Month: November 2019

Replied to An In-Depth Tutorial of Webmentions + Eleventy by Sia KaramalegosSia Karamalegos (sia.codes)
Add Webmentions to your Eleventy static site with this step-by-step tutorial.
Congratulations Sia, this is awesome! Since most of your responses are coming from Twitter, I thought I’d send you one from WordPress instead! Welcome to the IndieWeb. I’ve added a link to your article to the wiki page for Eleventy to help make it easier for others to find it in the future.
Liked a tweet by Matt BaerMatt Baer (Twitter)

This UI “feature” always drives me bonkers too!
Liked Sonia Gupta (@soniagupta504) | Twitter by Sonia Gupta (@soniagupta504) (twitter.com)

A manual tweak for icons in the Syndication Links plugin

I’m not sure why I had never manually done the fix before, but I’ve had issues1 2 with the Syndication Links plugin showing icons for the reading.am service and my old chrisaldrich.wordpress.com site, which I primarily use as a pseudo-mirror/backup to my primary site. I figured there had to be a way to force them in instead of relying on the set up to process the links and show something. Reading.am doesn’t work because there isn’t an svg available for it and though there’s a WordPress icon, the plugin’s parser doesn’t seem to be able to recognize the subdomain properly.

Within the code at class-syn-link-domain-icon-map.php, I added the following two lines to the obvious spot in the list within the code to fix the icon issues I was having:

'chrisaldrich.wordpress.com' => 'wordpress',
'reading.am' => 'book',

I then reuploaded the edited file to my server. Essentially I’m hard-coding the domain name and the default icon I’d like to have the plugin display.

If the plugin is updated, I’ll obviously have to manually add them again, but the disappearance of the icons again will be pretty obvious and this post will document the necessary changes.

Although upon tweaking this I’m noticing that the reading.am icon isn’t working (I also tried ‘website’ instead of ‘book’ but that didn’t work either). Perhaps the .am tld is causing an issue? Alas…

I suspect that there’s some other bug hiding in the works as one or both of the two types of links above should default to the generic ‘website’ icon when a syndication link exists, but the system isn’t able to specify a particular icon. There may be some small if/else bug hiding in the logic of the plugin.

Watched Frozen II (2019) from Walt Disney Pictures

Directed by Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee. With Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel, Josh Gad, Jonathan Groff. Anna, Elsa, Kristoff, Olaf and Sven leave Arendelle to travel to an ancient, autumn-bound forest of an enchanted land. They set out to find the origin of Elsa's powers in order to save their kingdom.

Better than I expected it would be, but not as solid or classic as the first. None of the songs were as catchy the first installment. Christoph did have an 80s vibe song that was highly reminiscent of REO Speedwagon.

I’ll have to do some more thinking on the ideas and presentation of memory and indigenous peoples as depicted here.

Replied to The Only Way to Beat Algorithms is to Retrain Your Audience | KIRISKA.com by Y. Kiri Yu 余依笛 (KIRISKA.com)
The only way to beat social media algorithms is to get your audience off social media. Put your work on your own site. Retrain them to follow via RSS.
Small little tools like SubToMe.com might help a bit on the RSS/following front. Making the user interface simple and elegant will pull people back in to a healthier web.

I typically post all of my replies on my own website anyway, but I’ve discovered that the comment functionality on your blog isn’t working. 

Bookmarked Food Forward - Southern California's Largest Urban Gleaning Nonprofit (Food Forward)
Food Forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people in need, and inspiring others.
I saw this organization featured on tonight’s episode of PBS NewsHour. Definitely worth looking into. I’m curious if they sell to the general public? Maybe interesting to set up a company that does garde manger?
Watched November 27, 2019 - PBS NewsHour from PBS NewsHour
Wednesday on the NewsHour, another set of revelations in the inquiry into President Trump’s Ukraine dealings. Plus: How Americans across the country feel about impeachment, shipping speed vs. employee safety at Amazon warehouses, how food growers are striving to reduce wasted product, rising sea levels threaten a small Alaskan town and actress Adrienne C. Moore on her life’s characters.
I’ve been going through a number of broken links on my website and slowly, but surely, bringing many of them back to life. Thanks Broken Link Checker! Apparently there were 429 broken links, but I’m able to quickly fix many of them because as I made my posts, I backed up the original links automatically using Post Archival in the Internet Archive. (Somehow this plugin has violated one of WordPress’ guidelines and can’t be downloaded, though I haven’t seen any details about why or been notified about it.)

I’ve only come across one or two which archive.org didn’t crawl or didn’t have. Many of the broken links I’m able to link directly to archive copies on the same day I made them and my archive snapshots were the only ones ever made.