Month: April 2020

Took a drive down to San Marino and back primarily through more well-to-do neighborhoods, though it did include a commercial section of Colorado Boulevard. Most people were out on evening walks or with dogs, though there were some in the commercial district on their way home or doing shopping.

I counted the number of people wearing masks versus those who weren’t.

  • 76 were wearing masks
  • 145 were not wearing masks
  • approximately 25 people who were walking away or at angles such that I couldn’t discern whether they were wearing masks or not.
Bookmarked The-Tiddlywiki-Manual by Luis Javier González CaballeroLuis Javier González Caballero (GitHub)
I will write the manual in latex using the easy Lyx latex text processor. Is a free and open source so you can install it. The latex platform assures as the high cuality of the pdf. Till now I have the cover page and a previous index. I need people to write the articles of the index. People who want to collaborate please email me: kewapo@gmail.com
Watched "Making the Cut" Streetwear from Amazon Prime
Directed by Ramy Romany. With Tim Gunn, Heidi Klum, Naomi Campbell, Joseph Altuzarra. The designers pack their bags and head to Tokyo. Once they arrive, their assignment is to create a two-look streetwear collection. As one designer struggles to step out of their comfort zone, another designer looks to the local workers for inspiration.

An h-card for my TiddlyWiki

I’m still spending lots of time trying to figure out how TiddlyWiki works, so some of this may seem hack-y, but it seems to get the job done. I’d love it if others who are using their TiddlyWikis as their primary website (and who have more experience than I) weighed in with their expertise or experience.

One of the core IndieWeb building blocks is having an h-card on your website to establish one’s identity, either for others to read or for computers and parsers to know who you are.

A valiant first attempt

To start out, I created an About Tiddler with the appropriate h-card and other microformats mark up and then put it into a tab in my right sidebar to make it easy to find.

Naturally, I ran into a problem when trying to throw this into indiewebify.me. Since TiddlyWiki websites are generated primarily by JavaScript and thus suffer from the js;dr problem, figuring out where to put and display an h-card was going to be an issue. I even tried throwing it into the Site Title in the control panel and hoped for the best, but in the end, the site title is really the shadow Tiddler $:/SiteTitle and like all the rest of the page is generated by JavaScript.

I muddled around a bit and even tried to add an h-card using a <link> in the <head>, but nothing seemed to work.

A hackable solution?

Ultimately, in frustration, I simply threw a simple h-card into the <head> just to see what would happen. It wasn’t terrible—the parser found it and displayed it as a success. Unfortunately I discovered that TiddlyWiki displayed my photo and name at the bottom of my page in the browser. I didn’t expect this, but at least it was a start.

Since this method seemed to work, I thought I’d continue the cheat and just throw in some in-line CSS so that the muddled h-card wouldn’t actually show on my page. I’d use this coded h-card in my <head> for computers and keep the somewhat more elaborate one for people in my about page.

What I did

So, for those who’d like the entirety of the solution, here’s what I did:

  1. I created a plugin tiddler entitled $:/plugins/indieweb/core/rawMarkup and gave it the tag $:/tags/RawMarkup
  2. I added the following lines of code to it and saved the Tiddler
    1. <a style="display:none" class="h-card u-url" href="http://tw.boffosocko.com/">
      <img src="https://www.boffosocko.com/logo.jpg" alt="" style="display:none" />Chris Aldrich</a>
  3. Profit!

Again, this works, but seems very hack-y to me. If you’ve managed to get a h-card into your TiddlyWiki in a different or more elegant way, I’d love to hear your thoughts.

Thoughts on delegated h-cards

Given the difficulty and trouble of all this, I’m sort of left wondering why–particularly since I’m using this site as a secondary one to my primary site–I couldn’t just throw in a link to the h-card for my primary site and call it a day? Unless I’m missing something, for some reason the way that representative h-cards are defined, they expect the h-card to point to the site they’re actually on.

Why couldn’t/shouldn’t I delegate my h-card on subdomains or other personal sites to point to the representative h-card on my primary site? What if parsers could follow other rel=”me” links on my site to find/intuit a representative h-card from one of those? While I could have lots of domains to better differentiate my online identity, why couldn’t I do that, but still have the same primary identity?

I think I’ve learned more about TiddlyWiki by looking at others’ online than I have from direct documentation or search. Thanks @Jack Baty (#), @JoshSullivan (#), Sphygm.us, and h0p3 for hosting yours out in the open.

It reminds me a lot of the “view source” I used to do in the days of the early web.

I ran across Roam Research in late 2019, and in exploring TiddlyWiki lately I’m seeing a lot about people adding Roam-based functionality to TW5. What I’m not seeing is any conversation about how the same sort of backlinking could be done in MediaWiki. 

Of course I did mention something related the other day, but the functionality could be better surfaced:

One of my favorite “hidden” features of the IndieWeb wiki is the sidebar link for “What links here” that often provides some deeper and richer information than is found in the See Also sections.

Watched "The Good Fight" Social Media and Its Discontents from CBS All Access
Directed by Jim McKay. With Christine Baranski, Rose Leslie, Erica Tazel, Sarah Steele. Neil Gross makes the firm write terms of service to weed out trolls from his sites. Maya and Elsbeth try to figure out if Henry is spying on Maya. Luca and Colin explore their relationship. Marissa gets interested in being an investigator.
Watched "The Good Fight" Stoppable: Requiem for an Airdate from CBS All Access
Directed by Ron Underwood. With Christine Baranski, Rose Leslie, Erica Tazel, Sarah Steele. The firm defends a TV writer who released an episode of a TV show, even though the network postponed airing it several times, ultimately benching the writers episode. Elsbeth returns to help the firm when Krevesta tries to attack the firm.
Watched "The Good Fight" Henceforth Known as Property from CBS All Access
Directed by Alex Zakrzewski. With Christine Baranski, Rose Leslie, Erica Tazel, Sarah Steele. Diane and Lucca represent an ovarian cancer survivor looking to obtain custody of her previously donated embryos. Maia is the victim of a fake social media account. Mike Kresteva pays a visit to Reddick, Boseman and Kolstad.