There will be a IndieWeb pop-up session in February about personal libraries: using alternatives to Goodreads, tracking books on your own site, and common formats we can use.
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"html": "<p>If you have to decide on the order of creative freedom vs data ownership, what order do you choose?\n\n</p><p>When you set your mind to search for something explicit, the internet becomes an incredible place: from the tiny, \"recommended for you\" world of algorithms claiming to know you better, than yourself, you're suddenly in uncharted territories of thoughts of others.</p>\n<p>There were times, long ago, when this was normal. For example, there were specific websites built only to contain links to other sites - 'portals' - or communities that connected sites to the eachother - webrings -, so it was easy to suddenly drop of your known internet.</p>\n<p>This is much harder today, particularly because some of those recommendation engines (think of youtube, netflix, and so on - even ebay (!!!) recently) are not bad at all. There's only one, tiny issue: they tend to limit whatever they recommend more and more, only showing you a glimpse of what is available on their service, let alone on the internet.</p>\n<p>Usually this phenomenon is called a \"recommendation bubble\", and to get out of it, one needs to deliberately seek beyond it. This isn't trivial though: there are known unknowns (when there's a question on an exam you know you should have learnt, but you didn't) and unknown unknowns (things you'd never before heard of). If we don't know what to look for, which is the vast majority of the internet itself for anyone, the search engines become useless. That is why links to other sites were and are so utterly important: to be able to explore. <em>There is the \"I'm Feeling Lucky\" button on Google, which once took a friend of mine to a Flash version of the 'Tunak Tunak' song when he searched for \"Cthulhu\" eons ago, so using that button can sometimes be fun, I'll give Google that.</em></p>\n<p>In the past weeks I've found myself staring at websites designed in early 90s Geocities style, particularly at web manifestos: why their site exists, and why it was better in the good ol' days, and how can it be similar today<a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fn1\">1</a><a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fn2\">2</a><a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fn3\">3</a>. Surprisingly enough, there were similar manifestos from before the web2.0 craze of the early 2000s<a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fn4\">4</a>, but most of them now seems to be lost to decay<a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fn5\">5</a>.</p>\n<p>Most of these manifestos are new, written in the 2020s by people who had experienced the 90s web. They all have some overlapping thoughts, such as: the web should stay weird, whacky, whimsical, <em>(why do all these words start with a w?)</em>, personal websites are important, the creative freedom one's own site gives is wonderful, and that social media is becoming monotonous and lifeless.</p>\n<p>There are also a lot of people longing for something they believe is lost:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I miss the useless web. I miss your grandpa\u2019s blog. I miss weird web art projects that trolled me. I miss fan pages for things like hippos. I wish I didn\u2019t feel like the web was collapsing into just a few sites plus a thousand resumes. <a href=\"https://twitter.com/sarah_edo\">Sarah Drasner</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/sarah_edo/status/1013427276350873600\">Jul 1, 2018</a></p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>They are only partially correct. Much of the old content is still there, but because they are not HTTPS, or haven't been updated in years, decades sometimes, Google de-prioritizes, or even purges them from the search options. Google, sadly, has no obligations to remembering<a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fn6\">6</a>.</p>\n<p><strong>These days there are wonderously easy to use tools to make websites - although some of them are better<a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fn7\">7</a>, than others - so why isn't everyone making their own page?</strong></p>\n<p>Some early social networks, such as MySpace, allowed profile customization at a very deep level, which is actually enough for many people to make a small self-representation on the net. I was recently pointed at modern, but similar examples<a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fn8\">8</a>, showing how many are happy with simply a profile they can completely design. They are not after a whole website, they are after a way to be creative.</p>\n<p>In 2019, Flash was killed off, and Vice published an article: \"Flash Is Responsible for the Internet's Most Creative Era\"<a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fn9\">9</a>. There is no overstatement in that title; the Flash era was absolutely incredible. It didn't just give us geniously designed websites (I vividly remember the site of Cuv\u00e9e des Trolls, a beer, with a built in minigame), meme citadels<a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fn10\">10</a>, unforgettable minigames, no; it also gave us things like Happy Tree Friends<a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fn11\">11</a>. Flash had it's problems (many of them to be honest), but it indeed gave an unprecedented flexibility to be original</p>\n<ul><li>and many used it to expand the possibilites of the web, to go beyond text and websites.