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My solution to information providers shutting down access is to have at least two providers for everything if I can. So my website will have 5 ways to get static map images, 3 different ways to look up an address from coordinates, and 2 different ways to get current weather. Too much?
Ryan Barrett, who created the Micropub endpoint for WordPress, has turned the project over to the Indieweb repository as he has not been using it or actively working on it. I have been actively working on a major set of changes for it over the last two months. Ryan, despite not using it, has been generous with his time and feedback, despite the occasional WordPress or PHP frustration…and hopefully not too much from me. In his honor, I wrote this post on Indigenous for Android, published via the current release version of Micropub.
Tomorrow I am going to be once again spending time in Manila. It has been on my mind lately, as it is a long journey and a hard trip. But, I intend to make the best of it and be as productive as possible.
I’ve decided I’m leaving Facebook…sort of. It starts with how I interface this site to Facebook…a site called Bridgy. It provides the ability to publish to Facebook and backfeed your comments back to my site.

Ryan Barrett, the man behind Bridgy and someone I probably pester entirely too often, announced on Thursday that he was shuttering Bridgy for Facebook entirely, as recent Facebook API changes had made it impossible for the service to work.

So now, if I want to post to Facebook, I would have to do so myself. I’m not sure I always want to do that, so you might see even less of me there. Sometimes, I likely will. And I won’t be able to save the interactions unless I manually save them.

Oh, well. Guess there is always Twitter.

Etiquette question: You are sitting at a table in a public place, reading quietly and drinking a beverage. At the adjoining table is an individual watching a video, volume turned all the way up, and no headphones. What is the correct course of action?
The IndieAuth plugin update I was writing about last week finally got released to the WordPress repository. It’s a great development for the community. You can now use your website to log into a variety of different services.