Notes

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After several years of giving back no data, apparently YouTube has changed at least some of the markup and metadata on their site so that parsers are returning richer data now. I’m thrilled to see that as of this morning putting in traditional YouTube permalinks now allows the parser in David Shanske‘s awesome IndieWeb Post Kinds plugin to properly return the title, summary, site name, tags, and featured images from YouTube videos! If only they’d include an h-card to give back the author name, URL, and avatar…

Making watch posts for YouTube just got a whole lot easier!

It’s been almost a year and a half since I’ve done much with Instagram. As a result, in part, I take fewer photographs and mean to fix that. I still need a new set up to pull content back to my site, but I spent some time to port my backlog of photos from Instagram back to my website, so now I’m back in sync at least.
I was searching for a non-fiction science title and randomly ran across what is a new (to me at least) genre of romance fiction: it looks like Harlequin Romance + Amish Culture = Amiquin Romance? None of these have come out yet and are all written by different authors.

Five book covers that have a bodice ripper feel, but are really clean and wholesome Amish themed romance
Covers of Amish Generations, The Farm Stand, An Amish Picnic, A Beautiful Arrangement, A Long Bridge Home
Spent a few minute to finally set up my website with Brid.gy so that it’s now pulling responses back from Mastodon. It’s so nice to see all the interactions that were once “lost” to me coming back to live with their proper contexts on my website.

For those looking to tinker with their websites as it relates to interacting with Mastodon, the IndieWeb has a reasonable number of potential options in addition to your ability to roll your own.