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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.
Released Post Kinds for WordPress 3.3.4. this includes a refresh of the Parse This library, which adds a lot of improvements in getting data, some minor tweaks, and a bug fix for an issue where pagination was not working on the custom archive pages the plugin creates, such as /onthisday/06/09, /kind/article/2020, and /kind/photo/pool (tag), which were not working.
Released Simple Location 4.1.3. This fixes an issue raised where the Airport Weather Widget only accepted 3 letter airport codes, not 4. Now it accepts both, as I supported both in other places. I also added additional error handling to support this. At the same time, I replaced the ‘master’ branch with the ‘trunk’ branch and added deployment code to auto create a Github release going forward.
RSVPed Attending IndieWebCamp West

IndieWebCamp West 2020 is an online gathering for independent web creators of all kinds, from graphic artists, to designers, UX engineers, coders, hackers, to share ideas, actively work on creating for their own personal websites, and build upon each others creations.

Retroposting For Fun

Last spring, I started up my own Compass server. Compass is a location tracking server. Later on, I downloaded and extracted location tracking dating back to 2013 from Google Locations.

In honor of that, as my website can now dip into that data, I’ve gone into my photo archive to fill in the gaps on my website.

I set up this website in 2009, though I had sites before…and wasn’t really active on it till 2014. But, every so often, I do a little retroposting…some post throwpost posts, but for me, the difference is that I try to date it back to the day, sometimes the minute.

So this week, I’m revisiting June 2013. I added some photo posts for June 10, 2013. For all of these, the timestamps are based on the timestamp of the photo, and the location is pulled from where Google says I was at that time.  If I keep doing this, I may create the blog I should have been doing all this time.

I even added a map of my location that day, screenshot from Compass…in the future, I may replace it with a dynamically generated map using the data points stored…but as of this post, I have only some of that built.

Because, with the present involving some degree of isolation(future historians, there is a pandemic going on)…why not visit the past…?

I’ve decided I’m leaving Facebook…sort of. It starts with how I interface this site to Facebook…a site called Bridgy. It provides the ability to publish to Facebook and backfeed your comments back to my site.

Ryan Barrett, the man behind Bridgy and someone I probably pester entirely too often, announced on Thursday that he was shuttering Bridgy for Facebook entirely, as recent Facebook API changes had made it impossible for the service to work.

So now, if I want to post to Facebook, I would have to do so myself. I’m not sure I always want to do that, so you might see even less of me there. Sometimes, I likely will. And I won’t be able to save the interactions unless I manually save them.

Oh, well. Guess there is always Twitter.

Simple Location 4.1.0 Released

Simple Location has been updated. There is more I wanted to do, and will do to finish this, but this is what was released today.

  • AerisWeather is now a provider
  • A lot of code cleanup and documentation
  • Improvements to Airport data, adding of airline data, and additional data sources to avoid on demand download.
  • Standardization and documentation of units
  • Addition of the ability to set a custom icon instead of the location arrow.
  • Lots of improvements if you use Compass to what it can derive
  • Airport location provider now supports IATA and ICAO airport codes.

I did want to add local weather stations and a few other features, but I decided to release and work on those features later.