Month: July 2020

Liked a tweet (Twitter)
Great to see a conference realize that Twitter can be toxic and coming up with an interesting solution for it. 
Read 9 ways to fail a project in grad school and beyond by Dr Veronika CH (veronikach.com)
This post is a collaboration between myself, and a guest author who wishes to stay anonymous. They are a researcher and PhD candidate in neuroscience, based in Europe, and in the post they are referred to as Alice.  When people talk about failures, often rejections are the first things that come to mind. But what ... Read more 9 ways to fail a project in grad school and beyond

HARKing

It refers to the questionable research practice of hypothesizing after the results are known.
see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HARKing  ❧
Annotated on July 27, 2020 at 01:26PM

Replied to a tweet (Twitter)
Ada, it’s a new feature, but if you go to https://threadreaderapp.com/account/author, you can authenticate to your website and post the thread to your blog as an article for posterity.

Add Post Kinds fields to WordPress Search

Filed an Issue dshanske/indieweb-post-kinds (GitHub)
adds support for responding to and interacting with other sites using the standards developed by the Indieweb Community
I’ve noticed that the built-in WordPress site search is generally abysmal because so much of the content of my site is handled by Post Kinds and the search doesn’t look through any of the common Post Kinds data fields. 

As an example, trying to search for watches of particular television shows I know I’ve watched don’t show up because I leave those post title-less and don’t specifically tag them.

Is there something in the codex that will allow you to hook these fields into WP’s internal search?

Replied to a tweet by Aram Zucker-ScharffAram Zucker-Scharff (Twitter)
to the rescue. There are a few great options for this. None of which should require you to write any code! 

One of my favorite is Kevin Marks’ Noter Live (open source) which is great for live tweeting and creating long threads quickly, especially at conferences. When you’re done, it’s kept a record of everything which you can quickly cut/paste as HTML into your website for an instant archive post.

Another option if your website supports the Micropub spec (perhaps with a plugin?) ThreadReaderApp recently added support to let you unroll the thread and you can go to your account and authenticate to your website and post the thread with one click.

I’ll also note that WordPress’ Gutenberg just added the ability to unroll threads to websites built with it as well. 

In addition to general public use, these could actually be the backbone of an interesting journalistic live notebook for reporters in the field who could quickly compile/archive their threads for expanded articles later on.

Getting Started with WordPress, an IndieWebCamp Pop-up Session

Have you been hearing whispers about the #IndieWeb and want to know more?

Did you see Tantek’s call to action at WordCampUS last November, but wondered how to get started?

Do you have a WordPress website where you want to better own and control your own data?

Do you want to use your own website to interact with other websites or even social media silos?

Are you a teacher or student and need a platform you control for communicating on the web while you’re stuck at home? Don’t want to rely on a toxic corporate social media site to do it?

David Shanske and I are hosting an IndieWebCamp pop-up session/workshop for WordPress beginners to learn a bit more about how to add some of the basic IndieWeb building blocks to their websites. 

Whether you’re new to the process or have some questions about how to improve your site, stop by and join us this weekend.

Getting Started with WordPress, an IndieWebCamp Pop-up Session on August 1, 2020 at 9:30 – 11:30am Pacific. Everyone is welcome. RSVP at the event site or by replying on Twitter.

If you don’t already have a domain name or need help getting WordPress set up on a host, stop by one of the Homebrew Website Clubs this week or ask for some help in the IndieWeb chat so you can follow along at the workshop on Saturday.

Watched Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga (2020) from Netflix
Directed by David Dobkin. With Will Ferrell, Rachel McAdams, Dan Stevens, Mikael Persbrandt. When aspiring musicians Lars and Sigrit are given the opportunity to represent their country at the world's biggest song competition, they finally have a chance to prove that any dream worth having is a dream worth fighting for.

Rating: ★★½

A reasonable ending, but not really as funny as it should have been. Where did the funny go? Might have been better in a theater…

I started this a few weeks back and watched the first half.

Some of the “magic” was gone when I discovered 3/4ths of the way through that the Russian sexually ambiguous lothario (he/him) was the same actor who played Matthew Crawley in Downton Abbey.

Jaja Ding Dong!

Read - Reading: Knowledge and Power in Prehistoric Societies: Orality, Memory, and the Transmission of Culture by Lynne Kelly (Cambridge University Press (May 19, 2015))
Chapter 2: Knowledge and Power in oral cultures
16% done; Finished Chapter 2

Oral traditions in the literature Public vs. restricted knowledge, knowledge trade, and formal teaching. We have generally done a poor job of untangling the vast knowledge indigenous people have.