Watching this Jekyll pull request for incremental regeneration of Jekyll sites with huge interest. The prospect of selective rebuilds makes using Jekyll much more attractive for sites with large numbers of small posts (like this one).
Enjoyable course completed in London today and I’m technically now a Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO). Time to terrify my teams with my shiny new knowledge.
Site update: I now secure all content on here with SSL, including the admin/posting interface.
Unless I’ve missed any hard-coded URLs, everything should be served via https meaning there’s a little green lock icon in your address bar (depending on your browser).
I’ve also been dabbling with Micropub to support external posting from tools like Quill. More on that later.
Is there a name for when you tweet an image of some text, sometimes a short blog post, that wouldn’t fit in a tweet, rather than link to it? e.g. (talking of needing new words…)
Hey, English. We need words for the following please: pic.twitter.com/oZgd7va0cl— David Schneider (@davidschneider) September 5, 2014
On the Twitter website the image is then rendered inline but in other clients you just get a thumbnail/link.
After a happy period using Rdio I’ve switched back to Spotify for all my music listening needs. Despite a much larger catalogue, the killer feature Spotify lacked was a collection of albums, something Rdio’s UI manages very well. But with its new(ish) reboot, Spotify now supports how I want to play music. Switched.
Prompted by Dropbox’s announcement of webhooks, yesterday, I resumed my semi-regular thoughts about powering this site using a combination of Drafts on iOS, Dropbox and Heroku, perhaps with tweets via Tweetbot using a callback chain. Might have a hack on that sometime.
Fun discovery yesterday: my car is 4G.
I have a Three SIM card for data from which it creates a wifi hotspot, displays live traffic updates, plays Spotify, etc.
Driving along the M25 I notice a little ‘4G’ icon appear. Sadly I was a little too busy driving to use it.
Yes! BT has accepted my order for its FTTC broadband, now available in Virginia Water. I’ll soon be improving on my 2Mbit/s to ~40Mbit/s.
Update (2014-04-22): Up-and-running, but only after a cocked-up cabinet activation by an incompetent Openreach engineer that left me without broadband at home for 8 days.
Twitter have recently announced changes to support multiple photos per tweet and tagging of people in photos, changes that bring their service even closer to Facebook/Instagram.
What saddens me is the continued shift away from the original concept of a tweet being entirely encapsulated within 140 characters to fit neatly in a SMS. It’s easy to see why, but photos and tagged users will be hidden in a tweet’s metadata rather than being part of its body.
It’s expected that Twitter will include the...
Last night was the first London Homebrew Website Club meetup. I said a few words about this site and touched on some of the IndieWeb concepts I’ve been experimenting with, which seemed to go well. Strong turnout of about a dozen people: some completely new to the ideas and others who have been involved with the community for a while.
And good to swap notes afterwards with Glenn Jones who demonstrated his work-in-progress Transmat platform and to see some of the location functionality under the...