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Released Post Kinds for WordPress 3.3.4. this includes a refresh of the Parse This library, which adds a lot of improvements in getting data, some minor tweaks, and a bug fix for an issue where pagination was not working on the custom archive pages the plugin creates, such as /onthisday/06/09, /kind/article/2020, and /kind/photo/pool (tag), which were not working.

Released Simple Location 4.1.3. This fixes an issue raised where the Airport Weather Widget only accepted 3 letter airport codes, not 4. Now it accepts both, as I supported both in other places. I also added additional error handling to support this. At the same time, I replaced the ‘master’ branch with the ‘trunk’ branch and added deployment code to auto create a Github release going forward.

Been archiving my DVD/Blu-Ray collection. I still believe in physical media. Thought I’d  ask this  question. What movies/TV shows would you want in your collection if you could only watch what you had locally?

I’ve decided to bring back gadgetwisdom.com. I contributed to it in prior years, but it has been mostly inactive for a while. I’ll be restarting it to put some of my technical explorations on, away from my personal site. I’ve decided to blog about my recent weather station explorations there and some of my home automation projects.

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.