Month: June 2019

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Bookmarked The Day the Music Burned by Jody Rosen (nytimes.com)

It was the biggest disaster in the history of the music business — and almost nobody knew. This is the story of the 2008 Universal fire.

As someone who originally trained to be an archivist and wanted to digitize things not available to the public, this saddens me.
Simple Location 3.8.1 released. Fixes two bugs and automatically adds location name to attachments if they have location data in the photo itself. Also takes the timestamp in the photo, recalculates timezone based on the location data, and stores a timestamp.
Released Post Kind 3.3.0. This has a lot of major changes under the hood. A completely new load system for dependencies and a lot of parsing improvements from the Parse This library. On the user facing side, Post Kinds takes over generating RSS and Atom feeds to remove empty title properties, adds Aaron Parecki’s Media Fragment script, adds remote as an RSVP property, and a bunch of other little fixes.

The biggest change is the continuation of moving media related metadata into the attachment itself in the media library, rather than storing it in the post. When you edit the response properties, they will go directly into the attachment data.

In a future version, I hope to continue with that to add better displaying of photos. Right now, the title of the photo is not showing, only, because it is using the built in gallery to generate the photos, the caption, which maps to the summary property. I will release a future version that shows the title if the caption is not set, as well as some other related fixes.

There is always more to do. Being as this was a major change, I wanted to let it sit for a little while before I released another version.

Packing for the Indieweb Summit

Rosemary Orchard challenged me to talk about what tools I use. To start, I decided to go over some of the things I’m bringing to the Indieweb Summit this weekend.

  • Computer
    • Dell Inspiron 7370 – This is a 13.3″ laptop running Linux  which I bought open-box. As I spent more time away from home, I needed something that wouldn’t slow down under load.
    • Eleduino 13.3 Inch 2K HDMI Portable Gaming Monitor – There are a variety of these available on Amazon and other sites. I use this as a second monitor for trips.
    • Kabcon Quality Tablet Stand – This is a bit more stable then the tiny stand that came with the gaming monitor. It is designed to hold larger tablets.
    • Nexstand Laptop Stand – This brings the laptop high enough to handle a keyboard.
    • Royal Kludge RK61 Wired/Wireless Keyboard – This will be this keyboard’s first trip. It is a new mechanical keyboard, even smaller than the previous one I carried, that doubles as a bluetooth keyboard.
  • Travel Gear
  • Camera Equipment
    • Acer 4K Holo 360 Camera – Also the first trip for this item. I saw it on extreme discount and ordered it. It is a small Android LTE capable device that doubles as a 360 camera. I keep wanting to do more with 360.
    • Smatree Q3 Telescoping Selfie Stick with Tripod Stand – I use this to hold the 360 degree camera. At the last IWC Austin and last years IWS Summit I used it to hold a webcam for remotely streaming one of the rooms. Will use this to experiment with the 360 camera.