Replies – Page 2 – David Shanske

Replied to Cue Up the Shirelles: Cousin Brucie Is Back at WABC-AM Radio by Julia Jacobs (nytimes.com)

Bruce Morrow, who some fans thought would retire after leaving SiriusXM this month, is returning, at age 84, to the station where he worked in the 1960s.

A long time fan of Cousin Brucie as a lover of oldies and a New Yorker. Glad to see he’s going to be on local radio.

Replied to How the Maxwell House Haggadah Found a Permanent Place at the Seder Table (Eater)

Since the 1920s, the coffee company has distributed more than 60 million copies of its now-iconic Haggadah

This was the Haggadah of my early childhood.

Replied to Identifying Post Kinds in WordPress RSS Feeds (danq.me)

I use the Post Kinds plugin to streamline the management of the different types of posts I make on my blog, based on the IndieWeb post types list: articles, like this one, are “conventional” blog posts, but I also publish notes (which are analogous to “tweets”), reposts (“shares” of thin…

I like the idea of adding the kind of post to the RSS feed to identify it, although not everyone will. I’ve opened an issue to remind myself to explore a version of it in future. Working on a major change to the plugin now.

Replied to Extra Feeds Plugin for WordPress (BoffoSocko)

For individual posts, the Extra Feeds plugin will add code into the

of one’s page to provide feed readers that have built-in discovery mechanisms the ability to find the additional

You were asking for such a thing during IWC Online. I commented it was easy and could quickly build it. So I did. Glad people like it.

Replied to Manual Backfeed in the Blogosphere (BoffoSocko)

Forcing webmentions for conversations on websites that don’t support Webmention Within the IndieWeb community there is a process called backfeed which is the process of syndicating interactions o

Incredibly old…Is this your way of telling me that I need to update refbacks?

Replied to Webmentions work log 20200113 by Jeremy Felt (jeremyfelt.com)

Why not, right?
I shipped a great bug yesterday. A big thanks to Chris Aldrich for catching that and sending me a DM today to let me know.
With all my cleverness around separating comment types for display below posts, I forgot to check for cases where there was some kind of Webmention, but no regul…

The approve and whitelist functionality in webmentions broke. It does need to be renamed, but the issue at the moment has to be traced through execution of both plugins to figure out why it is causing issues. Since some functionality is being moved from one plugin to the other, it is waiting on that. If you update a webmention it does work, but it isn’t triggering on initial creation.

I am eager to see custom comment types and statuses…I’ve been following those tickets since the beginning

Replied to https://twitter.com/tevyaw/status/1158056579410698241 by

Tevya (Twitter)

@dshanske …if I go to the Bridgy plugin settings & click the button to “Register for Instagram”, it takes me to the https://t.co/IRXkKmhMze Instagram page with this message at the top:

“Couldn’t fetch your web site: Missing required parameter: user_url”

I have decided to deprecate the Bridgy plugin as it misled people about what it did. You can register directly on the Brid.gy website.

Replied to https://twitter.com/tevyaw/status/1158055774540587009 by Tevya (Twitter)

If it helps, stop by chat.indieweb.org/wordpress and we can help in realtime.

Replied to https://twitter.com/tevyaw/status/1158055774540587009 by Tevya (Twitter)

Have you tested IndieAuth? It should just work, but this suggests some sort of login error.

Replied to https://mobile.twitter.com/tevyaw/status/1157699972323614720 by Tevya (Twitter)

@dshanske listened to you on WP Weekly Podcast. Really interested in trying some Indieweb tools. Can’t get Bridgy to connect to my site/Instagram. Any pointers to where to get support for Bridgy? Just keep getting errors when trying to connect.

What is the error you are seeing? Happy to try helping.

Replied to https://micro.blog/the/2470134 by

the (micro.blog)

@dshanske Hmmm, Siri says my elevation is “about 42m.” Does that vary during the day with the tide? Does it vary over the lunar month? (Enquiring minds and all that.)

The altitude reading on phones is not necessarily the most precise and can vary. It is GPS based, with some calculations done. I compared it to the altitude showing on the in-flight map and it isn’t that close. When there is no altitude data, my website actually uses an elevation API to provide an estimated altitude. For example, it is estimating my house is 29 meters above sea level, but I don’t display altitude unless it is significant.

Replied to https://micro.blog/nitinkhanna/2469677 by

nitinkhanna (micro.blog)

@dshanske I was just pulling your leg! Whenever I think about interesting features on blogs, these two names come up, and now yours. How does private geofencing work?

Well, geofencing is the idea of triggering an event when something enters, leaves, or is inside an area. The biggest issue I had with adding my location to posts was that sometimes, I didn’t want to be specific as to where I was. Now, if you are inside one of these zones, it will hide the actual location automatically and replace it with a text description, such as ‘Home’, or ‘Work’. (Like this post on my website).

Replied to https://micro.blog/nitinkhanna/2468130 by

nitinkhanna (micro.blog)

@dshanske sure, but do you post your battery level? @aaronpk does -> aaronparecki.com
And do you post detailed walks with GPS and photos? @johnjohnston does 🙂 -> johnjohnston.info/blog/yest…

Wasn’t suggesting there aren’t lots of good location based features. I love seeing what people come up with. I was trying to see if I could push someone else to add it. I want to add more location features. I just added private geofencing.

Replied to https://boffosocko.com/2019/02/17/55743921/ by

Chris Aldrich (boffosocko.com)

Replied to a tweet by David Chartier David Chartier (Twitter)
#LazyWeb Anyone know if there’s a way to import a bookmarks HTML/OPML file (from something like Pinboard or Dropmark) into WordPress as individual posts? Ideally, individual link posts?

I’m tinkering with using WordPress for bookmark sav…

I have yet to build the infrastructure for this. I have the design in my mind for a new citation structure to use as the backend of a bookmark, similar to the old Links Manager. I can’t import till I’m happy with my data storage options.

Replied to Carlo Costanzo on Twitter (Twitter)

“@dshanske – What does this intriguing plug-in do???
Now that I’ve converted to WordPress…

https://t.co/YJIL5FAbkp”

Not very much yet. The code to extract the data is there, and I wanted to add the ability to display it. I do use it to extract my location for my site already. Why, have any ideas for when I get back to it?