</li>\n</ul><p>Coming to this realisation I got into some <del>arguments</del> discussions on the IndieWeb chats<a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fn12\">12</a> about ordering the IndieWeb principles<a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fn13\">13</a>. There are multiple elements on the list of IndieWeb priorities, but no matter how many times I read it, the one I believe to be the most important - \"have fun\" - is down at the bottom, like a bit of an afterthought.</p>\n<p>The IndieWeb wiki<a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fn14\">14</a> is a disturbingly messy, but staggeringly deep site, with a crazy amount of collected reference, knowledge, and tooling around the IndieWeb Movement. It is important to realise that the IndieWeb - as in indieweb.org - is not the same as that manifesto from 1997<a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fn15\">15</a> called \"the indie web\". The former is a community, a movement, made up of people believing and following those principles, whereas the latter is the old Internet, The World Wide Web: a haphazardly entangled mess of individual websites.</p>\n<p>As time passes, not truly owning a digital creative work, including a website, can quickly become a problem. There are many documented cases where usernames, handles, subdomains were taken over by the host<a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fn16\">16</a>, and even more cases of hosting providers, silos, etc going under<a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fn17\">17</a>. One must have the option to move and save their content to avoid losing it, hence the need for your own domain name, which can be repointed to another place, if needed.</p>\n<p>The rest of the IndieWeb ideas, in my opinion, are completely optional. For example, marking up HTML with microformats<a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fn18\">18</a> is only useful if someone wants their content machine-parseable for other IndieWeb sites (or search engines that still respect microformats v1). <em>This is the reason why there aren't clear guides: this is not a step-by-step thing. The owner of a website needs to decide what functionality they want to participate in, and for those functionalities, the guides are much clearer.</em></p>\n<p>However... many people leaving social media might want to leave it and it's features - likes, comments, etc - for good, and are looking for their own place, their own home on the internet. In many cases this is a creative, visual call. There is no need to first register a domain name to start filling this desire: jump on a place like Neocities<a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fn19\">19</a> and start creating - and <strong>I firmly believe this is the most important step: the will, and action, to create</strong>.</p>\n<p><strong>It might be time for IndieWeb to rethink principles and priorities</strong>. The current list might appeal to developers, or people deeply emerged in utilizing social media silos, looking to ease their workflow, or their fears of losing their content, but it doesn't necessarily talk to the ones looking to satisfy the call of creativity, or those disillusioned of social media itself.</p>\n<p><em>PS: I asked my wife, Nora, to proof-read this entry. At the beginning, her immediate answer to the question in the summary was: \"of course data ownership has priority!\". After reading it through I I asked her to revisit the question, and she told me that if she sells a painting - she has been practising Chinese brush painting for many years now<a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fn20\">20</a> -, she loses that painting, yet that loss will make her happy, and so maybe, the possibility of creativity is indeed higher on the list of priorities.</em></p>\n\n\n<ol><li><p><a href=\"https://flamedfury.com/manifesto/\">https://flamedfury.com/manifesto/</a><a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fnref1\">\u21a9\ufe0e</a></p></li>\n<li><p><a href=\"https://sadgrl.online/newoldweb/manifesto_full.html\">https://sadgrl.online/newoldweb/manifesto_full.html</a><a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fnref2\">\u21a9\ufe0e</a></p></li>\n<li><p><a href=\"https://neustadt.fr/essays/the-small-web/\">https://neustadt.fr/essays/the-small-web/</a><a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fnref3\">\u21a9\ufe0e</a></p></li>\n<li><p><a href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20010805195949/http://www.uzine.net/article63.html\">https://web.archive.org/web/20010805195949/http://www.uzine.net/article63.html</a><a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fnref4\">\u21a9\ufe0e</a></p></li>\n<li><p><a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/06/the-internet-is-a-collective-hallucination/619320/\">https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/06/the-internet-is-a-collective-hallucination/619320/</a><a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fnref5\">\u21a9\ufe0e</a></p></li>\n<li><p><a href=\"https://medium.com/message/never-trust-a-corporation-to-do-a-librarys-job-f58db4673351\">https://medium.com/message/never-trust-a-corporation-to-do-a-librarys-job-f58db4673351</a><a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fnref6\">\u21a9\ufe0e</a></p></li>\n<li><p><a href=\"https://pinegrow.com/\">https://pinegrow.com/</a><a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fnref7\">\u21a9\ufe0e</a></p></li>\n<li><p><a href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=carrd.co\">https://twitter.com/search?q=carrd.co</a><a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fnref8\">\u21a9\ufe0e</a></p></li>\n<li><p><a