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Released Post Kind 3.3.0. This has a lot of major changes under the hood. A completely new load system for dependencies and a lot of parsing improvements from the Parse This library. On the user facing side, Post Kinds takes over generating RSS and Atom feeds to remove empty title properties, adds Aaron Parecki’s Media Fragment script, adds remote as an RSVP property, and a bunch of other little fixes.

The biggest change is the continuation of moving media related metadata into the attachment itself in the media library, rather than storing it in the post. When you edit the response properties, they will go directly into the attachment data.

In a future version, I hope to continue with that to add better displaying of photos. Right now, the title of the photo is not showing, only, because it is using the built in gallery to generate the photos, the caption, which maps to the summary property. I will release a future version that shows the title if the caption is not set, as well as some other related fixes.

There is always more to do. Being as this was a major change, I wanted to let it sit for a little while before I released another version.

Episode 14 – Once a Quarter()


Summary: Our first episode since January. David Shanske and Chris Aldrich get caught up on some recent IndieWebCamps, an article about IndieWeb in The New Yorker, changes within WordPress, and upcoming events.

Recorded: May 19, 2019

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6 camps later…
Austin
Online
New Haven
Berlin
Düsseldorf
Utrecht

National Duckpin Bowling Congress
Duck Tours
Streaming rigs for remote participation at IndieWeb Camps
Ad hoc sessions (? 00:11:28)

Can “Indie” Social Media Save Us? (The New Yorker) by Cal Newport (? 00:13:50)

Swarm Account deletions and posting limits
New Checkin icon within the Post Kinds Plugin: example https://david.shanske.com/kind/checkin/
Weather now has microformats mark up in WordPress
Fatwigoo problems with icons
IndieWeb Bingo

Webmention Project

Project of updating Matthias Pfefferle‘s Webmention and Semantic Linkbacks plugins (? 00:26:10)

Readers & Yarns

Readers & Yarns update (? 00:40:50)
X-Ray
Indigenous Replacement: Final Indigenous Log: The Future of the App

Post Kinds Plugin

Post Kinds and new exclude functionality (? 00:48:15)

  • widgets
  • titleless posts
  • On this day

David’s list of 24 IndieWebCamps he’s attended
Looking back at past IndieWebCamp sessions and wiki pages for interesting ideas and new itches
Date and time stamps on webmentions
Call for tickets in WordPress
Subscribing to h-cards with WebSub
Is Mastodon IndieWeb?
Fixing IndieAuth
Improving scoping, particularly for multi-user sites

Coming up within the community

IndieWeb Book Club

IndieWeb Book Club is coming up featuring Mike Monteiro’s book Ruined by Design(? 01:13:04)

IndieWeb Summit 2019

9th annual IndieWeb Summit (Portland) is coming up in June. RSVP now.

Questions?

Feel free to send us your questions or topic suggestions for upcoming episodes. (Use the comments below or your own site using Webmention).
Perhaps a future episode on Micro.blog?

Simple Location 3.8.1 released. Fixes two bugs and automatically adds location name to attachments if they have location data in the photo itself. Also takes the timestamp in the photo, recalculates timezone based on the location data, and stores a timestamp.
Released an update to the JSONFeed plugin for WordPress. It addressed several open issues, noted compatibility with the latest version of WordPress, and adds comment feeds for parity with the defaults.

Setting up Compass with GPS Logger for Android

After much debate about whether to build my own solution or install one, I installed Aaron Parecki’s Compass.

Compass is a GPS Tracking server. It is specifically tailored to an iOS app Aaron developed called Overland. Which creates a problem as I am an Android user.

So, I needed an Android app that could send data to Compass. I tried GPS Logger. It is a popular GPS Logging app, although I’m not sure if it was intended for 24 hour a day use. It seems the biggest use cases it is used for would be gps tagging of photos and tracking hacks.

It supports logging to a custom URL. THe following settings have to be set

  • URL: https://example.org/api/input?token=xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • HTTP Header: Content-Type: application/json
  • HTTP Method: POST
  • HTTP Body: { “locations”: [ { “type”: “Feature”, “geometry”: { “type”: “Point”, “coordinates”: [%LON, %LAT, %ALT] }, “properties”: { “timestamp”: “%TIME”, “speed”: %SPD, “direction”: %DIR, “activity”: “%ACT”, “provider”: “%PROV”, “battery_level”: %BATT, “horizontal_accuracy”: “%ACC”, “annotation”: “%DESC”, “device_id”: “%SER” } } ] }

The above sends a variety of preset parameters GPS Logger provides in the format Compass expects.