Twenty years ago this past February, @KevinMarks.com (@KevinMarks@xoxo.zone) and I introduced #microformats in a conference presentation.
Full post: https://tantek.com/2024/044/t1/twenty-years-microformats
Aside: This is a summary of a longer post from ~200 days ago¹, which #Mastodon readers never got due to a Mastodon #federation bug (instances returned 202 for post inbox delivery, but did not show post to followers or on local profiles, details in https://tantek.com/t5Yo1).
I wrote a retrospective last year: https://tantek.com/2023/047/t1/nineteen-years-microformats
Since then, here are the top three updates & interesting developments in microformats:
1. Growing rel=me adoption for distributed verification (✅ in Mastodon etc.)
* Wikipedia, Threads, omg.lol support
2. A proposal to merge #microformats2 h-review into h-entry, since reviews are in practice (e.g. on the #indieweb) always entries with a bit more information.
3. #metaformats adoptions, implementations, and iteration
More details:
¹ https://tantek.com/2024/044/t1/twenty-years-microformats
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"html": "<img alt=\"\" src=\"https://res.cloudinary.com/mariposta/image/upload/w_1200,c_limit,q_65/perfect-days.jpg\" /><h2>The strength of character needed to perform the best work you can, to care deeply about the welfare of others, to admire the beauty of Mother Earth, and to stay in tune with your hidden self\u2014finding that is true nobility.</h2>\n\n<p>Without a doubt I knew I would love this movie. (Hat tip to Thomas Flight\u2019s amazing video essay <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BucSbzYXqKM\">Hollywood\u2019s Obsession with Ambition</a> which highlights this film as an example of the kind of story you rarely see told in mainstream cinema.)</p>\n\n<p>At first glance, you might approach <em>Perfect Days</em> expecting it to be a quaint little film about a simple man (of meager status in society) going about his simple day, and then all of a sudden something happens to puncture his comfortable routine and make him question the nature of his poor existence. And while there <em>is</em> an element of that trope to be found here, I genuinely don\u2019t think that\u2019s the point of the movie\u2014certainly not its central theme.</p>\n\n<p>Instead, what I think <em>Perfect Days</em> is about is this (and it\u2019s all but stated clearly by the protagonist, Hirayama, in an incredibly insightful conversation):</p>\n\n<p><strong>There are many worlds within our world</strong>, and the world in which the most celebrated among us are those who are gentle of spirit, quiet yet understanding, quickened with wisdom yet slow to teach, observant of small details, careful to do good work regardless of its appreciation by others, able to find worthwhile meaning and creative merit even in the mundane\u2026is not a world in sync with much of modern culture & civilization.</p>\n\n<p>Society celebrates the high earners, the outwardly \u201csuccessful\u201d, the movers & shakers who can make a splash, make a scene, make an obvious \u201cdent\u201d in the universe. Perhaps in certain cases, such lauding of lofty outcomes is indeed warranted. But I would argue\u2014and it seems this film does argue\u2014that finding fulfillment in the trappings of cosmopolitan relevance is certainly not a universal path\u2026and rewarding alternatives are routinely overlooked.</p>\n\n<h3>Two roads diverged, and Hirayama took the one less traveled by\u2026</h3>\n\n<p>(<em>Minor spoilers ahead.</em>)</p>\n\n<p>It\u2019s not spelled out in detail what occurred in the past, but it seems Hirayama\u2019s family had been well-to-do, yet he walked away under less-than-ideal circumstances\u2014while his sister remained \u201cin the fold\u201d. Was their father abusive? Or simply overbearing and demanding? Perhaps the family business was repugnant to Hirayama in some way? Whatever caused the rift, Hirayama became estranged and went off to forge his own destiny.</p>\n\n<p>A destiny, that is, revolving around <strong>cleaning some of Tokyo\u2019s finest toilets</strong>, taking pictures of trees, listening to cassette tapes of Van Morrison, and reading books for \u201cintellectuals\u201d before nodding off to sleep in his modest apartment.</p>\n\n<p>Now I realize that makes him sound quite \u201cboring\u201d and not at all worthy of being the star attraction of a motion picture, but hear me out. There\u2019s more to Hirayama than what he does, and that\u2019s kind of the point.</p>\n\n<p>He may be <em>invisible</em> to most others in society, yet the people who have taken the trouble to get to know him admire him. They recognize that he is a considerate person. A safe person. A <em>good</em> person. He works hard and gets the job done right. He\u2019s dependable. He has been through some stuff, certainly, but that didn\u2019t result in his becoming callous, cynical, or self-absorbed. He may not be a \u201cgentleman\u201d, but he\u2019s a <strong>gentle man</strong>.</p>\n\n<p>And it turns out these qualities are particularly important to the women who turn to Hirayama when shit happens in their lives.</p>\n\n<p>Aya\u2014who feels pressured by her boyfriend to take things to the next level and she\u2019s clearly not willing to go there. Yet she enjoys listening to Hirayama\u2019s music collection and plants a demure kiss on his cheek. <strong>He\u2019s safe, and she knows it</strong>.</p>\n\n<p>Niko\u2014the teenage niece he barely recognizes at first who turns towards him without hesitation as part of her first-ever \u201crunaway\u201d adventure. (Apparently things are not going well in the household of Hirayama\u2019s sister\u2026echoes of the past?) Far from seeming fazed by her uncle\u2019s simple existence as a toilet cleaner or his unfamiliar ancient technology (what\u2019s a cassette tape?!), she relishes it. To her, he seems more grounded, more reassuring, and more in-tune with some sort of inner peace she longs to cultivate. Outwardly he doesn\u2019t own much besides books, tapes, and plants, but spiritually <strong>he is rich\u2026while her own family is in essence poor</strong>.