I like this advice: write for you, not for others. And if you can’t think of what to “write”, document something for yourself and call it writing.
If there’s one thing I’ve learned about the mystery of blogging, it’s that the stuff you think nobody will read ends up with way more reach than anything you write thinking it will be popular.
So write about what you want, not what you think others want, and the words will spill out.
I couldn’t agree more!
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"text": "I have slowly but surely been working on an IndieAuth module for ProcessWire. IndieAuth lets you sign in to applications using your domain name and grant access to read/write to your site. I initially set up a version of this in 2016. My understanding of IndieAuth was limited at the time and it really only let you use IndieAuth to sign into your own site. There are some interesting possibilities there, but it was premature.\n\nSo what does this module actually do?\n\n1. Authentication: When you visit a site like indielogin.com and enter your domain name, you will be taken to your ProcessWire admin area to approve the request. If you approve the request, you will be returned to the site and logged in as your domain name.\n\n2. Authorization: When you visit an application like Quill, it needs to also get your permission to post to your site. You will be taken to your ProcessWire admin area to approve the request and the scopes that the app is requesting (create, update, delete, etc.). If you approve the request, you will be returned to the app, logged in as your domain name, and the app will have an access token for your site.\n\nFeatures\n\nBrowse the applications you have granted access tokens to. See when each one was granted, last used, and will expire.\n\tRevoke any application\u2019s access tokens\n\tSet the default expiration period for new access tokens. The initial default is 14 days.\n\tDuring authorization, confirm and change the scopes granted to the application. For example, an app may request \u201ccreate\u201d and \u201cdelete\u201d scopes, but you can grant only \u201ccreate.\u201d\n\tDuring authorization, you can also choose to grant an access token with no expiration\nTry it out!\n\nI have been testing the new module and think it is almost ready to release in the ProcessWire modules directory. I would like to have a few more people beta test it and provide feedback first, though. If you\u2019re interested, follow these steps:\n\n\nDownload ProcessWire IndieAuth from Github and follow the instructions there to install it\n\tTest Authentication: visit indielogin.com and enter your domain name. Follow the prompts to authenticate and you should end up back on indielogin.com with a success message.\n\tTest Authorization: visit Quill and enter your domain name. Follow the prompts, noting the additional fields for scopes and expiration. After successfully authorizing, you should end up back on Quill with a success message.\n\tGo back to the ProcessWire admin area of your site. Visit Access > IndieAuth and you should see an entry for the access you just granted to Quill.\n\t\nOptionally test access tokens\n\nTo test access tokens, you will need a module that accepts them. I have set up a minimal Micropub module for that purpose. All it does currently is verify the access token and shows a debugging message indicating the request was received.\n\nFollow the instructions to install the Micropub module. Go back to Quill and try to post a short note to your site. Quill is expected to respond with \u201cSomething went wrong,\u201d but scroll down and the section labelled Micropub response should show \u201cDebugging: Micropub request received.\u201d If you see that, it means the Micropub module successfully received and verified the access token!\n\nThe Micropub module will eventually be fully functional so you can publish to your site using a variety of Micropub clients, but that is a separate project that is going to take me some more time. I wanted to get the IndieAuth module out there instead of waiting to release both at the same time.\n\nMore information\n\nIf you\u2019re interested in more details on IndieAuth, I recommend \u201cOAuth for the Open Web\u201d by Aaron Parecki. If you are interested in implementing IndieAuth in your project, see the IndieAuth specification.",
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I heard some social networks were down. As long as I have my website, my social network is always running. If you’re interested, join the #indieweb community on Wed at 6PM PST/9PM EST for Homebrew Website Club, this weekend for Create Day. All events at events.indieweb.org.