href=\"https://www.vice.com/en/article/d3awk7/flash-is-responsible-for-the-internets-most-creative-era\">https://www.vice.com/en/article/d3awk7/flash-is-responsible-for-the-internets-most-creative-era</a><a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fnref9\">\u21a9\ufe0e</a></p></li>\n<li><p><a href=\"https://z0r.de/\">https://z0r.de/</a><a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fnref10\">\u21a9\ufe0e</a></p></li>\n<li><p><a href=\"https://mondomedia.com/channel/HappyTreeFriends\">https://mondomedia.com/channel/HappyTreeFriends</a><a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fnref11\">\u21a9\ufe0e</a></p></li>\n<li><p><a href=\"https://indieweb.org/discuss\">https://indieweb.org/discuss</a><a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fnref12\">\u21a9\ufe0e</a></p></li>\n<li><p><a href=\"https://indieweb.org/principles\">https://indieweb.org/principles</a><a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fnref13\">\u21a9\ufe0e</a></p></li>\n<li><p><a href=\"https://indieweb.org/\">https://indieweb.org</a><a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fnref14\">\u21a9\ufe0e</a></p></li>\n<li><p><a href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20010805195949/http://www.uzine.net/article63.html\">https://web.archive.org/web/20010805195949/http://www.uzine.net/article63.html</a><a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fnref15\">\u21a9\ufe0e</a></p></li>\n<li><p><a href=\"https://indieweb.org/why#Avoiding_problems\">https://indieweb.org/why#Avoiding_problems</a><a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fnref16\">\u21a9\ufe0e</a></p></li>\n<li><p><a href=\"http://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Deathwatch\">http://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Deathwatch</a><a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fnref17\">\u21a9\ufe0e</a></p></li>\n<li><p><a href=\"http://microformats.org/wiki/Main_Page\">http://microformats.org/wiki/Main_Page</a><a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fnref18\">\u21a9\ufe0e</a></p></li>\n<li><p><a href=\"https://neocities.org/\">https://neocities.org/</a><a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fnref19\">\u21a9\ufe0e</a></p></li>\n<li><p><a href=\"https://instagram.com/liulangmao_art/\">https://instagram.com/liulangmao_art/</a><a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fnref20\">\u21a9\ufe0e</a></p></li>\n</ol>",
"text": "If you have to decide on the order of creative freedom vs data ownership, what order do you choose?\n\nWhen you set your mind to search for something explicit, the internet becomes an incredible place: from the tiny, \"recommended for you\" world of algorithms claiming to know you better, than yourself, you're suddenly in uncharted territories of thoughts of others.\nThere were times, long ago, when this was normal. For example, there were specific websites built only to contain links to other sites - 'portals' - or communities that connected sites to the eachother - webrings -, so it was easy to suddenly drop of your known internet.\nThis is much harder today, particularly because some of those recommendation engines (think of youtube, netflix, and so on - even ebay (!!!) recently) are not bad at all. There's only one, tiny issue: they tend to limit whatever they recommend more and more, only showing you a glimpse of what is available on their service, let alone on the internet.\nUsually this phenomenon is called a \"recommendation bubble\", and to get out of it, one needs to deliberately seek beyond it. This isn't trivial though: there are known unknowns (when there's a question on an exam you know you should have learnt, but you didn't) and unknown unknowns (things you'd never before heard of). If we don't know what to look for, which is the vast majority of the internet itself for anyone, the search engines become useless. That is why links to other sites were and are so utterly important: to be able to explore. There is the \"I'm Feeling Lucky\" button on Google, which once took a friend of mine to a Flash version of the 'Tunak Tunak' song when he searched for \"Cthulhu\" eons ago, so using that button can sometimes be fun, I'll give Google that.\nIn the past weeks I've found myself staring at websites designed in early 90s Geocities style, particularly at web manifestos: why their site exists, and why it was better in the good ol' days, and how can it be similar today123. Surprisingly enough, there were similar manifestos from before the web2.0 craze of the early 2000s4, but most of them now seems to be lost to decay5.\nMost of these manifestos are new, written in the 2020s by people who had experienced the 90s web. They all have some overlapping thoughts, such as: the web should stay weird, whacky, whimsical, (why do all these words start with a w?), personal websites are important, the creative freedom one's own site gives is wonderful, and that social media is becoming monotonous and lifeless.\nThere are also a lot of people longing for something they believe is lost:\n\nI miss the useless web. I miss your grandpa\u2019s blog. I miss weird web art projects that trolled me. I miss fan pages for things like hippos. I wish I didn\u2019t feel like the web was collapsing into just a few sites plus a thousand resumes. Sarah Drasner Jul 1, 2018\n\nThey are only partially correct. Much of the old content is still there, but because they are not HTTPS, or haven't been updated in years, decades sometimes, Google de-prioritizes, or even purges them from the search options. Google, sadly, has no obligations to remembering6.\nThese days there are wonderously easy to use tools to make websites - although some of them are better7, than others - so why isn't everyone making their own page?