</p>\n\n<p>And \u201cMama\u201d\u2014the bar owner Hirayama is on friendly terms with\u2026and perhaps in time, more. Although she\u2019ll deny it with loud protestations, apparently he gets a bit more to drink and a bit more to eat than the other patrons of her establishment. 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Right\u2026)</p>\n\n<p>In an era where the chronically online chatter over whether, as a woman, it\u2019s safer to hang out with a man or a bear\u2014in an era when \u201cincel\u201d culture has truly become a menace to our political discourse\u2014in an era when young men may find themselves falling down that rabbit hole of wondering what their place is in a world where women gain equality of status, means, and purpose\u2014a genuinely <em>decent</em> older man as depicted in the person of Hirayama doesn\u2019t just warm the heart\u2026it demonstrates that a human who operates from the vantage point of mindfulness, dedication, and true cultivation of spirit isn\u2019t just a figment of a bygone age but a <em>blueprint we are in desperate need of</em>.</p>\n\n<p>The overflowing of memes around Tim Walz and his \u201cbig dad energy\u201d is simply another variation on this theme: we can all stop pretending we don\u2019t know what \u201ctonic masculinity\u201d (I love this phrase!) looks like, because we do.</p>\n\n<p><strong>It looks, in a certain way, like Hirayama.</strong></p>\n\n<p>I don\u2019t believe this means we should all quit our high-paying corporate jobs and become toilet cleaners to find the path to ultimate fulfillment. That\u2019s not what <em>Perfect Days</em> is saying.</p>\n\n<p>It\u2019s saying, I believe, that the strength of character needed to perform the best work you can, to care deeply about the welfare of others, to admire the beauty of Mother Earth, and to stay in tune with your hidden self\u2014finding that is true nobility. And making the intention to cultivate that wisdom path is a most worthy goal, whether or not you happen to clean toilets or run for political office or write code or volunteer at the local non-profit or fly to the moon.</p>\n\n<h3>Finding joy amidst the banality</h3>\n\n<p>Hirayama isn\u2019t \u201chappy\u201d thoughout the whole film. In fact, he really ends up struggling due to some of the things which happen to him and finds it very difficult to regain his composure. And I was deeply moved by the final scene of the film\u2014I won\u2019t give it away, but let\u2019s just say it\u2019s a <em>tour de force</em> of subtle emotive acting.</p>\n\n<p>And that too is the point of <em>Perfect Days</em>. Mindfulness exercise and spiritual \u201cenlightenment\u201d (however you might chose to define that) isn\u2019t a magic bullet. <strong>Sometimes life just sucks</strong>, plain and simple. Inevitably you\u2019ll have bad days. Everything will leave a sour taste in your mouth.</p>\n\n<p>But those days do pass. The sun will rise as it always does. And if you take the time to stop and notice, you\u2019ll find the beauty again even in the mundane. <strong>You\u2019ll recognize the priceless value of a gentle spirit</strong>. And you\u2019ll revel in that indescribable feeling of <em>komorebi</em> once again.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Perfect Days</em> was written by German film veteran Wim Wenders along with Takuma Takasaki. It stars acclaimed Japanese actor K\u014dji Yakusho as Hirayam and was directed by Wenders. It was nominated for an Academy Award in 2023 and is currently streaming on Hulu. Wenders was initially approached to create a documentary about the architectural significance of Tokyo\u2019s public toilets and instead crafted an intimate character study about \u201cfinding joy in our everyday banality\u201d (<a href=\"https://movieweb.com/wim-wenders-takuma-takasaki-perfect-days-interview/\">MovieWeb</a>).</p>\n\n\n\n <br /><p>\n \n <a href=\"https://jaredwhite.com/tag/mindfulness\">#mindfulness</a>\n \n <a href=\"https://jaredwhite.com/tag/spirituality\">#spirituality</a>\n \n <a href=\"https://jaredwhite.com/tag/movies\">#movies</a>\n \n </p>",
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And while there is an element of that trope to be found here, I genuinely don\u2019t think that\u2019s the point of the movie\u2014certainly not its central theme.\n\nInstead, what I think Perfect Days is about is this (and it\u2019s all but stated clearly by the protagonist, Hirayama, in an incredibly insightful conversation):\n\nThere are many worlds within our world, and the world in which the most celebrated among us are those who are gentle of spirit, quiet yet understanding, quickened with wisdom yet slow to teach, observant of small details, careful to do good work regardless of its appreciation by others, able to find worthwhile meaning and creative merit even in the mundane\u2026is not a world in sync with much of modern culture & civilization.\n\nSociety celebrates the high earners, the outwardly \u201csuccessful\u201d, the movers & shakers who can make a splash, make a scene, make an obvious \u201cdent\u201d in the universe. Perhaps in certain cases, such lauding of lofty outcomes is indeed warranted. But I would argue\u2014and it seems this film does argue\u2014that finding fulfillment in the trappings of cosmopolitan relevance is certainly not a universal path\u2026and rewarding alternatives are routinely overlooked.\n\nTwo roads diverged, and Hirayama took the one less traveled by\u2026\n\n(Minor spoilers ahead.)\n\nIt\u2019s not spelled out in detail what occurred in the past, but it seems Hirayama\u2019s family had been well-to-do, yet he walked away under less-than-ideal circumstances\u2014while his sister remained \u201cin the fold\u201d. Was their father abusive? Or simply overbearing and demanding? Perhaps the family business was repugnant to Hirayama in some way? Whatever caused the rift, Hirayama became estranged and went off to forge his own destiny.