IndieWeb

Ben Werdmüller werd.io/profile/benwerd

84: Catching up with Manton, Spring 2020 edition

April 6, 2020 7:57pm -07:00

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Jamie Tanna www.jvt.me

So some refactoring I did in my Micropub endpoint resulted in me breaking it 😅 looks like I have a gap in my testing of how Jackson serialises data

April 6, 2020 10:54pm +01:00

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Neil Mather doubleloop.net

Read Your Website Is Your Castle by

Desmond Rivet

In which I zoom in slightly on the #indieweb

Some nice quotes on what the IndieWeb is about, from Desmond’s article Your Website Is Your Castle.

In a nutshell:

At the heart of the IndieWeb is an attempt to unify the ideas behind personal websites, blogs and social networks, but in a manner consistent with how the world wide web operates.

Your website acts much like your wall on Facebook or your timeline on Twitter – it’s your personal soapbox, your castle on the web.

[…]one recreates, in a decentralized manner, the kinds of online interactions one has come to expect from private social networks.

April 5, 2020 4:05pm +00:00

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Neil Mather doubleloop.net

Separation of article concerns

April 4, 2020 12:44pm +00:00

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aaronparecki.com/2020/04/02/22/

Marty McGuire martymcgui.re

Messaged you my friend code in the IndieWeb Slack!

… wishing I had a private posts story for my site right about now. 😅

April 3, 2020 3:17pm -04:00

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doubleloop.net/2020/04/03/indiewebifying-events-and-rsvps/

Jamie Tanna www.jvt.me

Brilliant write up Neil, great stuff on getting it working! Nice to see that it was a case of connecting up various IndieWeb tools for a somewhat out-of-the-box feel

