hot take: Dutch is basically German with a funny accent
#german #language #dutch
I decided to set up a URL shortener on my short domain, aaronpk.com, thanks to some recent discussion in the IndieWeb chat.

I found an open source project that is basically exactly what I would have built if I had built my own: https://polrproject.org/

The installation wasn't seamless, but I'm familiar enough with the tech it's built on so I managed to get it set up. I also made one modification to it, which is that if you type in a short URL that doesn't exist, it redirects to the same path on aaronparecki.com, so that all my regular pages now automatically have a short URL.

This is definitely a lot nicer than my previous solution of adding URLs to a text file.
#url #shorturl #indieweb
Yesterday there was cilantro in my soup, and suddenly it tasted so much like soap that I couldn't eat it.

Over the last few months, I've noticed that cilantro has started tasting bad, but didn't really think much of it. I looked up the food sensitivity list of people who also think cilantro tastes like soap, and now I am super confused, because most of these are my favorite flavors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supertaster#Specific_food_sensitivities

• Gins, tequilas, and hoppy beers are my favorite
• I eat brussels sprouts, cabbage and kale all the time
• I am a huge fan of coffee, always unsweetened
• grapefruit juice is a staple in my fridge
• I make my own tonic with quinine so that I can make it less sweet and more bitter than normal

So why is cilantro the one that tastes bad to me? And why did this change? I used to enjoy cilantro! I didn't think this sensitivity was something that could change in people over time.
Van der Valk Hotel Rotterdam-Blijdorp

at Van der Valk Hotel Rotterdam-Blijdorp

Rotterdam Central Station (Station Rotterdam Centraal)

at Rotterdam Central Station (Station Rotterdam Centraal)

Landing at #Schiphol, short trip to Rotterdam, then back to Düsseldorf tomorrow!
#Schiphol #schiphol
Capitol Theater
#btconf — with microformats
I added a page to my site with a list of all the IndieWebCamps I’ve attended, as well as a copy of the photos when applicable. You can find it here.
I remotely attended IndieWebCamp Dusseldorf.

Moved my reader actions inline... previously clicking an action in the reader would scroll to the top of the page, because that's where the editor was. It would helpfully scroll you back once the interaction was complete, but it was a bit clunky. :-)

An imagined scene from the future of Steven Universe

For quite some time there’s been a lot of fan speculation that Lars is AFAB and trans, with quite a lot of compelling evidence to that effect. It’s a thing I absolutely believe and I keep on hoping for confirmation in-show. So, the Very Trans Narrative ending of Season 5 could lead to a future episode (or the upcoming movie) to finally answer this. Here’s how I think it might happen.
I've written a very hacky #Mycroft #REST webhook to run on a Mycroft box and allow you to integrate other apps with it. It's far from done, and it's super hacky at the moment, but it's working. I use it for some custom #HomeAssistant integrations & have a few other plans for it. It's available on #GitHub.

https://github.com/ketudb/mycroft-webhook-inbound
#Mycroft #REST #HomeAssistant #GitHub

Better Default Security for IndieAuth Login Forms

#indieweb #indieauth #security #https
Post-IndieWebCamp hacking continues at the hotel bar! Made a few more minor improvements to Monocle:

• Defaults to "https" when you type in a domain, and if that fails, will fall back to http, rather than the other way around
• Added a logout button
• Added mobile screenshots to the wiki
• Updated the indieauth-client-php library to bubble up things like ssl errors so that apps using the library can report errors better
#indiewebcamp #indieweb #monocle
Wacom Europe GmbH

at Wacom Europe GmbH

Eigelstein
Post #IndieWebCamp drinks — with Jeremy, microformats, Seb
Second #IndieWebCamp hack day project: how to quickly get started using an IndieWeb reader.

• start with a blank HTML file
• add a rel=me link to your GitHub profile, and make sure your GitHub profile links back
• add a couple `<link>` tags for indieauth.com
• sign in to https://aperture.p3k.io
• add the `<link>` tag it generates for you
• sign in to an IndieWeb reader!

More details at: https://indieweb.org/Microsub#Getting_Started
#IndieWebCamp #microsub #indiewebcamp #indieweb
First #IndieWebCamp hack day project complete! I'm finally starting to get an understanding of CSS Grid.

Thanks to help from @tantek I was able to fix the display of my monthly calendars at https://aaronparecki.com/2019/04 by switching from table display to flex>grid>flex with table>tr>td markup. Kept the table markup and was able to remove one level of nested divs inside too!

The <table> element is a flexbox, the <tr>s are a grid, and the <td>s inside are a flexbox. This lets the rows of the calendar vary in height, but forces the height of the cells of each row to be the same height. Finally the city names at the bottom are able to be "stuck" to the bottom of the cell.
#IndieWebCamp #indiewebcamp #table #css #cssgrid
sipgate GmbH
#IndieWebCamp day 2! — with Jeremy, microformats, Seb, Tantek
Photos from IndieWebCamp Düsseldorf day 1 are already posted! 📷 https://www.flickr.com/photos/tollwerk/albums/72157691376106913 Thanks to our amazing photographer @iwontsignuphere