Some technologies just keep coming back… Currently writing XML-RPC code, this time for JavaScript. Despite the new-ish JSON APIs in WordPress, not to mention Micropub, MetaWeblog is still the best way to talk to WordPress without any extra plugins or configuration.
I didn't like how all these interests looked in my profile, so I'm putting them in a post.
#Nerd, #Virginia, #DMV, #InfoSec, #IndieWeb, #Privacy, #CatDad, #Mac, #Apple, #PopCulture, #TV, #Music, #KayScarpetta, #IndieFolk, #EDM, #Photography, #Gay, #LGBT, #Movies, #OpenStack, #macOS, #iOS, #Ubuntu, #FOSS, #fedi22
There's a lot of great explanation sites about the fediverse and its various communities, and I wanted to take a stab at this myself.
The site (very much work in progress) is aimed at a more casual audience. Let me know what you think!
#fediverse #SocialMedia #OpenWeb #IndieWeb #JoinTheFediverse
A new post that sounds self-celebratory, while in reality it's an ode to the #SmallWeb and the #indieweb.
I cleaned the structure and merged the content according to how I see my website: a personal place, rather than some brand's shop window.
I also discovered a lot of new marvellous personal sites, so my next task will be to upgrade the blogroll I just brought back.
https://minutestomidnight.co.uk/blog/rebuilding-the-website/
Also, the main title of the post doesn't reflect the URL, I used to fret over these SEO bullshit.
I just finished adding Webmention on my website which is built with @eleventy
It is amazing that everything works without JavaScript being sent to the users.
Webmention + Eleventy = Ultimate Website
@mori something #indieweb already does with #webmentions which is very cool!
And in some way @manton is making both accessible via https://micro.blog
I haven't seen a "indieweb" ready theme in available from one-click install but it shouldn't be too hard to use existing Hugo themes to do just that (I'm trying and documenting my progress)
I’m so excited to publish my new #PersonalWebsite:
https://sidney.me/?ref=Mastodon
I’ve spent the last few months crafting my own home on the Web, and I wanted to make sure it presented me as a *human*, not defined solely by my work as a #DesignEngineer / #WebDev.
This has also been a great opportunity to finally use #Svelte & #SvelteKit in a project. I love how easy it was to learn and how intuitive it is, as someone who started with vanilla HTML and CSS
I've been updating my site at https://starbreaker.org/ with #IndieWeb #microformats.
#IndieAuth for starbreaker.org works.
h-card is implemented.
https://indiewebify.me/validate-h-card/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstarbreaker.org%2F
h-entry validation still needs a bit of work.
And I haven't gotten around to #WebMentions yet, but there's a #npm package I can run on one of my machines at home as a cron job to check my #RSS feed and send them. Receiving them will entail some more work...
I decided to show a little love to my venue pages after reading Tantek’s post about venues and reviews.
As part of keeping track of the events I attend, I create a venue page and link the event to it. The venue page previously would only show the name, address, and link. I updated it to also show a list of past events so it’s easier to see at a glance and navigate between them.
Example: Soda Bar, San Diego, CA
I decided to show a little love to my venue pages after reading Tantek’s post about venues and reviews.
As part of keeping track of the events I attend, I create a venue page and link the event to it. The venue page previously would only show the name, address, and link. I updated it to also show a list of past events so it’s easier to see at a glance and navigate between them.
Example: Soda Bar, San Diego, CA
Here’s my latest blog post on setting up Vouch Proxy to add OAuth to your website and services using #Google.
https://lifeofpablo.com/blog/setting-up-vouch-proxy-using-nginx
#vouch #vouchproxy #sso #oauth #blog #indieweb #tech #opensource
Here's my latest blog post on setting up Vouch Proxy to add OAuth to your website and services using #Google.
https://lifeofpablo.com/blog/setting-up-vouch-proxy-using-nginx
#vouch #vouch-proxy #sso #oauth #blog #indieweb #tech #opensource
I’m pretty sure I can and should post h-review posts as a variant of articles (with usual h-entry markup) with an explicit article name, since most review destinations request a title (name) for the review (e.g. HappyCow, TripAdvisor), and for others with only review text (e.g. Google Maps), I can include the name at the start.
Different review destinations have different text requirements (minimum and/or maximum lengths), and I’ll take time to document those first.
The first destination I’ll likely try automatically syndicating to is a site created by #IndieWeb community member @jamesg.blog (@capjamesg@indieweb.social): @breakfastand.coffee
It’s still quite new, but the thing that makes Breakfast & Coffee innovative and unique is that it encourages you to post your venue (e.g. cafe) description or review on your own site with a meaningful slug, link to https://breakfastand.coffee/ and then send a Webmention to indicate that you’d like to syndicate your venue or review into Breakfast & Coffee, like into an aggregator.