April 3, 2020 8:24pm +01:00

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Neil Mather doubleloop.net

Indiewebifying events and RSVPs

April 3, 2020 6:30pm +00:00

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        "html": "Getting events out of the silos seems like a hot topic this year, with plenty of <a href=\"https://commonplace.doubleloop.net/indieweb.html\">IndieWeb</a> and <a href=\"https://commonplace.doubleloop.net/20200321115911-fediverse.html\">Fediverse</a> activity around it. The COVID-19 pandemic might be changing the nature of events for the foreseeable, but there\u2019s still plenty happening online.\n<p>A couple of weeks ago at IndieWebCamp London, Jamie led a session about owning your RSVPs: <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/2020/London/OwnYourRSVPs\">indieweb.org/2020/London/OwnYourRSVPs</a></p>\n<p>Inspired by the session, my day 2 hacking revolved around <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/Events\">events</a> and <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/rsvp\">RSVPs</a>. The plan was to try indie-fy my event discovery a bit, and also try and decouple myself from Meetup a little for events there. I want to get a feed of upcoming events that I might be interested in in my social reader, and RSVP to them on my own site.</p>\n<p>I\u2019d also quite like to have an \u2018agenda\u2019 page, where I publish the events that I\u2019m going to. If people want to, they can follow my events agenda, and it could be a helpful way to discover events that are going on. Other IndieWeb peeps such as Calum, Jamie and Seb are already doing this. (Not everyone might want to do this \u2013 there are obviously privacy implications).</p>\n<p>I\u2019d also like to have the events that I\u2019ve decided to go to show up in my calendar.</p>\n\n<h2>Getting events into my reader</h2>\n\n<p>I don\u2019t really have a good way of finding out about events at the moment. When I moved to a new town last year I sadly found that the silos of Meetup and Facebook were the best places to find out about events and what was going on.</p>\n<p>Though it might take a while for the world to move away from listing their events in these platforms, in the <a href=\"https://commonplace.doubleloop.net/20200401214906-build_the_new_world_in_the_shell_of_the_old.html\">interim</a> I would like a way of finding out about interesting events without having to visit lots of disparate sites around the Internet to find them. So a good place to try and get this would be in my <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/social_reader\">social reader</a>.</p>\n\n\n<h3>Meetup</h3>\n\n<p>One big source of events is <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/meetup.com\">Meetup</a>. The service is going down a slippery slope of sales to corporates (first to WeWork, <a href=\"https://www.reuters.com/article/us-wework-divestment-meetup/wework-sells-social-network-meetup-to-alleycorp-private-investors-idUSKBN21H2K6\">recently to some private investors</a>), so what better time to avoid as much as possible.</p>\n<p>As Jamie discussed in the London session, <a href=\"https://www.jvt.me/posts/2019/08/31/microformats-meetup/\">he has built a service</a> that wraps Meetup\u2019s API and can give you any Meetup groups\u2019 list of events, or any particular individual event, in Microformats.</p>\n<p>To do that, very handily, you can just take any event or event list from Meetup and change the domain to his service at: <a href=\"https://meetup-mf2.jvt.me/\">meetup-mf2.jvt.me</a></p>\n<p>So, say, I am interested in finding out about events from <a href=\"https://www.meetup.com/Lancaster-Digital-Friday-Coffee/events/\">www.meetup.com/Lancaster-Digital-Friday-Coffee/events/</a>, so I just need to go to <a href=\"https://meetup-mf2.jvt.me/Lancaster-Digital-Friday-Coffee/events/\">meetup-mf2.jvt.me/Lancaster-Digital-Friday-Coffee/events/</a> and I get a feed of the events in MF2. Nice!</p>\n<p>Now I have the mf2 I can a feed into my reader. I created a new Events channel in <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/Aperture\">Aperture</a> and subscribed to the link in this channel.</p>\n<p>Now they show up in my reader!</p>\n\n\n\n<h3>IndieWeb events</h3>\n\n<p>I can also subscribe to events from other feeds of events (e.g. <a href=\"https://events.indieweb.org/\">events.indieweb.org</a>). I don\u2019t think there\u2019s a way to subscribe to a Facebook event feed. That would be rad though, to get that feed into my reader.</p>\n\n\n\n<h3>Better display of event posts in readers</h3>\n\n<p>The social readers don\u2019t seem completely aware of the event type at present. (Indigenous does allow you to RSVP to them).</p>\n<p>One wrinkle at present is that the Meetup I am following, all of the events were created to be recurring about 3 years ago. So their published/updated date is 3 years ago, even though the event\u2019s start date might be next week. The readers seem to mostly work off of published date at the moment.</p>\n<img src=\"https://commonplace.doubleloop.net/pulling_the_events_into_my_social_reader/2020-03-15_10-52-14_3tfH9i4.png\" alt=\"2020-03-15_10-52-14_3tfH9i4.png\" /><img src=\"https://commonplace.doubleloop.net/pulling_the_events_into_my_social_reader/2020-03-15_10-50-35_ylXBC2o.png\" alt=\"2020-03-15_10-50-35_ylXBC2o.png\" /><p>It could be good if readers might have a calendar view for events, like they have special Gallery or Map views. Or maybe just a simple \u2018sort by start date\u2019 would do it.