New year, new personal website? (Or update your existing site?) Join us for a virtual IndieWeb meetup, Homebrew Website Club, January 8th at 6PM Pacific!
Want to read: Polio: An American Story by (ISBN 9780195325966)
🎶 Happy New Year! I’m listening to Edgar Wright’s Top 50 Songs of 2024 playlist.
h/t Emily Haines from Metric
Currently reading: The Obelisk Gate by (ISBN 9780316229265)
Finished reading: The Free People’s Village by (ISBN 9781646143306)
Improve validation for mf1 hEntry
From indieweb-dev chat today, I found that validating a microformats1 hEntry post (example) can show some misleading messages. In this example, the original post has a microformats2 u-syndication class. php-mf2 and others won’t parse that since the specification directs to parse for backcompat classes.
The parsers don’t indicate if the result came from backcompat or not, so IWM is reporting that no syndication links were found in the post (example). This is definitely confusing for publishers, because the suggested markup does appear in the permalink. I don’t know the best way to do this, but ideally the validator should warn if backcompat was used and explain that a mixture of microformats2 classes won’t be found.
Soon. isitchristmas.com
Ooh, Sufjan’s are so good! I bet you’ll like Rosie. She and Sufjan have worked together.
Haven’t listened to much holiday music yet, so fixing that with the new Ben Folds, Sleigher. Next up: Scala & Kolacny Brothers, December; and Rosie Thomas, A Very Rosie Christmas. What’s on your list?
Reposted Kelly:
— Kelly, https://bsky.app/profile/broadwaybabyto.bsky.social/post/3ldn2sblz3s2t“Never forget that masking is more than just protecting yourself from covid.
It’s an act of compassion, resistance, solidarity and community care.
It shows that you don’t believe people are expendable. That you refuse to be responsible for someone else’s suffering.
The kindness is in the trying.”
Friend used a new-to-me phrase for the holiday blahs that’s perfect: “blah humbug” 😂
Mutemath/Paul Meany released Distance, an acoustic EP of some songs from the vault. Very chill.
In that vein, I recommend this album by Resistance Revival Chorus
Another thing I did during IndieWebCamp San Diego’s Create Day was add a page with food and drink recommendations. This morning I added an emoji before each one as a quick indicator of the type of food. I like that it adds some color and variety to a page of mostly text.
This is cool! I don’t think it’s correct that Webmention requires a permalink for each post; sending a fragment link as the source URL should work. The verification step should be per-media-type, so receivers could verify that text/plain example differently than a text/html document.
For IndieWebCamp San Diego’s Create Day, I worked on cleaning up some code for indiewebify.me and pushed it to a branch on my GitHub.
The readme there has more details, but this is basically an in-progress update to use the SlimPHP framework. It is probably only about 30% complete, but some parts of it are functional. Pushing this to Github will make it easier for the community to collaborate on and decide how to move forward.
I appreciate The Birthday Massacre’s consistency in their album covers. #purple
TIL the term “smishing” (SMS phishing) while looking up info on those spam text messages claiming to be from the USPS about a missed package. Never click the links in those, of course. You can also report them to the postal inspector.
Checking out a new podcast, Public Health is Dead. Sounds promising so far.
“Public Health is Dead is a forward-thinking autopsy on how we’ve f*cked up in public health. How do we prepare for future pandemics while we’re already in the thick of one? And how do we reinvent systems that place some of us closer to death?”