Marty McGuire

Archive for March 2019

Fri Mar 29

Loving the Adafruit PyPortal as an IndieWeb-powered photo device.

Code to come!

#IndieWeb #Adafruit #PyPortal #Python #Microsub #IndieAuth
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Thu Mar 28
📗 Want to read The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin ISBN: 9780316229241
#books #scifi
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📗 Want to read The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin ISBN: 9780356508368
#books #scifi
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Wed Mar 27
📕 Finished reading The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin ISBN: 9780316229296
#books #scifi
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Death is the life of the party

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Tue Mar 26

Thanks to Jonathan for peering through the mists of memory at some hackneyed historical heroes in this week’s We Have to Ask Podcast!

https://wehavetoask.com/episodes/2019-03-26/

We Have to Ask
post from Why Don't I Remember That? • Ep 193- Forgettable Superheros
Do you remember these early comic book superheros? These forgettables may become very memorable.
#podcast #whta #wehavetoask
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Wed Mar 20

HWC NYC Wrap-Up 2019-03-20

New York City's second Homebrew Website Club of March met at The Bean at Cooper Union on March 20th, with me playing host.

Here are some notes from the "broadcast" portion of the meetup!

dmitri.shuralyov.com — Working on his notification system, specifically tracking (un)read status of notifications from Gerrit. Today was exploring pieces of the system he'll have to modify to get this to work and now has a list of which pieces need updates. In his previous notification system, any fetch of a notification marked it as read, but that will change because it gives him more control over the system. Also made an update to the Homebrew Website Club main page to make the event description clearer, using text that we include on individual HWC event pages now.

martymcgui.re — Did a lot of digging into what's possible with MediaWiki templates, with the goal of simplifying the creation of Homebrew Website Club event pages on the IndieWeb wiki. He was able to get an "hwcdate" template together that outputs the date portion (2019-03-20) of event pages like events/2019-03-20-homebrew-website-club-nyc. Maybe created some tech debt, given how that locks in our URLs, but hopefully it will save some copy-paste-tweak labor.

rootedfromnature.com — Got stuck on a train and super delayed! 😭

Other discussion:

  • MediaWiki and its relation to Wikipedia and as an open source project. Many mediawiki installs become stale quickly, for some good reasons! Finding documentation on parts of mediawiki can also be confusing, as the common terms may point to similar but unrelated topics, may be outdated, may refer to plugins or extensions you don't have, or may refer to functionality available in newer versions of mediawiki.
  • How we learn and modify the tools we use to write and edit code. The trade-offs between using something we're comfortable with versus trying to pick up and become proficient with new tools. Sublime and vim and emacs and VisualStudio Code and all their plugins and ways of integrating with services and supporting different languages.
  • The Language Server Protocol for standardizing how editors can provide "smart" features like autocomplete for different languages and projects.
  • Synchronizing work-in-progress code. Is Git too much overhead? Maybe! Dmitri likes using Dropbox.
Marty and Dmitri smile at the camera, sitting in front of a brick wall.
Left-to-right: martymcgui.re, dmitri.shuryalov.com

Thanks to everyone who came out! We look forward to seeing you at our next meetup on Wednesday, April 4th at 6:30pm!

#HWC #NYC #IndieWeb #wrap-up
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Tue Mar 19

Join Jonathan and I as we tour through some of the most mediocre days of March in this week’s We Have to Ask Podcast!

https://wehavetoask.com/episodes/2019-03-19/

We Have to Ask
post from How Did It Get This Way? • Ep 113- March "Holidays"
There are a lot of "holidays" in March. Marty and Jonathan this week talk about the week past that had plenty of holidays to celebrate. But are they truly worth the parties? How did they even become a thing?
#podcast #whta #wehavetoask
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Thu Mar 14

Me: [scrolling through posts in Monocle, the IndieWeb reader]

Monocle:

8 nearly-identical posts saying 'Tantek Çelik liked a post on twitter.com'

