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:
(SORRY, LOST IMAGE)
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.
Posted 2020 Jan 17 00:00
Go By Example
Go By Example might be one of the best getting-started resource I’ve ever seen for a programming language.
Drive To The Ocean sales to support Pathways to Paris
Michael Stipe is selling recordings and videos of his new track, Drive to the Ocean, with much of the proceeds going to Pathway to Paris:
> Pathway to Paris brings together musicians, artists, activists, academics, mayors, and innovators to help raise consciousness surrounding the urgency of climate action and offers solutions to turning the Paris Agreement into action.
Purchased - and would have even if Micheal was putting all the proceeds in his lovely pocket - but I'm really glad to support Pathway to Paris as well.
Posted 2020 Jan 12 02:39
Tokyo After Dark
@liamwong posts AMAZING photos of, well, Tokyo after dark.
(SORRY, LOST IMAGE)
Totally followed.
Posted 2020 Jan 11 07:44
Michael Stipe is making music again, thank you
Michael Stipe, who just celebrated his 60th birthday, is making music again, and it's really good music.
Hearing this makes me happy and sad. I can hear echoes in this song of some of R.E.M.'s work on Up and Reveal, which were departures from their previous work and were generally disliked by fans (myself included at the time). Listening now I feel like this was a direction Michael wanted to go a long time, but fans weren't ready for it. I'm really glad he's getting to make his own music now.
Posted 2020 Jan 10 05:06
Michael Stipe is making music again, thank you
Michael Stipe, who just celebrated his 60th birthday, is making music again, and it’s really good music
#rem#music#michaelstipe
https://t.co/GjcRn3J3WU
Posted 2020 Jan 10 05:06
SQLite, Containers, local read db
Reading about Segment’s use of #SQLite inside #containers as a local read DB
Jack Dorsey's original sketch that spawned "twttr":
God it was heady days before we knew the mess that social media would become
#twitter
Posted 2020 Jan 09 00:00
President Season: 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 pro
https://t.co/y0I9Rktqlj
Posted 2020 Jan 08 19:28
None#indieweb folks: how do you post a tweet via the API with a link back to the original? As in, why didn't this link expand #posse https://t.co/hiXKxJkQUG
Posted 2020 Jan 08 19:18
Notice POTUS found a way to make nearly triggering a war with #Iran all about Obama's Iran deal
