Aaron Parecki

Peter Stuifzand https://publog.stuifzandapp.com/ • Apr 15
What I don't understand: let's say I write a new issue with Quill and somehow get an issue title and markdown support. When this entry gets posted via Micropub to my website and webmentions are mentioned to https://brid.gy, how can Brid.gy convert the HTML from my entry back to Markdown in Github? Does it do that, or is there some other magic going on.

cc: @aaronpk, @snarfed

Bridgy certainly could, but I don't know if it does. In my case my posts are stored as plaintext or markdown internally, and my site is the one pushing to github, not using Bridgy at all.

Portland, Oregon • 48°F

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Sun, Apr 15, 2018 7:27pm -07:00
aaronpk https://github.com/aaronpk • Apr 1

#25 spam prevention

Just implemented two more anti-spam techniques.

• if you say more uppercase than lowercase characters other than the URL, and if you joined in the last 5 minutes, then you get kicked
• if you say the same URL 5 times within a minute, you get kicked

These only apply to people who are not +v registered on irc-people

Portland, Oregon • 54°F

Sat, Apr 14, 2018 10:14am -07:00
aaronpk https://github.com/aaronpk • Apr 1

#25 spam prevention
I like the idea of giving the community the ability to help with this. That also happens to be the easiest thing to implement. Loqi now has a new !kick command.

If you are +v (you're registered on irc-people), you can use the new !kick command

You can say !kick foobar to kick that person from the room, but only if they joined less than 5 minutes ago
Portland, Oregon • 53°F

Sat, Apr 14, 2018 9:34am -07:00 #irc #spam
aaronpk https://github.com/aaronpk • Apr 1

#25 spam prevention

Mentioning the same link repeatedly. Needs some thought about a good limit, since people testing link preview is legit. Maybe the limit is >5 times within a minute and you're kicked. Maybe don't do rate limiting if you're v since that means you're registered in the wiki.

San Francisco, California • 57°F

Fri, Apr 13, 2018 8:16pm -07:00
jw https://micro.blog/jw • Apr 13
@aaronpk is this on a consistent schedule? If @macgenie hadn't pinged me, I would have missed it 😔

I want to do them monthly, I guess third Wednesday of the month, but this is only the second one so far. I'll always post them on https://indieweb.org/Events and http://calagator.org/events/tag/indieweb and they go out in the IndieWeb newsletter as well https://indieweb.org/this-week-in-the-indieweb

San Francisco, California • 65°F

Fri, Apr 13, 2018 3:46pm -07:00
David Crawshaw https://crawshaw.io • Apr 13
There's some overlap, but I am not opposed to what they might call silos in email services. Commercial email hosting is good as long as the federation system works.

That page refers specifically to the thing you're talking about in email, services innovating in non-compatible ways, locking people in to their service. There's nothing wrong with commercial services in the IndieWeb as long as they're interoperable.

San Francisco, California • 64°F

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Bobfa https://micro.blog/Bobfa • Apr 13
@aaronpk Now I am getting more excited about this... One of your songs is an inspiriation for a name for my potential podcast......

Excellent! I can't wait to hear all the microcasts that use my songs!

San Francisco, California • 53°F

Thu, Apr 12, 2018 9:02pm -07:00
Apr 12
Heading to @CocoaBoston in a few. Hope to see some of you there! cocoaheadsboston.org

Nice! Do you know the organizers? I'd love to come out and give a talk on OAuth for iOS apps at a future meetup!

San Francisco, California • 59°F

Thu, Apr 12, 2018 3:23pm -07:00
martymcguire https://github.com/martymcguire • Apr 11

#142 Add Indigenous to list of activities when sharing a photo

That would be so great! I would definitely use this!

Portland, Oregon • 51°F

Wed, Apr 11, 2018 4:42pm -07:00
manton https://micro.blog/manton • Apr 11
@frankm It's easy to forget, but I think there were quite a few around 2007-2008. I remember trying to convince people to use Twitter. Many people didn't get it.

