Had a (fireball) blast running Joel and Andy of the Silver Linings Playback Podcast through some loosey goosey Dungeons & Dragons as we discussed the loosey goosey 2000 film adaptation Dungeons & Dragons.
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"text": "Had a (fireball) blast running Joel and Andy of the Silver Linings Playback Podcast through some loosey goosey Dungeons & Dragons as we discussed the loosey goosey 2000 film adaptation Dungeons & Dragons.\nhttps://www.hobotrashcan.com/2024/06/24/silver-linings-playback-213-dungeons-dragons-ft-marty-mcguire/",
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"text": "Are you a member of the \ud83d\udd78\ufe0f\ud83d\udc8d IndieWeb Webring? Perhaps one of many who noticed that the \"previous\" and \"next\" links were actually going to random active member sites in the ring?\nI'm pleased to announce that the \"next\" and \"previous\" links between webring member sites should now be, more or less, deterministic! For example, if you visit gRegor's site, scroll to the webring links at the bottom, and click \"next\", you'll be taken to a site like mine! (at this moment, it is mine!) From my site, if you click the \"previous\" link, you'll be taken back to gRegor's site! This should m-\nWait, did you say \"more or less\"?\nWell, uh, yeah, good spot. At a high level, the update works like this:\nEach active member site gets a pseudo-random \"sorting\" number. For a given site, the \"next\" site is the one with the next highest sorting order, and the \"previous\" is the one with the next lowest.\nWhen you click on a \"next\" or \"previous\" webring link from a member site, your browser tells* the webring where you're coming from with a \"referrer\" header. If the webring recognizes the referer as an active member site, it'll look up the next - or previous - site in the ring to redirect you.\nWoah, woah, I see that asterisk\nWay to stay sharp! Referrer headers can leak potentially sensitive information, so over time browsers have added ways to restrict how and when referrer headers are sent between sites.\nMost of the time, the webring will only see the referring URL up to the first slash after the domain. For folks whose site on the webring has a path component, the webring won't be able to match it against most referrers.\nIt's also possible that your site is configured to not send referrer headers at all - in that case, the webring has nothing to go on to figure out that the visitor came from your site.\nIf the webring can't figure out where a visitor came from, they'll just get directed to a random active site.\nThat feels kinda broken if you ask me\nWell, it's no worse than before!\nIsn't there a way to improve it?\nThere is! Or... was. The first version of the webring included unique identifiers in the webring \"next\" and \"previous\" links for each member site. These unique IDs would have made it straightforward to figure out where a visitor is coming from.\nOh, don't tell me-\n\n Yeah, I removed that feature last year. \ud83d\ude05\n \n\nThe emoji-based IDs were hard to manage, added messy unintended meaning, and made it easy to mess up the webring links (or spoof someone else's) when copy-pasting!\nYou're going to link us to some code, aren't you?\nYou bet! You can find today's updates to the code here on my git hosting.\nThanks, I guess. So, what's next?\nI'm not sure! I feel like this update has the webring in a pretty good place. It's simple enough that I understand it and it works. I might look into some updates for the directory or the site layout, or help surface more information about member sites, like whether they advertise RSS feeds.\nOkay that's it, for now! Thanks for reading, imaginary interlocutor! As always, feel free to reply to this post on your own site, or feel free to drop me a line in the #indieweb chat (I\u2019m schmarty there)!",
"html": "<p>Are you a member of the <a href=\"https://xn--sr8hvo.ws/\">\ud83d\udd78\ufe0f\ud83d\udc8d IndieWeb Webring</a>? Perhaps one of many who <a href=\"https://github.com/martymcguire/indiewebring.ws/issues/17\">noticed that the \"previous\" and \"next\" links were actually going to random active member sites</a> in the ring?</p>\n<p>I'm pleased to announce that the \"next\" and \"previous\" links between webring member sites should now be, more or less, deterministic! For example, if you visit <a href=\"https://gregorlove.com/\">gRegor's site</a>, scroll to the webring links at the bottom, and click \"next\", you'll be taken to a site like mine! (at this moment, it <i>is</i> mine!) From my site, if you click the \"previous\" link, you'll be taken back to gRegor's site! This should m-</p>\n<h2>Wait, did you say \"more or less\"?</h2>\n<p>Well, uh, yeah, good spot. At a high level, the update works like this:</p>\n<p>Each active member site gets a pseudo-random \"sorting\" number. For a given site, the \"next\" site is the one with the next highest sorting order, and the \"previous\" is the one with the next lowest.