Happy Bulgarian Liberation Day. Today, Bulgaria celebrates the liberation of the country from the Ottoman Empire on March 3, 1878. It also celebrates my departure from Bulgaria this afternoon.
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I love how motorists here in Sofia actually yield to pedestrians…even before I try to cross the street
My name is David Shanske, david.shanske.com . I attended the last two Austin IndieWebCamps, but I was unable to attend this one. I am from New York, but I’m currently remoting in from Sofia, Bulgaria. This post is a great example of some of the things I like to play with. I have my current location imported automatically, the timestamp changed to where I am, and the weather. I can tick a box and syndicate to micro.blog, Twitter, etc. I am known in the community as the maintainer and a contributor to many of the Indieweb plugins for WordPress. I’m available remotely if someone at the camp needs help.
WordPress merged a ticket I created to store the source URL of sideloaded image in
_source_url.This was impossible without a change in WordPress Core as there was no hook to get this information during the process. Glad they agreed storing where you got an image from is important.For IWC Online today, I added the ability to read the WordPress REST API as if it were a Microsub feed. It may work well on sites that do not have a rich feed.
I am looking for reviewers to review PRs for me for the WordPress plugins in the Indieweb organization. I feel like any work I do that is part of the github.com/indieweb should have a second opinion at least. If anyone is interested, please tell me. Right now, we only have one regular reviewer other than me and I feel like we should spread it a bit. Qualifications are ability to read and discuss code critically.
A good tail wind means we’ll make up some of the ground delay. The location nane on this post was actually automatically set from the plane. First time I got to test this feature live.
And so…my journey begins…as I embark on a 16 hour journey to my home for an extended business trip. I have never checked two bags before.
Why is it every time I ask a question at the Post Office, the woman at the counter literally screams that I want a supervisor? No wonder they feel they need a glass partition between us.
Last night, I upgraded my weather setup here at home. Outside, I have an Acurite 5 in 1 sensor, which measures rain, temperature, humidity, and wind. There is a newer version that adds UV. light intensity, and optionally lightning. One of the things missing is a barometer. So, I acquired a BME280, which is a temperature, humidity, and pressure sensor. I don’t do much Python, but it was the library I could find, so I hooked it into a Pi I already had running sensor collection, hacked together a script with the Adafruit library for the sensor to collect the data and publish it to an MQTT broker, then imported it into Weewx, where my data from the other sensor is stored. Fun. Trying to figure out what’s next. I don’t think I can do an outdoor sensor as easily.
Off to see a performance of the Mikado.
Chanukah is upon us next week, and I’ve added to my Youtube Chanukah playlist, which complements my digital music collection of Chanukah songs. It includes some fun ones from Acapella groups that do an annual Chanukah song. I have over 150 tracks otherwise…and may pick up more ideas… Sirius XM’s Radio Hanukkah launches December 20th to 31st on Channel 788. Chanukah is an 8 night holiday, gets 11 days of music. Christmas gets 11 Sirius channels that begin November 1st…Clearly we need more Chanukah songs…they are running out.
In 21 days, I am set to spent nearly two months living in a strange city out of a hotel room. The hotel room has a kitchenette. To make a hotel room like home, what should I bring? Both tech, entertainment, etc.
Version 4.2.0 of Syndication Links was released today. This version refactors the site to icon mapping to try to improve accuracy. It also includes:
- Â Adds support for generating a custom feed to syndicate to Micro.blog and pull back the links to your posts
- Add support for Bridgy Mastodon, courtesy of Charlotte Allen
- Visual enhancements to the Syndication metabox in the post editor, courtesy of Caspar Hübinger
And the usual miscellaneous bug fixes
Waiting for my flight home from IWC SF, the last Indiewebcamp of 2019. There were 13 this year, one online only. I participated in 12 of them, 6 in person. Here’s to more in 2020.