Walking by the place where IndieWeb Summit was held last year!
I leave tonight to make it to PDX for the IndieWeb Summit. Barely packed or ready, lol.
Also I do apologise to the IndieWeb heads following me for the noisy timeline. I’m looking to stitch together a more ‘normal’ stream. Perhaps replies, notes and articles online?
Thanks! I hope to show that (at least with Shortcuts on iOS), it’s possible to “be the mobile layer over IndieWeb building blocks” you want to see in the world.
I share a lot of these syndication frustrations, since I don’t want to build it into my site’s backend. For Wordpress sites I think it can be automated with plugins (brid.gy syndication links?).
I’m considering getting a Shortcuts flow going before Summit. 😅 Long term I would love a service that does this with Micropub.
I’d be interested in seeing how IndieWeb and Dat stuff can intermingle!
Last year:
#microformats2 parsing: http://microformats.org/wiki/microformats2-parsing
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+ #Perl parser! microformats.org/wiki/microformats2#Parsers
Prev: https://tantek.com/2018/171/t2/happy-13th-microformats-org
It looks like I will be speaking at IndieWeb Summit! Specifically, I’ll be giving a keynote about how to “Own Your Mobile Experience”.
As a long-time enthusiast for these tiny computers we carry, I try to make most of the things I can do online into things I can do on my phone or tablet. That turns out to be… a lot of things.
I’ll probably keep the technical details light, other than naming specific IndieWeb building blocks that each piece relies on. I plan to make a (set of?) posts on my site explaining the plumbing, afterwards.
With just about a week and a half left to plan my ~10-15 minute set of demos, here are some things I am thinking of discussing / demoing.
- Reading! With an indie reader setup based on Microsub and the Indigenous iOS app.
- Including following folks on Instagram and Twitter with the help of Granary
- Replying and responding to things I read directly on my site via Indigenous and Micropub.
- Posting my own notes and photos with Indigenous and Micropub
- Seeing notifications on my devices when someone posts a response to my own posts.
- Doing so many things with Shortcuts
- Save articles to read later (similar to IndiePaper)
- Save podcasts to listen later (via huffduffer.com)
- Edit posts on my site and my private notes site via the Drafts app
- Upload images and other files to my site
- Track what I read (a Shortcut that extracts info from goodreads.com to post to my site)
- Track what I eat / drink
- Post iOS Live Photos as looping videos
- Cheat a bit using external services
- Checkins with Swarm go to my site via ownyourswarm.p3k.io
- Podcast listening history with the Overcast app goes to my site via a script and the Overcast “All data” export
- And other more exotic stuff that technically uses web apps but work well on mobile:
- Syndicating to Twitter and updating my post with the syndication URL thanks to micropublish.net
- Post silly animated GIF responses with kapowski.schmarty.net
Obviously this is too many things to demo in ~15 minutes. So, I’m looking for feedback!
What things on this list do you care to see most?
What things do you already do with mobile apps or social silos that you’d like to do on your website?
(Posted from an iPad mini, composed using Drafts, Micropub’d via Indigenous)
What things do you do with your website that you wished worked on mobile?
I had a couple extra hours last night before the scheduled server upgrade. Used the time to work on the book and made a bunch of progress, including editing the transcript of my audio interview with the IndieWeb co-founders last year.
Though YMMV with that - people have run into some 500 errors. I think we are moving away from that on indiewebify.me in favor of using Telegraph (and maybe webmention.app, too!)
Admiring the care and attention that @rem has put into the technology and the documentation for https://webmention.app/
So useful!
Automate your outgoing webmentions
I’ve been kicking the tyres on this great new tool from Remy. Give it a URL and it’ll find all the links in its h-entrys and automatically send webmentions to them. Very cool!
The documentation on the site is excellent, guiding you to the right solution for your particular needs. Read Remy’s announcement:
I’ve also tried very hard to get the documentation to be as welcoming as I can. I’ve tried to think about my dear visitor and what they want to do with the software, rather than type my typical developer approach to documentation - listing all the features and options.
Kicks Condor: The Web Finally Feels New Again
For me, I do find that Webmentions are really enhancing linking—by offering a type of bidirectional hyperlink. I think if they could see widespread use, we’d see a Renaissance of blogging on the Web. Webmentions are just so versatile—you can use them to commment, you an form ad-hoc directories with them, you can identify yourself to a wider community. I really feel like they are a useful modernization.
A wonky barter (Phil Gyford’s website)
I don’t know how we got to a point where chatting and sharing with friends means having to pick through adverts, and agreeing to being tracked and marketed at, and risk being exposed to, or abused by, terrible people. Our conversations and holiday snaps have become darkly marketed events. You could say this is a fair exchange but it feels wrong to me. The things being exchanged are too different, a kind of category error. It’s a wonky kind of barter in which I feel powerless and used. It’s not why I came here, to the internet.