I miss #blogs from ordinary people sharing average lives.
After #Twitter & with #AI being used by #searchengines in the future, there's an urgent need to revive personal blogging & for #IndieWeb principles.
Companies will prioritise ad dollars & those with 💰 will game the system. #AI won't change that.
It feels like the #Internet is about to get even suckier.
I feel glad that lots of people are thinking the same, but what can we do about this??
https://firediarist.wordpress.com/2023/02/07/return-of-the-personal-blog/
Both inline refs & footer notes should use Unicode superscripts like '¹' and hyperlink both ways, in contexts that support it.
I have heard feedback from the #IndieWeb community that inline ASCII footnotes like "^1" are distracting and interrupt the flow of reading, and I can sympathize with that.
From an authoring perspective, it’s easier to type "^2" than "²" so I’d rather keep doing so, and write code to do the conversion.
I’m also considering what to change as an author, like instead of footnoting special terms/jargon, I can include them in an mini-glossary at the end of a post, thus only using footnotes for specific points or citations. I won’t include terms that mean exactly the same thing as defined by a literal page of the same name on Wikipedia (e.g. ASCII in this post means https://enwp.org/ASCII).
During a run I figured out how my existing CASSIS autolink function could detect both inline footnote references and their expansions, convert them to Unicode, and add local hyperlinks in both directions, given an optional parameter to prefix their fragment IDs. I looked at Wikipedia’s references and fragments for examples, and they use "_ref-{number}" and "_note-{number}" respectively which seem sensible.
The one Wikipedia design aspect I disagree with is their use of a hat character '^' at the *start* of a reference note to link back to the inline reference, which look distracting, and in my opinion are too subtle/unobvious. I prefer what I’ve seen on blogs: a small return arrow '⮐' at the *end* of a note to link back to the inline reference, which does a much better job of conveying the meaning of “return to where this was referenced / you were reading.”
Lastly, I think it’s ok if POSSE copies of my posts to text-only (non-hyperlinking) destinations keep the ASCII footnote style, because such copies usually (e.g. on Twitter) lack enough space for the expansions, and there is less chance of ASCII footnotes being misunderstood as part of something else on those destinations. POSSE destinations are in general lower fidelity than a personal site, so it’s ok have this be another instance where the original looks better than the copy.
I collected many of these thoughts in a brainstorming section on the IndieWeb wiki accordingly, and will update that as I make progress:
https://indieweb.org/footnote#Brainstorming
If you use footnotes in your personal site posts, please add yourself to the IndieWeb Examples section:
https://indieweb.org/footnote#IndieWeb_Examples
This is day 28 of #100DaysOfIndieWeb #100Days
← Day 27: https://tantek.com/2023/033/t1/twitter-api-log-in-web-sign-in-relmeauth
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Post Glossary:
autolink
https://indieweb.org/autolink
CASSIS
https://indieweb.org/CASSIS
POSSE
https://indieweb.org/POSSE
Unicode superscripts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superscripts_and_Subscripts_(Unicode_block)
@whalecoiner Why it may be better to go completely #IndieWeb instead and skip the concept of a Mastodon instance entirely
I think I've finished literally copying & pasting 300 pages of my #Squarespace blog to my staging site, and I'm ready to transfer my domain over to Wordpress.
Pardon me while I collapse in a corner.
I should probably try NOT to break my website while Technical Support Husband is still asleep.
But Brain has got a bit excited about #indieweb, and there are lots of things here it does not understand.
Goodbye Mastodon, Hello RSS.
One feed to rule them all. An experiment in consolidating everything into RSS.
https://www.jdzero.net/2023/02/05/goodbye-mastodon-hello-rss/
New account! Needed to change my username to align with my #indieweb project. I'm separating my site into categories. Everything Manifesting Alignment will be related to my spiritual content. ☺️
I decided to use an Azure Virtual Machine to run the SharePoint Online Management Shell to change my SharePoint URL It was definitely a journey to set it up. And then another journey to view the desktop. And then another to get the commands to work. I can’t even repeat it. The command won’t take place until at a minimum 24 hours after initiation. Thank you to @box464 for the advice. Day 26 of #100DaysofIndieWeb, #IndieWeb, #ProjectJournal, #SharePoint https://tmichellemoore.com/?p=152499
Project Journal: Changing SharePoint URL – SharePoint Online Management Shell on Azure Virtual Machine
I decided to use an Azure Virtual Machine to run the SharePoint Online Management Shell to change my SharePoint URL It was definitely a journey to set it up. And then another journey to view the desktop. And then another to get the commands to work. I can’t even repeat it. I have a few screenshots below. The command won’t take place until at a minimum 24 hours after initiation. According to the instructions that was the time of the computer you are working with, but that didn’t seem to be true. So at about 7 am UTC on 2/6/2023 we will see if this actually executed. Thank you to @box464@mastodon.social for the advice. Day 26 of #100DaysofIndieWeb, #IndieWeb, #ProjectJournal, #SharePoint
The Steps
Changing the site address would have been easier. ✅
Install Homebrew (whatever that is :-))✅
Install PowerShell (Mac Version)✅
Changing the SharePoint Domain takes a few more steps.✅
The Custom Domain Name textbook is active for this step.