</p>\n<p>When you click on a \"next\" or \"previous\" webring link from a member site, your browser tells* the webring where you're coming from with a \"referrer\" header. If the webring recognizes the referer as an active member site, it'll look up the next - or previous - site in the ring to redirect you.</p>\n<h2>Woah, woah, I see that asterisk</h2>\n<p>Way to stay sharp! Referrer headers can leak potentially sensitive information, so over time browsers have added ways to <a href=\"https://web.dev/articles/referrer-best-practices\">restrict how and when referrer headers are sent between sites</a>.</p>\n<p>Most of the time, the webring will only see the referring URL up to the first slash after the domain. For folks whose site on the webring has a path component, the webring won't be able to match it against most referrers.</p>\n<p>It's also possible that your site is configured to not send referrer headers <i>at all</i> - in that case, the webring has nothing to go on to figure out that the visitor came from your site.</p>\n<p>If the webring can't figure out where a visitor came from, they'll just get directed to a random active site.</p>\n<h2>That feels kinda broken if you ask me</h2>\n<p>Well, it's no worse than before!</p>\n<h2>Isn't there a way to improve it?</h2>\n<p>There is! Or... was. The first version of the webring included unique identifiers in the webring \"next\" and \"previous\" links for each member site. These unique IDs would have made it straightforward to figure out where a visitor is coming from.</p>\n<h2>Oh, don't tell me-</h2>\n<p>\n Yeah, I <a href=\"https://martymcgui.re/2023/05/20/rebooting--an-indieweb-webring/\">removed that feature last year</a>. \ud83d\ude05\n <br /></p>\n<p>The emoji-based IDs were hard to manage, added messy unintended meaning, and made it easy to mess up the webring links (or spoof someone else's) when copy-pasting!</p>\n<h2>You're going to link us to some code, aren't you?</h2>\n<p>You bet! You can find <a href=\"https://git.schmarty.net/schmarty/gem-diamond/compare/d0ed04...38ac424507\">today's updates to the code here on my git hosting</a>.</p>\n<h2>Thanks, I guess. So, what's next?</h2>\n<p>I'm not sure! I feel like this update has the webring in a pretty good place. It's simple enough that I understand it and it works. I might look into some updates for the directory or the site layout, or help surface more information about member sites, like whether they advertise RSS feeds.</p>\n<p>Okay that's it, for now! Thanks for reading, imaginary interlocutor! As always, feel free to <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/reply\">reply</a> to this post on your own site, or feel free to drop me a line in the <a href=\"https://chat.indieweb.org/\">#indieweb chat</a> (I\u2019m <code>schmarty</code> there)!</p>"
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"text": "I\u2019m back at home. They did a CT scan but there wasn\u2019t anything too concerning, it just seems that I was coughing hard enough that I had a minor bleed in my lungs, exacerbated by the blood thinners I take due to my clotting disorder. The prognosis is to just not take my blood thinners for a few days and to do the usual hydration/plenty of rest/etc.\n\nThe CT scan did find a couple of probably-unrelated nodules on my lungs which are probably nothing but will need a followup.\n\nAnwyay tomorrow my prescription for molnupiravir should finally come through. It\u2019d have been nice if I could have started on it yesterday when it was prescribed but supplies are limited right now. But it should at least help me to recover much more quickly.",
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"text": "Jay has a recent post up called \u201cNot The Sort Of Person I Want To Be Online\u201c, and it strikes pretty close to home. It\u2019s worth the click, in my opinion. It opens with:\n\n\n\n\nIt would be so so easy for me to open my blog editor every week and vent and rant about the state of the world. About how crazy everything is, how detached and divorced from reality so much of the media is, how the Internet isn\u2019t\u00a0real life. But I don\u2019t.\nJay Springett\n\n\n\n\nAnd yeah, basically. If I want to spend my time online complaining and writing scathing takedowns of one thing or another, there is no shortage of topics (and the list gets constantly refreshed). It\u2019s so easy to dwell on all the shit going on. But that\u2019s not who I want to be, online or in person.\n\n\n\nI also liked this bit:\n\n\n\n\nI don\u2019t want to be part of a negative Internet, so I choose not to add to it. I don\u2019t see any value in doing cynicism as a service. There\u2019s enough negativity out there without me piling on. Instead, I aim to post things that I think is going to be beneficial for both my readers and myself.