\n\nA destiny, that is, revolving around cleaning some of Tokyo\u2019s finest toilets, taking pictures of trees, listening to cassette tapes of Van Morrison, and reading books for \u201cintellectuals\u201d before nodding off to sleep in his modest apartment.\n\nNow I realize that makes him sound quite \u201cboring\u201d and not at all worthy of being the star attraction of a motion picture, but hear me out. There\u2019s more to Hirayama than what he does, and that\u2019s kind of the point.\n\nHe may be invisible to most others in society, yet the people who have taken the trouble to get to know him admire him. They recognize that he is a considerate person. A safe person. A good person. He works hard and gets the job done right. He\u2019s dependable. He has been through some stuff, certainly, but that didn\u2019t result in his becoming callous, cynical, or self-absorbed. He may not be a \u201cgentleman\u201d, but he\u2019s a gentle man.\n\nAnd it turns out these qualities are particularly important to the women who turn to Hirayama when shit happens in their lives.\n\nAya\u2014who feels pressured by her boyfriend to take things to the next level and she\u2019s clearly not willing to go there. Yet she enjoys listening to Hirayama\u2019s music collection and plants a demure kiss on his cheek. He\u2019s safe, and she knows it.\n\nNiko\u2014the teenage niece he barely recognizes at first who turns towards him without hesitation as part of her first-ever \u201crunaway\u201d adventure. (Apparently things are not going well in the household of Hirayama\u2019s sister\u2026echoes of the past?) Far from seeming fazed by her uncle\u2019s simple existence as a toilet cleaner or his unfamiliar ancient technology (what\u2019s a cassette tape?!), she relishes it. To her, he seems more grounded, more reassuring, and more in-tune with some sort of inner peace she longs to cultivate. Outwardly he doesn\u2019t own much besides books, tapes, and plants, but spiritually he is rich\u2026while her own family is in essence poor.\n\nAnd \u201cMama\u201d\u2014the bar owner Hirayama is on friendly terms with\u2026and perhaps in time, more. Although she\u2019ll deny it with loud protestations, apparently he gets a bit more to drink and a bit more to eat than the other patrons of her establishment. And even though he appears to be nothing more than a friendly regular customer, Mama\u2019s ex-husband who is dying of cancer is somehow able to pick up on the fact that of anyone in the world he could implore to \u201ctake care of Mama for me\u201d, it\u2019s Hirayama. (Even though it\u2019s \u201cnot like that\u201d. Yeah Hirayama, sure. 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That\u2019s not what Perfect Days is saying.\n\nIt\u2019s saying, I believe, that the strength of character needed to perform the best work you can, to care deeply about the welfare of others, to admire the beauty of Mother Earth, and to stay in tune with your hidden self\u2014finding that is true nobility. And making the intention to cultivate that wisdom path is a most worthy goal, whether or not you happen to clean toilets or run for political office or write code or volunteer at the local non-profit or fly to the moon.\n\nFinding joy amidst the banality\n\nHirayama isn\u2019t \u201chappy\u201d thoughout the whole film. In fact, he really ends up struggling due to some of the things which happen to him and finds it very difficult to regain his composure. And I was deeply moved by the final scene of the film\u2014I won\u2019t give it away, but let\u2019s just say it\u2019s a tour de force of subtle emotive acting.\n\nAnd that too is the point of Perfect Days. Mindfulness exercise and spiritual \u201cenlightenment\u201d (however you might chose to define that) isn\u2019t a magic bullet. Sometimes life just sucks, plain and simple. Inevitably you\u2019ll have bad days. Everything will leave a sour taste in your mouth.\n\nBut those days do pass. The sun will rise as it always does. And if you take the time to stop and notice, you\u2019ll find the beauty again even in the mundane. You\u2019ll recognize the priceless value of a gentle spirit. And you\u2019ll revel in that indescribable feeling of komorebi once again.\n\n\n\nPerfect Days was written by German film veteran Wim Wenders along with Takuma Takasaki. It stars acclaimed Japanese actor K\u014dji Yakusho as Hirayam and was directed by Wenders. It was nominated for an Academy Award in 2023 and is currently streaming on Hulu. Wenders was initially approached to create a documentary about the architectural significance of Tokyo\u2019s public toilets and instead crafted an intimate character study about \u201cfinding joy in our everyday banality\u201d (MovieWeb).\n\n\n\n \n\n \n #mindfulness\n \n #spirituality\n \n #movies"
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Adventures in IndieWeb / ActivityPub (AP) bridging:
While in general my posts are being successfully federated by https://fed.brid.gy/ (#BridgyFed), my most recent three posts, and two more earlier this year, were delivered successfully to multiple #Mastodon instances AP inboxes (returned 202), however the posts do not show up if you look-up my profile on those instances (and thus followers never saw them).
These most recent posts:
* https://tantek.com/2024/245/t1/read-write-suggest-edit-web
* https://tantek.com/2024/242/t1/indiewebcamp-portland
* https://tantek.com/2024/238/t3/indiewebcamp-auto-linking
and these earlier this year:
* https://tantek.com/2024/173/t1/years-posse-microformats-adoption
* https://tantek.com/2024/044/t1/twenty-years-microformats
were all delivered to over 300 instances, which returned "202" codes, however none of them show up in profile views on those instances, e.g.
* https://indieweb.social/@tantek.com@tantek.com
* https://mastodon.social/@tantek.com@tantek.com
* https://social.coop/@tantek.com@tantek.com
* https://w3c.social/@tantek.com@tantek.com
(My most recent post on all of these is the same 2024-08-25 post starting with “All setup here at IndieWebCamp Portland!”)
Why would a Mastodon instance respond with a 202 to an AP inbox delivery and then not show that post on the local profile view?