\nSome early social networks, such as MySpace, allowed profile customization at a very deep level, which is actually enough for many people to make a small self-representation on the net. I was recently pointed at modern, but similar examples8, showing how many are happy with simply a profile they can completely design. They are not after a whole website, they are after a way to be creative.\nIn 2019, Flash was killed off, and Vice published an article: \"Flash Is Responsible for the Internet's Most Creative Era\"9. There is no overstatement in that title; the Flash era was absolutely incredible. It didn't just give us geniously designed websites (I vividly remember the site of Cuv\u00e9e des Trolls, a beer, with a built in minigame), meme citadels10, unforgettable minigames, no; it also gave us things like Happy Tree Friends11. Flash had it's problems (many of them to be honest), but it indeed gave an unprecedented flexibility to be original\nand many used it to expand the possibilites of the web, to go beyond text and websites.\nComing to this realisation I got into some arguments discussions on the IndieWeb chats12 about ordering the IndieWeb principles13. There are multiple elements on the list of IndieWeb priorities, but no matter how many times I read it, the one I believe to be the most important - \"have fun\" - is down at the bottom, like a bit of an afterthought.\nThe IndieWeb wiki14 is a disturbingly messy, but staggeringly deep site, with a crazy amount of collected reference, knowledge, and tooling around the IndieWeb Movement. It is important to realise that the IndieWeb - as in indieweb.org - is not the same as that manifesto from 199715 called \"the indie web\". The former is a community, a movement, made up of people believing and following those principles, whereas the latter is the old Internet, The World Wide Web: a haphazardly entangled mess of individual websites.\nAs time passes, not truly owning a digital creative work, including a website, can quickly become a problem. There are many documented cases where usernames, handles, subdomains were taken over by the host16, and even more cases of hosting providers, silos, etc going under17. One must have the option to move and save their content to avoid losing it, hence the need for your own domain name, which can be repointed to another place, if needed.\nThe rest of the IndieWeb ideas, in my opinion, are completely optional. For example, marking up HTML with microformats18 is only useful if someone wants their content machine-parseable for other IndieWeb sites (or search engines that still respect microformats v1). This is the reason why there aren't clear guides: this is not a step-by-step thing. The owner of a website needs to decide what functionality they want to participate in, and for those functionalities, the guides are much clearer.\nHowever... many people leaving social media might want to leave it and it's features - likes, comments, etc - for good, and are looking for their own place, their own home on the internet. In many cases this is a creative, visual call. There is no need to first register a domain name to start filling this desire: jump on a place like Neocities19 and start creating - and I firmly believe this is the most important step: the will, and action, to create.\nIt might be time for IndieWeb to rethink principles and priorities. The current list might appeal to developers, or people deeply emerged in utilizing social media silos, looking to ease their workflow, or their fears of losing their content, but it doesn't necessarily talk to the ones looking to satisfy the call of creativity, or those disillusioned of social media itself.\nPS: I asked my wife, Nora, to proof-read this entry. At the beginning, her immediate answer to the question in the summary was: \"of course data ownership has priority!\". After reading it through I I asked her to revisit the question, and she told me that if she sells a painting - she has been practising Chinese brush painting for many years now20 -, she loses that painting, yet that loss will make her happy, and so maybe, the possibility of creativity is indeed higher on the list of priorities.\n\n\nhttps://flamedfury.com/manifesto/\u21a9\ufe0e\nhttps://sadgrl.online/newoldweb/manifesto_full.html\u21a9\ufe0e\nhttps://neustadt.fr/essays/the-small-web/\u21a9\ufe0e\nhttps://web.archive.org/web/20010805195949/http://www.uzine.net/article63.html\u21a9\ufe0e\nhttps://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/06/the-internet-is-a-collective-hallucination/619320/\u21a9\ufe0e\nhttps://medium.com/message/never-trust-a-corporation-to-do-a-librarys-job-f58db4673351\u21a9\ufe0e\nhttps://pinegrow.com/\u21a9\ufe0e\nhttps://twitter.com/search?q=carrd.co\u21a9\ufe0e\nhttps://www.vice.com/en/article/d3awk7/flash-is-responsible-for-the-internets-most-creative-era\u21a9\ufe0e\nhttps://z0r.de/\u21a9\ufe0e\nhttps://mondomedia.com/channel/HappyTreeFriends\u21a9\ufe0e\nhttps://indieweb.org/discuss\u21a9\ufe0e\nhttps://indieweb.org/principles\u21a9\ufe0e\nhttps://indieweb.org\u21a9\ufe0e\nhttps://web.archive.org/web/20010805195949/http://www.uzine.net/article63.html\u21a9\ufe0e\nhttps://indieweb.org/why#Avoiding_problems\u21a9\ufe0e\nhttp://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Deathwatch\u21a9\ufe0e\nhttp://microformats.org/wiki/Main_Page\u21a9\ufe0e\nhttps://neocities.org/\u21a9\ufe0e\nhttps://instagram.com/liulangmao_art/\u21a9\ufe0e"
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RSS / Atom / WebSub, IndieWeb, and ActivityPub aside, am I missing actively-used open protocols and standards for subscribing to published content?
