IndieWebCamp May 11-18, 2014

This is an automatically-generated summary of the IndieWebCamp wiki edits from May 11-18, 2014

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DOI

Created by Tantek.com on May 17




DOI is an abbreviation for Digital Object Identifier, "a character string used to uniquely identify an object such as an electronic document[1]", kind of like a URL with more bureaucracy.

Contents

Criticism

URLs work fine

DOIs are unnecessary because URLs work fine, and in many ways are better than DOIs. See additional criticisms:

Organizational bottleneck

"Before Zenodo can issue a DOI for your …"[2] - say what? I have to get some ORG to issue URLs for me? No thanks.[3] Using a personal domain I can issue whatever/however many URLs I want without asking anyone's permission.

Use of minting a red flag

Anyone that talks about "Minting a …" is probably doing it wrong and trying to sell you some service for doing the so-called "minting".[4]

Unobvious time waster

There's so much architecture astronomy talk in nearly any positive description of DOIs that you could easily waste hours of your time before it was clear it was a waste of time. Hence criticism documented here to hopefully help you shortcut such distraction.

Silo Support

GitHub

As of ~ 2014-05, GitHub posted about Making Your Code Citable using DOIs.

See Also

Retrieved from "http://indiewebcamp.com/DOI"

this-week-in-the-indieweb

Created by Aaronparecki.com on May 11

  • Sun, May 11 aaronparecki.com Created page with "{{stub}} ---- = Brainstorming = Below is a draft of the auto-generated content from recent changes might look like. This is designed to be syndicated to offline media such a..."
  • Mon, May 12 aaronparecki.com replace with notes for how to subscribe
  • Mon, May 12 aaronparecki.com add section for ideas
  • Thu, May 15 tantek.com TOC at the bottom for easy linking to headings

This Week in the IndieWeb is a weekly digest of activities of the IndieWebCamp community. It is most frequently a compilation of wiki edits for the week.

This digest is designed to be syndicated to offline media such as physical readers (Kindle, etc) or email.

How to Subscribe

Currently you can ask aaronpk to subscribe to the updates by providing an email address. (If enough people request this, I'll create a web interface for it.)

Subscribe via Kindle

To receive automatic updates to your Kindle, you will need to subscribe your Kindle's "send-to-email" address. You will first need to add the wiki's email address to your whitelist, the settings can be found under Personal Document Settings. Add thisweek@indiewebcamp.com as an approved email address, then provide your Kindle's email address to Aaron.

Contents

The digest currently contains:

  • A summary of all new and changed wiki articles, including the number of edits and the list of people who edited each page
  • For each page, a list of edits and edit comments
  • For all new pages, the current page content is also included, so that new pages can be read in full while offline
  • Edits marked as "minor" are excluded

Archives

Archives of previous newsletters can be found below.

http://indiewebcamp.com/this-week/

Ideas

Other things you'd like to see in the weekly summary:

  • list pages that have received webmentions this week (in descending order of # of mentions)

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mf2util

Created by Kylewm.com on May 11

  • Sun, May 11 kylewm.com since I said this was the URL when registering with pypi, should probably make sure it exists
  • Mon, May 12 aaronparecki.com add dfn tag
  • Mon, May 12 kylewm.com added link to read the docs

mf2util is a Microformats 2 utility for Python, commonly used to extract common features in comments and reply-contexts. mf2util is intended to be used in concert with mf2py.

The package can be installed with pip install mf2py from PyPI

Documentation is available at Read the Docs

and source is hosted on GitHub

Template:t

Created by Tantek.com on May 13


Tantek Çelik

phorkie

Created by Cweiske.de on May 16

  • Fri, May 16 cweiske.de Created page with "Self-hosted git-based pastebin software written by [[User:cweiske.de]]. Supports federation by talking to other instances via [[webmention]]s (with pingbacks as fallback). ;Home..."
  • Fri, May 16 cweiske.de

Self-hosted git-based pastebin software written by User:cweiske.de. Supports federation by talking to other instances via webmentions (with pingbacks as fallback).

