Aaron Parecki

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After posting this many blog posts with Quill's HTML editor, I've been somewhat annoyed at some of the strange HTML artifacts it creates. Specifically it adds a few helper classes to the HTML for some of the visual editor parts, and some unnecessary classes are added to some of the images. Today I cleaned up the HTML that Quill sends so that it now only sends very plain and simple HTML. To do this, I send the output from the Javascript editor through the HTMLPurifier library, removing all class attributes and allowing only a specific subset of HTML tags.This ends up being only barely visible, but is a good change under the hood. The one visible change this will have for my blog posts is that now they won't sometimes have an extra empty line at the bottom. This was caused by me pressing "enter" after writing the last paragraph, creating an empty placeholder paragraph in the visual editor.

Today I added support to IndieNews for storing and displaying the timezone of submitted posts. Previously, all the dates were stored and displayed as UTC, which can be misleading such as when a post is submitted after 5pm in Pacific time since the post then has the date of the following day in UTC.

I should have known this one would take longer than I expected.My Jawbone UP finally died, so I replaced it with a FitBit. I've really enjoyed the Jawbones, but I'm not confident in the future of the company's wearables department. I decided to take the plunge and dive in to the FitBit ecosystem instead. I got a new FitBit Charge 2, which among other things includes a heart rate monitor which I'm excited about. But step one was rewriting my sleep import script to pull sleep data from FitBit instead of Jawbone.