</p>\n<img src=\"https://commonplace.doubleloop.net/pulling_the_events_into_my_social_reader/2020-03-15_10-59-53_e2jVr0c.png\" alt=\"2020-03-15_10-59-53_e2jVr0c.png\" /><h2>Own your RSVPs: RSVPing and POSSEing</h2>\n\n<p>So when I find out about an interesting event, I want to RSVP to it.</p>\n<p>RSVPing to IndieWeb events already works fine for me, thanks to the <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/Post_Kinds_Plugin\">Post Kinds</a> and <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/Wordpress_Webmention_Plugin\">Webmention</a> plugins for WordPress. I can create an RSVP on my own site, linking to the page where the event is listed, and the RSVP gets sent over and recorded on the event page.</p>\n<p>For something like Meetup, which doesn\u2019t accept webmentions for RSVPs natively, we have to do some work there ourselves.</p>\n<p>But thanks to <a href=\"https://brid.gy/\">Bridgy</a> and the <a href=\"https://www.jvt.me/posts/2020/02/17/meetup-bridgy-support/\">recent Meetup integration that Jamie added to it</a>, we can do it!</p>\n\n\n<h3>Setting up the Bridgy connection</h3>\n\n<p>First up you\u2019ll want to go to <a href=\"https://brid.gy/\">brid.gy</a> and connect it to your Meetup account:</p>\n<img src=\"https://commonplace.doubleloop.net/RSVPing_and_POSSEing_to_Meetup/2020-03-15_11-54-45_n2fyxL8.png\" alt=\"2020-03-15_11-54-45_n2fyxL8.png\" /><img src=\"https://commonplace.doubleloop.net/RSVPing_and_POSSEing_to_Meetup/2020-03-15_11-55-54_W6qM8OO.png\" alt=\"2020-03-15_11-55-54_W6qM8OO.png\" /><p>Once it\u2019s connected, if you create an RSVP post, you can send a webmention to Bridgy about it, and Bridgy will send that RSVP to Meetup. Let\u2019s give it a go.</p>\n\n\n\n<h3>2.2 Creating an RSVP post</h3>\n\n<p>For me in WordPress creating an RSVP post is all already taken care of by Post Kinds.</p>\n<img src=\"https://commonplace.doubleloop.net/RSVPing_and_POSSEing_to_Meetup/2020-03-15_12-01-58_VvzVnIC.png\" alt=\"2020-03-15_12-01-58_VvzVnIC.png\" /><p>One really nice feature of Post Kinds is it uses <a href=\"https://github.com/dshanske/parse-this\">Parse This</a> behind the scenes to pull in contextual information about the event you\u2019re RSVPing to. Just chuck the URL in the URL box and it\u2019ll pull the data back.</p>\n<img src=\"https://commonplace.doubleloop.net/RSVPing_and_POSSEing_to_Meetup/2020-03-15_12-05-00_P2xWG7u.png\" alt=\"2020-03-15_12-05-00_P2xWG7u.png\" /><p>Save the post and you have your RSVP \u2013 all owned on your own site for your safekeeping and historical pleasure.</p>\n\n\n\n<h3>Sending your RSVP to Bridgy</h3>\n\n<p>We usually want to tell the event host that we\u2019re going to their event. We want to send our RSVP to them. For Meetup, our RSVP goes via Bridgy.</p>\n<p>You can manually tell Bridgy about a post you\u2019ve made that you want it to do something with. This is a handy way of testing it out, and that\u2019s what I did with my first RSVP:</p>\n<img src=\"https://commonplace.doubleloop.net/RSVPing_and_POSSEing_to_Meetup/2020-03-15_12-11-47_MDOuZPS.png\" alt=\"2020-03-15_12-11-47_MDOuZPS.png\" /><p>I hit Send there, got a success message, and\u2026 lo and behold\u2026</p>\n<img src=\"https://commonplace.doubleloop.net/RSVPing_and_POSSEing_to_Meetup/2020-03-15_12-14-05_fJmF3IQ.png\" alt=\"2020-03-15_12-14-05_fJmF3IQ.png\" /><p>I\u2019ve found out about an event on Meetup, and RSVPed, without actually visiting!</p>\n\n\n\n<h3>Smoother POSSEing</h3>\n\n<p>I would like to have the option to push my RSVP to Meetup without having to go to Bridgy and put the URL in manually each time. And you can do that of course. The magic happens via the Webmention and Syndication Links plugins. You can turn it on in your IndieWeb settings in the WordPress dashboard.</p>\n<img src=\"https://commonplace.doubleloop.net/Own_your_RSVPs:_RSVPing_and_POSSEing/2020-04-03_18-53-51_IklUOEZ.png\" alt=\"2020-04-03_18-53-51_IklUOEZ.png\" /><p>Now when you create a new RSVP, you can have it sent to Bridgy automatically:</p>\n<img src=\"https://commonplace.doubleloop.net/Own_your_RSVPs:_RSVPing_and_POSSEing/2020-04-03_18-56-15_3WBfJ1q.png\" alt=\"2020-04-03_18-56-15_3WBfJ1q.png\" /><p>Boom!</p>\n<p>Some social readers (e.g. Indigenous) also support RSVPing from within the reader themselves.</p>\n<img src=\"https://commonplace.doubleloop.net/Screenshot_2020-04-03-19-00-17.png\" alt=\"Screenshot_2020-04-03-19-00-17.png\" /><p>So you can just hit RSVP in your reader and create the RSVP there and then.</p>\n\n\n\n\n<h2>Bonus features</h2>\n\n<p>A couple of nice-to-haves around events and RSVPs.</p>\n\n\n<h3>Agenda page</h3>\n\n<p>Seb has an <a href=\"https://seblog.nl/agenda\">agenda page</a> \u2013 a page with a list of his RSVPs. I think this is a nice way of helping with event discoverability. You could follow the agendas of people you know, and see when they RSVP to interesting events.</p>\n<p>This comes out-of-the-box with <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/Post_Kinds_Plugin\">Post Kinds</a> again. Each post kind gets it\u2019s own archive page \u2013 so for example, <a href=\"https://doubleloop.net/kind/rsvp/\">doubleloop.net/kind/rsvp/</a> is a list of my RSVPs. I added a simple redirect from <a href=\"https://doubleloop.net/agenda\">doubleloop.net/agenda</a> to that page.</p>\n\n\n\n<h3>iCal feed</h3>\n\n<p>Jamie has written about how he created an <a href=\"https://www.jvt.me/posts/2019/07/27/rsvp-calendar/\">iCal feed of his RSVPs</a>. I\u2019d like to do this too, to pull the events I\u2019ve RSVPed to into my calendar. I haven\u2019t done it yet, but it should be fairly simple \u2013 just parse through my \u2018yes\u2019 RSVPs, pull out the dates from the associated event, and turn it into iCal markup.</p>",
