Aaron Parecki

#indieweb

• Aaron Parecki https://aaronparecki.com/   •   Feb 27

  I'm excited that @manton2 of http://micro.blog will be in town for Homebrew Website Club! You should come! 🍕 🎉 https://indieweb.org/events/2017-03-01-homebrew-website-club
  

  We have another out of town guest for Homebrew Website Club tonight! 🎉 https://twitter.com/cleverdevil/status/837019191546941445 (we also have 🍕 so you should come!)

  Portland, Oregon, USA

  Wed, Mar 1, 2017 2:55pm -08:00 #indieweb
• Marty McGuire https://martymcgui.re/

  Audio edition for This Week in the IndieWeb for February 10th - 17th, 2017

  Thinking about doing this as a regular thing, if I can get the production time down. Feedback welcome!

  Music from Aaron Parecki’s 100DaysOfMusic project:

  • Day 48 - Glitch
  • Day 49 - Floating
  • Day 9
  • Day 11

  Sat, Feb 18, 2017 3:15pm -05:00 (reposted on Sat, Feb 18, 2017 12:44pm -08:00) #indieweb #this-week-podcast
• Homebrew Website Club PDX

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  8

  February 8, 2017 5:30pm - 7:30pm (-0800)

  DreamHost Portland, 621 SW Morrison St., 14th Floor, Portland, OR

  permalink #indieweb #hwc

• Day 46: Expanding the IRC/Slack Gateway to all IndieWeb Channels #100DaysOfIndieWeb

  For quite some time, we've been running my IRC/Slack gateway so that our main #indieweb IRC channel is also available in Slack. It's great because it allows people to use the nice mobile-friendly Slack client, while also not locking ourselves into a proprietary platform. The bridge is also used to allow people to join the chat from our web interface.

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  Sat, Feb 4, 2017 3:31pm -08:00 #100daysofindieweb #indieweb #slack #irc
• Micro.blog Project Surges Past $65K on Kickstarter, Gains Backing from DreamHost (wptavern.com)

  

  Thu, Jan 26, 2017 3:01pm -08:00 #microblog #indieweb #kickstarter
• Homebrew Website Club

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  25

  January 25, 2017 5:30pm - 7:30pm (-0800)

  Velo Cult Bike Shop

  permalink #indieweb #hwc

• Day 27: Parsing meta http-equiv and returning status code in XRay #100DaysOfIndieWeb

  Today I closed a long-standing request on XRay to return the HTTP status code from the retrieved page, as well as parsing the <meta http-equiv="Status" content="410 Gone"> tag in the HTML. I also now return the final URL that XRay retrieved the document from, after following any HTTP redirects that were sent.

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  Mon, Jan 16, 2017 1:08pm -08:00 #100daysofindieweb #xray #indieweb

• Day 26: Tag tokens and publish date for Quill #100DaysOfIndieWeb

  Last week, Barry Frost released Micropublish, a Micropub client written in Ruby. It's a very slick interface for posting a few kinds of posts. I noticed that his "category" field looked really nice, and discovered that he was using a Bootstrap plugin called "Token Field". Today I added this plugin to Quill, so now everywhere that you previously had to enter tags as comma-separated values, it's now using this "token field" UI.

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  Sun, Jan 15, 2017 11:22am -08:00 #quill #indieweb #100daysofindieweb

• Week in Review #100DaysOfIndieWeb

  aaronparecki.comDay 18: I updated my reposts to show the full contents of the post I reposted rather than just the URL.Day 19: I updated my website to automatically fetch the contents of my reposted URLs when I make new reposts.Day 24: I updated my reply posts to be able to show the full contents of the post I'm replying to.Day 25: I updated my website to automatically fetch the contents of the posts I reply to.XRayDay 20: I added Instagram support to XRay, so now XRay returns data when given Instagram URLs.Day 21: I added Twitter support to XRay, although you need to pass your own OAuth keys to XRay in order for it to fetch tweets.Day 22: I updated a few things in XRay to make it easier to deploy to shared hosting, and simplified its dependencies.LibrariesDay 23: I published my timezone lookup tools as a standalone library, and updated XRay and Quill to use the library instead of the duplicated class.

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  Sat, Jan 14, 2017 10:48am -08:00 #100daysofindieweb #indieweb #xray #p3k

• Day 25: Automatically Fetching Reply Contexts for p3k #100DaysOfIndieWeb

  Today I worked on automatically expanding the contents of my reply contexts whenever a new post is created. I also have a utility to fetch the reply context for older posts. I ran it for the first page of replies on my replies feed, and I'm super excited that they are looking pretty good now!

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  Sat, Jan 14, 2017 10:36am -08:00 #100daysofindieweb #indieweb #p3k

• Day 24: Displaying Reply Context in p3k #100DaysOfIndieWeb

  Following last week's work on displaying full repost content, I modified those templates to be used to display reply context in my reply posts.

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  Fri, Jan 13, 2017 6:51pm -08:00 #100daysofindieweb #indieweb #p3k
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  We did it! Webmention is now a @W3C recommendation! Congrats @SocialWebWG and @IndieWebCamp! https://www.w3.org/TR/2017/REC-webmention-20170112/ https://twitter.com/w3c/status/819624363645353985

  Mountain View, California, USA

  42 likes 13 reposts 2 replies 6 mentions

  Thu, Jan 12, 2017 11:47am -08:00 #webmention #w3c #indieweb
• Phil Wolff http://linkedin.com/in/philwolff   •   Jan 12

  @kevinmarks Go-to registrars these days? Any particularly indieweb friendly?
  

