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@mathowie Strictly Ballroom (1992)

Obviously just including a link in the content of the tweet is not sufficient. 😡

Back towards the IndieWeb: Another aspect to creating my own blogging software: I can finally start implementing some of #indieweb principles I’ve been watching for a while.

One of those is POSSE (Publi

http://173.255.215.158/2020/01/back-towards-the-indieweb

Basics of cross-posting links to blog posts automatically are working. Now to clean up the code and the tweet formatting and push it to the site (tomorrow)

@bitprophet Wish I could claim the term - I got it from @rands

@bitprophet It is! Got a nice builders high going for the time being. We'll see how long it lasts :D

@bitprophet That was one of the motivations for #goldfrog - needed a positive direction for my brain to go

Seriously I’m dumb now, help https://t.co/SsTf76gAaY

Next feature: cross-posting to Twitter. Do I need a developer account and registered app to do this, or can I get my own user with tokens to use with the client config?

What is the difference between this:

Posted by Dave Winer with a theverge.com link, and this:

Posted by #goldfrog via the Twitter API with a link to this site?

I've been mostly quiet about the presidential race because... to be honest I've been quiet about everything about #politics for a while.

I do want to write a bit about the process, and the President, and I will be posting more as the race goes on, but here are a few opening thoughts:

I'm embarrassed that our nation elected Trump, and I've spent the last 3 years trying to pretend it didn't happen. That I can simply ignore the state of things is a sign of my immense #privilege as a middle-class white dude who is very gainfully employed in tech in America, and I'm looking for more ways to use that privilege to lift others.

I want to vote for a woman (again), so I'm looking for ways to help out.

I will vote Biden if I absolutely must, and Bloomberg was wrong to ride the "white, non-Bernie, non-woman wave" rather than putting his $$$ behind one of the current Democratic candidates.

Right now I like Klobuchar and support Elizabeth Warren. I'm glad Kamala Harris and Kirsten Gillibrand ran, but they've dropped from the race due to lack of financial support.

In general, I really like the themes that we see in Klobuchar's and Warren's campaigns: hard work and planning, two things that are the antitheses of Trump's candidacy and presidency.

Another aspect to creating my own blogging software: I can finally start implementing some of #indieweb principles I've been watching for a while.

One of those is POSSE (Publish Own Site, Syndicate Everywhere) - which means everything you write starts on your own site, and content is syndicated to the appropriate kinds of sites as desired. This could include things like:

• Articles are syndicated via RSS (done, no brainer)
• Short posts (notes) are automatically or optionally published whole to Twitter, Mastodon, or the microblog of your choice
• Articles are automatically or optionally shared to a microblog site with a link back to your own site

Goldfrog + Twitter

While I generally find Twitter overwhelming and frustrating (not nearly as much so as the less-privileged do), I just finished adding a Twitter cross-poster to #goldfrog. I'll be implementing a Mastodon cross-poster in the next few days (/me waves @ toot.cafe), now that I've figured out and implemented the pattern.

The Twitter cross poster will send the title, some text, and a link back to the post. So, let's see if deploying the new feature worked. :D

A late feature I added to #goldfrog that I was really happy about: hashtags! I love them on social media, and since I included a tags fields in the blog schema... so I added some code that parses hashtags when posts are saved, and adds them to the post tags. I also added a tag search to the site, and I have a filter that auto-links hashtags to the tag search.

So be prepared to see lots of #hashtags in my posts now :)

#writetheweb 2020

https://t.co/Q8SIOtBxHG

IT'S ALIVE https://t.co/fJby78Jba0

@alfredapp Done. thank you thank you thank you.

@alfredapp Reloaded, no change. Examples:

• Graphic in /Applications, doesn't show

• Grapher, in /Applications/Utilities, does

• Firefix, in /Applications, doesn't show

• Find My, in /Applications, does

I can't even

@alfredapp Hangin need to reload too

@alfredapp FYI, rebuilt the metadata index, spotlight is now finding my apps, still no luck with Alfred 😭