It’s Bandcamp Friday! 100% of purchases go to the artists today. I picked up Sucré, Starkisser; Starflyer 59, Vanity; and Fine China, Eyes in the Water and Trees at Night

 

Moving away from Bandcamp

Possibly a false alarm?

Ugh, sick again

Currently reading: The Free People's Village by Sim Kern (ISBN 9781646143306)

Finished reading: The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin (ISBN 9780316229302)

I was reminded of the April Fools joke I posted in 2005. I was a holdout on getting a cellphone and posted that I finally got one. So many blog comments from friends. I miss those days.

I did finally get one in 2006, though.

Happy don't-believe-anything-you-read-on-the-internet day!

Tho come to think of it, that's becoming increasingly true for the other 364 days of the year as well now.
📗 Want to read Rumo & His Miraculous Adventures by Walter Moers ISBN: 9781585679362
Yes I do realize the irony of paying someone to add a tip jar to my iOS app. But I've been putting off submitting the update to the App Store because my attempt at a tip jar was unsuccessful, so maybe this will finally get it out the door.
📕 Finished reading Never Say You Can't Survive by Charlie Jane Anders ISBN: 9781250800015

Crowd Cow comparison stuff

“Instrumental” album release party

Special night with Colette

OAuth: "grant" vs "flow" vs "grant type"

Is it called an OAuth "grant" or a "flow"? What about "grant type"?
#oauth #terminology
Happy World Piano Day¹!

Because there are 88 keys on a standard piano, the 88th day of the year was established as a day to “celebrate the piano and everything around it: performers, composers, piano builders, tuners, movers and most important, the listener”.

There are multiple websites about Piano Day:
* https://www.pianoday.org/
* https://www.worldpianoday.com/

And related #socialMedia and other profiles:
* https://www.instagram.com/pianodayofficial/
* https://linktr.ee/PianoDay
* Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2v022joEJ1ZUPi99NHDVNm?si=mmT4rDchTzW60KC3lsTksQ&nd=1&dlsi=2a348a57822c4217

I appreciate that Piano Day is on an ordinal day of the year (88th) rather than a Gregorian date (e.g. 8/8 or August 8th) which is subject to leap year variances. The 88th day of the year is the 88th day regardless whether it is a leap year or not.

From a standards perspective, we can express today’s Piano Day as 2024-088, an ISO ordinal date², however there is no standard date format for just "the 88th day of a year" without specifying a year (yearless).

There is (was) a way to specify a yearless month and day, like you might see as a birthday displayed on a social media site, without disclosing the year, or an annual holiday like May Day³, that is May 1st, without a specific year:

--05-01

This yearless date format (--MM-DD or shorthand --MMDD) was supported in the ISO 8601:2000 standard, but then dropped in the 2004 revision. This omission or deliberate removal was an error, because there are both obvious human visible use-cases (communicating holidays, and yearless birthdays as noted above), and other standards already depended on this yearless date format syntax (e.g. vCard and specs that refer to it like hCard and h-card).

Every version of ISO 8601 since 2000 has this flaw. Fixing (or patching) #ISO8601 is worth a separate post.

Returning to yearless ordinal dates, since they lack an interchange syntax, we can define one resembling the yearless month day format, yet unambiguously parseable as a yearless ordinal date:

---DDD

e.g. Piano Day would be represented as:

---088

We have to use three explicit digits because there's also pre-existing "day of the month" and "month of the year" syntaxes which are very similar, but with two digits:

--MM
---DD

This yearless #ordinalDate syntax (---DDD) is worth proposing as a delta "repair" spec to ISO 8601 (use-cases: Piano Day and others like Programmer’s Day), alongside at least a restoration of the --MM-DD yearless month day syntax (use-cases: publishing holidays and yearless birthdays), perhaps also the ---DD day of the month and --MM month of the year syntaxes (use-case: language independent numerical publishing of Gregorian months and days of months), and propose adding a NewCal bim of the year syntax --B (numerically superior replacement for Gregorian months and quarters).

Glossary:

hCard
  https://microformats.org/wiki/hcard
h-card
  https://microformats.org/wiki/h-card
NewCal
  http://newcal.org/

References:

¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Day
² https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal_date
³ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Day
https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6350#section-6.2.5
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmer%27s_Day
#socialMedia #ISO8601 #ordinalDate

DaVinci Resolve: a beginner’s (exceedingly grumpy) review

I swear I’m witnessing the cognitive decline from people getting repeatedly sick. There’s an increase in repeated work email questions that were answered very recently in the same thread.

@indieweb.org/POSSE in effect!

Well done @joanwestenberg@threads.net 🙌🏻

#POSSE threads
 
https://www.threads.net/@joanwestenberg/post/C43gPbVSzPI:
“Me: You should publish on your own website first, then other platforms.

 Me: Publishes on my own website first, then other platforms.

 Galaxy brains: HOW IRONIC YOU PUBLISH ON OTHER PLATFORMS”
 

#IndieWeb
Join the open social web or be relegated the same fate as AOL, who couldn't even sustain their dominant instant messaging silo.
#Twitter, #Pinterest, #Snapchat, #Quora, you're not special enough to survive on your own. And tick-tock #TikTok.

#fediverse threads

https://www.threads.net/@evanprodromou/post/C46RHmMv1te:
“If Meta can join the Fediverse, what's your excuse?”


#openSocialWeb #AOL #AIMsilo
#Twitter #Pinterest #Snapchat #Quora #TikTok #fediverse #openSocialWeb #AOL #AIMsilo