Aaron Parecki

Evan Prodromou https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Prodromou • Jul 14
So:

1. Do some clustering on my `following` collection.

2. Make lists for each cluster. I can then label them manually ("High school", "Breather").

3. Make a list for "used to follow" just in case.

3. Unfollow any account that doesn't follow me back.

That's basically what I use "channels" in my "social reader" for. I do feel like it's about time to implement a more formal workflow for it now that it's been working well as is. https://aaronparecki.com/2018/04/20/46/indieweb-reader-my-new-home-on-the-internet

Omaha, Nebraska, USA • 83°F

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jerry gallo https://twitter.com/jerrygallo6 • Jul 17
@aaronpk thanks for your reply Aaron. I put additional info here: https://twitter.com/jerrygallo6

It looks like my screenshot is wrong. If you're accessing the app in your browser at "http://localhost:8000/" then make sure that exact URL is entered as the callback URL too.

Portland, Oregon, USA • 74°F

Tue, Jul 17, 2018 9:56am -07:00
Ton Zijlstra https://www.zylstra.org/blog/author/admin-2/ • Jul 17

Mapping the IndieWeb a Webmention at a Time

You might be interested in this!

http://www.indiemap.org/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkc5afFohmI&index=5&list=PLk3TtIJ31hqrLIPqz55TczawWu-30cnXM

Portland, Oregon • 66°F

Tue, Jul 17, 2018 9:08am -07:00
jerry gallo https://twitter.com/jerrygallo6 • Jul 17
@aaronpk Reading your book, and a bit confused on the 2nd chapter trying to setup the account on github. I'm running my local PHP server behind firewall. I keep receiving error: http://localhost:8000/callback?error=redirect_uri_mismatch... Is it required to be a public facing IP?

I thought GitHub allows local addresses. Make sure the exact url is registered in github. e.g. "localhost" vs "127.0.0.1" are considered different URLs.

Portland, Oregon • 90°F

Mon, Jul 16, 2018 7:56pm -07:00
Jul 14
I wanted Micro.blog to be so strictly reverse-chronological and anti-algorithmic timeline, that I waited a long time to make this change: just flipped conversations to be oldest at top. The clicked post on the web is also lightly highlighted.

🎉 so much better!! 🎉

Portland, Oregon • 91°F

Sat, Jul 14, 2018 5:36pm -07:00
Titouan https://mstn.titouan.co/@tc • Jul 15
@aaronpk You could probably use the `/api/states` endpoint (https://developers.home-assistant.io/docs/en/external_api_rest.html#get-api-states) and filter the result with the `entity_id` starting with `zone.`

oh that's a thought. Seems like a bit of a roundabout way to get there, but would probably work.

Portland, Oregon • 91°F

Sat, Jul 14, 2018 5:09pm -07:00
@balloob Is there an API in Home Assistant to list all the zones? I'm interested in adding geofence support into my iOS app, https://overland.p3k.app but I don't really want to make an interface for configuring geofences, and thought I might be able to pull them from HA.

Portland, Oregon, USA • 89°F

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Jamey Sharp https://toot.cat/@jamey • Jul 13
@aaronpk But if the Microsub server includes some post in a timeline response, it has to include the full body of that post, right? Even if the client doesn't need the body yet?

That's true, it's based around the assumption that clients display posts in a stream, rather than a model like email clients where only the subject line is displayed.

In practice you can't store just an ID, you need to store something else in order to give some indication to the user of what the thing is before they click it anyway.

In a similar vein as to what I think you're getting at, we do need to extend Microsub somehow in order to support "conversation" views. Think clicking on a tweet to see the full thread. I think that same mechanism could be used to lazily load a large post if needed too.

Portland, Oregon • 86°F

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Jamey Sharp https://toot.cat/@jamey • Jul 13
@aaronpk Do you have any statistics on storage costs for GUIDs vs post titles vs publication dates vs post contents?
I'm thinking there are multiple sensible levels of cache flushing. It seems nice to keep just enough information to browse the list of posts, while discarding the contents of a post until someone actually opens it. But if nobody scrolls back in the history for a feed for a while, it's probably okay to discard the old post metadata too.
Microsub couldn't do that as-is, can it?

Microsub doesn't actually say anything about feeds or how long data is stored, it's an abstraction for browsing channels of content, where the contents are not specified by Microsub.

I could definitely implement a Microsub server that doesn't actually store entries and just loads from RSS feeds on demand, tho I probably wouldn't do that exactly for performance reasons.

The main things that Microsub cares about are

• Return a list of channels for the client to display
• Return the top posts of a channel (doesn't have to necessarily be date-ordered)
• Indicate whether there are "more" items in that channel that can be loaded

Everything else is an implementation detail, including if/how old content is stored.

Portland, Oregon • 86°F

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Jamey Sharp https://toot.cat/@jamey • Jul 13
@aaronpk Hey, on another note: after conversation with NewsBlur's developer, I'm thinking about RFC5005 as a way for feed consumers to reduce storage costs, and I wondered if this makes sense to you. If you know you can re-fetch any feed entry from the origin server at any time because it has paginated archives, then you can aggressively discard your cached copy of anything whenever you want... right?