  @evanwolf @kevinmarks Well @godaddy has been hosting the Homebrew Website Club meetups! That's pretty #indieweb friendly!

  Mountain View, California, USA

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  Thu, Jan 12, 2017 11:02am -08:00 #indieweb

• Day 23: Open Sourcing my Timezone Library #100DaysOfIndieWeb

  Today I published my code for finding the timezone of a specific location as a standalone library.

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  Thu, Jan 12, 2017 10:32am -08:00 #100daysofindieweb #indieweb #atlas #timezone #p3k

• Day 22: XRay Ready for Deployment #100DaysOfIndieWeb

  Today I made a few changes to XRay to make it easier to deploy in more kinds of environments. I also removed a bunch of CSS/JS dependencies and simplified the UI a bit.

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  Wed, Jan 11, 2017 10:19am -08:00 #xray #p3k #indieweb #100daysofindieweb #100daysofcode

• Day 21: Twitter Support for XRay #100DaysOfIndieWeb

  Continuing yesterday's work, today I added support for parsing Twitter URLs to XRay.There were a couple tricks to make this work. I wanted to make sure that Tweets are always expanded to include the most data possible, and also wanted to avoid needing to make a bunch of HTTP requests. Scraping from the twitter.com website wasn't an option, since some of the data isn't available or would require additional HTTP calls to fetch. (For example I would have to fetch every t.co URL to expand them.) So I set to work using the Twitter API to fetch the tweets.

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  Tue, Jan 10, 2017 3:36pm -08:00 #100daysofindieweb #100daysofcode #indieweb #xray #twitter

• Day 20: Instagram Support for XRay #100DaysOfIndieWeb

  XRay is my service that parses web pages and extracts information from them. Right now I mostly use it to parse comments, but now that I've been adding support for reposts, it's used there as well.Today I added support for XRay to extract data from Instagram URLs!This means anything that uses XRay will now return structured data when given an Instagram URL, just like how it parses h-entry and other Microformats. Unfortunately, Instagram does not provide timezone data for the published date, only a Unix timestamp. So if the photo is tagged at a location, then XRay will look up the appropriate timezone for that location and adjust the timezone of the published date accordingly!Here's what the parsed JSON looks like for this photo. Note that the timezone is set to East Coast because this photo was taken at MIT.{ "data":{ "type":"entry", "url":"https://www.instagram.com/p/BM4rGs-lApG/", "author":{ "type":"card", "name":"Aaron Parecki", "url":"http://aaronparecki.com/", "photo":"https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/t51.2885-19/s320x320/14240576_268350536897085_1129715662_a.jpg" }, "content":{ "text":"Here again" }, "photo":[ "https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/t51.2885-15/e35/14269001_1162908790471145_6084871298582839296_n.jpg?ig_cache_key=MTM4NTA0NjQ2MjAyNzc5NTAxNA%3D%3D.2" ], "location":[ "https://www.instagram.com/explore/locations/206258876/" ], "published":"2016-11-16T16:07:06-05:00" }, "refs":{ "https://www.instagram.com/explore/locations/206258876/":{ "type":"card", "name":"Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)", "url":"https://www.instagram.com/explore/locations/206258876/", "latitude":42.360011410484, "longitude":-71.091869836761 } }}In addition to my website using this for reposts and comments, when I paste that URL into IRC, Loqi uses XRay to expand it and provide a little text preview.

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  Mon, Jan 9, 2017 9:25am -08:00 #100daysofindieweb #100daysofcode #indieweb #xray #instagram

• Day 19: Automatically fetching reposted content #100DaysOfIndieWeb

  Yesterday, I updated my website to show the full contents of reposts. Today, I took that to the next step, and I now automatically fetch the contents of reposts when they are made. I also expanded the repost display to include showing the photo if I reposted a photo!

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  Sun, Jan 8, 2017 3:29pm -08:00 #100daysofindieweb #p3k #indieweb

• Day 18: Showing Full Repost Content in p3k #100DaysOfIndieWeb

  At the beginning of last year when I was working on rebuilding p3k, I made the decision to drop showing the full contents of my reposts in favor of launching the new site sooner. It's been bugging me for a long time, since it means that my reposts aren't really reposts at all, they're just a list of links.Today I took the first step in showing the full contents of my reposts. Since my posts are all based on mf2 property storage, I updated my templates to display the post like one of my posts if the "repost-of" property is an object rather than just a string.Now my reposts look like this!

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  Sat, Jan 7, 2017 1:37pm -08:00 #indieweb #repost #p3k #100daysofindieweb

• Week in Review #100DaysOfIndieWeb

  aaronparecki.comDay 11: I dropped the web font in favor of a handful of system fonts for various platforms.Day 13: I added support for drawing curved maps lines to Atlas, which I use to generate the maps on my site. Now my travel plans show a nice line for each flight leg.Day 16: I improved the display of comments on my posts, including displaying some basic HTML formatting from comments, autolinking comment text, and showing images.

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  Fri, Jan 6, 2017 11:39am -08:00 #100daysofindieweb #indieweb #quill #p3k #ownyourgram #alexa #teacup