\u00a0\n\n\n\nI want to only have things online that I can stand by. The thoughts I\u2019ve had in public should be useful to me and others 3/4/5 even 10 years down the line. Referenced, revisited, and built upon. I don\u2019t write anything here thats written specifically for clicks and likes. Which being negative an Internet cheat code for.\n\n\n\nOf course it\u2019s nice when other people do link to my writing and when people share my blog with others \u2013 it\u2019s always a thrill \u2013 and\u00a0of course\u00a0I\u2019m interested in growing my audience online \u2013 who isn\u2019t?\nJay Springett\n\n\n\n\nI\u2019ve commented before that I\u2019m not particularly interested in \u201cgrowing my brand\u201d, and how freeing it has felt to be writing here because I want to, and maybe a few folks find it useful or interesting. If there is a magic formula for building an audience and becoming an online personage, I\u2019m sure as hell not doing it \u2013 my site traffic is largely stable (low, but stable) and has been for years at this point. I get the occasional brief spike when someone more notable happens to link to me (and there was one point a few months ago where I suddenly got about a thousand times more visitors for like two days, and I never figured out why \u2013 if it was a botnet I don\u2019t know why it landed on me, if it was someone big/popular linking, they must\u2019ve had noreferrer turned on, as analytics were useless). But Jay is right that it is nice when I get linked to or new folks start reading.\n\n\n\nIt\u2019s a conscious decision and effort, you know. When the default state you see when navigating online discourse is hate and cynicism, oneupmanship and takedowns, not only yucking other people\u2019s yum but declaring them bad people for thinking it was yummy in the first place\u2026 it\u2019s easy to let that become your default as well. But it\u2019s not healthy, it\u2019s not useful, at best it may give you a quick endorphin hit if you\u2019re lucky.\n\n\n\nThere\u2019s a bit from Charlie Mackesy\u2019s The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse that has made it into a few songs and elsewhere, and I think about it sometimes:\n\n\n\n\n\u201cWhat do you want to be when you grow up?\u201d\n\n\n\n\u201cKind,\u201d said the boy.\u201d\nCharlie Mackesy\n\n\n\n\nMe too, kid. Me too.",
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"text": "i\u2019m in the ER because I started coughing up blood this morning. so much for releasing my\nnew avatar today\u2026",
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POSSE (Publish on your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere) has grown steadily as a common practice in the #IndieWeb community, personal sites, CMSs (like Withknown, which itself reached 10 years in May!), and services (like https://micro.blog) for over a decade.
In its 12th year, POSSE broke through to broader technology press and adoption beyond the community. For example:
In its 19th year, the microformats formal #microformats2 syntax and popular vocabularies h-card, h-entry, and h-feed, kept growing across IndieWeb (micro)blogging services and software like CMSs & SSGs both for publishing, and richer peer-to-peer social web interactions via #Webmention.
Beyond the IndieWeb, the rel=me microformat, AKA #relMe, continues to be adopted by services to support #distributed #verification, such as these in the past year:
* Meta Platforms #Threads user profile "Link" field¹ * #Letterboxd user profile website field²
For both POSSE and microformats, there is always more we can do to improve their techniques, technologies, and tools to help people own their content and identities online, while staying connected to friends across the web.
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"text": "Happy 12 years of https://indieweb.org/POSSE #POSSE and\n19 years of https://microformats.org/ #microformats! (as of yesterday, the 20th)\n\nA few highlights from the past year:\n\nPOSSE (Publish on your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere) has grown steadily as a common practice in the #IndieWeb community, personal sites, CMSs (like Withknown, which itself reached 10 years in May!), and services (like https://micro.blog) for over a decade.\n\nIn its 12th year, POSSE broke through to broader technology press and adoption beyond the community. For example:\n\n* David Pierce\u2019s (@pierce@mas.to) excellent article @TheVerge.com (@verge@mastodon.social): \u201cThe poster\u2019s guide to the internet of the future\u201d (https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/23/23928550/posse-posting-activitypub-standard-twitter-tumblr-mastodon):\n\u00a0 \u201cYour post appears natively on all of those platforms, typically with some kind of link back to your blog. And your blog becomes the hub for everything, your main home on the internet.\nDone right, POSSE is the best of all posting worlds.