Aaron Parecki

This totally slipped me by, so here we go. I do like the idea of logging things, and syslog() is probably the best solution unless we want to pull in something like PSR-3. More thoughts:

1. I would not turn any logging on by default. I do think logging IPs with authentication requests makes sense, and I would simply never want to log any IPs by default. Especially when people running this on shared hosts might be feeding it into logs they themselves cannot clear.
2. LOG_FAILED_PASSWORDS sounds like a nice-to-have that needs massive disclaimers around it. We can’t work on the assumption that everyone is using a password manager. This means people are typing their passwords, and typos happen. This option sounds good, but if you over time fill logs with deviations of your real password, you better be making sure you are purging those logs real good. (Of course again with the problem that syslog() may be out of reach to the user who unwittingly turned this on.)

I can almost see us strategically dropping these into the source code, but commented. Anyone who understands syslog() and wants to use it to trip up other alarm bells on a server, will probably be OK uncommenting a couple of functions. Even if they aren’t well versed with PHP. This will at least keep it out of the hands of users who cannot see the possible side-effects.

Like the idea, just not sure how to execute it without giving users some flags in the config with huge warning disclaimers. And I don’t like warning disclaimers in what is supposed to be a simple single-purpose thing.

I love programming.

I definitely agree! It was a huge improvement when they switched to subscription!

@aaronpk I'm a big fan of plan 'ol RSS but this is neat. Seems weird that it shows up under a GoDaddy URL though?

Announcement: “Those of you sitting in window seats probably got a good look at the Southwest jet that flew over us. They’re at 36,000 ft., we are at 35,000 ft.” A) Is this common? B) Is it a good idea to announce this? 😳🤔

@aaronpk Hi! I just started using OwnYourGram and it's so cool! I'm glad that I get to archive my stuff from there and onto my own domain. I have a question though: is it possible for it to fetch more than 20 IG posts? Would be cool if I could back those up as well.

Thank you!

@aaronpk Your list of life tools is the one that pushed me over the edge. I got the KitchenAid, as recommended, and I hope you are enjoying your $0.26 of affiliate income. 😂. (I actually don't know what the affiliate percentage is anymore.)

Finished butternut squash soup with coconut milk. I don’t know why it took me so long to get an immersion blender. cc: @Burk

@cleverdevil Perhaps there wasn’t enough of a market before now for WordPress et al. to invest resources into a migration tool/service (there was obviously a desire, because all those tools you strung together), but in the current climate, it does seem like there’s a greater need. Maybe someone is frantically building one right now?

I’d seen several people asking here about getting their photos out of Instagram, so it’s a shame that InstaLooter isn’t non-tech-friendly (or that someone hasn’t deployed it behind a web service on a server somewhere)….

And I like the idea of the “on this day” stuff that you and @colinwalker have built for yourselves. The more pieces of the siloed experience that we can easily replicate on the open web, the better :-)

@aaronpk I can't even fathom how I could add that just by putting some markup in the site header or whatever, but I look forward to finding out.

Yeah, he definitely wants to add it. The main challenge he has currently is where are the photos hosted for people who reply using the micro.blog app? For people who host their replies like us, it’s fine. But unless micro.blog posts the replies to the hosted accounts/Wordpress accounts, then micro.blog the service would have to have photo hosting. So until he decides which way to go he’s held off on allow photo replies. If we can do it but others can’t then that would open up even more questions.

micro.blog doesn’t support photos in replies, only initial posts. That’s what happened :)

@aaronpk I can't even fathom how I could add that just by putting some markup in the site header or whatever, but I look forward to finding out.