Aaron Parecki

Michael Bishop https://miklb.com • Jul 8
My greatest lifehack has probably been removing the laptop charger from near the couch.

And here i was thinking about installing one there permanently

Portland, Oregon • 77°F

Sun, Jul 8, 2018 8:37pm -07:00
amit https://micro.blog/amit • Jul 8
@aaronpk I agree, you get to read multiple perspective on a topic. Of course, they are comments on web; so have to sort through some terrible ones. But I find the overall balance is on manageable side.

It's a little nervewracking when it's about your own post. I decided to stay out of the discussion there this time.

Portland, Oregon • 71°F

Sat, Jul 7, 2018 9:52pm -07:00
always coming home https://cybre.space/@nightpool • Jul 8
@aaronpk yeah. this was judged this least-complicated of all the possible options

Yeah, that's surprisingly simple. We need to work on the Microformats markup for that though. Although it came through not completely broken on my website as is.

Portland, Oregon • 71°F

Sat, Jul 7, 2018 8:56pm -07:00
coolaj86 https://github.com/coolaj86 • Apr 23

#3837 Simpler UX for OAuth2 login with GitHub

Here's a post I just wrote explaining IndieAuth and how it solves a number of the challenges with OAuth in this context.

https://aaronparecki.com/2018/07/07/7/oauth-for-the-open-web

Portland, Oregon • 71°F

Sat, Jul 7, 2018 8:54pm -07:00
always coming home https://cybre.space/@nightpool • Jul 8
@aaronpk

so wait... you include :something: in the text of your post, then include an "Emoji" tag with the name :something: and the client matches it up?

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Sat, Jul 7, 2018 8:50pm -07:00
Syl and Miku https://www.instagram.com/sylandmiku • Jul 7
One of the only pictures we took from #firstcaturdaypdx. We got way too distracted by all the cute cats!

We loved seeing @roarpdx there! Miku and Syl love their new #catdancer

#mikucat #caturday #cats #catsofinstagram #adventurecatintraining

@indiewebcat we gotta get you ready for this next year!

Portland, Oregon, USA • 72°F

Sat, Jul 7, 2018 8:42pm -07:00
https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon

Include timezone offset in machine-readable timestamp

Toots are displayed in (someone's) local time, but the machine readable date is always rendered in UTC.
continue reading...

Sat, Jul 7, 2018 8:35pm -07:00
always coming home https://cybre.space/@nightpool • Jul 8
@aaronpk ... documented? :P

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always coming home https://cybre.space/@nightpool • Jul 8
@aaronpk oh, weird. I haven't ever seen that emoji before, that was mainly why i was confused

custom emoji sound fun tho, where is that documented?

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Sat, Jul 7, 2018 8:33pm -07:00
always coming home https://cybre.space/@nightpool • Jul 8
@aaronpk really enjoying the custom emoji, thanks

uhoh, that's just a regular emoji, and it looks like I'm sending relative URLs to Mastodon so that gets linked to a nonexistent page on cybre.space! So many edge cases!

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Andy McIlwain https://andymci.com • Jul 7
An independent web doesn't necessarily mean an open web. Thinking about private sites and networks for groups, families, personal use. #indieweb #justathought

Agreed, and an open web doesn't imply a public web. We're experimenting with private content too! https://indieweb.org/private_posts

Portland, Oregon • 77°F

Sat, Jul 7, 2018 7:51pm -07:00
Hugh Isaacs II http://lucid00.com/ • Jul 7
Why not just use OpenID Connect?

http://openid.net/connect/

https://indieweb.org/indieauth-vs-openid-connect

Portland, Oregon, USA

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Julien Deswaef https://mastodon.social/@xuv • Jul 7
@aaronpk PS: I should mention that I started following you from the other instance. But still could not see your post before searching for it.

Yeah that sounds like Mastodon's limitation where it doesn't actually go fetch posts from people if someone on the server isn't already following them. Thanks for providing an example where that was confusing!

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Julien Deswaef https://mastodon.social/@xuv • Jul 7
@aaronpk yes. Exactly tried that. It does not work. Also, I can't seem to see the boost I did from a different instance looking at this account.

I think I fixed it... give it a try again?

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Sat, Jul 7, 2018 2:05pm -07:00
Julien Deswaef https://mastodon.social/@xuv • Jul 7
@aaronpk for some reason, this post does not federate well with all Mastodon instances. I'm trying to boost it from another account elsewhere, but I can't seem to see it. Any clue?

by any chance, are you trying to paste that post's URL into the search box on other Mastodon instances?

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Sat, Jul 7, 2018 1:52pm -07:00
Julien Deswaef https://mastodon.social/@xuv • Jul 7
@aaronpk for some reason, this post does not federate well with all Mastodon instances. I'm trying to boost it from another account elsewhere, but I can't seem to see it. Any clue?

hm, I've been incrementally implementing ActivityPub, doing as little as possible each time. I don't think I've tried what you're doing yet, trying to find my post from an instance that is not already following me. I'm not actually sure what I need to implement to make that work though! Any ideas?

Portland, Oregon • 74°F

Sat, Jul 7, 2018 1:44pm -07:00
https://github.com/cleverdevil/indiepaper

Look for mf2 first, use Mercury as a fallback

If the page has mf2, that is likely to be much better data than what Mercury finds. Indiepaper should first check if it finds an article via mf2, and if it doesn't, then can use Mercury to extract what it can.
continue reading...

Sat, Jul 7, 2018 1:30pm -07:00
Eugen https://mastodon.social/@Gargron • Jul 7
IndieAuth sounds interesting as a more generic way for federated applications to allow app registrations https://indieauth.spec.indieweb.org/
The question is how do we adapt this after our current, extremely similar but somewhat different system has been in production use for around 2 years #mastodev

The existing Mastodon API uses OAuth 2, right? Seems like you'd be able to add this on top and still also support the existing behavior without any changes. You'd get the benefit of auto discovery and global client IDs. Maybe we should chat about this at the next w3c call?

Portland, Oregon, USA • 74°F

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Sat, Jul 7, 2018 1:29pm -07:00
Sven Knebel https://www.svenknebel.de/ • Jul 7
Careful though if anything on there is supposed to send e-mail: .xyz is among the TLDs that are very strong spam-indicators.

j/k, I already forgot the domain I registered. It's actually p3k.app!

Portland, Oregon • 74°F

Sat, Jul 7, 2018 1:02pm -07:00
Tantek Çelik http://tantek.com/ • Jun 26

Support fallback to RelMeAuth for websites missing authorization endpoint

Unfortunately this won't really work.

Even if you could sign in to Aperture, you still wouldn't be able to use any of the reader apps. The reader apps expect to be able to get an access token in order to make authenticated requests to Aperture. Getting an access token requires having an authorization endpoint and token endpoint.

If I allowed people to log in to Aperture without fully setting up IndieAuth, it would just be confusing because then they'd get an error trying to sign in to any apps. I think it's better to not mislead people at that stage, and require that they set up IndieAuth before being able to sign in to Aperture.

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Sat, Jul 7, 2018 12:08pm -07:00