“In the Custom domain name box, enter the full new “.onmicrosoft.com” domain, and then select Add domain.”
I added the tmichellemoore.onmicrosoft.com domain.
Install the SharePoint Online Management Shell✅
Run SharePoint Online Management Shell
Share Point Online Management Shell does not fully work on a Mac
Options based on my current progress:
Forget about this whole project.
Purchase Parallels ($99) and run the Windows version of the SharePoint Online Management Shell.
Use Bootcamp, run Windows, and the SharePoint Online Management Shell.
Use an Azure Virtual Machine. ✅
Advice from @box464@mastodon.social, make sure to turn of the VM.
He referred me to this article – Shut Down to Save Money
100DaysOfIndieWeb, IndieWeb, ProjectJournal, SharePoint Feb 5, 2023 5:42 PMProject Journal: Changing SharePoint URL – SharePoint Online Management Shell on Azure Virtual Machine
~ #webrings watch ~
Posting a new way to connect with the indie web every day!
Day #10: RPG Maker Webring
https://ophanimkei.com/media/RPGMaker
If you care about anything RPG Maker related, you are cherished on Mala's #webring -- I personally ❤️ 'To The Moon'
#indieweb #website #yesterweb #web #webdev #smallweb #rpg #gaming #games #videogame #gamedev
Hey all y'all Mastodoners! I've very much enjoyed my first couple months on Mastodon and #indieweb.social, but haven't yet done an #introduction. So... I am of the US #westisbest, a family man, metaphysical escape artist cisgen/sex #whitedude staring into the #Śūnyatā within and without me. I like a lot of things like #music, #snow, #mountains, #rivers, #basinandrange, my #dog, #wildtrout, #water, #telemark #skiing #fast, #education, #flyfishing, #vanagon, the #sky, #vanishing... Hey, wait...
An example of a more pragmatic approach to image uploads, for example, is the mastodon API. You still have to use a separate multipart request for an image, but the description (alt) text accompanies the image as an additional field. I think you can probably use the same image (and by extension its alt text) for multiple posts if you want. This fits because alt text is descriptive, so it shouldn't depend on the context the image is used in. #indieweb
I get why microformats documents came to look like this. It comes from their roots as data embedded in HTML. But it's not very pragmatic. Why would a document have more than one name or content? Why would photo (singular) be used for a *plural* field. It's all out of whack. #indieweb.
I love the #indieweb, but the aforementioned micropub thing isn't the only friction. JSON encoded microformats-2 documents are just plain weird. Everything is an array for some reason. Unnecessarily complex to consume. We can surely do better...
One pain in the ass thing about micropub is that there's no way to send photos and content together in a single request *and* include alt text. It can only be done with a multipart request to a media endpoint for the photo and a JSON request to the regular endpoint. Why not allow both in a multipart request? #indieweb
Just added a #digitalGarden to my website. Going to experiment a bit with it in the coming weeks, let's see how it grows!
It took me a few days to figure out what I'm doing, but I think I've decided to join the #indieweb movement. After failing at setting up Activitypub on my website (due to hosting blocks), I think what I'm going to do instead is use my personal website as a primary hub that automatically distributes content I post to various different platforms. I'm going to have to play around with it a bit and figure out exactly how I'm going to structure this, but I think it's going to be really neat once I'm finished with it.
The more I learn about the IndieWeb movement the more I really support it and want to be part of it. I think it's really cool that people are taking the internet back from corporate entities owning everything and dictating what we can or can't talk about, and this just seems like a great way to house everything and take ownership of my own content without isolating myself totally from those other platforms.
Still in the brainstorming phase of all of this but I'm really excited with everything I'm learning and the doors this might open up. 👀 Lol I feel like since discovering the #Fediverse my mind has been opened to a whole new way of using the internet and I'm all for it! 😁