Homepage
http://sf.net/p/phorkie
Code
http://sourceforge.net/p/phorkie/code/
https://github.com/cweiske/phorkie

Indieweb enthusiasts currently using it on their own site:

archive

Created by Tantek.com on May 16




archive may refer to:

  • The feature of an indieweb site that allows you to navigate to past content by year and month, AKA personal historical archives, or
  • A copy of a web page or site that can be used as a reference if the original disappears or is temporarily unavailable.

Services

WebRecorder

See Also

Django

Created by Tantek.com on May 12




Django is a python web application framework used in some IndieWeb projects.

IndieWeb Examples

IndieWeb community members that use Django on their personal site:

Scott Gilbertson

Scott Gilbertson's personal site Luxagraf.net uses Django.

See Also

User:Www.atoddswithclarity.com

Created by Www.atoddswithclarity.com on May 12

  • Mon, May 12 www.atoddswithclarity.com Created page with "playground for brainTrain"
  • Mon, May 12 www.atoddswithclarity.com adding url

playground for brainTrain

https://www.atoddswithclarity.com

Template:aaronpk

Created by Aaronparecki.com on May 13

  • Tue, May 13 aaronparecki.com giving myself a shorthand for adding to RSVP lists
  • Tue, May 13 aaronparecki.com add tiny photo

Aaron Parecki

Template:sparkline

Created by Tantek.com on May 13


Template:kylewm

Created by Kylewm.com on May 13


Kyle Mahan

User:Tiagopinto.pt

Created by Tiagopinto.pt on May 12

  • Mon, May 12 tiagopinto.pt not a lot but better than no content, I guess

Tiago Pinto

Rails developer by day, iOS developer by night, sysadmin and dbadmin when needed.

Currently living in London, UK. Previously in Lisbon, Portugal and Coimbra, Portugal.

Personal website: [tiagopinto.pt], currently a static web site served directly by Amazon S3. Thinking about something a bit more dynamic. Goals: have everything created to date under my domain e.g. Webisodes and Podcast.

Some kind of to-do list

 * add h-card to /about page
   * photo
   * location
     * current timezone
     * local weather

PostgreSQL

Created by Tantek.com on May 12




PostgreSQL is a database used on some IndieWeb sites.

IndieWeb Examples

IndieWeb community members that use PostgreSQL on their personal sites:

Scott Gilbertson

Scott Gilbertson's personal site Luxagraf.net uses PostgreSQL because it's the "only thing that supports GIS data in any real way".

Regarding database-antipattern:
I have encountered none of the downsides documented there. but then I don't use mysql so maybe that's part of it. ... I mean technically all those things apply to postgres as well, so I might just be lucky."

See Also

dfn

Created by Aaronparecki.com on May 12




The HTML dfn tag is a way to denote the first time a term is defined.

This wiki uses the <dfn> tag to mark up the sentence containing the tag with p-summary so that parsers can easily find a one-sentence summary of wiki pages.

Retrieved from "http://indiewebcamp.com/dfn"

IRC/logs

Created by Aaronparecki.com on May 17

  • Sat, May 17 aaronparecki.com new page for full calendar view of IRC logs

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Logs on Your iPhone Home Screen

To add the IRC logs to your iPhone home screen, visit the page below on your phone:

http://indiewebcamp.com/irc/today?bookmark

Follow the link on that page. Then, from Safari, add that page to your home screen.

architecture astronomy

Created by Tantek.com on May 17




architecture astronomy is the practice of analyzing problems, seeing patterns, and then generalizing to higher and higher level abstractions on top of those patterns to the point where the abstractions become so general, so vague, so detached from the original problems being analyzed, that they don't mean anything at all.

architecture astronauts are people that have a habit of practicing architecture astronomy, that is, the art of coming up with meaningless abstractions detached from real world problems.