GitHub tracking bug in case you can help narrow/track this down or have
* https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/issues/884
Let’s see if this post makes it to your Mastodon (or other #fediverse) reader/client.
#indieweb #ActivityPub
This is post 21 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts
← https://tantek.com/2024/245/t1/read-write-suggest-edit-web
→ 🔮
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"text": "Adventures in IndieWeb / ActivityPub (AP) bridging:\n\nWhile in general my posts are being successfully federated by https://fed.brid.gy/ (#BridgyFed), my most recent three posts, and two more earlier this year, were delivered successfully to multiple #Mastodon instances AP inboxes (returned 202), however the posts do not show up if you look-up my profile on those instances (and thus followers never saw them).\n\nThese most recent posts:\n* https://tantek.com/2024/245/t1/read-write-suggest-edit-web\n* https://tantek.com/2024/242/t1/indiewebcamp-portland\n* https://tantek.com/2024/238/t3/indiewebcamp-auto-linking\nand these earlier this year:\n* https://tantek.com/2024/173/t1/years-posse-microformats-adoption\n* https://tantek.com/2024/044/t1/twenty-years-microformats\n\nwere all delivered to over 300 instances, which returned \"202\" codes, however none of them show up in profile views on those instances, e.g.\n* https://indieweb.social/@tantek.com@tantek.com\n* https://mastodon.social/@tantek.com@tantek.com\n* https://social.coop/@tantek.com@tantek.com\n* https://w3c.social/@tantek.com@tantek.com\n(My most recent post on all of these is the same 2024-08-25 post starting with \u201cAll setup here at IndieWebCamp Portland!\u201d)\n\nWhy would a Mastodon instance respond with a 202 to an AP inbox delivery and then not show that post on the local profile view?\n\nGitHub tracking bug in case you can help narrow/track this down or have \n* https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/issues/884\n\nLet\u2019s see if this post makes it to your Mastodon (or other #fediverse) reader/client.\n\n#indieweb #ActivityPub \n\nThis is post 21 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts\n\n\u2190 https://tantek.com/2024/245/t1/read-write-suggest-edit-web\n\u2192 \ud83d\udd2e",
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✏️ I want the Read Write Suggest-Edit Accept-Edit Update Web.
The consumer Infinite Scroll Web leaves us feeling empty.
Too few of us participate in the Read Write Web, whether with personal sites or Wikipedia.
A week ago when we wrapped up #IndieWebCamp Portland and I was reading @KevinMarks.com (@kevinmarks@indieweb.social @kevinmarks@xoxo.zone @kevinmarks) live-tooting of the demos¹, I noticed a few errors, typos or miscaptures, and pointed them out in-person.
Kevin was able to quickly edit his toots and update them for anyone reading, thanks to #Mastodon’s post editing feature and its support of #ActivityPub Updates. But this shouldn’t require being in the same room, IRL or chat.
We should be able to suggest edits to each other’s posts, as easily as we can reply and add a comment.
13 years ago I wrote²:
“The Read Write Web is no longer sufficient. I want the Read Fork Write Merge Web.”
Now I want the Read Write Suggest-Edit Accept-Edit Update Web.
The ↪ Reply button is fairly ubiquitous in modern post user interfaces (UIs).
Why not also a ✏️ Suggest Edit button, to craft a fix for a typo, grammar, or other minor error, and send the author for their review, and acceptance or rejection? Perhaps viewable only by the suggester and the author, to avoid "performative" suggested edits.
If the author’s posts provide revision histories, when a suggested edit is accepted, a post’s history could show the contributor of the edit.
Instead of asking Kevin in-person, what if I could have posted special "Suggested Edit" responses in reply to his toots, for which he would receive special notifications, and could choose to one-click accept and update (or further edit) his toots?
To enable such UIs and interactions across servers and implementations, we may need a new type of response³, perhaps with a special property (or more) to convey the edits being suggested.
There is documentation of this and similar use-cases, prior art / UIs, as well as some brainstorming on the #IndieWeb wiki:
* https://indieweb.org/edit
Our interaction after IndieWebCamp has inspired me to take another look at how can we design and prototype solutions to this problem.
For now, if you host your blog and posts as static files on GitHub (or equivalent), you could add a button like this to your posts alongside Like, Reply, Repost buttons:
✏️ Suggest Edit
and link it to an edit URL for the static file for the post.
I don’t use GitHub static files myself for posts, but here’s an example of such an edit link for one of my projects:
https://tantek.com/github/cassis/edit/main/README.md
This will start the process of creating a “pull request”, GitHub’s jargon⁴ for a “suggested edit”.
After completing GitHub’s ceremony of entering multiple text fields (summary & description), and multiple clicks to create said “pull request”, it’ll be sent to the author to review. Presuming the author likes the suggested edit, they can perform the other half of GitHub’s jargon-filled ceremonies to “Merge” or “Squash & Merge”, “Delete fork”, etc. to accept the edit.
It’s an awkward interaction⁵, however useful for at least prototyping a ✏️ Suggest Edit button on sites that store their posts as files in GitHub. Certainly worthy of experimenting with and gathering experience to design and build even better interactions.
We can start with the shortest path to getting something working, then learn, iterate, improve, repeat.
#readWriteWeb #editableWeb #suggestEdit #acceptEdit
References:
¹ https://indieweb.social/@kevinmarks/113025295600067213
² https://tantek.com/2011/174/t1/read-fork-write-merge-web-osb11
³ https://indieweb.org/responses
⁴ The phrase “pull request” was derived from the git command: “git request-pull” according to https://www.reddit.com/r/git/comments/nvahcp/comment/h12hzj7/
⁵ “edits” in GitHub require taking far more steps, and navigating far more jargon, then say, Wikipedia pages, which come down to “Edit” and “Save”. We should aspire to Wikipedia’s simplicity, not GitHub’s ceremonies.
