★★★☆☆Live Wire by
The plot was kind of average and the reveal at the end seemed far-fetched, but overall an enjoyable read. I picked this one up from a neighborhood Little Free Library because I had read one of Coben’s other books and enjoyed it. I didn’t realize it was part of a series, but it worked alright as a standalone read.
Finished reading: Live Wire by (ISBN 9780525952060)
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.
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
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.”
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!