Kind: Notes

Tonight begins Yom Kippur, and for the first time in my life, I will not be at services. There was no option, due to lack of committed individuals and rain, for an outdoor service, and I’m still uncomfortable with the way they are not distancing inside. So I will be fasting and praying at home. There is a very different feel to solo prayer than group prayer and Yom Kippur feels different than praying at home alone on Passover, which I also did. I am pleased that we were able to get services outside available for Rosh Hashanah. If Rosh Hashanah is, akin to a trial, the verdict, Yom Kippur is the final appeal before the sentence is carried out for the next year. In a year that included so many difficult things, and the challenges of the current situation the world finds itself in…most of us cannot imagine this continuing till next Yom Kippur. Here is hoping things will look better soon.

I bumped up a little plugin for my site that generates rewrite URLs for avatar images. So if you visit /avatar/username you get redirected to the avatar for that username. You can add ?s=250 to pass the size to the other side. This is the same query used by Gravatar. Right now, this calls the gravatar URL and does a temporary redirect to it, setting cache control headers to save the redirect. This means that there could be up to two http queries per avatar image. In a future version, I might actually serve the avatar locally. I got tired of broken URLs for my image. Now, the same link will always produce my image.

Micropub 2.2.3 for WordPress has been released. It fixes a variety of warning notices.  Published, updated, name, and summary properties are no longer stored in post meta. When queried, they will be pulled from the equivalent WordPress properties. Content should be as well, however as content in the post includes rendered microformats we need to store the pure version. Might address this in a future version. As timezone is not stored in the WordPress timestamp, store the timezone offset for the post in meta instead of the full published and updated date. It will also sideload and set featured images if featured property is set. Note: Version 8.9 of JetPack apparently breaks this plugin. This is under investigation.

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.

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.

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.

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.