Bookmarked: fmPDA
“fmPDA is a set of PHP classes for FileMaker's Data and Admin API. The special sauce, the fmPDA class: a replacement for FileMaker's API For PHP 'FileMaker' class, using the Data API. fmPDA provides method & data structure compatibility with FileMaker's API For PHP.”
I’m looking forward to the virtual IndieWebCamp West this weekend. You should join us if you’re interested in creating or updating your personal site and advancing the independent web. It’s free!
Cassie Evans on twitter.com:✨It's my new website daaay!
🎨 I had so much fun putting this together, I hope it makes some people smile.
💜 Built with 11ty, a ton of SVG, and a whole lotta love.
💻 http://www.cassie.codes
This is fantastic. Congratulations!
I attended .
Eric Metaxes on twitter.com:If Wilberforce walked into your church would he find faith to stand up for the unborn & against the lie of "reproductive rights"? Would Bonhoeffer find faith that stands against the Caesar of cultural marxism that DEMANDS kneeling to their intolerant agenda? Choose ye this day.
Or would Bonhoeffer find believers earnestly spreading anti-Semitic conspiracy theories such as “cultural Marxism”?
I’m attending .
I’m hanging out on Beatsense playing some music if anyone wants to join in: https://beatsense.com/limbo#/ cc @girlvsplanet @jdragz @spiffiness03
Francesco Schwarz on francescoschwarz.com:Thanks a lot for the explanation!
I’m already sending webmentions via Bridgy Publish. I altered your module to optionally include the publish URLs for (in my case) Twitter and Mastodon. I’ve done this in this file around that line. I’ve added a checkbox in my notes called “Post to Bridgy?”, and when that is checked I append the Bridgy publish URLs to $page->{$field} as additional URLs to process for webmentions.
The core of what I need is what you wrote here:
I wrote some more code that processes that response to get the tweet’s URL and updates the syndication link on the note.
That’s basically exactly what I’m looking for. I see if I can achieve that by myself, playing a bit around with it.
But thanks again for you reply, that clarifies a lot for me. And it’s also a bit sobering to see that apparently it’s really not that easy to automate the process. Looking around at all the #indieweb blogs and seeing all the syndicated links on notes frankly I felt quite stupid not understanding how all this folks are doing this automatically. Also one really can’t find a whole lot information around the web, which adds to the problem.
That’s an interesting approach to add the Bridgy Publish webmention. I’m glad it’s working well for you.
My approach is still part of the template files. I just reviewed it and it’s fairly simple, so I’m comfortable sharing it. Here is a gist. Let me know if you have any questions.
I’m excited to see more ProcessWire sites with webmention. I’ve not heard from a lot of people using the module yet. I’m definitely interested in improving the indieweb experience on ProcessWire. Bridgy Publish is an area that I have not worked on yet, partly because people can have templates set up a variety of ways and I’m not sure how to make a plugin that works with different setups.
By the way, we’ve been having weekly virtual indieweb meetups if you’d like to join. I think the closest timezone would be the London meetup. Check out events.indieweb.org for upcoming events. We have an active community chat as well: indieweb.org/discuss.
Francesco Schwarz on twitter.com:@gRegorLove How is your workflow when posting a note in ProcessWire and automatically posting it to Twitter via Bridgy? Where do you add the Bridgy webmention endpoint URLs? Or do you use another method?
I’ve used a variety of approaches over the years, from manual to semi-automatic. Here’s some different things I’ve done:
Initially I would publish a note, then use the interactive Bridgy Publish form from my account page. Your account page is https://brid.gy/twitter/isellsoap. Paste the URL of your note there, choose the options whether you want your original link appended to the tweet, then preview it. If it looks good, publish it. I then would copy the tweet’s URL and add it on my original note as a syndication link. See below on this note for an example of that syndication link.
After I did that for a while and it was working smoothly, I started to automate it more. Bridgy Publish lets you send a webmention to trigger the publish. I set up a custom bit of PHP code that would let me click a button to send off that webmention for the note I wanted to publish. Sending a webmention is a pretty simple POST request, so I used the WireHTTP class for that. When publishing to Twitter, the successful Bridgy response includes the Twitter API data for the tweet. I wrote some more code that processes that response to get the tweet’s URL and updates the syndication link on the note.
Note that all of this is separate from the Webmention plugin itself. The code for my semi-automatic publishing isn’t part of a plugin and isn’t very polished code, so I haven’t released any of it. If I can find a way to make it more user-friendly, I might release it, or at least write a tutorial with more guidance.
https://php.microformats.io is a useful tool to debug the microformats in your posts, by the way. Here’s the parsed result of this very note. The in-reply-to property is what Bridgy Publish uses to post a reply tweet. The syndication property is one way Bridgy maps your original post to the Twitter copy for sending responses back to you — particularly if you don’t include your original post link in the tweet.
I am proposing a session for IndieWebCamp West Coast: “Keeping Track of Books and Reading Progress.”
I would like to discuss the use-cases and experiences of using our websites to:
- track books we want to read
- categorize (or “shelve”) books
- track reading progress
Most of my personal experience has been around tracking books I want to read. It is probably more accurate to classify those as want posts instead of read posts. I’d like to discuss the differences between these three types of posts and what they look like on our sites. Regarding categorizing books, we should also discuss Library JSON.
This session is broader than indiebookclub but will likely have an impact on it. indiebookclub creates posts with a status of to-read, reading, or finished. The first is probably a want post and the others seem to be reading progress posts.
@sonicrocketman: I noticed I wasn’t seeing your feed in Monocle. It looks like your jsonfeed doesn’t validate: https://validator.jsonfeed.org/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpine.blog%2Fu%2Fsonicrocketman%2Ffeed.json
I subscribed to your microformats feed and that’s working smoothly!
I’m attending .
Todd Grotenhuis on blog.grotenhuis.info:Remember all those apps/sites where you could create a daily/weekly newspaper from links and posts in your social feeds? Do any of those still exist?
https://paper.li/ still exists. If you use it, please don't have it auto-tweet them though. XD
Want to read: How to Be an Antiracist by (ISBN 9780525509288)
via Episode 229 - White Homework with Tori Williams Douglass
Want to read: The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It by (ISBN 9781583335086)
via Episode 229 - White Homework with Tori Williams Douglass
Felt cute, might quarantine later
Remembering my trip to Austin in the Before Times (February).
Want to watch Give Me Sex Jesus
What happens when a generation of Christian youth pledge sexual abstinence until marriage? Since the 1990s, the Purity Movement has been at the center of the national sexual conversation extending past the pew and all the way into the Oval Office. Including some of the leading experts on Evangelicalism today, Give Me Sex Jesus invites you into the guilt, pleasure, shame, and humor of sorting out faith and sex in America.