Me: I don't want to open up 8 tabs for Twitter. I'll just visit Tantek's homepage where I bet he shows these tweets in full context.

tantek.com:

Tantek's website shows Twitter usernames, but no content or summary for these tweets, saying 'likes @jgarber’s tweet at 18:54, tweet at 18:53, @shiflett’s tweet at 18:53, tweet at 18:53, @mathowie’s tweet at 18:53, @leahculver’s tweet at 18:53, tweet at 18:52, and tweet at 18:52'

😂

#IndieWeb #context #UX #twitter
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Tue Mar 12

Thanks to Producer Amy for her culinary artistry in this week’s We Have to Ask!

https://wehavetoask.com/episodes/2019-03-12/

We Have to Ask
post from Who's Hungry? • Ep 184- Cheesy Mushroom Polenta
Someone is in the kitchen with Producer Amy. Oh, its just Marty. Find out what Marty is about to eat.
#podcast #whta #wehavetoask
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Fri Mar 8
🔁 Reposted https://www.sonniesedge.co.uk/notes/2153
Charlie Owen
post from 2019.03.08, 09:03
Happy international Women's Day to all the beautiful women in my life. Abled and disabled, cis and trans, all races, all ages. Love you all to fucking bits. Don't let the bastards grind you down. 💜
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Wed Mar 6

HWC NYC Wrap-Up 2019-03-06

New York City's first Homebrew Website Club of March met at The Bean at Cooper Union on March 6th, with me playing host.

Here are some notes from the "broadcast" portion of the meetup!

dmitri.shuralyov.com — Has many things to demo since last time! Left himself some to keep working on projects tonight. Most of his work is in Gerrit but it's main notification system is sending emails. Last time he was collecting those emails. But in processing the emails he realized they were missing info like user IDs and avatars. Changed to use the email as a notification of a notification - to trigger a fetch via the Gerrit API to grab the information he wants directly, looking for changes between the last time he updated and the time of the email. Been working on notification displays since. Has a reverse-chronological timeline where notifications flow by. Finds it less stressful than GitHub's notification system!

martymcgui.re — Completely forgot his work on timelines and re-styled listen posts! Launched BloodReads.com, a silly promo site for and upcoming Ides of March GHOST PARTY 👻🎉 show themed on BETRAYAL and also MULTI-LEVEL MARKETING. Used a template from HTML5up, which were recently discussed in #indieweb-meta as having a template that might be a good fit for the IndieWeb homepage redesign. Started work on a new section on his site dedicated to improv, so folks can find his upcoming shows, past events, etc.

Other discussions:

  • It's cold but not rainy this week! Walk fast to stay warm.
  • Density (and wasted space) in web designs.
  • What goes into a good homepage? Are there parts of your site that exist but you don't necessarily guide people to easily?
  • Rolling up and grouping noisy notifications, and choosing how to order notification details by priority.
Marty and Dmitri smile at the camera. Behind them coffee shop patrons go about their business.

Thanks to everyone who came out! We look forward to seeing you at our next meetup on Wednesday, March 20th at 6:30pm!

#HWC #NYC #IndieWeb #wrap-up
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Photo for tonight’s HWC NYC!

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I feel the spirits calling me … to savings! What a deal to have GHOST PARTY 👻🎉 partner with BloodReads!

https://ghostparty.today/#2019-03-06-220239

GHOST PARTY
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ACOLYTES! As a definitely financially secure coven we're are pleased to announce that we're partnering with BloodReads to create a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for YOU!
#improv #ghostparty #👻 #🎉
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Tue Mar 5

Thanks to Jonathan for truly bringing “the bard’s” early work to life in this week’s We Have to Ask Podcast!

https://wehavetoask.com/episodes/2019-03-05/

We Have to Ask
post from Why So Much Ado? • Ep 162- Two Gentlemen from Verona Act 1 Scn 1
This week, Marty and Jonathan start "Two Gentlemen from Verona" Act 1 Scene 1. This is widely considered one of William Shakespeare's first written play.
#podcast #whta #wehavetoask
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