Not even that long ago! https://www.wired.com/2016/05/twitter-onboarding-tips-for-new-users/ (2016) https://www.lifewire.com/tutorial-intro-to-using-twitter-2654622 (2018)

Portland, Oregon • 54°F

Wed, Apr 11, 2018 1:01pm -07:00
danielpunkass https://micro.blog/danielpunkass • Mar 25
@aaronpk I intend to support it natively when I can. It’s would be helpful to know if an equivalent of “getPosts” is standard yet? Can I list the contents of a blog?

Not yet, but if that's a requirement for you then I am interested in solving it!

Portland, Oregon • 53°F

Tue, Apr 10, 2018 9:35am -07:00
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This is going to be a huge week for Micro.blog. Really excited about some of the things we’ve been working on.
→ 2018/04/09 8:05 am

Excited to see what's coming!

Portland, Oregon • 52°F

Tue, Apr 10, 2018 8:44am -07:00
jeremycherfas https://micro.blog/jeremycherfas • Mar 25
@JohnPhilpin @sumudu I'm waiting until it is a little more robust before trying to get @aaronpk's bridge from XMLRPC to MicroPub working with MarsEdit. That will be fun.

fyi I'm not planning on making any changes to that project unless prompted by someone who is actually going to use it with another tool. I would also rather see MarsEdit add Micropub support so that it can work natively with more sites!

Portland, Oregon • 52°F

Tue, Apr 10, 2018 8:04am -07:00
dgold https://micro.blog/dgold • Mar 25
@aaronpk Wow! That's an incredible thing to put out there & available, aaron, thank you.

The nice thing is it doesn't require that the bridge store anything, even user credentials, so it doesn't take a lot of server resources to run! I am curious how many people will find fun edge cases from various blogging apps tho!

Portland, Oregon • 47°F

Mon, Apr 9, 2018 11:25am -07:00
http://inessential.com/2018/04/08/maybe_you_haven_t_played_maelstrom_since

This is incredible! I used to love this game

Portland, Oregon • 47°F

Mon, Apr 9, 2018 9:42am -07:00
Matt Biilmann http://www.netlify.com • Apr 8
I would recommend adding it as an env var in the Netlify UI - there it will only be exposed to your build environment and any Lambda functions you run.

That's probably a better idea :-) In any case the token only provides read access so it's not a huge deal.

Portland, Oregon • 50°F

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Frederic Hemberger https://frederic-hemberger.de • Apr 8
API key for http://webmention.io

ah, if you don't mind everyone having access to query your webmentions on https://webmention.io then it's fine to make that public, either in github or in Javascript on your site.

Portland, Oregon • 50°F

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Sun, Apr 8, 2018 11:18am -07:00
Frederic Hemberger https://frederic-hemberger.de • Apr 8
@aaronpk Hi Aaron, I'm trying to implement webmentions on my site. Unfortunately, @netlify doesn't support encrypted env vars, so I'm not sure if pushing the API token to GitHub in clear text is a good idea. Any thoughts?

Which API token are you talking about? Also might be easier to come chat about this in IRC/Slack: https://indieweb.org/discuss

Portland, Oregon • 49°F

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Sun, Apr 8, 2018 11:10am -07:00
Marty McGuire https://martymcgui.re/ • Apr 7

This Week in the IndieWeb Audio Edition • March 31st - April 6th, 2018

That was a great one this week! I really enjoyed the summaries of all the links added to the various wiki pages!

Portland, Oregon • 48°F

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dshanske https://github.com/dshanske • Apr 5

#118 Add Support for Legacy and New Scopes

Agreed on removing the filter. Until there is a good use case for a plugin modifying the behavior of the plugin that also wants to provide finer-grained access, there's no need to make that part extensible. Supporting the primary list of scopes create/update/delete/undelete is good for now, and you could also accept "post" if it's requested for legacy clients.

Portland, Oregon • 46°F

Sun, Apr 8, 2018 7:42am -07:00