"They tend to work for really big companies that can afford to have lots of unproductive people with really advanced degrees that don't contribute to the bottom line."[1]

See Also

wiki/resolved

Created by Aaronparecki.com on May 18

  • Sun, May 18 aaronparecki.com moved resolved wiki issues to their own page

Resolved wiki issues from wiki

Contents

Search box in header

Done 2013-314: Moved to: https://github.com/indieweb/wiki/issues/1

Login from any page

Done 2013-238: Log in link in the top right corner of every page. Turns in to a log out link when you're logged in. Aaronparecki.com 16:02, 26 August 2013 (PDT)

The home page has a "Login with your domain" box in the top right corner.

EVERY page should have that box so that you can login easily/quickly from any page (without having to hunt for the small login link in the footer.)

I desperately need the ability to login to the wiki from any page... right now it's the biggest "flow" breaker, which means I don't edit as frequently as I could - Sandeep Shetty

+1:, it takes me quite some time to figure out there is a small "login" link at the bottom of a page. The more natural flow for new comers: Hupili.net 22:23, 9 July 2013 (PDT)
  • Find a big login at the top of any page. (people may start to have interest of IndieWeb from different points)
  • Since they have interest, they try to click the "login"
  • They are prompted that IndieAuth is used and there is a Quick Login Setup. (there are too many things that are not need for a first timer to simply login)



IRC today redirect

Done 2013-151

Create a live redirect from:

To:



What Links Here

Done 2013-142 (or a day or so before that?) - Aaronpk took care of it. - Tantek 18:05, 23 May 2013 (PDT)

Improve CSS for a more liquid layout

Done 2013-03 - forgot the exact date. Aaronpk took care of it. - Tantek 16:49, 1 April 2013 (PDT)


Update the CSS to at least make the layout a bit more liquid (gooey?) rather than set to its current fixed width which is actually too wide for good reading (~60 characters per line is a good max, we're way above that).

Per http://indiewebcamp.com/irc/2013-02-19#t1361291725

  1. in gumax_cyborg.css, change width: 977px to max-width: 977px
  2. in gumax_template.css, comment out like this: /* width: 777px */

That will give at least a bit of a range of liquid layout so we can avoid some horizontal scrollbars (and line lengths that are too long for optimal reading).

Tantek 15:36, 27 February 2013 (PST)

Loqi

Created by Tantek.com on May 15




Loqi is a friendly and useful bot present in the #indiewebcamp IRC channel and other channels.

Contents

Ideas

who uses xyz

anyone here use xyz

who supports xyz

These questions (when present at the start of a message, optionally terminated by a ?) could be answered with a link to /xyz#IndieWeb_Examples

why xyz

why should I use xyz

why should I support xyz

These questions (when present at the start of a message, optionally terminated by a ?) could be answered with a link to /xyz#Why

See Also

Swarm

Created by Aaronparecki.com on May 16

  • Fri, May 16 aaronparecki.com stub with dfn and related links



Swarm is an app by Foursquare focused on checkins and showing nearby friends.

Other Links

User:Paulmunday.net/sandbox

Created by Paulmunday.net on May 13

  • Tue, May 13 paulmunday.net Created page with "'''[https://github.com/photo Trovebox]''' (formerly [http://theopenphotoproject.org OpenPhoto]) '''<dfn>[https://github.com/photo Trovebox]</dfn>''' (formerly [http://theopenp..."

Trovebox (formerly OpenPhoto)



Trovebox (formerly OpenPhoto)

Changed Pages

events/2014-05-21-homebrew-website-club

10 edits by tantek.com, kevinmarks.com, www.andigalpern.com, aaronparecki.com, kylewm.com, kartikprabhu.com

IRC

7 edits by tantek.com, aaronparecki.com, rascul.io
  • Thu, May 15 tantek.com dfn, subheads
  • Sat, May 17 tantek.com Personal domain whois - brief documentation from rascul's notes in IRC
  • Sat, May 17 aaronparecki.com only show past 6 months in the calendar view
  • Sat, May 17 rascul.io /* Personal domain whois */ add more scenarios and links
  • Sat, May 17 tantek.com clean up IRC applications section, minimize to those either one per platform, or actively in use only
  • Sat, May 17 tantek.com install, and trying a little re-ordering to help readers first
  • Sat, May 17 tantek.com shorten link a bit

