Monkinetic Weblog

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](https://aaronparecki.com/2018/06/30/11/your-first-webmention #webmention #indieweb

Hello #webmention testing:

https://webmention.rocks/test/1

None#golangs crappy regexp

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.

I've added POSSE-style notes to #goldfrog.

https://indieweb.org/POSSE

Perhaps abortions should come with free (mandatory?) vasectomies.

https://humanparts.medium.com/men-cause-100-of-unwanted-pregnancies-eb0e8288a7e5

RT @ewarren: So, I guess @AmyKlobuchar and I are now both undefeated in elections and undefeated in New York Times endorsements! https://t.…

@agiletortoise 4 words: "Forky Asks a Question"

Twitter > Profile > Privacy and safety > Personalization and data > Data > See your Twitter data > Download an archive of your data:

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Twitter, I think we have different definitions of "Your data".

ICYMI: working on #indieweb in goldfrog https://t.co/9DKVvHYwzP

"Unwilling to show fear when confronted with the JVM"

closes tab, takes drink

@KenSmith @davewiner Missing episode: Encounter in Flatland

@KenSmith @davewiner the Enterprise

Towards IndieWeb: POSSE and Notes #posse #blogging #webmention #indieweb

https://t.co/15Q3wsMv9J

POSSE is the #IndieWeb acronym for Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Everywhere. It's something I'm playing with in Goldfrog.

A common idiom is to differentiate Notes (small microblog-like posts) from Articles (longer blog posts with a title). Right now Goldfrog has a basic blog Post type, with (ID, Title, Slug, Tags, Body). I'd like to keep the posting experience as simple as possible, so I'm thinking about how to handle something that literally just has a Body (and Tags, because I parse and attach any #hashtags - see? - in the content).

My Posts have an ID, though a uniqueness constraint on the slug means I could use that instead. But Notes don't have a title to "slugify" (it is too a word). Goldfrog also writes every post to the filesystem as a Jekyll-compatible markdown file, so I would need to figure out what format and filename/slug would be appropriate so that they get a permalink.

Url Options

• 2020/01/16/note-ab43f6 unique hash id
• 2020/01/16/note-13:25 HH:MM

Actual Progress

An upcoming build of Goldfrog will support new "kind" of Post, albeit only differentiated by the presence of a title. I've made a few UI and backend changes to support notes:

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• Notes get a slug that is constructed from the string "txt-" + a shortened hash based on the note's content, like txt-8213d2c
• Since notes are short enough to look weird on a typical post-detail page, I created a new "Daily Digest" page on the site that shows only the posts for a given day. This is the default target for the permalink for Notes. The slug is used as the id attribute on the note, so the link jumps directly to the note on the digest page. This results in a "permalink" like "YYYY-MM-DD/#txt-8213d2c"
• The Syndicate options (currently for Twitter and Mastodon) are now enabled by default for notes.
• Clicking the "post form" link takes me to a longer post form with options for a title, custom slug, tags, and a larger content area for writing.

Still to work out

• I'm thinking about implementing Webmentions for Goldfrog, since I control the code.
• I'm still pondering how to connect a post or note with it's syndicated version, to allow likes from this site to propagate to the syndicated site. That feels... harder than I want to dig into right now, but I'll be looking for ideas.