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The service is going down a slippery slope of sales to corporates (first to WeWork, recently to some private investors), so what better time to avoid as much as possible.\nAs Jamie discussed in the London session, he has built a service that wraps Meetup\u2019s API and can give you any Meetup groups\u2019 list of events, or any particular individual event, in Microformats.\nTo do that, very handily, you can just take any event or event list from Meetup and change the domain to his service at: meetup-mf2.jvt.me\nSo, say, I am interested in finding out about events from www.meetup.com/Lancaster-Digital-Friday-Coffee/events/, so I just need to go to meetup-mf2.jvt.me/Lancaster-Digital-Friday-Coffee/events/ and I get a feed of the events in MF2. Nice!\nNow I have the mf2 I can a feed into my reader. I created a new Events channel in Aperture and subscribed to the link in this channel.\nNow they show up in my reader!\n\n\n\nIndieWeb events\n\nI can also subscribe to events from other feeds of events (e.g. events.indieweb.org). I don\u2019t think there\u2019s a way to subscribe to a Facebook event feed. That would be rad though, to get that feed into my reader.\n\n\n\nBetter display of event posts in readers\n\nThe social readers don\u2019t seem completely aware of the event type at present. (Indigenous does allow you to RSVP to them).\nOne wrinkle at present is that the Meetup I am following, all of the events were created to be recurring about 3 years ago. So their published/updated date is 3 years ago, even though the event\u2019s start date might be next week. The readers seem to mostly work off of published date at the moment.\nIt could be good if readers might have a calendar view for events, like they have special Gallery or Map views. Or maybe just a simple \u2018sort by start date\u2019 would do it.\nOwn your RSVPs: RSVPing and POSSEing\n\nSo when I find out about an interesting event, I want to RSVP to it.\nRSVPing to IndieWeb events already works fine for me, thanks to the Post Kinds and Webmention plugins for WordPress. I can create an RSVP on my own site, linking to the page where the event is listed, and the RSVP gets sent over and recorded on the event page.\nFor something like Meetup, which doesn\u2019t accept webmentions for RSVPs natively, we have to do some work there ourselves.\nBut thanks to Bridgy and the recent Meetup integration that Jamie added to it, we can do it!\n\n\nSetting up the Bridgy connection\n\nFirst up you\u2019ll want to go to brid.gy and connect it to your Meetup account:\nOnce it\u2019s connected, if you create an RSVP post, you can send a webmention to Bridgy about it, and Bridgy will send that RSVP to Meetup. Let\u2019s give it a go.\n\n\n\n2.2 Creating an RSVP post\n\nFor me in WordPress creating an RSVP post is all already taken care of by Post Kinds.\nOne really nice feature of Post Kinds is it uses Parse This behind the scenes to pull in contextual information about the event you\u2019re RSVPing to. Just chuck the URL in the URL box and it\u2019ll pull the data back.\nSave the post and you have your RSVP \u2013 all owned on your own site for your safekeeping and historical pleasure.\n\n\n\nSending your RSVP to Bridgy\n\nWe usually want to tell the event host that we\u2019re going to their event. We want to send our RSVP to them. For Meetup, our RSVP goes via Bridgy.\nYou can manually tell Bridgy about a post you\u2019ve made that you want it to do something with. This is a handy way of testing it out, and that\u2019s what I did with my first RSVP:\nI hit Send there, got a success message, and\u2026 lo and behold\u2026\nI\u2019ve found out about an event on Meetup, and RSVPed, without actually visiting!\n\n\n\nSmoother POSSEing\n\nI would like to have the option to push my RSVP to Meetup without having to go to Bridgy and put the URL in manually each time. And you can do that of course. The magic happens via the Webmention and Syndication Links plugins. You can turn it on in your IndieWeb settings in the WordPress dashboard.\nNow when you create a new RSVP, you can have it sent to Bridgy automatically:\nBoom!\nSome social readers (e.g. Indigenous) also support RSVPing from within the reader themselves.\nSo you can just hit RSVP in your reader and create the RSVP there and then.\n\n\n\n\nBonus features\n\nA couple of nice-to-haves around events and RSVPs.\n\n\nAgenda page\n\nSeb has an agenda page \u2013 a page with a list of his RSVPs. I think this is a nice way of helping with event discoverability. You could follow the agendas of people you know, and see when they RSVP to interesting events.\nThis comes out-of-the-box with Post Kinds again. Each post kind gets it\u2019s own archive page \u2013 so for example, doubleloop.net/kind/rsvp/ is a list of my RSVPs. I added a simple redirect from doubleloop.net/agenda to that page.\n\n\n\niCal feed\n\nJamie has written about how he created an iCal feed of his RSVPs. I\u2019d like to do this too, to pull the events I\u2019ve RSVPed to into my calendar. I haven\u2019t done it yet, but it should be fairly simple \u2013 just parse through my \u2018yes\u2019 RSVPs, pull out the dates from the associated event, and turn it into iCal markup."
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Manton Reece www.manton.org