This is post 20 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts
← https://tantek.com/2024/242/t1/indiewebcamp-portland
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Perhaps viewable only by the suggester and the author, to avoid \"performative\" suggested edits.<br /><br />If the author\u2019s posts provide revision histories, when a suggested edit is accepted, a post\u2019s history could show the contributor of the edit.<br /><br />Instead of asking Kevin in-person, what if I could have posted special \"Suggested Edit\" responses in reply to his toots, for which he would receive special notifications, and could choose to one-click accept and update (or further edit) his toots?<br /><br />To enable such UIs and interactions across servers and implementations, we may need a new type of response<a href=\"https://tantek.com/#t5Yn1_note-3\">\u00b3</a>, perhaps with a special property (or more) to convey the edits being suggested.<br /><br />There is documentation of this and similar use-cases, prior art / UIs, as well as some brainstorming on the #<span class=\"p-category\">IndieWeb</span> wiki:<br />* <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/edit\">https://indieweb.org/edit</a><br /><br />Our interaction after IndieWebCamp has inspired me to take another look at how can we design and prototype solutions to this problem.<br /><br />For now, if you host your blog and posts as static files on GitHub (or equivalent), you could add a button like this to your posts alongside Like, Reply, Repost buttons:<br /><br />\u270f\ufe0f Suggest Edit<br /><br />and link it to an edit URL for the static file for the post.<br /><br />I don\u2019t use GitHub static files myself for posts, but here\u2019s an example of such an edit link for one of my projects:<br /><br /><a href=\"https://tantek.com/github/cassis/edit/main/README.md\">https://tantek.com/github/cassis/edit/main/README.md</a><br /><br />This will start the process of creating a \u201cpull request\u201d, GitHub\u2019s jargon<a href=\"https://tantek.com/#t5Yn1_note-4\">\u2074</a> for a \u201csuggested edit\u201d.<br /><br />After completing GitHub\u2019s ceremony of entering multiple text fields (summary & description), and multiple clicks to create said \u201cpull request\u201d, it\u2019ll be sent to the author to review. 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I just did a massive spring cleaning of one of my servers, trying to clean up what has become quite the mess of clutter. For every website on the server, I either:
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well well well... what have we here! Just did some surgery on this Mac SE and replaced the hard drive with a BlueSCSI and it's alive!
Now I just have to upgrade this to 4mb RAM and then we'll be in business!
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Thanks to Matthew for reading my post on recent IndieWeb discourse and adding a new section with his responses and notifying me about it via email.
There are certainly a number of things in Matthew’s response that tempt me to respond, but I’d like to focus on this:
I am, nevertheless, a little annoyed by the exhortation to “talk with us”. What does it look like I’m doing over here, anyway? Oh, no, it’s not good enough to post one’s opinion on the web. I’m supposed to use one of the IndieWeb’s chats, either IRC, Slack, or Discord. […] I am already talking with you. I’m doing it here, on my own website for all to see, in the best IndieWeb tradition. And you are talking to me if you quote me on your own website or email me.
I don’t consider my post a reply to Matthew’s post. I do not see his post as an invitation to conversation. I read it as a “take” - an opinion piece intended to make the reader feel a certain way and then close the topic, complete with clickbait headline.
I shouldn’t have to point out that bloggers-blogging-at-bloggers has a long history of unproductive conversation. Reducing the impact of unproductive conversations is part is why there’s not an IndieWeb mailing list. It’s easy in these formats to go hard on the abstract, and to spend time constructing arguments instead of asking questions.
That’s not to say that posts can’t inspire change. In the past day or so indieweb.org/discuss has been updated to mention right in the opening sentence that the IRC, web, Slack, and Discord chats are all bridged. Discussions have also kicked up (not for the first time) around making the homepage more welcoming, focusing on principles first, etc.
Those changes are being decided in the real-time chat, where you can meet and talk with the individuals (all volunteers!) who make up the IndieWeb community. I reckon it beats trying to reverse-engineer that community from a wiki.
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Had a great time at IndieWebCamp Portland 2024 this past Sunday — our 10th IndieWebCamp in Portland!
https://events.indieweb.org/2024/08/indiewebcamp-portland-2024-8bucXDlLqR0k
Being a one day #IndieWebCamp, we focused more on making, hacking, and creating, than on formal discussion sessions.
Nearly everyone gave a brief personal site intro with a summary of how they use their #IndieWeb site and what they would like to add, remove, or improve.
* https://indieweb.org/2024/Portland/Intros
There were lots of informal discussions, some in the main room, on the walk to and from lunch, over lunch in the nearby outdoor patio, or at tables inside the lobby of the Hotel Grand Stark.
We wrapped up with our usual Create Day¹ Demos session, live streamed for remote attendees to see as well. Lots of great demos of things people built, designed, removed, cleaned-up, documented, and blogged! Everyone still at the camp showed something on their personal site!
* https://indieweb.org/2024/Portland/Demos
Group photo and lots more about IndieWebCamp Portland 2024 at the event’s wiki page:
* https://indieweb.org/2024/Portland
Thanks to everyone who pitched in to help organize IndieWebCamp Portland 2024! Thanks especially to Marty McGuire (@martymcgui.re) for taking live notes during both the personal site intros and create day demos, to @KevinMarks.com (@kevinmarks@xoxo.zone @kevinmarks @kevinmarks@indieweb.social) for the IndieWebCamp live-tooting, and Ryan Barrett (@snarfed.org) for amazing breakfast pastries from Dos Hermanos.
