#indiewebcamp 2013-11-29

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@StaceyTreadwell
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tantek
tommorris - Modestmaps vs Leaflet - any opinion?
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tantek
notes that both benwerd and barnabywalters seem to use Leaflet. Was going to use Modestmaps (seems simpler to use), and now wondering if they explicitly chose Leaflet instead for a reason.
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tantek
!tell benwerd, barnabywalters noticed you're using Leaflet for displaying a map rectangle (e.g. on checkins http://werd.io/2013/checked-into-ucsf-medical-center-4 or geo posts http://waterpigs.co.uk/notes/903/ ) any reason for Leaflet over say Modestmaps? http://maps.stamen.com/#terrain/12/37.7706/-122.3782
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Loqi
Ok, I'll tell them that when I see them next
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Loqi
Ok, I'll tell them that when I see them next
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Loqi
Ok, I'll tell them that when I see them next
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tantek
good evening indiewebcamp
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tantek.com
edited /checkin (+334) "/* IndieWeb Examples */ more info on barnabywalters and tommorris implementations with examples links"
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tantek.com
edited /Ferocity (+127) "link to tommorris's explicit public to do list for Ferocity"
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tantek
is looking into http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim#Search to convert structured addresses into lat/long
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KartikPrabhu
Hello indiewebcamp folks! I have attempted to implement webmention on my site. I'd be great if some of you helped test it out! http://127.0.0.1:8000/article/no-comment#webmention-form
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tantek
KartikPrabhu - what's "Parallel Transport"?
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KartikPrabhu
tantek: as in the meaning of the name?
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tantek
just wondering if it's a content hosting project or something else?
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KartikPrabhu
oh, it is my personal blog/website place
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tantek
"place"? not "project"
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KartikPrabhu
it is a project of sorts. I blog on the site. posting some articles and photography. I also use it to experiment with web-design ideas
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KartikPrabhu
tantek - I saw your microformats talk at SF--html5 today. you might have converted me from rdfa to microformats
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tantek
KartikPrabhu - very cool about starting your own project - I'm a big fan of that :)
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tantek
perhaps consider adding a short description of "Parallel Transport" to the end of this section: http://indiewebcamp.com/projects#experimental
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KartikPrabhu
now I agree! moving from Blogger was very liberating. Learnt quite a few things along the way
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tantek
and thanks for your kind words! I'm always hoping to provide practical guidance for HTML5 (with microformats and other aspects too)
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KartikPrabhu
tantek - very well. I shall do that soon. Thanks!
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tantek
awesome
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tantek
ooh you've got a relative URL for your webmention endpoint discovery - I wonder how many webmention discovery parsers that might (unintentionally) break
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tantek
it's a good test case
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KartikPrabhu
intesting. I thought I had a absolute url (taking guidance from others on idiewebcamp) but if it is a good test case I shall leave it up
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tantek
also you might be interested in checking your home page (and post permalinks) with http://indiewebify.me/
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tantek
yes - please feel free to leave it as is
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KartikPrabhu
thanks again for the testing resource. I'll get to that soon too. Though I suspect I might not pass most of the microformats
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tantek
Kartik - your post permalink had a good h-entry
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KartikPrabhu
yes a few of them are on. but I am still getting the hang of it and adding bits and parts as I go along
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tantek
it's all good - this is a good place to get iterative incremental help with that sort of thing
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KartikPrabhu
yes! I also like how modular and incremental the whole setup of microformats is. Good for hacking around and learning
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julian`
whats the name for "coding" .bat files
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tantek
scripting?
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julian`
do you know if its possible to make a .bat file restart when it closes
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tantek
KartikPrabhu looks like you're sending webmentions!
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KartikPrabhu
tantek - yeah I am testing it with the tool you suggested. I still am planning to implement automatic sending of mentions when an article is published!
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julian`
hmm cant find what im looking for thats annoying
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KartikPrabhu
julian` - me neither. seems to be a tricky thing to do
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julian`
the batch file just runs a ruby script so maybe itd be easier to achieve what i want in the ruby script
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KartikPrabhu
what is it you want to do in the end?
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julian`
well i want this ruby script to be running 24/7 however when it gets an error the cmd prompt closes which is annoying since i have to keep restarting it
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KartikPrabhu
a naive way i can think of is to use another bat file to check if the first one is running and restart if not. But that sounds 'dirty'
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julian`
that sounds genius to me!
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tantek
I have a general web server error question that doesn't seem to be explained on the internets...
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tantek
any idea how to debug when your server seems to return a lot of " The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading." ?