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RSVPed: Attending IndieWeb Create Day
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"text": "On this day twenty years ago I wrote the first entry in my online journal. In the intervening two decades I\u2019ve written a further 2,817 entries.\n\nI am now fifty years old, which means I\u2019ve been blogging for two fifths of my lifetime.\n\nMy website has actually been around for longer than twenty years, but its early incarnations had no blog. That all changed when I relaunched the site on September 30th, 2001.\n\nI wrote at the time:\n\n\n I\u2019m not quite sure what I will be saying here over the coming days, weeks, months and years.\n\n\nHonestly I still feel like that.\n\n\n I think it\u2019s safe to assume an \u201canything goes\u201d attitude for what I post here. Being a web developer, there\u2019s bound to be lots of geeky, techy stuff but I also want a place where I can rant and rave about life in general.\n\n\nThat\u2019s been pretty true, although I feel that maybe there\u2019s been too much geeky stuff and not enough about everything else in my life.\n\n\n I\u2019ll try and post fairly regularly but I don\u2019t want to make any promises I can\u2019t keep. Hopefully, I\u2019ll be updating the journal on a daily basis.\n\n\nI made no promises but I think I\u2019ve done a pretty good job. Many\u2019s the blogger who has let the weeds grow over their websites as they were lured by the siren song of centralised social networks. I\u2019m glad that I\u2019ve managed to avoid that fate. It feels good to look back on twenty years of updates posted on my own domain.\n\n\n Anyway, let\u2019s see what happens. I hope you\u2019ll like it.\n\n\nI hope you still like it.\n\nHere are some of my handpicked highlights from the past twenty years of blogging:\n\n\nHyperdrive, April 20th, 2007Last night in San Francisco.\n\n\nDesign doing, November 11, 2007The opposite of design thinking.\n\n\nIron Man and me, December 1st, 2008The story of how one of my Flickr pictures came to be used in a Hollywood movie.\n\n\nSeams, May 12th, 2014There is a crack, a crack in everything. That\u2019s how the light gets in.\n\n\nWeb! What is it good for?, May 28th, 2015Not absolutely nothing, but not absolutely everything either.\n\n\nSplit, April 10th, 2019Materials and tools; client and server; declarative and imperative; inclusion and privilege.",
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Internet users use fewer different websites today than they did 20 years ago, and spend most of their “Web” time in app versions of websites (which often provide a better experience only because site owners strategically make it so to increase their lock-in and data harvesting potential). Truly exploring the Web now requires extra effort, like exercising an underused muscle. And if you begin and end your Web experience on just one to three services, that just feels kind of… sad, to me. Wasted potential.
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The wood wide web has been a powerhouse metaphor for popularizing the mutualistic relationships of healthy forests. But like a struggling forest, the web is no longer healthy. It has been wounded and depleted in the pursuit of profit. Going online today is not an invigorating walk through a green woodland—it’s rush-hour traffic alongside a freeway median of diseased trees, littered with the detritus of late capitalism. If we want to repair this damage, we must look to the wisdom of the forest and listen to ecologists like Simard when they tell us just how sustainable, interdependent, life-giving systems work.
A beautiful piece by the brilliant Claire L. Evans.
The project of decentralizing the web is vast, and only just beginning. It means finding a way to uproot our expression and communication from the walled gardens of tech platforms, and finding novel ways to distribute the responsibilities of infrastructure across a collective network. But we needn’t start from nothing.
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Coffee chat has begun at today's mini- #IndieWebCamp on note taking, wikis, digital gardens, zettelkasten, commonplace books, et al.
Come join us.
#GardensAndStreams #PKM
https://events.indieweb.org/2021/09/gardens-and-streams-ii-pPUbyYME33V4
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Here’s a nifty little service from Zach: pass in a URL and it returns an image of the site’s icon.
Here’s mine.
Think of it as the indie web alternative to showing Twitter avatars.
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@MikeKra36812131 Perhaps a bit more free-form with a tangential name, but let's give it a whirl and see who would show up:
https://events.indieweb.org/2021/09/gardens-and-streams-ii-pPUbyYME33V4
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Taking the indie web to the next level—self-hosting on your own hardware.
Tired of Big Tech monopolies, a community of hobbyists is taking their digital lives off the cloud and onto DIY hardware that they control.
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September 25th, online:
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I’ve updated my IndieWeb wiki profile page to better reflect my recent projects.
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A very open and honest post by Nolan on trying to live with technology without sacrificing privacy.
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