Every time I hear someone say, "We are a nation of immigrants," as Biden did, I'm hearing someone erase the history of indigenous peoples and enslaved Africans. #DemDebate
— Ibram X. Kendi (@DrIbram) March 16, 2020
Month: March 2020
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“The sky’s the limit when it comes to ____________, but don’t be tempted by spendy upgrades when you’re just starting out“ is pretty good advice in general when trying something new.https://t.co/LE8nG0jddW
— Jack Wellborn (@JackWellborn) March 16, 2020
This is also true of IndieWeb, but the cost right now is one’s time more than it is financial cost.
So when I went to Amazon this morning I learned that decent, reasonably priced webcams are nearly as hard to find as toilet paper
— Ernie Smith (@ShortFormErnie) March 16, 2020
How coronavirus cases exploded in South Korean churches and hospitals
Sebastiaan Andeweg (seblog.nl)Quite a while I wrote about building a social reader[^ Then called IndieWeb reader, but social reader is the better term.], but these days I have to admit it went nowhere. The biggest problem with it being that I myself don’t really use any reader to consume stuff: I was not used to keeping up wit...
I need to do some deep thinking and design layout of the feed reader I’d like to have. Something like a cross between some of the traditional readers like Inoreader and Fraidy.cat which has some of the time-based and social sorting that Ton has suggested in the past.
Wed 6:00 - 8:00pm (America/New_York)Join us for an evening of IndieWeb personal site demos and discussions! Any questions? Ask in the chatroom! Your hosts will be Marty McGuire and Jason McIntosh (who are
schmartyandjmacin the chat room, respectively).Normally our meetups happen at a venue in New York City, but as a COVID-19 countermeasure, we are meeting online this month instead. We will provide a Zoom video conference link 20 minutes before the meetup here and in the IndieWeb chat.
This meetup aims to bring together folks in the New York City area — but hey, it's on the internet, so the rest of y'all can come by if you want, too.
Wednesday 6:00 - 8:00pm (America/Los_Angeles)Out of an abundance of caution regarding COVID-19 (coronavirus), we have decided to switch the March 18th meetup to an online-only meetup.
We will provide a Zoom video conference link 20 minutes before the meetup here and in the IndieWeb chat.
Tom MacWright (oldfashioned.tech)This is a website that I made about cocktails. I'm not a huge cocktail nerd (drinking is bad, probably), but think that they're cool. And the world's pretty bad right now and making this has been calming.
It gave me a chance to both tinker with technology I usually don't use (Elm), and explore some of the cool properties of cocktails: notably that they're pretty similar and have standardized ingredients, so they can be described in relationship to each other.
So some of it might seem funky. By default, the list is sorted by 'feasibility': as you add ingredients that you have, it'll put recipes that you can make (or barely make) closer to the top. Also, click on 'Grid' for a wacky adjacency grid of cocktails and their ingredients.
Also, for vim fans, there’s j & k support.
IndieWeb for trying times!
hat tip:
compulsively made a thing because my anxiety level is ‘pinned to the fucking roof’, here it is, it’s a cocktail recipe browser built in elm that can do things like show similar recipes and stuff https://t.co/RDjJ0V3aEH pic.twitter.com/GiRIx4huiK
— Tom MacWright (@tmcw) March 16, 2020
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Small progress in my wiki explorations and a fix to my MediaWiki administrative user email address
I’d looking into maintaining a wiki a while back and have recently been determined to get back to it. As a result, I’ve been looking at TiddlyWiki since that’s what some of Kicks Condor‘s group has been using. (Yep, I’ve still got that tab opened and am tinkering away slowly on the ideas–but mostly the technology.)
I’ve been having some issues in self-hosting a TiddlyWiki the way I’d like to. If anyone has any clear cut documentation on how to host a TiddlyWiki on one’s own domain name, I’d appreciate it. The documentation doesn’t seem as clear as I would expect (or perhaps more likely my server is having issues propagating/connecting?). If anything it’s muddled by the fact that they can seemingly be hosted in dozens of places one might not otherwise expect. My primary reservation is that it looks to me like they’re designed as single user instances, so I’m not exactly sure how Kicks et al. are effectuating their hyperconversations. Part of my issue is my mental model of some of the wikis involved in addition to the busy-ness of the sites’ themes, not to mention some of the non-standard conversational style on some. (I’ll get there eventually.)
I’ve also been using the IndieWeb’s MediaWiki for several years, so I’ve become much better at how it works as well as the ins-and-outs of the markup and how to do some slightly more advanced things using it. I’d set one up nearly a year ago this month and used it sporadically at best.
One of the bigger problems with my MediaWiki install was that somehow I wasn’t able to log into the primary account to do some of the necessary administrative functions. Today I got fed up with being hampered a bit and went spelunking into my install to see where things went wrong, suspecting that it was a one button install issue.
After digging through some documentation, I dug into the mySQL database and found a daunting looking [Blob] in the user_email field. Why couldn’t it be an easy-to-edit field? I not knowing anything better to do, I downloaded it, opened it up in my text editor, and discovered that I’d managed to leave a letter out of my own name in the email address! No wonder it wouldn’t work and the system wouldn’t let me reset my email address or password. A quick text edit later, the email was fixed, I uploaded the (now less intimidating) [Blob], and did a reset of the password in the admin interface, and we’re back in business! I’m always glad not to have borked the entire database and site.
If nothing else, it’ll help me in my explorations. Onward.
*THIS IS A VIRTUAL MEETUP*
Tue, Mar 31, 2020, 7:00 PM
Zoom meeting link: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/622774604
Bring your curiosity, your questions, your swell attitude and lots of potatoes. J/k, just bring your smiling faces. Please read the info below as it pertains to our meetup format and FAQs.
I’ve been working on making some significant back-end tweaks to my wiki today. Among other things I’ve fixed, it should now be set up to accept incoming webmentions. Hooray! I’ve always wanted an IndieWeb wiki to go with my IndieWeb website; it looks like I’m well on my way.
Special thanks to Aaron Parecki for leaving some breadcrumbs to follow to make it possible.
Directed by Kevin Rodney Sullivan. When India sends troops into Kashmir, President Bartlett calls for a British former ambassador to India to help out - over Leo's strong objections.