Kind: Notes

Making an omelette in the middle of the day. Can’t normally do that.

During tonight’s online Indieweb NYC Meetup, I asked the question: If in 100 years, all historians had to learn about you was what was on your website…would that be enough?

I just pushed the first set of improvements to Parse This to support JSON-LD.  Parse This takes an incoming URL and converts  it to mf2 or jf2. It is used by Post Kinds and by Yarns Microsub  to handle this.

So, assuming the default arguments are set, the parser will, for a URL that is not a feed, look for microformats. If microformats lack a summary, content, or references(for jf2) property, it will try to parse JSON-LD. If this produces no results, it will try OGP and Meta Tags.

Even though I’m not fond of Schema.org or JSON-LD, more sites have rich data in  this format than Microformats and I want to be able to find author names and other properties  to display proper attribution and rich link previews for my replies, bookmarks, etc.

This will be available from the Github Repo for Parse This immediately, and will likely be available in the next refreshed release of any plugin using the library. JSON-LD will not be of much use to Yarns, as it does not parse single pages, only feeds at this time.

Coming home, finally. Left January 4th… returned March 5th. Still 4.5 hours to go.

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.