Earlier this week I returned from a very enjoyable holiday in a surprisingly sunny North Norfolk with Laura and 10-month old Henry. For posterity and in case it’s useful for those with a similarly-aged baby/toddler, here are a few of my highlights. Read full post…
Aaron Parecki‘s
post
“Micropub CR”
on aaronparecki.com
Micropub is now a @W3C CR. Congratulations to @aaronpk and all the #indieweb contributors.
With this news I’m excited to see further clients and servers start to emerge. I’ve been using Micropub as the only method of posting to this site since January 2015 but I’ve yet to add in full update/delete capabilities. Time to get hacking.
When your house is on fire you don’t wait to see if it goes out by itself, you call 999 straight away.
– @arseblog on Arsenal’s inaction over Centre Back injuries. Clearly negligent to start the season so unprepared.
England v Pakistan Test Match. Day 2. ☀️
Prompted by Calum publishing an indie event page for the next Homebrew Website Club meeting in London, I’ve modified this site to support sending RSVPs.
Nice way of prioritising features: wait until you have a use-case before building.
Webhook Mentions is a very simple Ruby app I’ve built that sends Webmentions to any links in new/updated posts in a Jekyll-powered GitHub Pages site marked up with Microformats 2 h-entry markup. Read full post…
GDS (@gdsteam)‘s
post
on Twitter
Slick SMS/email/mail tool by @gdsteam, showing that UX is still important for “internal” apps.
While I’m a staunch BBC supporter/defender, I can’t see the need or fit for its new BBC+ portal-style app. Surely it only invites further criticism from commercial rivals? http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2016/bbc-plus-app
As a user of an Advanced (Acorn) Risc Machines chip in my Archimedes in the 80s/90s, I’m a bit sad it’s being sold abroad http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-36822806
Venntro Development (@venntrodev)‘s
post
on Twitter
I would love the option to check in via @foursquare when I use my @getmondo card. I may not have signal but Mondo knows where card is used.
Nothing much further to add to #brexit . I voted for us to stay in, but now that we’re (going to be) out, the sooner we can stabilise the economy, society and politics the better. The Thick Of It’s “omnishambles” feels more appropriate a term than ever.
Watching The Clangers with my son. Granny Clanger gives Small Clanger a knitted scarf. But they’re each made from knitted wool so it’s basically a flesh scarf. Horrific.
I’m going to this evening’s popup Homebrew Website Club in London: https://indiewebcamp.com/events/2016-06-15-homebrew-website-club
Bank holiday pub lunch
Nice pricing change(s) from @heroku: free SSL beta and dyno hour flexibility https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2016/5/18/announcing_heroku_free_ssl_beta_and_flexible_dyno_hours
Using Heroku for a custom domain with SSL suddenly became much more attractive (and affordable), especially for people running personal #indieweb sites.
Simon Willison (@simonw)‘s
post
on Twitter
Ballsy recruitment experiment from @stripe: inviting whole teams of 2-5 to apply to work together.
This is my test post for webmention.rocks! Posted using my own #indieweb server. Webmentions sent using the mention-client-ruby library. Read full post…