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Why I decided to treat hashtags in my (syndicated) content as tags on my site.
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James is featuring a different blog every day of Christmas and he chose mine for day three. What a lovely project!
I love writing this series. For the last three days, one of the first things on my mind after waking up is “what blog am I going to feature today?” I have seen so many interesting websites in the last few years. If you ever feel like the web is all the same, I’d recommend checking out the IndieWeb or clicking through the websites I feature in this series. You’ll realise there is still a great deal of creative content on the web written by independent bloggers: you just have to know where to start looking.
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Writing has been essential for focus, planning, catharsis, anger management, etc. Get it down, get it out. Writing is hard, but it’s also therapy: give order to a pile of thoughts to understand them better and move on.
I concur! Though it’s worth adding that it feels qualitatively different (and better!) to do this on your own site rather than contributing to someone else’s silo, like Twitter or Facebook.
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Recording for future reference: I need easy access to creating new channels in Kittybox. The update for the top bar has made all of the channels accessible, so I want to separate my feeds to keep some of the in-the-moment things out of the main feed - for that I need to create a channel, and I don’t know of any Micropub clients that are capable of creating feeds the Kittybox way (specifically, posting an h-feed with a name property as a JSON object).
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Inspired by the mess I’ve made through the years and petermolnar.net’s post I have decided to make all of my previous posts unlisted. The permalinks are not broken - I have preserved what I currently have in the database.
So, I guess I might as well introduce myself once again.
Hello. I’m Vika. I’m currently residing in Russia and I’m the developer of Kittybox, an IndieWeb-enabled all-in-one blogging solution. My favorite thing is homemade burgers and one of the most hated things in my life is all the mild inconveniences caused by capitalism crawling into our lives like a Ctulhu horror. They really add up.
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Just pushed a bug fix: During install it now adds the role "indieauth". Assign this role to any users that should be able to authenticate / authorize IndieAuth clients. The README has been updated accordingly.
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IndieWeb Committment for New Year’s Eve 2021 boffosocko.com
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[[Thanksgiving]] [[Plan]]
1. Understand the [[indieweb]] to it's fullest
1.2. and how @loopdouble's doublescores theme connects to it
1.3. and then begin implementing it for myself
2. make a @lesswrong reading list
2.2. I swear I will do this
— Evan (@Scaledish) November 23, 2021
Happy to help with this! My theme mostly adds microformats (which other themes also do, I just wanted to customise my looknfeel a bit). Majority of the IndieWeb heavy lifting comes from the IndieWeb WordPress plugins. https://indieweb.org/WordPress/Plugins
Also on: Twitter
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"html": "Replied to \n<blockquote><blockquote><p>[[Thanksgiving]] [[Plan]]<br />1. Understand the [[indieweb]] to it's fullest<br />1.2. and how <a href=\"https://twitter.com/loopdouble?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@loopdouble</a>'s doublescores theme connects to it<br />1.3. and then begin implementing it for myself<br />2. make a <a href=\"https://twitter.com/lesswrong?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@lesswrong</a> reading list<br />2.2. I swear I will do this</p>\u2014 Evan (@Scaledish) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/Scaledish/status/1463024048707973120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 23, 2021</a></blockquote><a href=\"https://twitter.com/Scaledish/status/1463024048707973120\"></a></blockquote>\n\nHappy to help with this! My theme mostly adds microformats (which other themes also do, I just wanted to customise my looknfeel a bit). Majority of the IndieWeb heavy lifting comes from the IndieWeb WordPress plugins. <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/WordPress/Plugins\">https://indieweb.org/WordPress/Plugins</a>\nAlso on:<p><a href=\"https://twitter.com/loopdouble/status/1463093419413315586\"> Twitter</a></p>",
"text": "Replied to \n[[Thanksgiving]] [[Plan]]\n1. Understand the [[indieweb]] to it's fullest\n1.2. and how @loopdouble's doublescores theme connects to it\n1.3. and then begin implementing it for myself\n2. make a @lesswrong reading list\n2.2. I swear I will do this\u2014 Evan (@Scaledish) November 23, 2021\n\nHappy to help with this! My theme mostly adds microformats (which other themes also do, I just wanted to customise my looknfeel a bit). Majority of the IndieWeb heavy lifting comes from the IndieWeb WordPress plugins. https://indieweb.org/WordPress/Plugins\nAlso on: Twitter"