\u201d\n\n* David also recorded a 29 minute podcast on POSSE with some great interviews: \u00a0https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-posters-guide-to-the-new-internet/id430333725?i=1000632256014\n\n* Cory Doctorow (@craphound.com @doctorow@mamot.fr) declared in his Pluralistic blog (@pluralisticmamot.fr) post: \u201cVice surrenders\u201d (https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/24/anti-posse/):\n\u00a0 \u201cThis is the moment for POSSE (Post Own Site, Share Everywhere [sic]), a strategy that sees social media as a strategy for bringing readers to channels that you control\u201d \n\n* And none other than Molly White (@mollywhite.net @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io) of @web3isgoinggreat.com (@web3isgreat@indieweb.social) built, deployed, and started actively using her own POSSE setup as described in her post titled \u201cPOSSE\u201d (https://www.mollywhite.net/micro/entry/202403091817) to: \n\u00a0 \"\u2026 write posts in the microblog and automatically crosspost them to Twitter/Mastodon/Bluesky, while keeping the original post on my site.\"\n\u00a0 \nCongrats Molly and well done!\n\n\nIn its 19th year, the microformats formal #microformats2 syntax and popular vocabularies h-card, h-entry, and h-feed, kept growing across IndieWeb (micro)blogging services and software like CMSs & SSGs both for publishing, and richer peer-to-peer social web interactions via #Webmention.\n\nBeyond the IndieWeb, the rel=me microformat, AKA #relMe, continues to be adopted by services to support #distributed #verification, such as these in the past year: \n\n* Meta Platforms #Threads user profile \"Link\" field\u00b9 \n* #Letterboxd user profile website field\u00b2\n\n\nFor both POSSE and microformats, there is always more we can do to improve their techniques, technologies, and tools to help people own their content and identities online, while staying connected to friends across the web.\n\nGot suggestions for this coming year? Join us in chat:\n* https://chat.indieweb.org/dev\n* https://chat.indieweb.org/microformats\nfor discussions about POSSE and microformats, respectively.\n\n\nPreviously: https://tantek.com/2023/171/t1/anniversaries-microformats-posse\n\n\nThis is post 15 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts\n\n\u2190 https://tantek.com/2024/151/t1/minimum-interesting-service-worker\n\u2192 \ud83d\udd2e\n\n\nPost glossary:\n\nCMS\n\u00a0 https://indieweb.org/CMS\nh-card\n\u00a0 https://microformats.org/wiki/h-card\nh-entry\n\u00a0 https://microformats.org/wiki/h-entry\nh-feed\n\u00a0 https://microformats.org/wiki/h-feed\nmicroformats2 syntax\n\u00a0 https://microformats.org/wiki/microformats2-parsing\nrel-me\n\u00a0 https://microformats.org/wiki/rel-me\nSSG\n\u00a0 https://indieweb.org/SSG\nWebmention\n\u00a0 https://indieweb.org/Webmention\nWithknown\n\u00a0 https://indieweb.org/Known\n\n\nReferences:\n\n\u00b9 https://tantek.com/2023/234/t1/threads-supports-indieweb-rel-me\n\u00b2 https://indieweb.org/rel-me#Letterboxd",
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For example:<br /><br />* David Pierce\u2019s (<a href=\"https://mas.to/@pierce\">@pierce@mas.to</a>) excellent article <a href=\"https://TheVerge.com\">@TheVerge.com</a> (<a href=\"https://mastodon.social/@verge\">@verge@mastodon.social</a>): \u201cThe poster\u2019s guide to the internet of the future\u201d (<a href=\"https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/23/23928550/posse-posting-activitypub-standard-twitter-tumblr-mastodon):\">https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/23/23928550/posse-posting-activitypub-standard-twitter-tumblr-mastodon):</a><br />\u00a0 \u201cYour post appears natively on all of those platforms, typically with some kind of link back to your blog. And your blog becomes the hub for everything, your main home on the internet.<br />Done right, POSSE is the best of all posting worlds.\u201d<br /><br />* David also recorded a 29 minute podcast on POSSE with some great interviews: \u00a0<a href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-posters-guide-to-the-new-internet/id430333725?i=1000632256014\">https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-posters-guide-to-the-new-internet/id430333725?i=1000632256014</a><br /><br />* Cory Doctorow (<a href=\"https://craphound.com\">@craphound.com</a> <a href=\"https://mamot.fr/@doctorow\">@doctorow@mamot.fr</a>) declared in his Pluralistic blog (<a href=\"https://pluralisticmamot.fr\">@pluralisticmamot.fr</a>) post: \u201cVice surrenders\u201d (<a href=\"https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/24/anti-posse/):\">https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/24/anti-posse/):</a><br />\u00a0 \u201cThis is the moment for POSSE (Post Own Site, Share Everywhere [sic]), a strategy that sees social media as a strategy for bringing readers to channels that you control\u201d <br /><br />* And none other than Molly White (<a href=\"https://mollywhite.net\">@mollywhite.net</a> <a href=\"https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff\">@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io</a>) of <a href=\"https://web3isgoinggreat.com\">@web3isgoinggreat.com</a> (<a href=\"https://indieweb.social/@web3isgreat\">@web3isgreat@indieweb.social</a>) built, deployed, and started actively using her own POSSE setup as described in her post titled \u201cPOSSE\u201d (<a href=\"https://www.mollywhite.net/micro/entry/202403091817\">https://www.mollywhite.net/micro/entry/202403091817</a>) to: <br />\u00a0 \"\u2026 write posts in the microblog and automatically crosspost them to Twitter/Mastodon/Bluesky, while keeping the original post on my site.