Aaron Parecki

Gullfoss.

throwback alert! portland 2016 w/ @aaronpk @tantek

i've been a student for 10 years, is this how jobhunting works?

Congrats to @termie for 🖼 appearing in this article about "millionaire engineers who get paid gobs and barely work":
http://www.businessinsider.com/rest-and-vest-millionaire-engineers-who-barely-work-silicon-valley-2017-7

my stars. strip dashes in the app. strip them on the server. do anything but "let's design, print, and distribute a flyer!" 😩 cc: @PBOTinfo

Mastodon: the social network that accidentally DDoS's your server with every link you share. (every instance crawls the page individually)

Data attributes are explicitly specified to only be for the site itself, not for external reuse:

Custom data attributes are intended to store custom data private to the page or application, for which there are no more appropriate attributes or elements.

These attributes are not intended for use by software that is independent of the site that uses the attributes.

They are also meant for non-visible data. Using microformats means you can use the text shown on the page as data, rather than a parallel version that may go out of date. This DRY issue is the problem with JSON-LD too, as well as its complexity. I wrote about this with examples.

Microformats are in active use by the indieweb protocols including webmention and micropub. I've written about possible collisions with u- prefixes before too.

Microformats 2 are explictly designed to minimise clutter, and are terser than alternatives that require extra versions of the text like JSON-LD and OGP.

The Secret Big Blockchain doesn't want you to know:

Not everything requires strict global consensus

My latest AltPlatform post explores information overload in #IndieWeb & how to filter out the checkins. http://www.altplatform.org/2017/07/31/filter-the-indieweb-firehose/

This hose has 6 useful spray patterns and one utterly stupid or broken one. #verticalvideo

javascript is wild

Don't present an OAuth authorization request that looks like this. Use incremental auth to ask for permissions in context. #OAuth #IETF99

Portland event organizer @matto's tweetstorm voices a complaint I’ve heard from many local event organizers #pdx http://sflo.me/2uHFiMl

I’m about to tweet a link to test webmentions, and I’d appreciate some likes/retweets/replies to test them. Thanks in advance folks

better to treat the impassioned misconceptions as a cry for help about the state of indieweb tools for personal use rather than any actual reasoned criticism of chances of growth / success on a more macro scale

Sad to hear, especially since you tried to use my plugins. But I will not try to convince you to come back, I know my plugins are lacking. They are just pieces of my own site I open sourced, but the way I cut them off might break things.

I am actively working on two new ones at the moment, with some 'official' IndieWeb libraries, with unit testing, hopefully even with panel widgets. They should be much more stable and user friendly than the old ones.

So I am not asking to come back now, but please, let me ping you when I got the new ones ready. I hope you will like those.

We're a long way from general adoption, but we can make steps.