Before I get to that point however, I feel there’s quite a few challenges in publishing a “decent” restaurant / cafe venue page, because there really is a dearth of good examples of doing so with simple semantic HTML + CSS. You really don’t need JS to post info about a restaurant.
Setting aside the economic / intermediation challenges of "delivery apps" for now, people really want a few simple things from a restaurant site / page that could all be marked up with simple semantic HTML (thus resulting in good web search rankings) and styled in a quickly readable and mobile-friendly way.
* hours open (perhaps kitchen hours if different)
* location (address that links to a map UI or map embed w/o cookies/tracking)
* nearest bus/tram/rail stop
* payment restrictions (e.g. if only cash, or only credit) or options if you prefer
* contact info (including a note about catering if that’s an option)
* links to social media profiles
* links to restaurant review sites/aggregator pages (e.g. venue permalink on Google Maps, TripAdvisor, Foursquare, Swarm, HappyCow)
* menu with item name, description, price, optional-thumbnail, and dietary/allergy notations
No you really don’t need the full mess of made-up things at schema-org.
The community at OpenStreetMap has done A LOT (most? nearly all?) of the work figuring out the ways to express the above types of information, e.g.:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:opening_hours
Yet has anyone actually seen a simple semantic HTML page that publishes this kind of information?
I’ve web searched many search terms and phrases and found nothing good.
Stylistically dated templates for sale. Examples with numerous unnecessary scripts (no your typical user does not care about your clever animated 3D-carousel of pretty photos, certainly not waiting for a megabyte of framework scripts for it). Something built on Bootstrap, unnecessary for today’s mobile-friendly HTML+CSS.
I did find one (ONE) blog post from 2007 (those were the days) for semantic markup for a restaurant menu: https://jonchristopher.us/blog/a-semantic-breakdown-of-restaurant-menus/
Unless I find an existing solution soon, I’m going to create something from scratch with h-card (since a restaurant is an organization / venue) and add semantic HTML & class names for various fields, re-using from OpenStreetMap Keys whenever possible.
That leaves the URL design, where to publish my restaurant pages on my own site, and rather than rethink it, I will likely go with what I decided in my Whistle short URL design¹ many years ago, which is /v/ at the top level of my site, followed by a slug of my short name for the venue. This way I can play with static HTML pages there, with a shared style sheet in that same directory, without impacting anything else on my site.
I have some other thoughts around iconography for various diet preferences / allergen warnings for menu items that I’ve tried (or considered), though perhaps I’ll leave those for another post.
Or maybe I’ll braindump them now, however incomplete, to see if they resonate or anyone has better suggestions (restaurants and menus really have no standard for these)
🌱 vegan & gluten-free
🌱🌾 vegan + gluten
🌱🥜 vegan + nuts
🌱🍫 vegan + chocolate
🌱🍯 vegetarian (has honey)
🌱🧈 vegetarian (has butter)
🌱🥛 vegetarian (has milk, cream, or yogurt)
🌱🧀 vegetarian (has cheese)
🌱🥚 vegetarian (has egg)
with combinations as necessary.
For example, a breakfast sandwich at Devil’s Teeth Bakery²:
* Regular Breakfast Sandwich (no bacon!) $10.00 🌱🌾🧈🧀🥚
Or a chocolate croissant at Arsicault³:
* Chocolate Croissant $5.75 🌱🌾🧈🍫
Non-vegetarian items would omit the plant 🌱 icon/emoji, but could still include allergen icons.
If you are posting restaurants (or any other venues) to your personal site, please add a few of their permalinks to the IndieWeb Examples here: https://indieweb.org/venue#Indieweb_Examples
This is day 40 of #100DaysOfIndieWeb. #100Days
← Day 39: https://tantek.com/2023/112/t2/account-migration-post-blog-archive-format
→ 🔮
Glossary
article
https://indieweb.org/article
checkin
https://indieweb.org/checkin
h-card
https://microformats.org/wiki/h-card
h-entry
https://microformats.org/wiki/h-entry
h-review
https://microformats.org/wiki/h-review
POSSE
https://indieweb.org/POSSE
review
https://indieweb.org/review
URL design
https://indieweb.org/URL_design
venue
https://indieweb.org/venue
References
¹ https://tantek.com/w/Whistle#design
² https://www.devilsteethbakingcompany.com/menu
³ https://arsicault-bakery.com/menus
I’m pretty sure I can and should post h-review posts as a variant of articles (with usual h-entry markup) with an explicit article name, since most review destinations request a title (name) for the review (e.g. HappyCow, TripAdvisor), and for others with only review text (e.g. Google Maps), I can include the name at the start.
Different review destinations have different text requirements (minimum and/or maximum lengths), and I’ll take time to document those first.
