Reply to Morten Rand-Hendriksen about Webmention and WordPress Core

Replied to a tweet by Morten Rand-HendriksenMorten Rand-Hendriksen (Twitter)
Mathias Pfefferle, David Shanske, and 700+ others have been self-dogfooding Webmention for a while. Feel free to join us in the IndieWeb #WordPress chat to talk about some remaining work and support it might require to do so.

 

👓 Tronc Exec Tells Daily News Staff to Their Faces: We Have No Strategy | The Daily Beast

Read Tronc Exec Tells Daily News Staff to Their Faces: We Have No Strategy (The Daily Beast)
A company exec and the paper’s newly installed top editor told employees Tuesday that they have no actual strategy, prompting audible dismay from the skeletal staff.
Not having a strategy when you’re on the border of collapse is a poor way to run a business.

📺 "Broadchurch" Episode #3.5 | ITV/BBC America

Watched "Broadchurch" Episode #3.5 from ITV/BBC America
Directed by Daniel Nettheim. With Kelly Gough, Olivia Colman, David Tennant, Hannah Millward. A new witness turns Trish's case upside down. Katie discovers a new link between the case and a key suspect. Beth tells her supervisor about Trish's case.
I’d had some issues making it through episodes 3 and 4 of this season, but it’s finally picking up a bit here.

Watched on Netflix

📺 "Broadchurch" Episode #3.6 | ITV/BBC America

Watched "Broadchurch" Episode #3.6 from ITV/BBC America
Directed by Lewis Arnold. With Andrew Buchan, Jodie Whittaker, Oskar McNamara, Julie Hesmondhalgh. Ellie and Hardy bring in Ed Burnett for questioning. In a search of his premises, Ellie finds devastating new evidence linking him to the crime.
This seems like a wild goose chase to fill some time until the finale. But it’s at least an interesting and well motivated goose chase.

Watched on Netflix

Replied to user-secret.svg replacing default avatar? · Issue #178 · pfefferle/wordpress-semantic-linkbacks (GitHub)
While I don't mind that this plugin offers its own avatar for unassigned gravatar photos, I wish it would present me the option to choose it on wp-admin/options-discussion.php under Default Avatar. With the latest update, all my default avatars are being overridden with user-secret.svg.
In version 3.8.1 it currently appears that comments from WordPress and Micro.blog (both of which have Gravatar as a commonality) appear to be automatically using the default mystery person avatar even though there is a separate avatar defined within the Avatar fields for Semantic Linkbacks Data.

If I add my my email address within the comment editing interface, then the appropriate Gravatar is pulled and displayed as expected. This leads me to believe that somehow SL either isn’t finding/pulling the Gravatar URL that it’s storing, or the code is potentially skipping looking for it within its logic structure.

I’ve noticed this also seems to be the case for other WP sites which I have reason to suspect are running this same version as well.

Webmentions from other non-Gravatar related sites don’t seem to be affected by this and they’re displaying the proper avatar images as defined within their h-cards.

Reply to Kevin Marks et al on Webmention and Annotations

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@dangillmore, @froomkin and other journos have played around with @hypothes_is (which has private group functionality):

@dwhly et al have started discussing adding webmentions as well:

There’s also a lot of potential useful overlap of the broader area of IndieWeb technologies with journalism I think.

Tonight I added an On This Day widget to the sidebar of my homepage. I also added an archive page at https://boffosocko.com/archives/otd/. They show old posts from the same day from prior years.

There may be one or two small display issues that I’ll come back and tweak, but functionally things are working reasonably well. I can already see that I may use it not only as a reminder, but a means of helping to clean up broken links and/or missing photos on posts.

Now if we could only get the Timehop app to add WordPress to it’s data stores…

Looks like I’ve finally got IndieAuth and my headers working with OwnYourSwarm properly and have checkin data being PESOSed from Swarm/FourSquare to my website now. Hooray!

I still have a few minor tweaks to get things working properly with Post Kinds to display everything correctly, but I feel like I’m almost there. Next we’ll have to delve back to May sometime when my system between IndieAuth and OwnYourCheckin fell apart.

Still have my fingers half-crossed that I don’t botch anything up…