FeedLand likes for johnjohnston

Sat, 18 Nov 2023 09:29:53 GMT

Show me your blogroll.

Sun, 12 Nov 2023 16:04:37 GMT

Some news. I've been working with Automattic for most of this year on a new version of FeedLand that runs in their cloud. The advantage is it will scale like the most popular websites, as WordPress does. There have been lots of internal changes in the software, but at the same time, it still runs on a $10 a month Digital Ocean server, and on desktops as well. The next FeedLand works at all these levels, for a person, a workgroup and the world. Obviously, lots more to say about all this. 😄

WordPress for identity

Fri, 03 Nov 2023 21:52:30 GMT

I don't believe a product like FeedLand should do its own identity.

Identity is one of those things you totally want centralized, because that's the benefit of identity -- you can be the same person in a lot of different places. And if we work that out well, the apps that you connect with that way can work with each other in interesting ways to provide new integrations.

I've always been preaching this, let developers and users do the integration, let software developers create basic capability that we can wire together any way we like. That was what we were doing on the Mac platform in the 1988-92. And also what we've been doing on the web since 1994 . It's an idea as old as Unix pipes. But it requires cooperation among developers, which we have seen sometimes happens. 😄

Using WordPress for identity is a step in that direction. The hope is it could form a backbone for an internet of applications. I'm willing to step up and say okay let's give this a try and see what happens.

Fri, 03 Nov 2023 21:51:57 GMT

The Future of RSS is Textcasting.

RT by @andywightman: Very concerning that woodland creation appears to have been conflated with tree planting, which is the entire focus of this press release - natural regeneration doesn't get a mention. Will the summit be the same?

Fri, 03 Nov 2023 21:50:57 GMT

Very concerning that woodland creation appears to have been conflated with tree planting, which is the entire focus of this press release - natural regeneration doesn't get a mention. Will the summit be the same?

nitter.ktachibana.party/scotforestry/status/1720384851142943206#m

GitHub - microsoft/prompts-for-edu

Tue, 17 Oct 2023 04:34:22 GMT

GitHub, Oct 16, 2023

It makes sense to compile prompts for educators in GitHub, because prompts are almost the new programming language of today. And it makes even more sense for Microsoft to do it for its on AI and because Microsoft owns GitHub. Now they're calling for contributions. Prompts for students include writing mentor, tutor and team reflection, among others. Prompts for educators include things like a lesson planner, interactive lecture, and explainer. Via Miguel Guhlin.

Web: [Direct Link] [This Post]

Sun, 17 Sep 2023 15:13:35 GMT

AI is the revenge of the command line.

Sat, 09 Sep 2023 09:58:46 GMT

When the threads-api project was announced, it was so tempting to use it but I knew it would be too fragile relying on undocumented APIs. Sure enough, Meta has sent them a cease and desist letter and the project is now shut down. Trust in ad-based platforms will always get you burned.

mixt.links 09-07-23

Thu, 07 Sep 2023 20:38:11 GMT

LazyVim (github) 📌
“💤 A modern plugin manager for Neovim” Milkdown (github)📌
“🍼 A plugin driven framework to build WYSIWYG Markdown editor.” Optical Toys 📌
“Optical illusions & brain bending toys” TiddlyPWA 📌
“TiddlyPWA turns TiddlyWiki5 into an offline-first Progressive Web App with encrypted local persistent storage and efficient synchronization with a server that can easily be hosted for free.” Nobody cares about your blog. 📌
“I just don’t care what you think, here’s my post and you can do nothing about it :)”

Baldur Bjarnason

Thu, 24 Aug 2023 16:44:10 GMT

Baldur reflects on his family’s history in radio broadcasting, his path to interactive media and writing books and how he moved away from listening to tech podcasts.

Content warning: some coarse language

Podcast case study: Accidental Tech Podcast (listener)

Find Baldur at baldurbjarnason.com.

Read a transcript of the episode as a styled PDF or in plain text.