\"<br />\u00a0 <br />Congrats Molly and well done!<br /><br /><br />In its 19th year, the microformats formal #<span class=\"p-category\">microformats2</span> syntax and popular vocabularies h-card, h-entry, and h-feed, kept growing across IndieWeb (micro)blogging services and software like CMSs & SSGs both for publishing, and richer peer-to-peer social web interactions via #<span class=\"p-category\">Webmention</span>.<br /><br />Beyond the IndieWeb, the rel=me microformat, AKA #<span class=\"p-category\">relMe</span>, continues to be adopted by services to support #<span class=\"p-category\">distributed</span> #<span class=\"p-category\">verification</span>, such as these in the past year: <br /><br />* Meta Platforms #<span class=\"p-category\">Threads</span> user profile \"Link\" field<a href=\"https://tantek.com/#t5Xa1_note-1\">\u00b9</a> <br />* #<span class=\"p-category\">Letterboxd</span> user profile website field<a href=\"https://tantek.com/#t5Xa1_note-2\">\u00b2</a><br /><br /><br />For both POSSE and microformats, there is always more we can do to improve their techniques, technologies, and tools to help people own their content and identities online, while staying connected to friends across the web.<br /><br />Got suggestions for this coming year? Join us in chat:<br />* <a href=\"https://chat.indieweb.org/dev\">https://chat.indieweb.org/dev</a><br />* <a href=\"https://chat.indieweb.org/microformats\">https://chat.indieweb.org/microformats</a><br />for discussions about POSSE and microformats, respectively.<br /><br /><br />Previously: <a href=\"https://tantek.com/2023/171/t1/anniversaries-microformats-posse\">https://tantek.com/2023/171/t1/anniversaries-microformats-posse</a><br /><br /><br />This is post 15 of #<span class=\"p-category\">100PostsOfIndieWeb</span>. #<span class=\"p-category\">100Posts</span><br /><br />\u2190 <a href=\"https://tantek.com/2024/151/t1/minimum-interesting-service-worker\">https://tantek.com/2024/151/t1/minimum-interesting-service-worker</a><br />\u2192 \ud83d\udd2e<br /><br /><br />Post glossary:<br /><br />CMS<br />\u00a0 <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/CMS\">https://indieweb.org/CMS</a><br />h-card<br />\u00a0 <a href=\"https://microformats.org/wiki/h-card\">https://microformats.org/wiki/h-card</a><br />h-entry<br />\u00a0 <a href=\"https://microformats.org/wiki/h-entry\">https://microformats.org/wiki/h-entry</a><br />h-feed<br />\u00a0 <a href=\"https://microformats.org/wiki/h-feed\">https://microformats.org/wiki/h-feed</a><br />microformats2 syntax<br />\u00a0 <a href=\"https://microformats.org/wiki/microformats2-parsing\">https://microformats.org/wiki/microformats2-parsing</a><br />rel-me<br />\u00a0 <a href=\"https://microformats.org/wiki/rel-me\">https://microformats.org/wiki/rel-me</a><br />SSG<br />\u00a0 <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/SSG\">https://indieweb.org/SSG</a><br />Webmention<br />\u00a0 <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/Webmention\">https://indieweb.org/Webmention</a><br />Withknown<br />\u00a0 <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/Known\">https://indieweb.org/Known</a><br /><br /><br />References:<br /><br /><a href=\"https://tantek.com/#t5Xa1_ref-1\">\u00b9</a> <a href=\"https://tantek.com/2023/234/t1/threads-supports-indieweb-rel-me\">https://tantek.com/2023/234/t1/threads-supports-indieweb-rel-me</a><br /><a href=\"https://tantek.com/#t5Xa1_ref-2\">\u00b2</a> <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/rel-me#Letterboxd\">https://indieweb.org/rel-me#Letterboxd</a>"