The experience definitely raised our hopes and confidence for returning to Portland in 2025.²
References:
¹ https://indieweb.org/Create_Day
² https://indieweb.org/Planning#Portland
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Sharing for my fedi-peeps. That’s a term, right?
Has the IndieWeb become discourse, again?
https://martymcgui.re/2024/08/29/141602/
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"text": "I recently read Has the IndieWeb Become Irrelevant from starbreaker.org.\nThe post does a great job linking to and summarizing a spate of posts that I\nwill call \u201cpeople being mad at the IndieWeb\u201d, while also being one of these posts.\nThese posts accuse \u201cthe IndieWeb\u201d of being elitist, exclusionary,\noverengineered, complicit, and unnecessary, among many other things.\nThere are some common threads I noticed among these posts:\nNone of them mention micro.blog!\nThey seem to attack a \u201cstraw person\u201d version of the IndieWeb, where one is\nexpected to read, follow, and implement over a decade of experimentation on the web.\nMicro.blog is real\nFolks that would like to try a turnkey website hosting service, where:\nyou bring your own domain (or register a new one!)\nyou can leave and take your content with you whenever you want\nrequires no coding (and no plugins to configure, and no \u201cfiles and folders\u201d)\noffers mobile and desktop apps that let you post (and read) the kinds of content you want\nsupports IndieWeb building blocks to let you follow and interact with other\npeople via your own websites\nI don\u2019t see eye-to-eye with its creator Manton Reese about everything, but\nmicro.blog is a great example of a real world service that makes use of IndieWeb\nbuilding blocks in ways that customers benefit from without having to build\nanything!\nThe rest is wiki\nI think many of other complaints, from being \u201coverengineered\u201d to (paraphased)\n\u201cPOSSE makes IndieWeb complicit with the corporate web\u201d, come from misconstruing\nthe IndieWeb wiki at indieweb.org as the entirety of\n\u201cbeing IndieWeb\u201d.\nWhen I discovered indieweb.org (in maybe 2015?) I was intrigued and nearly\ninstantly overwhelemed. Trying to absorb all the concepts there would\nbe nearly impossible. Understanding and implementing all the techniques there is\nactually impossible.\nThat\u2019s because indieweb.org is not a presciption or a cookbook or\nan exercise plan. It doesn\u2019t tell you how to \u201cbe IndieWeb\u201d. It\u2019s a collective\nmemory of experiments, some successful and some not, from a group of\nexperimenters that has changed greatly over time.\nFor example, I find that criticisms like \u201cf*ck the corporate web and f*ck\nIndieWeb for interoperating with the corporate web\u201d don\u2019t really hold up when\na lot of that stuff doesn\u2019t even work anymore.\nOn corporate complicity\nAutomatic POSSE, syndicating posts from your own\nsite out to your profiles on social silos, only ever barely (and briefly)\nworked for Instagram, was turned off for Facebook a few years ago, and was all\nbut destroyed for Twitter shortly after its last acquisition. backfeed -\npulling comments and likes from these platforms to display on your own site -\nhas similarly been blocked by technical measures.\nThese were experiments that worked for a time. People used them for a time. That\ntime has passed and the people have moved on.\nSome folks have replaced their Twitter usage with something like Mastodon, or\nBlue Sky, or Threads, and amazing people like Ryan have\nstepped up to help experiment with bridging personal sites and federated services.\nThere is no \u201cthe way\u201d, only \u201cyour way\u201d\nPeople don\u2019t have to move on for purely technical reasons. Even before\nTwitter closed their APIs, many in the IndieWeb community were shuttering their\nTwitter accounts and removing posts. They moved on from Twitter, despite all\nthose documented pages on the IndieWeb wiki, because they didn\u2019t want to use\nthe web this way anymore.\nAnd to me, this is actually what \u201cbeing IndieWeb\u201d or \u201cdoing IndieWeb\u201d is\nabout: using the web in ways that fit your wants and needs, being mindful of\nwhen (and to whom) you give up control over your stuff and your connections.\nFiguring out how you want to use the web is a daunting task, to say the least!\nThe IndieWeb wiki is full of interesting examples and ideas - but as a logbook\nof ways of using the web, it can be inscrutable. It was never intended that\nevery way of using the web would be suitable for everyone. A collective memory\nis extremely hard to keep up-to-date and to signpost for navigation. Trying to\nrely on the wiki alone is a recipe for frustration.\nI freely admit that the community has fallen into some serious prescriptive\ntraps over time. Like with tools like indiewebify.me\nthat offer a checklist of implementation details, without accompanying reasons\nwhy you might want these features.\nThis isn\u2019t the first time this has happened, by any means, and it won\u2019t be the\nlast, but the criticisms of these tools and models do make their way back into\nthe collective memory. (see: generations\nand IndieMark)\nTalk with us\nThat\u2019s why the IndieWeb chat exists. It\u2019s a\nplace where real actual people, who are working to use the web in ways that\nsuit them, are ready to help in whatever ways we can. We love to share what is\n(and is not) working for us, what we\u2019re trying, and so on. More importantly, we\nwant to help you find ways of using the web that work for you.",