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"text": "Since at least 2018 I\u2019ve been hooked on using iOS Shortcuts to post things to my site.\nWith IndieWeb building blocks like IndieAuth and Micropub, it\u2019s more or less possible to create Shortcuts do post any content you want to your personal site, mixing in images and video, and a lot more, all without needing third party apps running on your phone - or even in a browser!\nThe most important IndieWeb shortcut in my life the last couple of years is the one with which I have posted an animated cat photo to my site every day. In my phone\u2019s Photos app I would choose a Live Photo and make sure it\u2019s set to Bounce or (less likely) Loop, which will allow it to be shared as a video, then I\u2019d use the Photos app Share function to send it to my Video Micropub shortcut. It would:\nAllow me to trim the video\n Upload the trimmed result to my site via my Micropub Media Endpoint\n\n Prompt me for a caption for the video and a tag for the post\n \n Post it to my site via Micropub where it will show up in few moments.\n \n\n\n I\u2019ve always found the Shortcut construction UI to be fiddly, and in general I find them difficult to debug. However, once a shortcut is working, they usually make my phone an incredibly powerful tool for managing what I share online.\n \n\nSuddenly iOS 15 broke my Video Micropub with a non-debuggable \u201cthere was a problem running the shortcut\u201d error. I\u2019ve tried common workarounds suggested online, including re-creating the shortcut from scratch multiple times. It chokes at the media upload step every time.\n\n Without this shortcut, I am kind of at a loss for how to post videos from my phone to my site. There are a number of great Micropub clients in the world, but none of them handles video. I\u2019ve built Micropub clients of my own in the past, but I find it to be a lot of work each time updating things to keep up with changes in specs or library dependencies, and I find that I am not ready to commit to another one at this time.\n \n\nBizarrely, I have a different shortcut, probably thanks to Rosemary or Sebastiaan, which does allow me to upload files to my media endpoint, and get the resulting URL.\nI combined that with a very quick and very dirty Secret Web Form that allows me to paste in the URL for the uploaded video, creating a Caturday post.\nIt\u2019s certainly more steps, but at least it\u2019s doable from my phone once again.\n\u2026 or it would be if my phone was creating web-compatible videos!!!\nFor several versions of iOS (maybe starting with 12?), a new system default was introduced that greatly improved the efficiency with which photos and videos are stored on iOS devices. This is done by using newer and more intensive codecs to compress media files: HEIC for images, and HEVC for video. It turns out that these are not codecs commonly available in web browsers. You can work around this by changing a system-wide setting to instead save images and video in the \u201cMost Compatible\u201d formats - JPEG and MP4 (with video encoded as h264).\nI\u2019m not sure where the root of this change comes from, but for some of my Live Photos, making them a Loop or Bounce video creates an HEVC video and the only working shortcut I have to uploading them to my site takes them as-is. The result is a caturday post that doesn\u2019t play!\n\u201cNo video with supported format and MIME type found\u201d does not spark caturday joy.So let us arrive at last to the day-saving mentioned in the title of this post.\nI\u2019m a big fan of the IndieWeb building block philosophy - simplified systems with distinct sets of responsibilities which can be composed to create complex behaviors using the web as glue. For example, the Micropub spec defines media endpoints with very few required features. The main one: allow a file to be uploaded and to get back a URL where that file will be available on the web.\nThe spec doesn\u2019t say anything about how to handle specifics that might be important. For example, an image on my phone may be a hefty 4 or 5 megabyte pixel party, but I don\u2019t want to actually display that whole thing on my website!\nI could add some special handling to my media endpoint. For example, have it automatically resize images, save them in multiple formats suitable for different browsers, and more.\nBut I could also slip a service in the middle that uses the raw uploaded files to create exactly the things I want on demand.\nThis is where image proxies come in. They are web services that let you ask for a given image on the web, but transformed in some ways.\nI have used and loved willnorris/imageproxy as a self-hosted solution. I currently use Cloudinary to handle this on my site today. Go ahead and find a still photo on my site, right-click to inspect and check the image URL!