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Monocle just got real fancy. I can now set a default account for each channel from which responses should be sent. (Stored in my Microsub server, not in Monocle, so it can work across clients). Monocle recognizes when alternate accounts are available and provides an account switcher UI in the footer. Any "like/repost/reply" actions are then sent via that account instead of to my main site!
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Just implemented mp-destination on my site! I can connect multiple Micropub or Twitter accounts to my site to be able to post to other accounts from Micropub clients when I'm logged in as me. This is the first step of turning Monocle into more of a Tweetdeck-like experience!
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Pixel Art!
I just finished my IndieWebCamp hack day project, and I'm pretty excited about it!continue reading... -
Owning my Code Snippets
It's very convenient to be able to quickly share a link to a code snippet, which is something I've mostly done using gist.github.com. While often the code snippets are sort of throwaway, I still feel bad that I'm posting them in a place that I don't control.continue reading... -
Improved Blog Post Archives
I've been wanting to improve the layout of my blog post archive pages for some time. Previously, the page just listed out the full contents of the last 20 posts, and you could continue navigating back 20 posts at a time. I realize that some people like reading the full posts on the archive page, rather than having to click into each one, but it wasn't easy to just skim the post titles to get a sense of what was on the page.continue reading... -
Rich Link Previews for my Website on Facebook and Twitter
Ever since launching the new version of my website in 2016, I haven't had the special meta tags that Facebook, Twitter and Slack use for showing the nice preview of links shared. It's been annoying me a bit when I share a link to a blog post that they don't look good there.continue reading... -
Just switched to showing the full contents* of the "likes" I post on my site! https://aaronparecki.com/likes It's much more fun to read this page now!
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Had my own IndieWebCamp-from-home during IWC Berlin weekend! Got to at least join for remote demos though!
I launched Stories on my website, which I talked briefly about in my latest Percolator episode here: https://percolator.today/episode/11
I also reduced the loading time of my website by switching my silo profile icons from individual favicons to an icon font. They're also all a uniform color now which I think helps make them not stand out as much as they did before. I also switched the map background on my site from a 1.3mb png to a 300kb jpg file.
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I just had a moment of realization, and took less than an hour to implement a fix for this website that has been bugging me for at least a year.
I now cache a hash of the file contents in the database, and when viewing a post, if the hash has changed, I rebuild the DB index. This saves me the step of going in and running the "rebuild index" command when I hand-edit files. -
I'm Still Here!
I just added my favorite new relatively unimportant feature to my website!continue reading... -
I'm about to live test a crazy new feature on my website, right as I'm getting on a plane for 10 hours with no internet. Hopefully I don't break my site with this! With any luck, in a few minutes, you'll be able to visit https://aaronparecki.com/checkins and see my flight status updating live! It should show a map with my plane's location, updating continuously for the next 10 hours.
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Finally packaged up my HTTP functions into a library! https://github.com/aaronpk/p3k-http Previously I had been copy+pasting these around to quite a few projects. Happy to have consolidated these finally!
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Just made this #nownownow page: https://aaronparecki.com/now/ Shows my local time, location, weather, phone battery, and open tabs! 😂 #indieweb
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Day 92: Indicating the Audience of Posts #100DaysOfIndieWeb
Sometimes, I've posted content to my website that is directed at a specific group, such as a mailing list or an IRC channel. When viewed on my website, these posts end up looking out of context.continue reading... -
Day 63: Autolinking Emoji to my Emoji List Pages #100DaysOfIndieWeb
Now that I have pages showing all posts that use a specific emoji such as 👍, I found myself wanting to be able to click the emoji in my posts to see other posts with that emoji. This is the same as how my autolinked hashtags work, where you can click on any hashtag in a post and see other posts with that hashtag.continue reading... -
Day 62: Indexing Emoji Use in my Website #100DaysOfIndieWeb
The real reason I wrote my Emoji Detector library was for today's project. My website now has URLs that list every post containing specific emoji!continue reading... -
Day 61: Supporting Media Fragment URIs for Video and Audio #100DaysOfIndieWeb
Yesterday, Marty McGuire published an audio version of the IndieWeb "This Week" newsletter, and shared the link in our chat. Aside from being a fantastic production, this also sparked some discussions about Webmentions. His podcast uses a few of of my 100Days songs, which he cites in the description. Since he included a link to my posts about those songs, his podcast now appears as a comment on those pages!continue reading... -
Day 60: Emoji Detector Library for PHP #100DaysOfIndieWeb
I wanted to find all emoji in a string, including info about them, for my next #100Days project. However I couldn't find a library that does this. The closes I found was iamcal's Emoji conversion library, which can replace emoji in a string with HTML tags, as well as the EmojiOne library which can replace emoji in a string with shortcodes.continue reading...
