Joe brought CSS Battle to my attention today. I enjoy CSS but most of my daily work with it is routine stuff like forms, nothing too fancy or creative. I decided to try it out and in true indieweb fashion, I wanted to post the results on my site.

The 2023-11-14 Daily Target seemed like a good chance to brush up on CSS Grid. I got my solution down to 342 characters when minified. I must say it hurt a little to remove the quotation marks on HTML attributes. :]

It looks like the daily target switches over at midnight UTC, so I was too late to submit this today. Still a fun exercise and looking forward to more.

Compassionate Care

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House updates and other miscellani

Yesterday I cracked open XCode for the first time in a few years and did a marathon coding session on my GPS tracker app, Overland! I fixed a backlog of issues and added a few new features!

If you'd like to beta test it before I push out the update, you can join the TestFlight beta here! https://overland.p3k.app/beta

Find me on Printables

As predicted, it's only 7pm but i feel like I've been up for 24 hours, probably because I have. PRG-LHR-LAX-PDX-ZZZ😴
Transporation Plaza
New Uber/Lyft pickup location
Gate B39
Got here right as my boarding group was called! 😅
Metro =A= =C= Muzeum

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I like this CSS image reset after watching Kevin Powell’s walkthrough.

Also intrigued by the post he linked, “The Ultimate Low-Quality Image Placeholder Technique.”

Taking a break from stuff

Staroměstská (tram)

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Thoughts on Aloneness

#quotes #depression #loneliness
La Republica Restaurant

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Metro =B= =C= Florenc

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I now have the building blocks for Ticketing for IndieAuth set up.

On my staging site, the metadata endpoint now advertises the ticket_endpoint. That endpoint is accepting POST requests with parameters: ticket, resource, and subject. If the request is valid, it will be stored and return HTTP 202 with the message “Accepted.” Tickets are not automatically redeemed yet.

In the IndieAuth module admin, I set up a page to issue a ticket by entering a URL for “Allow access to” (the resource) and “Send ticket to” (the subject). Submitting that form will check the subject URL for an indieauth-metadata endpoint that advertises a ticket_endpoint. If that is found successfully, a ticket is created and sent there.

Finally, I updated the token_endpoint to accept POST requests with grant_type=ticket and exchange the ticket for an access token.

Next I will be working on automatically redeeming received tickets for access tokens and setting up some private posts to work with granted access tokens.

I am currently using the same code that generates authorization codes to make the tickets. I think this should work fine because it already handles creating an opaque string that is valid for a short period of time (5 minutes). The module also ensures these can only be used once and logs key information for each request like client_id (source code). I need to run some tests to ensure tickets can’t be used as authorization codes and I might need to add some metadata to differentiate the two in the admin area.

Feel free to try to send a ticket to my staging site and ping me in IndieWeb dev chat. I can also send you a ticket if you’d like to try that out. I look forward to discussing this with other implementers!

Hilton Prague

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Hilton Prague

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Gate 11
Gate is closing as soon as it opened!

The CDC’s HICPAC has proposed guidance that will weaken infection control in healthcare settings. They have a rather short period for written comments, “…opened November 1, 2023, and will close at 11:59 pm on November 6, 2023.” I presume that is Eastern timezone.

Below is the message I sent, including links to more information. Please take a moment and send an email yourself! hicpac@cdc.gov

Subject: Strengthen infection control guidance

To: CDC’s Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC)
hicpac@cdc.gov

I am writing to join my voice with the National Nurses United (NNU), People’s CDC, and thousands of experts in public health — calling on HICPAC to strengthen the guidance on infection control and fully recognize the aerosol transmission of SARS-CoV-2. The proposed updates weaken the guidance and do not adequately follow the current science on transmission. This will put more healthcare workers and patients at risk.

I am also urging more openness and transparency in your processes. You should be seeking input from frontline workers and other experts in respiratory health. Draft guidance should be published along with the scientific evidence well in advance, with an ample time for the public to make written comments.

Thank you,
Gregor Morrill

#covid #KeepMasksInHealthcare