Just used a $25 travel router flashed with OpenWRT to create a permanent Wireguard gateway from my grandparent’s old apartment to my apartment so I can access my server. Usually I use site-to-site between routers, but their building contract doesn’t allow for using your own router.
I read it when it first came out. Very shocking and powerful book
IndieAuth Popup 2 2021
In October, we had a second IndieAuth popup session to finish off what we didn’t in the first one.
Some of the items from the first popup remain unmerged due some questions, but a lot are affected by the now merged Metadata Endpoint.
The idea is this…instead of having multiple values in the header, you have one value, rel=”indieauth-metadata”. This, URL, when retrieved, provides a full JSON configuration for all the IndieAuth endpoints. The old headers will have to stay for a bit for backward compatibility, but eventually can go away.
This changes the idea for the introspection endpoint, which no longer needs to overload the token endpoint. The same can be said for the revokation endpoint, which is an overload of the token endpoint. So both of these can have their own endpoint. This would in the future deprecate the existing methods of doing this(such as action=revoke).
The OAuth2 Server metadata spec, which we adopted with minor modifications, has fields for all of these, so we can simplify the IndieAuth standard and make it more OAuth2 compatible.
The idea of moving closer to OAuth2 means existing OAuth2 clients can be modified with a minimum of issue to work with IndieAuth.
The as yet unsolved problem for me is that the revocation and introspection specs we’re adopting are rather similar…both use POST actions, with the parameter token. However, they both require authentication. It was decided that how this works would not be specified at this time.
So, this makes it a bit hard for my implementation, as I haven’t decided what out of band method I’ll use. I may leave it unauthenticated for now with a warning.
The final addition is the pending proposal for a User Information endpoint, to also be added to metadata. This would have the same return as the profile property during the flow, and allow any token that had the profile or email scope to refresh its profile data without having to go through the flow again.
My biggest problem in wanting to share trips is timing. I enjoy taking pictures on trips, but I don’t want to spend time while on the trip going through the steps of choosing what to upload and uploading them. But when I upload later, the time and location data isn’t aligned unless I do so automatically.
So, what I’d like is the ability to select from the photos and decide which ones to upload, and have my site take care of posting them, rather than a one-by-one flow. I can probably build a basic version of that into my site, but I’d prefer a mobile app(of course, I won’t be creating one).
Tweaking my in flight WiFi to GPS Logging software.
Fireworks show.
It’s 4AM and I’m remoting into the first in-person IndieWebCamp since the pandemic started. Certainly easier than going to Dusseldorf, but hope to join the community in person next time.
Dean Stockwell passed away. As a Quantum Leap fan, I watched him many times.
Just got the movement to fix my schoolhouse clock. Decided not to go for the chime upgrade, which would have it chiming on the hour, as distracting, but it now has a second hand, which the original movement didn’t include.Just ordered new movements for all the broken clocks in my apartment. Hopefully I can fix them all.
Launched a scanning project to scan and discard old papers of interest to regain the space. Not everything can be discarded, but finding a lot of interesting memories.
Today is Columbus Day/Indigenous Peoples Day in the United States. In honor of same, I’m writing about Lebn Zol Kolumbus, a song from the 1915 Thomashefsky production, Der grine milyoner. In the song, the immigrant characters praise Columbus for setting in motion the events that led to an America of opportunity for them.
Jane Peppler’s rendition comes with historic notes, as she includes the two verses that were removed by the time the play launched in 1915, which included references to the case of Leo Frank and an anti-immigration bill. It is also the only version I found online with subtitles.
The musical Ragtime even pays tribute to the song in their song, A Shtetl Iz Amereke, where some of the lyrics and tune of the song were incorporated into, though played at a lower tempo.
For more about the Thomashefskys, I recommend their grandson’s musical tribute to them that was broadcast on PBS in 2012.
Trying to flash some boards with new firmware. Holes too small. Internet suggested sewing needles. Didn’t have any. Borrowed some from parents. They came from Shopwells…which ceased to be in 1986. Clearly we don’t sew much. Needles worked though. 1 board down, 10 to go.
I heard some social networks were down. As long as I have my website, my social network is always running. If you’re interested, join the #indieweb community on Wed at 6PM PST/9PM EST for Homebrew Website Club, this weekend for Create Day. All events at events.indieweb.org.