\nIt turns out that with some setup, Cloudinary will do this for smaller video files as well! This post is getting long, so here are the details:\n\nCreate an \u201cAuto upload URL mapping\u201d. This is kind of like a folder alias that maps a path on Cloudinary to a path on your server. In my case, I made one named \u2018mmmgre\u2019 which maps to https://media.martymcgui.re/\n\n Update your site template to rewrite your video URLs to fetch them from Cloudinary.\nThat\u2019s it!\nSo, for example, this video is a .mov file uploaded from my phone, encoded in HEVC: https://media.martymcgui.re/0d/93/a0/f1/be676103d289914ba9660cb8ba0eca2cb87a95c801d750ffc00bbfae.mov\nThe resulting Cloudinary URL is: https://res.cloudinary.com/schmarty/video/upload/mmmgre/0d/93/a0/f1/be676103d289914ba9660cb8ba0eca2cb87a95c801d750ffc00bbfae.mp4\nCloudinary supports a lot of transformations in their URLs, but in this case the only one needed is to rewrite the .mov extension to .mp4 - this tells Cloudinary to make this a .mp4 video with h264 video inside - exactly what I wanted.\nAnd so, at last, I can post videos from my phone to my website again at last. The world of eternal Caturday is safe\u2026 for now.\nIn the future:\nI\u2019d rather be hosting this myself, but since I\u2019m already using Cloudinary and these Live Photo-based videos are very small, this was a huge win for time-spent-hacking.\n Of course I\u2019d much rather overall just have my friggin\u2019 shortcut friggin\u2019 working again, sheesh.\n \n There has been some chatter in the IndieWeb chat about different approaches to handling video content and posts in Micropub clients. I may join in!",
"html": "<p></p><p>Since <a href=\"https://martymcgui.re/2018/11/27/hwc-baltimore-2018-11-27-wrap-up/\">at least 2018</a> I\u2019ve been hooked on <a href=\"https://martymcgui.re/2019/06/19/152602/\">using iOS Shortcuts to post things to my site</a>.</p>\n<p>With <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/Category:building-blocks\">IndieWeb building blocks</a> like <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/IndieAuth\">IndieAuth</a> and <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/Micropub\">Micropub</a>, it\u2019s more or less possible to create Shortcuts do post any content you want to your personal site, mixing in images and video, and a lot more, all without needing third party apps running on your phone - or even in a browser!</p>\n<p>The most important IndieWeb shortcut in my life the last couple of years is the one with which I have posted <a href=\"https://martymcgui.re/tag/caturday/\">an animated cat photo to my site every day</a>. In my phone\u2019s Photos app I would choose a Live Photo and make sure it\u2019s set to Bounce or (less likely) Loop, which will allow it to be shared as a video, then I\u2019d use the Photos app Share function to send it to my Video Micropub shortcut. It would:</p>\n<ul><li>Allow me to trim the video</li>\n <li>Upload the trimmed result to my site via my <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/micropub_media_endpoint\">Micropub Media Endpoint</a>\n</li>\n <li>Prompt me for a caption for the video and a tag for the post</li>\n <li>\n Post it to my site via Micropub where it will show up in few moments.\n <br /></li>\n</ul><p>\n I\u2019ve always found the Shortcut construction UI to be fiddly, and in general I find them difficult to debug. However, once a shortcut is working, they usually make my phone an incredibly powerful tool for managing what I share online.\n <br /></p>\n<p>Suddenly iOS 15 broke my Video Micropub with a non-debuggable \u201cthere was a problem running the shortcut\u201d error. I\u2019ve tried common workarounds suggested online, including re-creating the shortcut from scratch multiple times. It chokes at the media upload step every time.</p>\n<p>\n Without this shortcut, I am kind of at a loss for how to post videos from my phone to my site. There are a number of great <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/Micropub/Clients\">Micropub clients</a> in the world, but <i>none</i> of them handles video. I\u2019ve built Micropub clients of my own in the past, but I find it to be a lot of work each time updating things to keep up with changes in specs or library dependencies, and I find that I am not ready to commit to another one at this time.\n <br /></p>\n<p>Bizarrely, I have a different shortcut, probably thanks to <a href=\"https://rosemaryorchard.com/\">Rosemary</a> or <a href=\"https://seblog.nl/\">Sebastiaan</a>, which <i>does</i> allow me to upload files to my media endpoint, and get the resulting URL.</p>\n<p>I combined that with a very quick and very dirty <i>Secret Web Form</i> that allows me to paste in the URL for the uploaded video, creating a Caturday post.</p>\n<p>It\u2019s certainly more steps, but at least it\u2019s doable from my phone once again.</p>\n<p><i>\u2026 or it would be if my phone was creating web-compatible videos!!!