Foursquare

7 edits by tantek.com, aaronparecki.com
  • Mon, May 12 tantek.com stub event support, venue claiming
  • Mon, May 12 aaronparecki.com add screenshot of a checkin with an event
  • Mon, May 12 tantek.com /* Event support */ result of doing so
  • Mon, May 12 tantek.com /* Venue claiming */ in short process documentation hearsay from IRC ;)
  • Mon, May 12 tantek.com /* Venue claiming */ claim URL
  • Tue, May 13 tantek.com /* Venue claiming */ asks for phone number
  • Tue, May 13 aaronparecki.com add info about receiving the phone call

wiki/backup

7 edits by rascul.io, kbsriram.com, aaronparecki.com
  • Sun, May 11 rascul.io add rsync note to indiewiki mirror
  • Sun, May 11 kbsriram.com add baseline archive on github
  • Sun, May 11 rascul.io forgot the dot at the end of the rsync command
  • Sun, May 11 aaronparecki.com add notes on multiple methods of archiving
  • Sun, May 11 aaronparecki.com pros/cons as columns
  • Sun, May 11 aaronparecki.com use full wget flags (thanks kbs!)
  • Sun, May 11 kbsriram.com remove random script blabber

Instagram

5 edits by tantek.com, aaronparecki.com
  • Mon, May 12 tantek.com dfn, quick blurb about endpoints/locations, criticism section with downtime and Switch from Foursquare to Facebook venues
  • Mon, May 12 tantek.com /* Switch from Foursquare to Facebook venues */ citations
  • Thu, May 15 aaronparecki.com /* Switch from Foursquare to Facebook venues */ add note about custom locations
  • Thu, May 15 aaronparecki.com /* Switch from Foursquare to Facebook venues */ reorder sections
  • Thu, May 15 tantek.com /* Custom Locations */ call out Uneditable nature as the criticism

Trovebox

4 edits by luxagraf.net, tantek.com, paulmunday.net, kylewm.com
  • Tue, May 13 luxagraf.net added note about lack of dogfooding
  • Tue, May 13 tantek.com move Insufficient Selfdogfooding to top of criticism, add subheadings
  • Tue, May 13 paulmunday.net Switched trovebox link to the Community edition as trovebox.com makes no metion of self-hosted/FLOSS version
  • Tue, May 13 kylewm.com added note about pivot? away from self-hosted

wiki

4 edits by aaronparecki.com
  • Sun, May 18 aaronparecki.com delete to make room for the main wiki page
  • Sun, May 18 aaronparecki.com moved resolved wiki issues to their own page
  • Sun, May 18 aaronparecki.com move page and projects above suggestions
  • Sun, May 18 aaronparecki.com add instructions for using post-by-email!

licensing

3 edits by kylewm.com, tantek.com
  • Fri, May 16 kylewm.com /* Public Domain */ added CC0 and clarified that it is appropriate for code
  • Fri, May 16 tantek.com define CC0 at the top, then provide subpoints
  • Fri, May 16 tantek.com IndieWebCamp wiki uses CC0 (requires and publishes)

webmention

2 edits by tantek.com, cweiske.de
  • Thu, May 15 tantek.com /* IndieWeb implementations */ IndieWeb Examples
  • Fri, May 16 cweiske.de /* Publishing Software */ phorkie

WordPress

2 edits by aaronparecki.com, petermolnar.eu

IRC People

2 edits by www.atoddswithclarity.com, tiagopinto.pt
  • Mon, May 12 www.atoddswithclarity.com adding myself to the list -brainTrain
  • Mon, May 12 tiagopinto.pt adding myself to the IRC peeps

Nginx

2 edits by tantek.com
  • Thu, May 15 tantek.com tweak dfn, put "." outside parenthetical expression
  • Thu, May 15 tantek.com subhead re-arrangement, clustering, why, how to, move files without extensions to a how to, move TOC to more easily skim how to

