Notes – Page 9 – David Shanske

Took a drive on Friday down to Callicoon, New York, walked around a bit, then down the Delaware to Narrowsburg, and back up in a loop to head back through Bethel, site of the Woodstock Festival. Eventually I’ll be able to display this trip using my own mapping system, instead of this screenshot.

I’ve never watched the conventions before, but was curious how the two parties would handle a virtual one. I’ve been watching the DNC. It is rather surreal..enjoyed the backdrops of all the delegates.

Been trying to fix automatically syndicating to other sites from my site. It looks like my site only checks to syndicate every quarter hour. Too many moving parts.

Tornado watch here till 10pm… tornadoes don’t seem like a New York thing.

Syndication Links for WordPress 4.2.4 is out. It tries for a few fixes to the scheduling of syndications, refreshes the icons, and introduces one new feature. A custom query. /?syndication=twitter.com or such. It tries to return all posts that have a matching syndication link and can be added to any archive page.

Deployed IndieAuth for WordPress 3.5.0 this morning. So I’m writing this release note using Micropub, to ensure that IndieAuth still works on my site(no reason I think it shouldn’t.) No new user facing features, but tried to improve security.

Released Syndication Links 4.2.3, which refreshes the icons(as usual), and adds support for Reddit via Bridgy. It also supports pulling URLs in from WP-To-Twitter.

Doing IndieWebCamp West Hack Day, and added another Simple Location for WordPress trick. I was doing custom rewrite improvements for Post Kinds, and added the ability to generate map views from any taxonomy or user. Just add /map to the archive URL.

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.

Tonight, for Homebrew Website Club Quiet Writing Hour, I am going to continue revisiting the events of June 2013. Check out https://david.shanske.com/onthisday/06/10 for my previous June 10th posts….

I’m helping to organize IndieWebCamp West(Pacific Timezone) Online. It is the weekend of June 27th and we aree trying to make it extra fun.There is registration, but attendance is free.

Got out for a bit… isolated but needed air

Watching the Back to the Future cast talking with Josh Gad on YouTube. Makes me want to rewatch the trilogy.

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?