Goes without saying that we won’t have an IndieWeb Meetup at Mozart’s this week. There are more online-only meetups popping up, though. Check out events.indieweb.org for upcoming events.

April 1, 2020 1:51pm -05:00

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pine.blog/u/sonicrocketman/archive/dc3fd904-c361-4b35-8567-3980f49c190d

I’m doing alright most days; some increased anxiety and insomnia at times. How are you?

West coast organizers have been hosting indieweb meetups weekly now on Wednesdays. Drop in when you have a chance!

April 1, 2020 1:52am -07:00

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Jamie Tanna www.jvt.me

Hey Amit I meant to reach out - I think for this one I'll probably keep it as just for Nottingham, but I know the London event https://events.indieweb.org/2020/04/online-homebrew-website-club-europe-london-2Kc9aetW589f is open

April 1, 2020 7:35am +01:00

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www.manton.org/2020/03/31/day-one-and.html

Jonathan LaCour cleverdevil.io/profile/cleverdevil

@manton I actually moved off of Day One a few years ago and migrated all of the content to my site via micropub, with private entries. I now journal in Drafts, and publish to my site via micropub. I'd love to see a micropub client purpose built for journaling, or support added to Day One! Would be awesome if it were built on standards so I could use it for my journaling again :)

April 1, 2020 12:23am +00:00

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Jamie Tanna www.jvt.me

Reminder that it's #HomebrewWebsiteClub Nottingham tomorrow - we're online only on Zoom, and I'll share the link in the Tech Nottingham Slack for Nottingham folks https://events.indieweb.org/2020/04/online-homebrew-website-club-nottingham-UpVd9JZeVzx6

#homebrew-website-club

March 31, 2020 10:56pm +02:00

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Recording life on the ground

84: Catching up with Manton, Spring 2020 edition

Online passports

IndieWeb authorship

Separation of article concerns

Indiewebifying events and RSVPs