Links and Show Notes Fourth Generation 00:00:00 RSS Perl Interactive media RÚV is the Icelandic National Broadcasting Service. World War II British invasion of Iceland Allied occupation of Iceland Attack of Pearl Harbor Telegraphy Axis powers Hotel Borg Vox populi (or vox pop) Web development Interactive Media Environments 00:08:13 Software widget Graphical widget COVID-19 pandemic HyperCard Macintosh SE Solitaire Tetris What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) Comparative literature Computer science (or ‘comp sci’) University of the West of England (UWE) Bower Ashton campus map BBC Radio Dot-com bubble (including reference to the dot-com crash) Adobe Flash Sandbox (software development) Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) ebook Amazon Kindle iPhone iPad Defamiliarisation 00:15:43 Artificial intelligence (AI) Cryptocurrency (or ‘crypto’) Popular culture (or ‘pop culture’) The Real World of Technology by Ursula Franklin Recordings of public lectures in the Internet Archive Processor (computing) Musical genre mash-up! Pop-punk Post-punk Neosurrealism Accidental Tech Podcast Jason Snell Defamiliarisation Viktor Shklovsky Bertolt Brecht YouTube Line Goes Up – The Problem with NFTs Defunctland Disney’s FastPass: A Complicated History App Store (iOS/iPadOS) Tom Abba *This is not the future of the book Out of the Software Crisis by Baldur Bjarnason Open source Pick and Choose 00:31:03 Round table Narrative journalism 20 Macs for 2020 was released in multiple formats: a podcast on Relay FM; a series of written blog posts at Six Colors; and a YouTube playlist hosted at 512 Pixels Facebook Twitter (rebranding to X) Revenue sharing Threads (social network) Bluesky Social Mastodon (social network) Algorithm Patreon Whisper (software) Descript Substack Email list Apple Podcasts Spotify du jour = ‘of the day’, e.g. ’soup *du jour’ = soup of the day My Computer Identity 00:44:05 Mac (computer) Macintosh Performa Microsoft Windows macOS (previously referred to as Mac OS X and OS X) Pro Tools Apple Human Interface Guidelines User interface design Apple simplified System Settings for macOS Ventura, moved many items from AppleInsider System Settings (previously named System Preferences) Disk Utility Linux GNOME Safari (web browser) ARM architecture family Amy Hoy User experience (UX) ChromeOS Software bug Netscape Jamie Zawinski (a.k.a. jwz) HAL 9000 Plumbing of the Web 01:01:05 HTML XML Markup language Static websites Flat file Client-side iBook G3 ‘Clamshell’ (or what Baldur’s dad refers to as the ‘toilet-seat iBook’) NetNewsWire OPML Domain name Stacking the Bricks (podcast) Credits

Recorded and edited by Martin Feld, using Audio Hijack and Ferrite Recording Studio

Original podcast theme music by Alex Canion

Contact Website: rsspod.net Email: martin@loungeruminator.net Mastodon: social.lol/@martinfeld Micro.blog: micro.blog/martinfeld

Summer Reading Special

Thu, 24 Aug 2023 16:43:52 GMT

This week, to mix things up a little, it’s our annual round-up of books, old and new, you might enjoy over the summer. John, Andy and Backlisted’s producer Nicky discuss: O Caledonia by Elspeth Barker (W&N Essentials); Sheep’s Clothing by Celia Dale (Daunt Books); The Stirrings: A Memoir in Northern Time by Catherine Taylor (Weidenfeld & Nicolson); Old God’s Time by Sebastian Barry (Faber); A Spell of Good Things by Ayobami Adebayo (Canongate); and The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band Who Burned a Million Pounds (Weidenfeld and Nicolson).

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Amber Dohrenwend, Artist

Sat, 19 Aug 2023 04:17:13 GMT

Amber Dohrenwend is an American artist based in Marquette, Michigan. She constructs post-consumer cardboard sculptures, costuming and installations. You can find Amber on Instagram @cardboardcollect.