The first destination I’ll likely try automatically syndicating to is a site created by #IndieWeb community member @jamesg.blog (@capjamesg@indieweb.social): @breakfastand.coffee
It’s still quite new, but the thing that makes Breakfast & Coffee innovative and unique is that it encourages you to post your venue (e.g. cafe) description or review on your own site with a meaningful slug, link to https://breakfastand.coffee/ and then send a Webmention to indicate that you’d like to syndicate your venue or review into Breakfast & Coffee, like into an aggregator.
Before I get to that point however, I feel there’s quite a few challenges in publishing a “decent” restaurant / cafe venue page, because there really is a dearth of good examples of doing so with simple semantic HTML + CSS. You really don’t need JS to post info about a restaurant.
Setting aside the economic / intermediation challenges of "delivery apps" for now, people really want a few simple things from a restaurant site / page that could all be marked up with simple semantic HTML (thus resulting in good web search rankings) and styled in a quickly readable and mobile-friendly way.
* hours open (perhaps kitchen hours if different)
* location (address that links to a map UI or map embed w/o cookies/tracking)
* nearest bus/tram/rail stop
* payment restrictions (e.g. if only cash, or only credit) or options if you prefer
* contact info (including a note about catering if that’s an option)
* links to social media profiles
* links to restaurant review sites/aggregator pages (e.g. venue permalink on Google Maps, TripAdvisor, Foursquare, Swarm, HappyCow)
* menu with item name, description, price, optional-thumbnail, and dietary/allergy notations
No you really don’t need the full mess of made-up things at schema-org.
The community at OpenStreetMap has done A LOT (most? nearly all?) of the work figuring out the ways to express the above types of information, e.g.:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:opening_hours
Yet has anyone actually seen a simple semantic HTML page that publishes this kind of information?
I’ve web searched many search terms and phrases and found nothing good.
Stylistically dated templates for sale. Examples with numerous unnecessary scripts (no your typical user does not care about your clever animated 3D-carousel of pretty photos, certainly not waiting for a megabyte of framework scripts for it). Something built on Bootstrap, unnecessary for today’s mobile-friendly HTML+CSS.
I did find one (ONE) blog post from 2007 (those were the days) for semantic markup for a restaurant menu: https://jonchristopher.us/blog/a-semantic-breakdown-of-restaurant-menus/
Unless I find an existing solution soon, I’m going to create something from scratch with h-card (since a restaurant is an organization / venue) and add semantic HTML & class names for various fields, re-using from OpenStreetMap Keys whenever possible.
That leaves the URL design, where to publish my restaurant pages on my own site, and rather than rethink it, I will likely go with what I decided in my Whistle short URL design¹ many years ago, which is /v/ at the top level of my site, followed by a slug of my short name for the venue. This way I can play with static HTML pages there, with a shared style sheet in that same directory, without impacting anything else on my site.
I have some other thoughts around iconography for various diet preferences / allergen warnings for menu items that I’ve tried (or considered), though perhaps I’ll leave those for another post.
Or maybe I’ll braindump them now, however incomplete, to see if they resonate or anyone has better suggestions (restaurants and menus really have no standard for these)
🌱 vegan & gluten-free
🌱🌾 vegan + gluten
🌱🥜 vegan + nuts
🌱🍫 vegan + chocolate
🌱🍯 vegetarian (has honey)
🌱🧈 vegetarian (has butter)
🌱🥛 vegetarian (has milk, cream, or yogurt)
🌱🧀 vegetarian (has cheese)
🌱🥚 vegetarian (has egg)
with combinations as necessary.
For example, a breakfast sandwich at Devil’s Teeth Bakery²:
* Regular Breakfast Sandwich (no bacon!) $10.00 🌱🌾🧈🧀🥚
Or a chocolate croissant at Arsicault³:
* Chocolate Croissant $5.75 🌱🌾🧈🍫
Non-vegetarian items would omit the plant 🌱 icon/emoji, but could still include allergen icons.
If you are posting restaurants (or any other venues) to your personal site, please add a few of their permalinks to the IndieWeb Examples here: https://indieweb.org/venue#Indieweb_Examples
This is day 40 of #100DaysOfIndieWeb. #100Days
← Day 39: https://tantek.com/2023/112/t2/account-migration-post-blog-archive-format
→ 🔮
Glossary
article
https://indieweb.org/article
checkin
https://indieweb.org/checkin
h-card
https://microformats.org/wiki/h-card
h-entry
https://microformats.org/wiki/h-entry
h-review
https://microformats.org/wiki/h-review
POSSE
https://indieweb.org/POSSE
review
https://indieweb.org/review
URL design
https://indieweb.org/URL_design
venue
https://indieweb.org/venue
References
¹ https://tantek.com/w/Whistle#design
² https://www.devilsteethbakingcompany.com/menu
³ https://arsicault-bakery.com/menus