Well that's an interesting thought... The ever-growing storage requirement was my main concern with launching Aperture, so I limited it to only storing the last 7 days of posts. If I knew I could show a "read more" link and fetch the feeds on demand that would certainly make my life easier while still letting people browse through more content than I want to cache/store permanently.

Portland, Oregon • 86°F

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Jamey Sharp https://toot.cat/@jamey • Jul 13

masto meta Show more Ugh, I don't understand the rules for when a public post shows up in the local timeline. Replies don't, except sometimes they do if I'm replying to myself, but just mentioning someone isn't a reply I guess?

I was just having a conversation with a few ActivityPub developers about this exact thing. It is very confusing! I'm pretty sure my site is also doing things wrong but oh well.

Portland, Oregon • 86°F

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riking https://github.com/riking • Jun 7

#310 Standardize discovery using link rel on user-visible URLs

The fact that Mastodon and Pleroma already support this type of discovery makes it a good candidate for including in the spec. I think the language in the original proposal is a great start and we should continue iterating on it.

Portland, Oregon, USA • 67°F

Fri, Jul 13, 2018 10:32am -07:00
Amit Gawande • Jul 13

State of Microsub Servers and Client

I think there may be some unexpected edge cases in the way that I implemented deleting items older than 7 days in Aperture, causing them to sometimes reappear. I'll have to look into that some more.

As for Monocle, luckily it's not the only client you have to choose from! Try out Indigenous for iOS and Android, or Together! I haven't implemented feed following in Monocle because I normally do that from Aperture. The other clients support it though! I also mainly treat my feeds as a stream, so I am less concerned about marking individual items read/unread, which is why that feature is not in Monocle. Aperture supports it though so again another client might give you a better experience!

Portland, Oregon • 67°F

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Eugen https://mastodon.social/@Gargron • Jul 13
@aaronpk id property has to be either content-negotiable or always json. url property can be html. you may use <link> tags in html to point to json resources, also.

Oh, does Mastodon already look for <link> alternates now? I would love to do that instead of content negotiation on my posts.

Portland, Oregon • 67°F

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Christopher Lemmer Webber https://octodon.social/@cwebber • Jul 13

activitypub for static site generators Show more @craigmaloney Aha, so this is an interesting topic! In fact we did plan for this possibility in ActivityPub! Here's how to do it: - Add an actor like: {"@id": "https://foo.example/blog/actor.jsonld", "inbox": "https://statichelper.example/foo-example/inbox", "outbox": "https://foo.example/blog/feed.jsonld"} - comments and favorite counts can be "loaded" dynamically onto blog pages with javascript, kind of like Disqus.

I tried doing something similar, but at least Mastodon expects to be able to do content negotiation on both author profile URLs as well as post permalinks, so that kind of prevents it from being able to effectively work with static sites.

I got to the point of being able to deliver posts to my followers without actually writing any JSON files at all, but then things kind of looked half broken to people in Mastodon.

There's an open issue on GitHub about a potential solution that would make this work better for static sites, feel free to chime in! https://github.com/w3c/activitypub/issues/310

Portland, Oregon, USA • 67°F

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solidarity with ppl in rojava https://todon.nl/@paulfree14 • Jul 13
@wakest
I have seen @aaronpk getting couple of times mentioned, but have never seen a reply back. So I'm not shure if messages are comming in. @xuv

Maybe I'm missing something about forwarding my replies to other servers. Right now I only send replies directly to the server I'm replying to, so that's probably why you aren't seeing my replies to other servers. You should have been seeing my normal public posts tho.

Portland, Oregon, USA • 66°F

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˗ˏˋ wakest ˎˊ˗ https://mastodon.social/@wakest • Jul 13
@aaronpk hey its working! so how are you getting notified? you wrote an interface for it?

It's showing up like my normal webmention notifications and I can read and reply to them in my reader apps, different apps on my computer and my phone. https://media.aaronpk.com/Screen-Shot-2018-07-13-08-15-05-EFGkWHrJg2.jpg

Portland, Oregon • 66°F

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˗ˏˋ wakest ˎˊ˗ https://mastodon.social/@wakest • Jul 13
how did you get #ActivityPub working in #p3k? and is that part released yet? I didn't see it mentioned here https://indieweb.org/p3k
@aaronpk

I started by reading @Gargron's tutorials and then kept going from there, a lot of trial and error, and I had to make Mastodon accounts on like 3 different servers because it caches things too much so I couldn't test it well. I'm probably not going to make this code public though.

Portland, Oregon • 66°F

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Brad Enslen https://ramblinggit.com/ • Jul 12
I was thinking about your http://Indieweb.xyz wondering if adding a RSS feed to it would be good, bad, neutral or some fourth thing?

It already has Microformats, so you can follow it from a reader that supports that, like any of the indieweb readers! https://aaronparecki.com/2018/04/20/46/indieweb-reader-my-new-home-on-the-internet

Portland, Oregon, USA • 94°F

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Thu, Jul 12, 2018 4:22pm -07:00
https://github.com/calagator/calagator

Enable unique timezones per event

It appears right now all events exist in the system's "local" time, which works fine when this is used for a single city's events. In the case of wanting to list events in multiple cities, we need to know the timezone of each event in order to generate proper machine-readable data for ical/microformats feeds.
continue reading...

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