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I was intrigued and nearly\ninstantly overwhelemed. Trying to absorb all the concepts there would\nbe nearly impossible. Understanding and implementing all the techniques there is\n<em>actually</em> impossible.</p>\n<p>That\u2019s because indieweb.org is not a presciption or a cookbook or\nan exercise plan. It doesn\u2019t tell you how to \u201cbe IndieWeb\u201d. It\u2019s a <em>collective\nmemory</em> of experiments, some successful and some not, from a group of\nexperimenters that has changed greatly over time.</p>\n<p>For example, I find that criticisms like \u201cf*ck the corporate web and f*ck\nIndieWeb for interoperating with the corporate web\u201d don\u2019t really hold up when\n<em>a lot of that stuff doesn\u2019t even work anymore</em>.</p>\n<h3>On corporate complicity</h3>\n<p>Automatic <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/POSSE\">POSSE</a>, syndicating posts from your own\nsite out to your profiles on social silos, only ever barely (and briefly)\nworked for Instagram, was turned off for Facebook a few years ago, and was all\nbut destroyed for Twitter shortly after its last acquisition. <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/backfeed\">backfeed</a> -\npulling comments and likes from these platforms to display on your own site -\nhas similarly been blocked by technical measures.</p>\n<p>These were experiments that worked for a time. People used them for a time. That\ntime has passed and the people have moved on.</p>\n<p>Some folks have replaced their Twitter usage with something like Mastodon, or\nBlue Sky, or Threads, and amazing people like <a href=\"https://snarfed.org/\">Ryan</a> have\nstepped up to help experiment with <a href=\"https://fed.brid.gy/\">bridging personal sites and federated services</a>.</p>\n<h2>There is no \u201cthe way\u201d, only \u201cyour way\u201d</h2>\n<p>People don\u2019t have to move on for purely technical reasons. Even before\nTwitter closed their APIs, many in the IndieWeb community were shuttering their\nTwitter accounts and removing posts. They moved on from Twitter, despite all\nthose documented pages on the IndieWeb wiki, because <em>they didn\u2019t want to use\nthe web this way anymore</em>.</p>\n<p>And to me, this is <em>actually</em> what \u201cbeing IndieWeb\u201d or \u201cdoing IndieWeb\u201d is\nabout: using the web in ways that fit your wants and needs, being mindful of\nwhen (and to whom) you give up control over your stuff and your connections.</p>\n<p>Figuring out how <em>you</em> want to use the web is a daunting task, to say the least!\nThe IndieWeb wiki is full of interesting examples and ideas - but as a logbook\nof ways of using the web, it can be inscrutable. It was never intended that\nevery way of using the web would be suitable for everyone. A collective memory\nis extremely hard to keep up-to-date and to signpost for navigation. Trying to\nrely on the wiki alone is a recipe for frustration.</p>\n<p>I freely admit that the community has fallen into some serious prescriptive\ntraps over time. Like with tools like <a href=\"https://indiewebify.me/\">indiewebify.me</a>\nthat offer a checklist of implementation details, without accompanying reasons\n<em>why</em> you might want these features.</p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t the first time this has happened, by any means, and it won\u2019t be the\nlast, but the criticisms of these tools and models do make their way back into\nthe collective memory. (see: <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/generations\">generations</a>\nand <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/IndieMark\">IndieMark</a>)</p>\n<h2>Talk with us</h2>\n<p>That\u2019s why the <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/discuss\">IndieWeb chat</a> exists. It\u2019s a\nplace where real actual people, who are working to use the web in ways that\nsuit them, are ready to help in whatever ways we can. We love to share what is\n(and is not) working for us, what we\u2019re trying, and so on. More importantly, we\nwant to help <em>you</em> find ways of using the web that work for you.</p>"
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Are you safely stowed away during eternal Caturday?
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Are you giving it your all during eternal Caturday?
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Nice #IndieWebCamp discussion session with @KevinMarks.com (@kevinmarks@xoxo.com @kevinmarks) on the topic of auto-linking¹.
I’ve implemented an auto_link function² that handles quite a few use-cases of URLs (with or without http: or https:), @-name @-domain @-domain/path @-@-handles, hashtags(#), and footnotes(^).
Much of it is based on what I’ve seen work (or implemented) on sites and software, and some of it is based on logically extending how people are using text punctuation across various services.
It may be time for me to write-up an auto-link specification based on the algorithms I’ve come up with, implemented, and am using live on my site. All the algorithms work fully offline (none of them require querying a site for more info, whether well-known or otherwise), so they can be used in offline-first authoring/writing clients.
I have identified three logical chunks of auto-linking functionality, each of which has different constraints and potential needs for local to the linking context information (like hashtags need a default tagspace). Each would be a good section for a new specification. Each is used by this very post.
