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Month: August 2018
A reply to David Shanske regarding implementation of the DiSo Project
David Shanske (David Shanske)Is it time to resurrect the DiSo Project? https://t.co/Sd3p8Gl6M8
— Chris Messina™ (@chrismessina) August 18, 2018
Funny, we were here in 2006, @simonw: https://t.co/Vmz06KA1Gp
/cc @willnorris @steveivy @singpolyma https://t.co/eWYliJtI2y
People continued working on it. Everything you need using W3C standards like Webmention, Microformats2…give it a try? https://IndieWeb.org/WordPress/Plugins
I suspect that @chrismessina could do it quickly, but for those who’d like to leave Twitter for #WordPress with similar functionality (but greater flexibility and independence), I recorded a 2 hour video for an #IndieWeb set up/walk through with some high level discussion a few months back. If you can do the 5 minute install, hopefully most of the rest is downhill with some basic plugin installation and minor configuration. The end of the walk through includes a live demonstration of a conversation between a WordPress site on one domain and a WithKnown site running on another domain.
tl;dr for the video:
- WordPress base install
- IndieWeb Plugin (gives you quick access to most of the plugins below)
- The SemPress Theme or Independent Publisher Theme
- Webmention and Semantic Linkbacks plugins (for site to site communication and notification)
- IndieAuth plugin (for authenticating with Micropub, Microsub, and other related tools)
- Micropub plugin (for a variety of clients you can use to publish to your site)
- Syndication Links plugin (to indicate which sites, like Twitter, that you syndicate your content to to stay in touch with those left behind)
- WebSub plugin (to ping feed readers for real-time communication)
- Brid.gy for WordPress plugin (to pull in backfed comments from other social silos)
- Post Kinds plugin (for better delineating articles, status updates (notes), replies, favorites, likes, etc. with appropriate microformats markup)
- Aperture Plugin (allows you to sign into a variety of Microsub readers which also act as your stream and allow you to reply to others directly from your reading interface. This part is still a bit experimental, but the kinks are being worked out presently for a richer experience.)
Additional pieces are discussed on my IndieWeb Research Page (focusing mostly on WordPress), in addition to IWC getting started on WordPress wiki page. If you need help, hop into the IndieWeb WordPress chat.
For those watching this carefully, you’ll notice that I’ve replied to David Shanske’s post on his website using my own website and sent him a webmention which will allow him to display my reply (if he chooses). I’ve also automatically syndicated my response to the copy of his reply on Twitter which includes others who are following the conversation there. Both he and I have full copies of the conversation on our own site and originated our responses from our own websites. If you like, retweet, or comment on the copy of this post on Twitter, through the magic of Brid.gy and the Webmention spec, it will come back to the comment section on my original post (after moderation).
Hooray for web standards! And hooray for everyone in the IndieWeb who are helping to make this type of social interaction easier and simpler with every passing day.
Damn straight DiSo is back.
Chris Messina (Twitter)Is it time to resurrect the DiSo Project? https://t.co/Sd3p8Gl6M8
— Chris Messina™ (@chrismessina) August 18, 2018
Funny, we were here in 2006, @simonw: https://t.co/Vmz06KA1Gp
/cc @willnorris @steveivy @singpolyma https://t.co/eWYliJtI2y
Sounds like @steveivy is in:
Damn straight DiSo is back.
I suspect we could get @kevinmarks to be the tour manager:
DiSo is back? I’m wearing my social graph foo camp shirt just in case. pic.twitter.com/mdnkt86jq4
— Kevin Marks (@kevinmarks) December 22, 2017
#DiSo #DiSo10thReunion #DiSoReunionTour2018 #IsRingoAvailableToo?#CanIBeARoadie?
❤️ kevinmarks tweet
Kevin Marks (Twitter)Pearl-clutching twitter users: but what if the hobbyist sysadmin gives up on my mastodon instance? Me: have you met venture funded social sites? https://t.co/RK483sl1yX
— Kevin Marks (@kevinmarks) August 19, 2018
🔖 mcnees tweet about LaTeX graph paper
If you (like me) use a lot of graph paper, here is some LaTeX code with lots of different styles that you can customize. Fee free to fork and make improvements!https://t.co/SHyJZY5OmF (And send me pics of your best graphs, plots, dungeons, wilderness maps, etc.) pic.twitter.com/nPijUpv6em
— Robert McNees (@mcnees) August 19, 2018
Spent about two hours on the 1m board today. Felt good for the first hour and a half. Things started to go sideways in the last half hour.
Also spent about 25 minutes swimming.
Spent part of the afternoon updating my production server from WordPress 4.8 to 4.9.8. Looks like some interesting tweaks they’ve been making to the system. Sadly it’s also time to rewrite a few segments of code to fix a few bits of infrastructure I rely on regularly.
📗 Started reading Goodbye, Things: The New Japanese Minimalism by Fumio Sasaki
📗 Started reading Goodbye, Things: The New Japanese Minimalism by Fumio Sasaki
(A digital copy, naturally…)
Doing a round of tests on the new Micropub plugin for WordPress.
* OwnYourSwarm – I can log in and see my data, but posts don’t show up on my site.
* Teacup seems to work, though not as well as I would expect with Post Kinds Plugin (https://boffosocko.com/2018/08/19/55725248/)
* micropublish.net throws some errors where it previously used to work
* IndieBookClub.biz allows me to log in and post, but the post doesn’t show up on my site
* Omnibear doesn’t work (never has, and I’m aware of some recent troubleshooting to get it working)
* InkStone doesn’t seem to work (I don’t think I’d ever used it before either, so I’m not sure it would have worked with the previous plugin version without testing).
* OwnYourSwarm – I can log in and see my data, but posts don’t show up on my site.
* Teacup seems to work, though not as well as I would expect with Post Kinds Plugin (https://boffosocko.com/2018/08/19/55725248/)
* micropublish.net throws some errors where it previously used to work
* IndieBookClub.biz allows me to log in and post, but the post doesn’t show up on my site
* Omnibear doesn’t work (never has, and I’m aware of some recent troubleshooting to get it working)
* InkStone doesn’t seem to work (I don’t think I’d ever used it before either, so I’m not sure it would have worked with the previous plugin version without testing).
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