Swan Lake – 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.

Consistent Microformats

One of the problems in consuming microformats is consistency. There are a variety of different ways people structure their pages.

Many people have written code to solve this problem. I do it in my library, Parse This. Aaron Parecki does it in his XRay library. The Microsub specification has a stricter jf2 output in order to simplify the client having to make all sorts of checks.

This is the point. It is easier to consume a clean and consistent parsed microformats structure. Some of this would probably be solved by some consensus on the matter.

So, what does Parse This, and its ilk do? I lack a name for this sort of code.

It has two options: feed or single return
Feed tries to identify and standardize an h-feed. This means if there are multiple top level h- items, it will try to convert it into an h-feed.
Single will try to identify the top level h- item that matches the URL of the page.
In both cases, it will run authorship discovery in order to find the representative author and add this as an author property to the h-feed, or single h-entry etc.
It will try to run post type discovery.

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.

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.