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"text": "Are you a member of the \ud83d\udd78\ufe0f\ud83d\udc8d IndieWeb Webring? Perhaps one of many who have been confused to discover that member sites are not automatically removed when the webring links disappear from their site?\n\n I'm pleased to announce that the webring will now be self-gardening! Webring member sites th-\n \n\nHold on, links to what now?\nThat-... is actually a good question!\nIn order for webrings to work, member sites have to link to one another, usually through the webring itself.\nWhen you sign in to the \ud83d\udd78\ufe0f\ud83d\udc8d IndieWeb Webring, you see this prompt on your dashboard page:\n\n Screenshot of a warning \"to stay active, make sure these links are visible on your site\", followed by a text area with HTML links to copy and paste.\n \n\n These links should be copied and pasted into your site so that they appear on the page that matches your webring sign-in. For example, I sign in with my homepage https://martymcgui.re/, so I put my links to the webring on my homepage. They look like this on my site, but you can style them up to look like anything you want.\n \n\n\n \"An IndieWeb Webring \ud83d\udd78\ufe0f\ud83d\udc8d\" text flanked by left and right unicode arrow links.\n \n\n The basic deal for most webrings is that, in order to receive incoming traffic from other member sites, you need to also display links back to the webring so a visitor can continue on their journey browsing sites from the webring.\nIf that's the deal, then when a member site goes offline, or removes the webring links from their page, the webring should no longer direct visitors to that site.\nThe IndieWeb webring tracks whether a site is \"Active\" or ... \"Not Active\" (ahem, Inactive). Active sites can receive traffic from webring visitors and, if you choose, appear on the Directory page. Inactive sites... can't do those things.\nAs the owner of an webring member site, you can sign in to the webring and your Dashboard page will show your site's current \"Active\" / \"Not Active\" status and the results of the most recent attempts to check your site for webring links. If you've made changes to your site, there's a \"Check links now!\" button on the Dashboard to scan for them again.\nOkay that's enough background, I think.\n\n Right, thanks. But actually no, there is more.\n \n\nInitially, Active status on the webring kiiiiind of worked like an honor system. The first time you successfully sign in, your site is added to the webring and set to Active. From that point on, there were only two ways for your site to get marked as Not Active:\n\n If you clicked \"Check links now!\" while your site was offline or didn't have webring links on it.\n \n\n \nOR if I ran a \"gardener\" script that checked the webring links for one or more sites.\nSince the webring came online in, um, 2018, I've only received a handful of nudges from folks who have been willing to track me down to the IndieWeb chat and complain. That led me to think this honor system was \"okay\" or \"at least not so bad that folks are willing to jump through hoops to bring it to my attention\".\nThat's definitely enough background.\nAgreed!\nSo what's new?\nWell, the honor system days are over! Which should be good for all webring member sites, I think.\nI've built a little automated gardener that will periodically check member sites for their links. It's designed in a way that trends towards polling member sites about once per month.\nFor a new member site, it basically works like this: about an hour after you sign up, your site will be checked for links. If they're there, the gardener will check again the next day. It will check again a few days later, then a week, then two weeks.\nFinally, as long as the links are there at every check, the gardener will only check once per month.\n\n What happens if the webring links disappear from my site?\n \n\nIf the gardener finds that an Active member site has gone offline or lost the webring links, the site is marked Not Active. It's checked again the next day, then a few days later, then a week and then two.\nFinally, the Not Active site will be checked once per month for 3 months. If the site stays Not Active that whole time, the gardener will stop checking and the site owner will need to sign in to re-check links manually if they want the site to become Active again.\n\n What happens if I put the webring links back on my site?\n \n\nIf the gardener finds that a Not Active member site has their webring links back, the site is marked as Active and the schedule resets. The gardener will then check it the next day, then three days later, then a week, then...\nOkay, got it!\nWoohoo!\nWhy now, though?\nOh dang, that's a good question.\nI've found the energy and space to start working on the webring again, including some possible projects like those I listed in my last update. Before jumping into any of those, though, I want to feel like I can \"trust\" that the webring is taking care of itself and its visitors. That means not sending folks to sites where the owner changed their mind about being a webring member or, worse, lost sites, and keeping track of active sites on its own!\nCan we see the code?\nSure! The bulk of the updates are here on my git hosting. As with most things webring there's a little bit that's well thought out and some attempts at rigor followed by a rush of throwing things together when it appears near working.\nI'm open if folks have suggestio-\nWait, I didn't actually want to look at code!\nI put some words in your mouth, there, yeah. Sorry. \ud83d\ude48\nOkay! That's it for now. As always, feel free to reply to this post on your own site, or feel free to drop me a line in the #indieweb chat (I\u2019m schmarty there).",
