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For want of two votes (uspol)

Republican Senators today are telling us that none of us should be allowed a fair trial, while sending a signal to this and all future US Presidents exactly how to avoid impeachment, and to other countries that we don't mean it when we tell them to fight corruption honestly.

https://twitter.com/allatti2d/status/1223376266893516800


Wait, which is the party of Rich White People again?

https://twitter.com/Mobute/status/1223326627637141504


Manual Indie Comments

Chris Aldrich wrote a blog post about manually adding Webmentions for links to his posts from sites that are not themselves Webmention-enabled.

This reminded me that I'd like to add a "I linked to you" feature for the post detail page in #goldfrog for this site. (Goldfrog does support Webmentions, so Chris should get an automatic link from this post :))


I wanna update my blog code but I dug too deep, too fast #diffsOfMoria


The Coming Kingdom of America (uspol)

I think we're looking at the coming end of a government with co-equal branches. The Senate Republicans, tying their pursuit of personal power to Trump's own, have abdicated their Constitutional role and are effectively handing Trump a monarchy.

I suppose they cannot imagine a Democrat taking the position again, or believe in that case they will simply find a way to again redefine the Presidency on their own terms? I don't know.

#kingtrump #uspol #crimeboss


Finally watching the last ep. of The Mandalorian and the two speeder bike troopers are giving off mad Red vs. Blue vibes.


It's a week of days. sigh


Current Status

One of those days

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Did my first live webmention test on monkinetic #webmention #indieweb #goldfrog


First Live Webmention Test

This could be an embarrassing failure, preserved for posterity for all time!

this link goes to one of the test pages on webmention.rocks

Update: templates should now support h-card with u-photo better.


Are0h is reading N.K. Jemison's Fifth Season for the first time and I'm kinda jealous I can't read it for the first time again.


Take... these broken wings... well, clipped

While we are definitely not "live off the land #farmlife types, my wife and I live on an acre of land in a rural neighborhood tucked in a large swatch of suburbia in metro Phoenix.

Due to circumstances we still don't entirely understand, we find ourselves now in "possession" of 6 adult chickens, and 8 not-quite-young-adult chickens. The adults quickly learned to fly - well, flap semi-effectively - over the 5' fences we used to contain them. So on Friday I did some research on how to clip the chicken's wings to keep them earth-bound, and yesterday my daughter and I spent 15 minutes grabbing chicks one by one from the coop and giving them flight-curbing trim.

The article I ended up using was this one on Instructables, simply titled Clipping Chicken Wings.

> The hardest part about clipping chicken wings is catching the chicken. Some chickens are docile and like being touched, others fear humans and run away like their lives depended on it (which I guess they do sometimes).

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Aaron Parecki has a great tutorial on Sending your First Webmention from Scratch#webmention #indieweb


Hello #webmention testing:

https://webmention.rocks/test/1


#golangs crappy regexp


Read: Emily Eternal

Finished Emily Eternal by M.G. Wheaton #reading #reading2020 #scifi #artificialintelligence

Really interesting, compare/contrast "artificial intelligence" v. "artificial consciousness", also human-AI smooches

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Finished #webmention discovery in #goldfrog, all 23 discovery tests on https://webmention.rocks pass. :)


Thank you #indieweb folks for https://webmention.rocks/


Chest colds suck.


For my next #indieweb trick: I'm working on adding support for Webmention in #goldfrog.

https://github.com/sivy/goldfrog/issues/9

Client:

  • Endpoint discovery (header, link, a)
  • Send basic webmentions
  • Send "special" webmentions (ie Likes)

Server:

  • Provide discovery (header, link, a)
  • Receive basic webmentions
  • Receive "special" webmentions (ie Likes)

Ultimately I'd like to break out my webmention code into a releasable #golang module that can provide reusable http.Handler functions that can be plugged into any Go mux that supports them.

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