Celebrating the first night of Chanukah
Chanukah is upon us next week, and I’ve added to my Youtube Chanukah playlist, which complements my digital music collection of Chanukah songs. It includes some fun ones from Acapella groups that do an annual Chanukah song. I have over 150 tracks otherwise…and may pick up more ideas… Sirius XM’s Radio Hanukkah launches December 20th to 31st on Channel 788. Chanukah is an 8 night holiday, gets 11 days of music. Christmas gets 11 Sirius channels that begin November 1st…Clearly we need more Chanukah songs…they are running out.
In 21 days, I am set to spent nearly two months living in a strange city out of a hotel room. The hotel room has a kitchenette. To make a hotel room like home, what should I bring? Both tech, entertainment, etc.
Version 4.2.0 of Syndication Links was released today. This version refactors the site to icon mapping to try to improve accuracy. It also includes:
- Adds support for generating a custom feed to syndicate to Micro.blog and pull back the links to your posts
- Add support for Bridgy Mastodon, courtesy of Charlotte Allen
- Visual enhancements to the Syndication metabox in the post editor, courtesy of Caspar Hübinger
And the usual miscellaneous bug fixes
Waiting for my flight home from IWC SF, the last Indiewebcamp of 2019. There were 13 this year, one online only. I participated in 12 of them, 6 in person. Here’s to more in 2020.
The Dragon Gate is the Southern entrance to Chinatown in San Francisco, built in 1969 as a gift from Taiwan. Visible in the picture is Sabra, a kosher restaurant.
All that work and I was missing a trailing /. Here goes nothing.
Experimenting with a secret custom feed for Micro.blog triggered by Micropub.
Getting JetBlue data took longer than I thought due a parsing issue. Now I can track JetBlue data as well in flight. 3 airlines down…
I have always thought the TSA should get Disney Imagineering to design their checkpoints. They really know how to set up a queue. Catchy music, theming… maybe a people mover.
When I leave the country, I find streaming services don’t always work. So as I do other stuff, I’ve been ripping my physical media so I can have some entertainment if I need it. I have started, for some reason, with my box set of I Love Lucy.
Attending IndieWebCamp SF
This coming weekend I will be attending IndieWebCamp SF. I enjoy attending IndieWebCamps for my time off from my day job.
I am once again co-organizing and once again volunteering to handle the video for the intros, sessions and demos. This means I will be bringing the equipment to record the sessions, which will be ultimately available online. You can watch our last event, in Berlin Germany, here. The intros, demos, and keynote are not yet up, but I’ve added most of the sessions. You can see examples of those at the prior event in Brighton UK, available here.
IndieWebCamps are a great place to talk about creating or updating your own website and the technologies or ideas around it. The first day involves sessions, the topics for which are chosen by the attendees. The second day is when you build and demo something you built the previous day.
It is a fun event at a minimal cost. If you are in the area, why not stop by?
My sleep tracking system just emailed me two years after I asked to tell me how I can export my sleep data in json format. What should I do with the data?
Goodbye Berlin