"html": "<p>Are you a member of the <a href=\"https://xn--sr8hvo.ws/\">\ud83d\udd78\ufe0f\ud83d\udc8d IndieWeb Webring</a>? Perhaps one of many who <a href=\"https://chat.indieweb.org/2020-03-23#t1584989705419200\">have been confused to discover</a> that <a href=\"https://chat.indieweb.org/dev/2022-08-28#t1661694360371800\">member sites are not automatically removed</a> when the <a href=\"https://chat.indieweb.org/dev/2024-06-12#t1718226603454100\">webring links disappear from their site</a>?</p>\n<p>\n I'm pleased to announce that the webring will now be self-gardening! Webring member sites th-\n <br /></p>\n<h2>Hold on, links to what now?</h2>\n<p>That-... is actually a good question!</p>\n<p>In order for webrings to work, member sites have to link to one another, usually through the webring itself.</p>\n<p>When you sign in to the \ud83d\udd78\ufe0f\ud83d\udc8d IndieWeb Webring, you see this prompt on your dashboard page:</p>\n<img src=\"https://media.martymcgui.re/44/c3/b4/68/fde563e3a6e618431ce898b2b2add95e384939541e267eb27ce4e49f.png\" alt=\"\" />\n Screenshot of a warning \"to stay active, make sure these links are visible on your site\", followed by a text area with HTML links to copy and paste.\n <br /><p>\n These links should be copied and pasted into your site so that they appear on the page that matches your webring sign-in. For example, I sign in with my homepage https://martymcgui.re/, so I put my links to the webring on my homepage. They look like this on my site, but you can style them up to look like anything you want.\n <br /></p>\n<img src=\"https://media.martymcgui.re/31/d7/b1/47/5737b023084f467f48f57033e8c2e2563d3040002b274f4f61e64ceb.png\" alt=\"\" /><p>\n \"An IndieWeb Webring \ud83d\udd78\ufe0f\ud83d\udc8d\" text flanked by left and right unicode arrow links.\n <br /></p>\n <p>The basic deal for most webrings is that, in order to receive incoming traffic from other member sites, you need to also display links back to the webring so a visitor can continue on their journey browsing sites from the webring.</p>\n<p>If that's the deal, then when a member site goes offline, or removes the webring links from their page, the webring should no longer direct visitors to that site.</p>\n<p>The IndieWeb webring tracks whether a site is \"Active\" or ... \"Not Active\" (ahem, Inactive). Active sites can receive traffic from webring visitors and, if you choose, appear on the <a href=\"https://xn--sr8hvo.ws/directory\">Directory</a> page. Inactive sites... can't do those things.</p>\n<p>As the owner of an webring member site, you can sign in to the webring and your Dashboard page will show your site's current \"Active\" / \"Not Active\" status and the results of the most recent attempts to check your site for webring links. If you've made changes to your site, there's a \"Check links now!\" button on the Dashboard to scan for them again.</p>\n<h2>Okay that's enough background, I think.</h2>\n<p>\n Right, thanks. But actually no, there is more.\n <br /></p>\n<p>Initially, Active status on the webring kiiiiind of worked like an honor system. The first time you successfully sign in, your site is added to the webring and set to Active. From that point on, there were only two ways for your site to get marked as Not Active:</p>\n<ul><li>\n If you clicked \"Check links now!\" while your site was offline or didn't have webring links on it.\n <br /></li>\n <li>\n<i>OR</i> if I ran a \"gardener\" script that checked the webring links for one or more sites.</li>\n</ul><p>Since the webring came online in, um, 2018, I've only received a handful of nudges from folks who have been willing to track me down to the <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/discuss\">IndieWeb chat</a> and complain. That led me to think this honor system was \"okay\" or \"at least not so bad that folks are willing to jump through hoops to bring it to my attention\".</p>\n<h2>That's definitely enough background.</h2>\n<p>Agreed!</p>\n<h2>So what's new?</h2>\n<p>Well, the honor system days are over! Which should be good for all webring member sites, I think.</p>\n<p>I've built a little automated gardener that will periodically check member sites for their links. It's designed in a way that trends towards polling member sites about once per month.</p>\n<p>For a new member site, it basically works like this: about an hour after you sign up, your site will be checked for links. If they're there, the gardener will check again the next day. It will check again a few days later, then a week, then two weeks.</p>\n<p>Finally, as long as the links are there at every check, the gardener will only check once per month.</p>\n<h3>\n What happens if the webring links disappear from my site?