</i></p>\n<p>For several versions of iOS (maybe starting with 12?), a new system default was introduced that greatly improved the efficiency with which photos and videos are stored on iOS devices. This is done by using newer and more intensive codecs to compress media files: HEIC for images, and HEVC for video. It turns out that these are <i>not </i>codecs commonly available in web browsers. You can work around this by changing a system-wide setting to instead save images and video in the \u201cMost Compatible\u201d formats - JPEG and MP4 (with video encoded as h264).</p>\n<p>I\u2019m not sure where the root of this change comes from, but for some of my Live Photos, making them a Loop or Bounce video creates an HEVC video and the only working shortcut I have to uploading them to my site takes them as-is. The result is a caturday post that doesn\u2019t play!</p>\n<img src=\"https://media.martymcgui.re/6a/56/4d/ca/05461e176796ec9bc00b91d0f8354d8d4ce075c1c0b20c53318ca05e.png\" alt=\"\" />\u201cNo video with supported format and MIME type found\u201d does not spark caturday joy.<p>So let us arrive at last to the day-saving mentioned in the title of this post.</p>\n<p>I\u2019m a big fan of the IndieWeb building block philosophy - simplified systems with distinct sets of responsibilities which can be composed to create complex behaviors using the web as glue. For example, the Micropub spec defines <a href=\"https://www.w3.org/TR/micropub/#media-endpoint\">media endpoints</a> with very few required features. The main one: allow a file to be uploaded and to get back a URL where that file will be available on the web.</p>\n<p>The spec doesn\u2019t say anything about how to handle specifics that might be important. For example, an image on my phone may be a hefty 4 or 5 megabyte pixel party, but I don\u2019t want to actually display that whole thing on my website!</p>\n<p>I could add some special handling to my media endpoint. For example, have it automatically resize images, save them in multiple formats suitable for different browsers, and more.</p>\n<p>But I could also slip a service in the middle that <i>uses</i> the raw uploaded files to create exactly the things I want on demand.</p>\n<p>This is where <i>image proxies</i> come in. They are web services that let you ask for a given image on the web, but transformed in some ways.</p>\n<p>I have used and loved <a href=\"https://github.com/willnorris/imageproxy\">willnorris/imageproxy</a> as a self-hosted solution. I currently use <a href=\"https://cloudinary.com/\">Cloudinary</a> to handle this on my site today. Go ahead and find a still photo on my site, right-click to inspect and check the image URL!</p>\n<p>It turns out that with some setup, Cloudinary will do this for smaller video files as well! This post is getting long, so here are the details:</p>\n<ul><li>\n<a href=\"https://cloudinary.com/documentation/fetch_remote_images#configuring_auto_upload_url_mapping\">Create an \u201cAuto upload URL mapping\u201d</a>. This is kind of like a folder alias that maps a path on Cloudinary to a path on your server. In my case, I made one named \u2018mmmgre\u2019 which maps to <a href=\"https://media.martymcgui.re/\">https://media.martymcgui.re/</a>\n</li>\n <li>Update your site template to rewrite your video URLs to fetch them from Cloudinary.</li>\n</ul><p>That\u2019s it!</p>\n<p>So, for example, this video is a .mov file uploaded from my phone, encoded in HEVC: <a href=\"https://media.martymcgui.re/0d/93/a0/f1/be676103d289914ba9660cb8ba0eca2cb87a95c801d750ffc00bbfae.mov\">https://media.martymcgui.re/0d/93/a0/f1/be676103d289914ba9660cb8ba0eca2cb87a95c801d750ffc00bbfae.mov</a></p>\n<p>The resulting Cloudinary URL is: <a href=\"https://res.cloudinary.com/schmarty/video/upload/mmmgre/0d/93/a0/f1/be676103d289914ba9660cb8ba0eca2cb87a95c801d750ffc00bbfae.mp4\">https://res.cloudinary.com/schmarty/video/upload/mmmgre/0d/93/a0/f1/be676103d289914ba9660cb8ba0eca2cb87a95c801d750ffc00bbfae.mp4</a></p>\n<p>Cloudinary supports a lot of transformations in their URLs, but in this case the only one needed is to rewrite the .mov extension to .mp4 - this tells Cloudinary to make this a .mp4 video with h264 video inside - exactly what I wanted.</p>\n<p>And so, at last, I can post videos from my phone to my website again at last. The world of eternal Caturday is safe\u2026 for now.</p>\n<p>In the future:</p>\n<ul><li>I\u2019d rather be hosting this myself, but since I\u2019m already using Cloudinary and these Live Photo-based videos are very small, this was a huge win for time-spent-hacking.</li>\n <li>Of course I\u2019d much rather overall just have my friggin\u2019 shortcut friggin\u2019 working again, <i>sheesh</i>.</li>\n <li>\n There has been some chatter in the <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/discuss\">IndieWeb chat</a> about different approaches to handling video content and posts in Micropub clients. I may join in!\n <br /></li>\n</ul>"
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This is the best description of what my own website feels like to me:
A search engine for my mind
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