* URLs, @-s, and @-@-s
* # hashtags
* ^ footnotes
#IndieWeb #autoLink #hashtag #hashtags #footnote #footnotes
Previously, previously, previously:
* https://tantek.com/2024/070/t1/updated-auto-linking-mention-use-cases
* https://tantek.com/2023/100/t1/auto-linked-hashtags-federated
* https://tantek.com/2023/043/t1/footnotes-unicode-links
* https://tantek.com/2023/019/t5/reply-domain-above-address-and-silo
References:
¹ https://indieweb.org/autolink
² https://github.com/tantek/cassis/blob/main/cassis.js
This is post 18 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts
← https://tantek.com/2024/238/t1/indiewebcamp-portland
→ 🔮
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"text": "Nice #IndieWebCamp discussion session with @KevinMarks.com (@kevinmarks@xoxo.com @kevinmarks) on the topic of auto-linking\u00b9.\n\nI\u2019ve implemented an auto_link function\u00b2 that handles quite a few use-cases of URLs (with or without http: or https:), @-name @-domain @-domain/path @-@-handles, hashtags(#), and footnotes(^).\n\nMuch of it is based on what I\u2019ve seen work (or implemented) on sites and software, and some of it is based on logically extending how people are using text punctuation across various services.\n\nIt may be time for me to write-up an auto-link specification based on the algorithms I\u2019ve come up with, implemented, and am using live on my site. All the algorithms work fully offline (none of them require querying a site for more info, whether well-known or otherwise), so they can be used in offline-first authoring/writing clients.\n\nI have identified three logical chunks of auto-linking functionality, each of which has different constraints and potential needs for local to the linking context information (like hashtags need a default tagspace). Each would be a good section for a new specification. Each is used by this very post.\n\n* URLs, @-s, and @-@-s\n* # hashtags\n* ^ footnotes\n\n#IndieWeb #autoLink #hashtag #hashtags #footnote #footnotes\n\nPreviously, previously, previously:\n* https://tantek.com/2024/070/t1/updated-auto-linking-mention-use-cases\n* https://tantek.com/2023/100/t1/auto-linked-hashtags-federated\n* https://tantek.com/2023/043/t1/footnotes-unicode-links\n* https://tantek.com/2023/019/t5/reply-domain-above-address-and-silo\n\nReferences:\n\u00b9 https://indieweb.org/autolink\n\u00b2 https://github.com/tantek/cassis/blob/main/cassis.js\n\nThis is post 18 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts\n\n\u2190 https://tantek.com/2024/238/t1/indiewebcamp-portland\n\u2192 \ud83d\udd2e",
"html": "Nice #<span class=\"p-category\">IndieWebCamp</span> discussion session with <a href=\"https://KevinMarks.com\">@KevinMarks.com</a> (<a href=\"https://xoxo.com/@kevinmarks\">@kevinmarks@xoxo.com</a> <a class=\"h-cassis-username\" href=\"https://twitter.com/kevinmarks\">@kevinmarks</a>) on the topic of auto-linking<a href=\"https://tantek.com/#t5Yf3_note-1\">\u00b9</a>.<br /><br />I\u2019ve implemented an auto_link function<a href=\"https://tantek.com/#t5Yf3_note-2\">\u00b2</a> that handles quite a few use-cases of URLs (with or without http: or https:), @-name @-domain @-domain/path @-@-handles, hashtags(#), and footnotes(^).<br /><br />Much of it is based on what I\u2019ve seen work (or implemented) on sites and software, and some of it is based on logically extending how people are using text punctuation across various services.<br /><br />It may be time for me to write-up an auto-link specification based on the algorithms I\u2019ve come up with, implemented, and am using live on my site. All the algorithms work fully offline (none of them require querying a site for more info, whether well-known or otherwise), so they can be used in offline-first authoring/writing clients.<br /><br />I have identified three logical chunks of auto-linking functionality, each of which has different constraints and potential needs for local to the linking context information (like hashtags need a default tagspace). Each would be a good section for a new specification. Each is used by this very post.<br /><br />* URLs, @-s, and @-@-s<br />* # hashtags<br />* ^ footnotes<br /><br />#<span class=\"p-category\">IndieWeb</span> #<span class=\"p-category\">autoLink</span> #<span class=\"p-category\">hashtag</span> #<span class=\"p-category\">hashtags</span> #<span class=\"p-category\">footnote</span> #<span class=\"p-category\">footnotes</span><br /><br />Previously, previously, previously:<br />* <a href=\"https://tantek.com/2024/070/t1/updated-auto-linking-mention-use-cases\">https://tantek.com/2024/070/t1/updated-auto-linking-mention-use-cases</a><br />* <a href=\"https://tantek.com/2023/100/t1/auto-linked-hashtags-federated\">https://tantek.com/2023/100/t1/auto-linked-hashtags-federated</a><br />* <a href=\"https://tantek.com/2023/043/t1/footnotes-unicode-links\">https://tantek.com/2023/043/t1/footnotes-unicode-links</a><br />* <a href=\"https://tantek.com/2023/019/t5/reply-domain-above-address-and-silo\">https://tantek.com/2023/019/t5/reply-domain-above-address-and-silo</a><br /><br />References:<br /><a href=\"https://tantek.com/#t5Yf3_ref-1\">\u00b9</a> <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/autolink\">https://indieweb.org/autolink</a><br /><a href=\"https://tantek.com/#t5Yf3_ref-2\">\u00b2</a> <a href=\"https://github.com/tantek/cassis/blob/main/cassis.js\">https://github.com/tantek/cassis/blob/main/cassis.js</a><br /><br />This is post 18 of #<span class=\"p-category\">100PostsOfIndieWeb</span>. #<span class=\"p-category\">100Posts</span><br /><br />\u2190 <a href=\"https://tantek.com/2024/238/t1/indiewebcamp-portland\">https://tantek.com/2024/238/t1/indiewebcamp-portland</a><br />\u2192 \ud83d\udd2e"
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All setup here at IndieWebCamp Portland!
https://events.indieweb.org/2024/08/indiewebcamp-portland-2024-8bucXDlLqR0k
Good crowd of participants from #XOXO #XOXOConf (@xoxofest.com @xoxo@xoxo.zone @xoxo) here to work on their personal website(s), domains, or other independent social media setups!
As encouraged by Andy Baio (@waxy.org @andybaio@xoxo.zone @waxpancake)
“Every one of you should have a home on the web not controlled by a billionaire.”
If you’re in #Portland and want help, encouragement, or camaraderie in getting setup or doing more with your personal site, come on by! We’ll be having a mix of discussion sessions and create/hack sessions.
Personal site and hack demos at 16:00 PDT!
#indieweb #fediverse #ActivityPub #decentralized #socialMedia
This is post 17 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts
← https://tantek.com/2024/237/t1/people-over-protocols-platforms
→ https://tantek.com/2024/238/t3/indiewebcamp-auto-linking
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