\n <br /></h3>\n<p>If the gardener finds that an Active member site has gone offline or lost the webring links, the site is marked Not Active. It's checked again the next day, then a few days later, then a week and then two.</p>\n<p>Finally, the Not Active site will be checked once per month for 3 months. If the site stays Not Active that whole time, the gardener will stop checking and the site owner will need to sign in to re-check links manually if they want the site to become Active again.</p>\n<h3>\n What happens if I put the webring links back on my site?\n <br /></h3>\n<p>If the gardener finds that a Not Active member site has their webring links back, the site is marked as Active and the schedule resets. The gardener will then check it the next day, then three days later, then a week, then...</p>\n<h3>Okay, got it!</h3>\n<p>Woohoo!</p>\n<h2>Why now, though?</h2>\n<p>Oh dang, that's a good question.</p>\n<p>I've found the energy and space to start working on the webring again, including some possible projects like those I listed in <a href=\"https://martymcgui.re/2024/06/09/an-absentee-webring-steward-returns/\">my last update</a>. Before jumping into any of those, though, I want to feel like I can \"trust\" that the webring is taking care of itself and its visitors. That means not sending folks to sites where the owner changed their mind about being a webring member or, worse, <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/lost_sites\">lost sites</a>, and keeping track of active sites on its own!</p>\n<h2>Can we see the code?</h2>\n<p>Sure! The <a href=\"https://git.schmarty.net/schmarty/gem-diamond/compare/4b6347...5afb99\">bulk of the updates are here on my git hosting</a>. As with most things webring there's a little bit that's well thought out and some attempts at rigor followed by a rush of throwing things together when it appears near working.</p>\n<p>I'm open if folks have suggestio-</p>\n<h2>Wait, I didn't actually want to look at code!</h2>\n<p>I put some words in your mouth, there, yeah. Sorry. \ud83d\ude48</p>\n<p>Okay! That's it for now. As always, feel free to <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/reply\">reply</a> to this post on your own site, or feel free to drop me a line in the <a href=\"https://chat.indieweb.org/\">#indieweb chat</a> (I\u2019m <code>schmarty</code> there).</p>"
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"text": "This is now the official song of #caturday:\nhttps://imanicoppola.bandcamp.com/track/clap-your-hands\nI will not be taking questions at this time.",
"html": "<p>This is now the official song of <a href=\"https://martymcgui.re/tag/caturday/\">#caturday</a>:</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://imanicoppola.bandcamp.com/track/clap-your-hands\">https://imanicoppola.bandcamp.com/track/clap-your-hands</a></p>\n<p>I will not be taking questions at this time.</p>"
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"published": "2024-06-13T15:07:34-07:00",
"url": "https://beesbuzz.biz/blog/11859-Birthday-plans-2024",
"name": "Birthday plans 2024",
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"text": "Hey y'all! My birthday is tomorrow, June 14! I will be turning 0x2E. Or 0b101110 if that\u2019s your preference.\n\nAnyway. Normally I\u2019d use that as a reason to have a huge karaoke blowout on VRChat Friday evening, but I have a big choral show on Saturday and some of the pieces need my full vocal range, so I\u2019m not going to risk fucking up my voice for Saturday.\n\nSo instead I\u2019ll have birthday karaoke in VRChat Saturday evening! I\u2019m thinking it\u2019ll start at, say, 7 PM Pacific Time. You can join off me if you have me friended or I\u2019ll be posting an instance link on my discord.\n\nAlso, to help with the celebrations, I\u2019ve thrown together a party hat.",
"html": "<p>Hey y'all! My birthday is tomorrow, June 14! I will be turning <code>0x2E</code>. Or <code>0b101110</code> if that\u2019s your preference.</p><p>Anyway. Normally I\u2019d use that as a reason to have a huge karaoke blowout on VRChat Friday evening, but I have <a href=\"https://www.museumofflight.org/exhibits-and-events/calendar-of-events/7784/sallys-day\">a big choral show on Saturday</a> and some of the pieces need my <em>full</em> vocal range, so I\u2019m not going to risk fucking up my voice for Saturday.</p><p>So instead I\u2019ll have birthday karaoke in VRChat Saturday evening! I\u2019m thinking it\u2019ll start at, say, 7 PM Pacific Time. You can join off me if <a href=\"https://vrchat.com/home/user/usr_c3d14129-014b-4d5a-a1af-399237355728\">you have me friended</a> or I\u2019ll be posting an instance link on <a href=\"https://beesbuzz.biz/discord\">my discord</a>.</p><p>Also, to help with the celebrations, I\u2019ve thrown together a <a href=\"https://fluffy.gumroad.com/l/partyhat\">party hat</a>.</p>"
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