Personal Website
The Cardboard Collective

TOOLS:
0:00 – Intro
1:44 – Bostitch B8 Heavy Duty Stapler
7:10 – Offset Metal snips
12:54 – Nejisaurus
15:07 – Awl
17:12 – Art Week 2023 sculpture

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Pixelfed cross-posting in Micro.blog

Mon, 07 Aug 2023 20:33:42 GMT

Today we added Pixelfed cross-posting to Micro.blog. This joins our existing set of cross-posting services like Mastodon, Tumblr, Flickr, Bluesky, Nostr, and others.

Now you can post photos to your own blog, at your own domain name where you control your identity, and have Micro.blog send a copy elsewhere automatically. When posting, you can optionally select which services you want to include:

Because Micro.blog has built-in support for ActivityPub, your friends on Mastodon can also follow your blog directly without you needing to copy anything, or without you needing an account on any other platforms. There’s a lot of flexibility in how you want to configure this and which services you want to use. Some people even like to create a separate microblog just for photos.

As with all Micro.blog features, we’re looking forward to hearing how people use this. Photos are special, and there’s always more we want to do with them. We’ll continue to tweak the Pixelfed cross-posting based on feedback. Enjoy!

Mon, 07 Aug 2023 10:31:20 GMT

We added a new about page with a little more about what Micro.blog is and what our values are.

Thu, 27 Jul 2023 13:24:37 GMT

Bookmarked Nobody cares about your blog.

Phew!

↬ Nicolas Hoizey

Apple Tries to Explain to U.K. Legislators That You Can’t Add Back Doors to Secure Protocols

Fri, 21 Jul 2023 10:29:03 GMT

Zoe Kleinman, reporting for BBC News:

Apple says it will remove services such as FaceTime and iMessage from the UK rather than weaken security if new proposals are made law and acted upon.

The government is seeking to update the Investigatory Powers Act (IPA) 2016. It wants messaging services to clear security features with the Home Office before releasing them to customers. The act lets the Home Office demand security features are disabled, without telling the public. Under the update, this would have to be immediate. [...]

WhatsApp and Signal are among the platforms to have opposed a clause in the Online Safety Bill allowing the communications regulator to require companies to install technology to scan for child-abuse material in encrypted messaging apps and other services. They will not comply with it, they say, with Signal threatening to “walk” from the UK.

The BBC headline here is fair: “Apple Slams UK Surveillance-Bill Proposals”. Techmeme’s rewrite of the headline is not: “Apple Threatens to Remove Services Like FaceTime and iMessage From the UK Rather Than Weaken Their Security Under a Proposed Investigatory Powers Act Amendment”. Usually this works the other way around — Techmeme typically rewrites headlines to add clarity and omit clickbait-yness. But Apple (and Signal, and WhatsApp) aren’t making threats here. They’re patiently explaining that E2EE messaging platforms cannot comply with what the U.K. wants to demand. It’d be like trying to comply with a law that declares 1 + 1 = 3.

The U.K. legislators pushing this believe, wrongly, that it must be possible for these messaging platforms to add “good guys only” back doors. That if they pass this law, the result will be that the nerds who work at these companies will be forced to figure out a way to comply. What will actually happen is that these companies will be forced to pull the services from U.K., because they can’t comply, unless they scrap their current end-to-end encryption and replace it — worldwide — with something insecure, which they aren’t going to do.

The UK, of course, is no longer part of the EU, but the unintended consequences are similar: the intention of the EU’s Digital Markets Act (well, one intention among many) is to force big social networks to collect data in ways that are more respectful of users’ privacy. The actual result is that Threads launched everywhere else in the world but the EU. The intention of the UK’s proposed update to the IPA is to force messaging platforms to make profound technical changes that would allow law enforcement to snoop on messages; the actual result, if it goes into effect, will be to force those messaging platforms out of the UK.

And while it’s Apple and iMessage/FaceTime that are getting the headlines today, it’s WhatsApp that’s the big player in the UK, with 75 percent of adult Britons using it monthly. It’s hard to overstate how much outrage these legislators are poised to bring upon themselves if they effectively ban WhatsApp. (The legislators themselves surely all depend upon it.)