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KartikPrabhu
julian` - there has to be a better way with all this technology we have
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KartikPrabhu
tantek - I got nothing. that seems particularly nasty/out of my league
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julian`
if i understood ruby error catching better i could probably use it to catch error and restart the script
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KartikPrabhu
that would have been my first suggestion but I know less about ruby that you might
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julian`
gives me an excuse to learn it
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julian`
when i get some time lol
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KartikPrabhu
tantek - It seems that the correct way to markup authorship would be to to have p-author in every h-entry. But if only one author posts on a site, is it not redundant to have p-author on every post, when the site already is markedup with meta name-author in the head?
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tantek
well meta name author is invisible metadata so a bad idea
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tantek
however, <link rel=author href=.. > is better since it merely links to a page with then should visibly have the author name etc. in an h-card
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tantek
similarly a rel=author works
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KartikPrabhu
yes. but from a reader's point of view having the same author's name appear on every article seems unnecssary
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KartikPrabhu
i mean on a personal blog
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tantek
on permalink pages it makes sense
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tantek
as part of the h-entry on the page
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tantek
but on a home page where there's a whole stream of entries - then yes I agree it gets redundant
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tantek
hence you can also use h-feed to put an author at top
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tantek
and then have h-entry children inside that h-feed
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KartikPrabhu
I see. I'll have to give it more thought.
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julian`
can someone show me what a hcard looks like
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julian`
i was reading that but it doesnt give an example in a browser
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julian`
is it just the naming that changes
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KartikPrabhu
h-card is not to change the appearance of something. You should use CSS for that. h-card only marksup data in a meanigful way
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tantek
julian - in a browser it just looks like text contact info, perhaps optionally with an image
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julian`
isnt it bad practice to use more classes than needed
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KartikPrabhu
depends on what you are using it for. Here classes are used to give meaning to the data. you can actually use CSS with micrformat classes to make the look as you'd like
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julian`
hmm okay ill keep it in mind
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KartikPrabhu
i had similar concerns with microformats a while back
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KartikPrabhu
but reading more, I think they're good
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julian`
yeah it does seem like a good idea
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julian`
rel="nofollow" etc
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tantek
julian - it is bad practice to use more classes (or markup in general) than needed. hence microformats keeps the number/amount of classes to only the minimum needed to express the semantics needed.
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tantek
well unfortunately rel=nofollow has largely been abused / overused
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tantek
it's "succeeded" in that there's a lot of it out there, but it's failed to fulfill its original purpose. and worse, become a way for silos to punish the links of their first party users.
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KartikPrabhu
tantek - that seems unavoidable given that HTML is not very strict
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julian`
if browsers did start using hCards it would make it easier to contact site owners etc
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julian`
is that the end goal?
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KartikPrabhu
seems that is one of the goals. to have machine-readable data
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@xtof_fr
$ gem update jekyll (Mise á jour #jekyll 1-3-1 effectuée thx 2 @mattr_) #indieweb local site in progress http://christopheducamp.com/w/2013-333
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jonnybarnes
Hi Loqi, just reading about you at the moment
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neuro`
jonnybarnes: you're up all night to get Loqi ?
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KevinMarks_
morning indieweb
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barnabywalters
morning KevinMarks_
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barnabywalters
wonders if a trailing _ will ever become an honorific
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barnabywalters
like david malki does with !
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KevinMarks_
mark it up as p-honorific-suffix?
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barnabywalters
I’m not sure what it would signify
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barnabywalters
IRC veteran with a bad connection?
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KevinMarks_
IRC veteran with more than one computer?
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barnabywalters
that too! IRC would be so much better if it supported continuous-client use
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KevinMarks_
irc protocol works ratehr well with crappy cell connections
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KevinMarks_
probably 'cos it was designed when the whole net had crappy intermittent connections
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KevinMarks_
it's not good at the idea that you might have more than one computer though
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bret
KevinMarks_: you can always run a bouncer or a persistant irc program on a server
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pdurbin
I haven't gotten into bouncers yet. I'm pretty happy with screen+weechat
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bret
no that looks cool though
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kylewm
does anyone happen to know why python-requests can't verify SSL on https://eschnou.com? I'm trying to send a webmention :)
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kylewm
requests.get("https://eschnou.com", verify="/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt")
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kylewm
gives "requests.exceptions.SSLError: [Errno 1] _ssl.c:504: error:14090086:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed"
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kylewm
(tried it with and without the verify=".." parameter)
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bret
not sure, but it should work over http I think?
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kylewm
hrm, I think it's redirecting me to http -> https either way
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kylewm
requests.get('http://eschnou.com') does the same thing
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bret
oh hrmm
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kylewm
I think I will punt and juse do verify=False, thanks bret :)
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bret
you could try a pingback too
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kylewm
Hehe, I picked a bad thread to test webmentions on, he only supports pingbacks
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