Aaron Parecki

#indieweb

Now accepting new users on OwnYourGram again!

OwnYourGram has been pretty stable since the major refactor this summer, so I just enabled new user registration again! Once you log in with IndieAuth and verify your Instagram account, you'll be able to run a test post to test that your Micropub endpoint accepts photos, and then it will enable your account. I also improved the documentation and text in the interface.

Have fun!

Portland, Oregon, USA

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Sun, Dec 18, 2016 7:00pm -08:00 #ownyourgram #indieweb
I replaced Feedburner’s subscriber count with this Bash script – Marco.org (marco.org)

"The scariest part: over 90% of my feed’s subscribers use Google Reader. What happens when Google Reader dies?"

Fri, Dec 16, 2016 1:19pm -08:00 #reader #indieweb
I just launched the ability to create "review" posts in Quill, and added support for displaying them in p3k. p3k adds the additional mf1 classes required for the review to show up in Google results as a "rich snippet", although the Google crawlers haven't made it over to my site yet since launching the change.

In the process of adding both mf2 (h-review) and mf1 (hReview) markup to my review posts, it demonstrated that there are some serious issues with the mf2 parsers and how they handle backcompat mf1 markup. Here's an example of my post being parsed by the PHP, Python, and Node parsers:

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Node

Python

The Python parser is the only one even close to correct, although it has added a child h-card based on an mf1 object.

I've opened issues on the corresponding repos to try to get these fixed.

Python parser

Node parser

PHP parser

In the mean time, my apologies if these review posts appear super broken in whatever reader you're using!
Portland, Oregon, USA

Fri, Dec 16, 2016 7:57am -08:00 #microformats #indieweb #review
A Brief Intro to My Website Architecture

This is a description of all the pieces and tools that I use to post to my website and handle comments and responses. Many of the pieces are open source and/or based on open protocols that you can implement yourself.WritingI write posts using an app called Quill. It's an open source application that I wrote. I run a hosted version at quill.p3k.io, and you can run it on your own server if you want as well. Quill provides an interface for posting longer blog posts with embedded images like this, as well as short text notes, and a handful of other kinds of posts like bookmarks.Quill doesn't actually store any posts itself. It is just an interface for writing posts.When I click the "post" button in Quill, it sends a Micropub request to my own website, which then creates the post and displays it on my website. Micropub is an API standard for creating short notes and posts, and it supports photos and videos too!You can start using Quill if your website supports Micropub. There are some Micropub plugins for various CMSs, and it's also not too hard to write an endpoint yourself if you're into that sort of thing.Posting to Twitter/FacebookI never write posts directly on Twitter or Facebook. Instead, I write a post in Quill, and then check the boxes for where I want to syndicate the post.
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Mon, Dec 12, 2016 1:24pm -08:00 #indieweb #webmention #micropub #bridgy #architecture
phinde, my self-hosted search engine (cweiske.de)

Thu, Dec 8, 2016 8:50am -08:00 #indieweb #search #elasticsearch
eliot peper: A dark vision of the social impacts of social media (www.eliotpeper.com)

"It doesn't get much more grassroots than IndieWeb, which is a bunch of people building a decentralized alternative to the corporate-owned web, line by line of code, without any real backing in the form of venture capital money or corporate sponsorship."

Fri, Dec 2, 2016 8:52am -08:00 #indieweb #williamhertling
Kill Process - by William Hertling (www.amazon.com)

"IndieWeb is about returning the web to what it was before—a bunch of home-brew websites."

Fri, Dec 2, 2016 8:43am -08:00 #indieweb
Just installed my own copy of https://silo.pub and launched at https://silopub.p3k.io! Thought I'd share a screencast of how I configure my syndication endpoints in p3k.

Portland, Oregon, USA

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Tue, Nov 29, 2016 11:23am -08:00 #p3k #silopub #indieweb
Testing syndicating to Twitter from my own instance of https://silo.pub hosted at https://silopub.p3k.io!

Portland, Oregon, USA

Tue, Nov 29, 2016 11:01am -08:00 #indieweb
@cpbotha@emacs.ch https://twitter.com/cvoxel • Nov 19
Let’s replace @twitter with something much better. https://cpbotha.net/2016/11/19/lets-replace-twitter-with-something-much-better/ (user-controlled, decentralized) @WordPress #WordPress

@cvoxel that's exactly what the #indieweb community is doing! This tweet was posted from my own blog!

Portland, Oregon, USA

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Sun, Nov 20, 2016 11:57am -08:00 #indieweb
Creating a Self-Hosted Alternative to Facebook Live using Nginx and Micropub

Facebook Live offers a seamless viewing experience for people to watch your livestream and then see an archived version after you're done broadcasting.
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Sat, Nov 19, 2016 6:19pm -05:00 #video #livestream #selfhosted #nginx #micropub #indieweb
Boston (BOS) to New York (JFK)

November 19, 2016 from 3:00pm to 4:21pm (-0500)

Delta Flight 1354

New York (JFK) to Portland (PDX)

November 19, 2016 from 7:50pm (-0500) to 11:11pm (-0800)

Delta Flight 2835

Portland Intl in Portland

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W3C Social WG Face-to-Face Meeting

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November 17-18, 2016

Stata Center, MIT

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Portland (PDX) to Boston (BOS)

November 16, 2016 from 7:25am (-0800) to 3:34pm (-0500)

Alaska Flight 30

General Edward Lawrence Logan Intl in Boston

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Christie Koehler https://twitter.com/christi3k • Nov 10
Busting social media silos and re-decentralizing the web is one of the most important things technologists can be helping with now.

@christi3k I think so too! (This note also posted at https://aaronparecki.com/2016/11/10/8/)

Portland, Oregon, USA

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Thu, Nov 10, 2016 3:50pm -08:00 #indieweb
Homebrew Website Club

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November 9, 2016 6:30pm - 8:00pm (-0800)
Ankeny Tap & Table

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js;dr in print (tantek.com)

"Not just second or third world scenarios without robust communications infrastructure, but anyone tethering through AT&T in San Francisco."

Sun, Nov 6, 2016 9:16am -08:00 #indieweb #jsdr
Webmentions Are Pingbacks For The Open Web (blog.nexcess.net)

Fri, Nov 4, 2016 10:14am -07:00 #webmention #indieweb
How to make your social media posts open first | Opensource.com (opensource.com)

Thu, Nov 3, 2016 8:19am -07:00 #indieweb #indiewebcamp
Automatically uploading screenshots to a Micropub Media Endpoint

I often want to share screenshots in text chat from my computer, and I don't like sharing Dropbox links since they load a huge HTML+JS app just to show an image.Since I already have a Micropub Media Endpoint that apps like Quill use to upload photos, I thought that would be a good place to also share screenshots from. The Media Endpoint is a simple HTTP API. It accepts a file upload, and returns the URL to the file in the Location header.OSX has what's called "Folder Actions" where the system will trigger a script to run any time a file is added to a folder. I created an Automator script that will upload the newly added file to the media endpoint, and copy the resulting URL onto the clipboard.
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Wed, Nov 2, 2016 12:40pm -07:00 #screenshot #micropub #media-endpoint #indieweb