This week, while in Boston, I''m pleased to have finally attended my first #indiewebcamp. Two days of sharing, hacking and working on projects with some lovely, friendly people to help further the independent web.
Reaction in the Guardian to Tinder’s new Plus tier:
I probably wouldn’t pay $19.99 a month (the senior anti-discount for Tinder Plus) just for the privilege of getting take-backs on my mistaken swipes. But I’d pay extra to be an over-30 on Tinder if it meant I had an option where under-30s couldn’t interact with me.
There’s still plenty of room in the dating market beyond Tinder and free sites for those wiling to pay for a better experience on a specialised site. Choosing a site dedicated to a...
A lovely animation explaining Hilbert's Infinite Hotel Paradox which hurt my head back at university: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj3_KqkI9Zo /via @kottke
Writing tests is great, but a static type system is like a built-in test suite that catches all the ridiculous, pointless problems you waste time on every day, so that you can focus on the interesting ones.
– Tom Stuart on static typing in Ruby
Announcing Micropublish: the tool I use to post on my personal #indieweb site via #micropub https://micropublish.herokuapp.com/about https://barryf.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/micropublish.png
Enjoying this (much-linked) Nathan Barley 10-year retrospective which times nicely with my visit to Hoxton tonight http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/feb/10/nathan-barley-charlie-brooker-east-london-comedy
A few small site updates this evening. I’ve updated my Micropub syndication handling to work with PHP-style arrays as per Aaron’s new approach.
Secondly, after a few garbled webmentions, I’ve switched away from the Ruby Microformats 2 parser to use the PHP library which seems to be more complete, especially for nested attributes.
New feature on this site courtesy of Bridgy: I can now “like” photos on Instagram. Using Quill I first post a like to an Instagram photo’s permalink. This is then sent to my site’s endpoint which creates the page and sends a webmention for Bridgy to notify Instagram. Meanwhile my site grabs the image thumbnail and title to display on my site.
For example: here’s a like from this morning: barryfrost.com…
All very easy. I just glue together the loosely coupled pieces.
And so it’s time to launch a new version of my personal website, barryfrost.com.… Over the last few weeks I’ve been building this new platform from scratch with a few new key aims:
Hosting all of my 10+ years of Pinboard/Delicious bookmarks, Twitter tweets and blog articles
Sending replies, reposts and likes to IndieWeb sites and silos like Instagram
Store all my content in files rather than in a database but cache/index using SQL/NoSQL
Exposing a Micropub endpoint for creating new...