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Tue, 13 Jun 2023 21:07:30 GMT

Julia Evans writes Some blogging myths.

Google Sheets JSON the Long Way

Mon, 12 Jun 2023 19:14:28 GMT

Ever since Google turned off direct access to the JSON data from Google Sheets, I’ve used a couple of App Script workarounds. They were a bit clumsy for what I was doing but better than re-writing the entire page. I find going through the whole oAuth and Google project process to be more hassle than my typical Google Sheets project deserves. Recently, Google made some more changes that broke these workarounds. Many people may feel I’m getting what I deserve for using Google. Others have no idea what I’m talking about anyway.

Because I don’t like to “go along to get along,” I wasn’t quite ready to go the route Google is forcing and I couldn’t find any other place that would provide the same options I get with Google Sheets. So . . . I decided to publish the sheets to the web as CSV (This remains a built in option in Sheets.) and then use a javascript library called Papa Parse to turn the CSV into JSON.

This gives me the added benefit that if Google shuts down CSV publishing for Sheets, I can easily get the CSV from the regular spreadsheet rather than having to reconstruct Google’s particular JSON structure. I could also set up a PHP script to fetch the file every so often if that became necessary. Papa Parse is also a tiny library that’s very fast and can handle large amounts of data. Hopefully, I’m exploiting Google for what it provides without allowing them to fully counter-exploit me.

You can see it working in the Code Pen example below. I’m writing ~500 spreadsheet rows to the page as JSON for demonstration. It’s fast.

See the Pen
Papaparse Remote Example by Tom (@twwoodward)
on CodePen.

Thu, 08 Jun 2023 19:34:36 GMT

In reply to https://jan.boddez.net/notes/348fce8584 by Jan.

IndieBlocks’ Facepile block will, as of the yet-to-be-released next version, support the Webmention plugin (i.e., Webmention v5.0 and up). https://github.com/janboddez/indieblocks/blob/ce87daf8eb157ca6a6c13200281e3c7976fb752a/includes/class-blocks.php#L448

There’s no way to turn that off, which I think is OK.

Remember: you don’t actually need a separate Webmention plugin, but if you use and like the Webmention plugin, consider giving the Facepile block a chance.

Come to think of it, I’ve yet to test non-facepiled webmentions.

🎲 Your Favorite Homepage as a GIF

Thu, 08 Jun 2023 19:33:26 GMT

Your Favorite Homepage as a GIF

2023-02-01

The Wayback Machine is a treasure. But it's also a little slow to navigate IMHO (perhaps purposely harkening back to those halcyon microfiche days). Can't we use computers to speed up our research endeavors?

Yes, we can. Here's a neato gif of Apple's homepage from 1996 to present:

Or maybe you're looking for some H1 or CSS gradient inspiration for your enterprise SaaS web3 startup? Look no further - here's Stripe's homepage since 2009:

Gotta love t…

This random indieblog.page link was picked on Thursday, June 8th 2023. It was originally published on Wednesday, February 1st 2023 at Charlie Harrington.

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Thu, 08 Jun 2023 19:33:24 GMT

After recording @coreint today, I’m settling into the opinion that Apple Vision Pro is both brilliant and a terrible mistake. On the other hand, I’m sitting in my rental campervan in Colorado watching the NBA finals on my iPad Mini and wouldn’t mind that courtside VR action. 🏀

Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2023

Wed, 24 May 2023 20:47:00 GMT

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Mon, 22 May 2023 18:03:45 GMT

These days I write my tweets for Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter and Facebook. I do this by hand. Open a tab for each and do a lot of copy/pasting. The tech industry by refusing to interop has turned me into software.

Sun, 21 May 2023 20:03:26 GMT

Posted links for all of today’s videos on micro.camp. Thanks again to our Micro Camp presenters! I still need to edit the keynote so that will go up on Monday.

Thu, 11 May 2023 18:34:41 GMT

Really good episode of Dithering this morning on Bluesky vs. Mastodon. As convenient as it would be to have a single decentralized protocol “win”, I want to be ready for a future with multiple successful web-friendly platforms.