For a start, re-read Mozilla’s Manifesto and Principles:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/
i don’t care if twitter is down tho cause I just use my website to post stuff! #IndieWeb #ownyourdata
@24ways (ht @KevinMarks): it’s not a “microbrowser” (already an alias for mobile browser^1) #xkcd386
^1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/microbrowser
Web searches also reveal that existing definition for “microbrowser”:
E.g. all first page results on:
@DuckDuckGo: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=microbrowser
@Google (which even shows a onebox definition for it!): https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=microbrowser
It’s futile to attempt to redefine longstanding term/phrase like that.
Always research what you think is a new term or phrase before attempting to define it.
At a minimum do a couple of web searches and check @Wikipedia.
To be fair, naming things is hard (https://tantek.com/t44u2).
To be clear, it’s *good* to identify a thing or class of things that exists but isn’t named, and give it a name, so we can talk about it. Reminded me of @timoreilly’s talk at the 2013 Brooklyn Beta (https://tantek.com/t4SV1).
Instead, when naming something, start with trying a name that is descriptive. E.g. as the @24ways article already mentions “link preview” as the canonical phrase for the thing that is generated and shown, it makes more sense to define “link preview agent” as:
“a class of User-Agents that also visit website links, parse HTML and generate a [non-interactive, representative] user experience”
And before this post, “link preview agent” had *zero* Duck Duck Go or relevant Google results for the actual phrase (just four in Google, two split by periods, and two adjacent text coincidences that are separated by page UI).
* https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=%22link%20preview%20agent%22
* https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=%22link%20preview%20agent%22
This is how onboarding will probably look in Kittybox. #IndieWeb
This is how onboarding would probably look in Kittybox. #IndieWeb
After we wrapped up IndieWebCamp SF, I went home, collected the ingredients from my cupboard, realized I was missing a couple, and picked them up from my local grocery store. Ingredients assembled(2), pie dish lined and #blueberries mixed(3), it didn’t take long to make(4), and place in the oven to bake(1).
Thanks to a ride from a friend, the pie made it to the party intact(5), taking its place among others, surrounded by bakers, friends, and baker friends (6 📷 Andrew Garcia).
#2019_342 #blueberrypie #pie #thirdpie #thirdpieblind #imadethis #baker #homecooking #homebaked #bakers #baked #latergram #nofilter
Previously: https://tantek.com/2019/005/t1/weeks-ago-baked-first-apple-pie
Sorry to anyone who's just received a tonne of webmentions from me - I'm tweaking the way the sending works so there are a few new places you may see them come from
This post has been published by my Micropub endpoint (code in https://gitlab.com/jamietanna/www-api ) and syndicated to Twitter via https://brid.gy 🙌 #IndieWeb - I'm able to own my tweets from my personal website at https://www.jvt.me and you can too by joining the folks at https://indieweb.org/discuss
Did somebody invent a play by #webmention #game like #indieweb chess? If not, I want to be the first one to implement it! Markup: p-chess-move - a move in some sort of a universally accepted notation. And a service you can mention so it’ll record the game and check rules.
https://tantek.com/2019/345/e1/homebrew-website-club-sf
No #bluesky today, let’s discuss Twitter’s @bluesky:
https://twitter.com/jack/status/1204766095988576256
@adactio will be there. Join us! @jack @ParagA @JackyAlcine @benwerd @dietrich @AndiGalpern @generativist @pvh @JohnMattDavis @html5cat et al
“Link In Bio” is a slow knife
For a closed system, those kinds of open connections are deeply dangerous. If anyone on Instagram can just link to any old store on the web, how can Instagram — meaning Facebook, Instagram’s increasingly-overbearing owner — tightly control commerce on its platform? If Instagram users could post links willy-nilly, they might even be able to connect directly to their users, getting their email addresses or finding other ways to communicate with them. Links represent a threat to closed systems.
Anil Dash on the war on hyperlinks.
It may be presented as a cost-saving measure, or as a way of reducing the sharing of untrusted links. But it is a strategy, designed to keep people from the open web, the place where they can control how, and whether, someone makes money off of an audience. The web is where we can make sites that don’t abuse data in the ways that Facebook properties do.