHNW. @bearderic @aaronpk @sofiaclausse who's in?

@chriscoyier Yeah, but my startup is ENTERPRISE: distributed, cloud-based, big-data, responsive text files as a service. DCbBdRTFaaS. 😃

There should be a test for new startups: “Is this better than a text file?” If the answer isn’t “duh, a lot better” you have to try again.

My micropub app has a long way to go, but its alive. Now able to publish to my own site, twitter, and facebook from one form that I can fill out while offline. Up next is photo uploading. Then maybe saving drafts and such. Offline detection woukd be cool too. Maybe builds for iOS and other platforms too. #indieweb #cordova

Gonna ship something today. Neeeed to ship something today. Can't go on without much longer. #indieweb

I enjoyed catching up on the #indiewebcamp chat logs tonight and the discussion of an indieweb replacement for Twitter search. I like that there can be spirited disagreement, but it remains friendly and sometimes humorous.

To that end, I particularly enjoyed this exchange:

# 17:03 <snarfed> oh god i hope i didn't propose a search solution

# 17:03 <GWG> snarfed: No, a real time publishing notification protocol

# 17:04 <snarfed> oh god i hope i didn't propose a real time publishing notification protocol

Today in "calendars are hard, repeating events are really hard" http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=107926751

I successfully went 336 more days in 2014 without being in a car than I did without coffee.

And so it’s time to launch a new version of my personal website, https://barryfrost.com. Over the last few weeks I’ve been building this new platform from scratch with a few new key aims:

1. Hosting all of my 10+ years of Pinboard/Delicious bookmarks, Twitter tweets and blog articles
2. Sending replies, reposts and likes to IndieWeb sites and silos like Instagram
3. Store all my content in files rather than in a database but cache/index using SQL/NoSQL
4. Exposing a Micropub endpoint for creating new content
5. Displaying reply/repost/like contexts above posts
6. Bringing my software up-to-date with IndieWeb technologies
7. Learning how to set up my server/VPS from scratch, rather than relying on Heroku

My last system #Baker offered a partial implementation of webmentions and syndications but was buggy and broken in places. My Microformats markup was also flaky. Hopefully this new attempt is a little more robust. Fuller details are in the colophon.

So kick the tyres, send this post a webmention from your site or respond on Twitter.