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"text": "Version 4.0.6 of the Simple Location plugin has been released. A lot of the under-the-hood improvements involved the development environment\u2026working on some automations for code testing that I\u2019m going to add to my other projects.\u00a0 User facing, the following features are now available\nHERE Maps is joined by using HERE as a Weather and a Reverse Geocoding provider. While doing this, I discovered they switched to an API key system, and updated the code appropriately. HERE Maps also has a new endpoint, so I switched to that as well.\nI went through the API documentation for all of the existing weather endpoints and made some changes to standardize the units of measurement being stored.\u00a0 Did you know a millbar and a hectopascal are essentially the same thing?\nI added support for the Met Office, which offers several hundred stations in the UK. Like the US National Weather Service, it provides the closest one, and if there isn\u2019t close, it returns nothing. Working on another station-based weather provider interested me in trying to add better support for personal weather stations.\nIf you have WP_DEBUG enabled, a new tab appears on the Location Settings page to allow you to see what data is returned by your provider. This is used mostly by me as the developer, but I\u2019ve kept it in in case someone wants to troubleshoot the information they are getting.\n\u00a0",
"html": "Version 4.0.6 of the Simple Location plugin has been released. A lot of the under-the-hood improvements involved the development environment\u2026working on some automations for code testing that I\u2019m going to add to my other projects.\u00a0 User facing, the following features are now available\n<ul><li>HERE Maps is joined by using HERE as a Weather and a Reverse Geocoding provider. While doing this, I discovered they switched to an API key system, and updated the code appropriately. HERE Maps also has a new endpoint, so I switched to that as well.</li>\n<li>I went through the API documentation for all of the existing weather endpoints and made some changes to standardize the units of measurement being stored.\u00a0 Did you know a millbar and a hectopascal are essentially the same thing?</li>\n<li>I added support for the Met Office, which offers several hundred stations in the UK. Like the US National Weather Service, it provides the closest one, and if there isn\u2019t close, it returns nothing. Working on another station-based weather provider interested me in trying to add better support for personal weather stations.</li>\n<li>If you have WP_DEBUG enabled, a new tab appears on the Location Settings page to allow you to see what data is returned by your provider. This is used mostly by me as the developer, but I\u2019ve kept it in in case someone wants to troubleshoot the information they are getting.</li>\n</ul><p>\u00a0</p>"
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I just hooked up my #NintendoSwitch to be able to post photos to my website!
They don't get posted to my home page or photo pages, so if you're following my website you won't see the flood of #ACNH photos that's about to happen.
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"text": "I just hooked up my #NintendoSwitch to be able to post photos to my website! \n\nThey don't get posted to my home page or photo pages, so if you're following my website you won't see the flood of #ACNH photos that's about to happen. \n\nIf you do want to see them, they are here: https://aaronparecki.com/tag/acnh and https://aaronparecki.com/tag/nintendoswitch and you can add those pages to your reader! \n\nHowever, I don't have a good way to stop them from going out to Mastodon people, so feel free to mute the #ACNH tag if you don't want to see them!",
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"text": "Oakland Black Housing Union Organizes Mobile March to Demand Housing for Homeless https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/12/18832315.php",
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"text": "I\u2019m still spending lots of time trying to figure out how TiddlyWiki works, so some of this may seem hack-y, but it seems to get the job done. I\u2019d love it if others who are using their TiddlyWikis as their primary website (and who have more experience than I) weighed in with their expertise or experience.\nOne of the core IndieWeb building blocks is having an\u00a0h-card\u00a0on your website to establish one\u2019s identity, either for others to read or for computers and parsers to know who you are.\nA valiant first attempt\nTo start out, I created an\u00a0About\u00a0Tiddler with the appropriate\u00a0h-card\u00a0and other microformats mark up and then put it into a tab in my right sidebar to make it easy to find.\nNaturally, I ran into a problem when trying to throw this into\u00a0indiewebify.me. Since TiddlyWiki websites are generated primarily by JavaScript and thus suffer from the\u00a0js;dr\u00a0problem, figuring out where to put and display an h-card was going to be an issue. I even tried throwing it into the Site Title in the control panel and hoped for the best, but in the end, the site title is really the shadow Tiddler\u00a0$:/SiteTitle\u00a0and like all the rest of the page is generated by JavaScript.\nI muddled around a bit and even tried to add an h-card using a\u00a0<link>\u00a0in the\u00a0<head>, but nothing seemed to work.\nA hackable solution?\nUltimately, in frustration, I simply threw a simple h-card into the\u00a0<head>\u00a0just to see what would happen. It wasn\u2019t terrible\u2014the parser found it and displayed it as a success. Unfortunately I discovered that TiddlyWiki displayed my photo and name at the bottom of my page in the browser. I didn\u2019t expect this, but at least it was a start.\nSince this method seemed to work, I thought I\u2019d continue the cheat and just throw in some in-line CSS so that the muddled h-card wouldn\u2019t actually show on my page. I\u2019d use this coded h-card in my\u00a0<head>\u00a0for computers and keep the somewhat more elaborate one for people in my about page.\nWhat I did\nSo, for those who\u2019d like the entirety of the solution, here\u2019s what I did:\nI created a plugin tiddler entitled\u00a0$:/plugins/indieweb/core/rawMarkup\u00a0and gave it the tag\u00a0$:/tags/RawMarkup\n\nI added the following lines of code to it and saved the Tiddler\n<a style=\"display:none\" class=\"h-card u-url\" href=\"http://tw.boffosocko.com/\">\n\n<img src=\"https://www.boffosocko.com/logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"display:none\" />Chris Aldrich</a>\n\nProfit!\nAgain, this works, but seems very hack-y to me. If you\u2019ve managed to get a h-card into your TiddlyWiki in a different or more elegant way, I\u2019d love to hear your thoughts.\nThoughts on delegated h-cards\nGiven the difficulty and trouble of all this, I\u2019m sort of left wondering why\u2013particularly since I\u2019m using this site as a secondary one to my primary site\u2013I couldn\u2019t just throw in a link to the h-card for my primary site and call it a day? Unless I\u2019m missing something, for some reason the way that representative h-cards are defined, they expect the h-card to point to the site they\u2019re actually on.\nWhy couldn\u2019t/shouldn\u2019t I delegate my h-card on subdomains or other personal sites to point to the representative h-card on my primary site? What if parsers could follow other rel=\u201dme\u201d links on my site to find/intuit a representative h-card from one of those? While I could have lots of domains to better differentiate my online identity, why couldn\u2019t I do that, but still have the same primary identity?",
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PS: If you're reading this and want a much easier, more direct way to help us out? Volume is down right now by considerable amounts (our office is 50% lighter some days d...
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"text": "Pay rent using their money order system!\nSend letters using certified mail!"
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"text": "PS: If you're reading this and want a much easier, more direct way to help us out? Volume is down right now by considerable amounts (our office is 50% lighter some days during COVID-19!). Go online, buy some stamps. Have them delivered. Write an old fashion card to a friend today"
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So let me get this straight: We can afford to give airline companies billions in bailout even when they’ve spent billions on stock buybacks, but we can’t afford to ba...