Events

2 edits by dunlaps.net, tantek.com

2014/Guest List

2 edits by tantek.com, kartikprabhu.com
  • Mon, May 12 tantek.com /* Official Guest List */ East/West capacities, am looking into where to stay in NYC
  • Sat, May 17 kartikprabhu.com /* East */ added myself

selfdogfood

2 edits by tantek.com
  • Tue, May 13 tantek.com don't trust web server software that's not actively selfdogfooded by its creators on their personal domains
  • Tue, May 13 tantek.com /* perspectives */

Facebook

2 edits by tantek.com
  • Fri, May 16 tantek.com /* Criticism */ Harmful to Body Image (what you find on Yahoo's home page)
  • Fri, May 16 tantek.com /* Criticism */ Prefers Pageviews Over Efficient UX

fragmention

2 edits by aaronparecki.com
  • Fri, May 16 aaronparecki.com /* Challenges */ issues when using for a TOC
  • Sat, May 17 aaronparecki.com add section about linking to the nth occurence

User:Notizblog.org

2 edits by notizblog.org

Homebrew Website Club

1 edits by tantek.com
  • Tue, May 13 tantek.com /* Established Meetings */ add benwerd to co-organizing sf

app

1 edits by aaronparecki.com
  • Mon, May 12 aaronparecki.com add xkcd http://xkcd.com/1367/

User:Aaronparecki.com

1 edits by aaronparecki.com

Python

1 edits by kylewm.com
  • Sun, May 11 kylewm.com /* Libraries */ more info about mf2util

repost

1 edits by waterpigs.co.uk
  • Sun, May 11 waterpigs.co.uk /* Silo Examples */ Documented repost.us indieweb-friendly verb silo, linked to example reposting UI

site-deaths

1 edits by tommorris.org
  • Sun, May 11 tommorris.org /* Site Deaths */ when XKCD are laughing at google...

User:Tantek.com

1 edits by aaronparecki.com

PHP

1 edits by aaronparecki.com

posse-post-discovery

1 edits by aaronparecki.com

database

1 edits by tantek.com
  • Mon, May 12 tantek.com explicit stub, dfn, software list, see also

MySQL

1 edits by tantek.com

silo-quits

1 edits by tantek.com

reply-context

1 edits by aaronparecki.com
  • Sat, May 17 aaronparecki.com /* Delete */ add example of a reply to a deleted post

reply-context-examples

1 edits by tantek.com
  • Sat, May 17 tantek.com various types of aaronpk's replies, subheads for easier discovery

auth-brainstorming

1 edits by aaronparecki.com
  • Sat, May 17 aaronparecki.com /* Using the Token Endpoint */ fix wording

User:David.shanske.com

1 edits by david.shanske.com
  • Fri, May 16 david.shanske.com /* Features in Development */

IndieArchive

1 edits by tantek.com

wget

1 edits by tantek.com

micropub

1 edits by kylewm.com
  • Sat, May 17 kylewm.com /* Brainstorming */ thinking out loud about how to handle markdown input

antipatterns

1 edits by tantek.com
  • Sat, May 17 tantek.com /* See also */ architecture astronomy

stub

1 edits by tantek.com
  • Fri, May 16 tantek.com dfn. oops how did i forget this.

exercise

1 edits by tantek.com

comments-presentation

1 edits by tantek.com
  • Thu, May 15 tantek.com /* How to markup */ add why p-summary explanation, and heading for empty in-reply-to

2014

1 edits by kartikprabhu.com
  • Thu, May 15 kartikprabhu.com /* Other Activities */ added Neil Gaiman's reading performance

Posts about the IndieWeb

1 edits by tantek.com
  • Thu, May 15 tantek.com Webmentions and the REAL Social Web from 2013-09-16

why

1 edits by tantek.com
  • Wed, May 14 tantek.com /* More robust */ add another example of fixing links when they break

Wikipedia

1 edits by tantek.com
  • Thu, May 15 tantek.com dfn, link, headings, note indieweb articles, see also

Contribute

1 edits by tantek.com

note

1 edits by tantek.com
  • Fri, May 16 tantek.com /* Health Fitness Tracking */ main fitness

Nike

1 edits by tantek.com

Bridgy

1 edits by snarfed.org

User:Cweiske.de

1 edits by cweiske.de