Currently reading: The Infinite Future by Tim Wirkus (ISBN 9780735224339)

Today at work I came across an old web form that a client still uses with this warning about Netscape browsers.

If you use Netscape 6.0 or above as your Browser please note before proceeding: Netscape (6.0 and above) has a bug which may cause a security flaw when submitting your listing. To avoid possible errors, we recommend that you access an older version of Netscape (5.0 or below) or a different Browser.

For context, Netscape 6 was released in November of 2000. This form has been around 21 years!

Bought my first ticket for an in-person concert since the pandemic. Weird feeling, but excited. Chvrches in December!

I have been using Sublime since v2 and still really liking it. v4 has been nice so far, but I haven't dug into the new features yet.

I hereby dub Maxwell Joslyn the Crown Prince of gRegorLove.com.

Context: During May 26, 2021 Homebrew Website Club I learned that some American was dubbed the Crown Prince of Korea.

Want to listen: Good Christian Fun podcast: Mark Lowry (with Justin McElroy)

Today I dipped my toes back into IndieWeb land (lake?) by joining the pop-up session, “Respectful Responses.” I didn’t go in with a specific goal; it just sounded like a good topic:

How do we enable more positive serendipity & discovery via our websites, between both existing friends & family, and new positive interactions. And how do we raise barriers to spam, harassment, and other unpleasant social media interactions.

The session got me thinking more about the commenting experience for people without personal websites. David talked about the experience of leaving a comment and expecting it to appear immediately. Some sites will display a message that the comment is pending moderation, and some will even show the commenter a preview of their comment. My site does the former if I have not approved a comment from your email address before. I had not considered that could be a negative experience for some people. The more I thought about it, I realized that many times when I link an article on Facebook or Twitter, people will come to my site to read it then go back to the social site to leave a comment instead of using my local comment form.

This could be for various reasons. The most obvious is probably the ease of posting on the social site. It’s one text field, the comment appears immediately, and that is how people interact online the majority of the time. My local comment form with fields for name, email address, website, and comment is tedious by comparison. I realize the required email address field is off-putting as well.

I like the idea of changing that experience around so instead of a comment form that’s always public, comments are allowed from a trusted audience. That audience could be as broad as “people who have logged in to my site.” I think the barrier of logging in would still mean people would go back to the social sites to respond, though. I am not sure how to get around that. That is often the challenge with IndieWeb: creating experiences that are at least as easy as the silos.

I’ve released version 0.0.3 of mf2 to iCalendar, a library to convert h-event microformats into iCalendar.

It no longer throws an Exception if no h-event microformats are found. Instead it will generate a minimal, “empty” iCalendar. I had run into an instance where an upcoming events page was empty and the URL for the iCalendar was returning the Exception message.

I also changed the default domain to example.com, did some minor code cleanup, and renamed the git master branch to main.

Previously

Want to read: The Wars of Reconstruction: The Brief, Violent History of America's Most Progressive Era by Douglas R Egerton (ISBN 9781608195664)

I’m attending Homebrew Website Club - The Americas.

It’s been a minute!

Want to read: Going Indie by Brian Schrader (ISBN 9781636259598)

Want to read: Born Again and Again by Megan Westra (ISBN 9781513806754)