Marty McGuire

Archive for June 2019

Sun Jun 30
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πŸ“ Checked in at Deschutes Brewery Portland Airport, Portland, OR.

A break before flying away!

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πŸ“ Checked in at Blue Star Donuts, Portland, OR.
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πŸ“ Checked in at Mozilla Portland, Portland, OR.
Sat Jun 29
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πŸ“ Checked in at Ground Kontrol Classic Arcade, Portland, OR.
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πŸ“ Checked in at Vtopia Cheese Shop and Deli, Portland, OR.
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πŸ“ Checked in at Mozilla Portland, Portland, OR.

Jacky AlcinΓ© inviting and guiding us towards building an IndieWeb for all!

IndieWeb Dance

πŸ“— Want to read Resilient Management by Lara Hogan ISBN: 9781937557829

So excited to have an IndieWeb Summit day!

Fri Jun 28
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πŸ“ Checked in at Clyde Common, Portland, OR.
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πŸ“ Checked in at Pine Street Market, Portland, OR.

IndieWeb Summit Pre-Party!

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πŸ“ Checked in at Case Study Coffee, Portland, OR.

Chilling between IndieWeb events β€” with Tiara, gRegor, Tantek

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πŸ“ Checked in at Mozilla Portland, Portland, OR.
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πŸ“ Checked in at KURE Juice Bar, Portland, OR.
Thu Jun 27
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πŸ“ Checked in at Ground Kontrol Classic Arcade, Portland, OR.
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πŸ“ Checked in at Los Gorditos, Portland, OR.
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πŸ“ Checked in at RideShare Pickup, Portland, OR.

I guess this is how Lyft works now at PDX

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πŸ“ Checked in at Gate B25, Jamaica, NY.

JFK✈️PDX

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πŸ“ Checked in at Buffalo Wild Wings, Jamaica, NY.

Pit stop before crossing the country

πŸ”– Bookmarked https://davidyat.es/2019/06/24/indieweb/
Wed Jun 26

Come help build the tools that let Adafruit’s teams plan, build, sell, and ship open source hardware.

The Adafruit web team is hiring!

https://blog.adafruit.com/2019/06/25/job-full-time-web-developer-adafruit-nyc-adafruit-php/

post from JOB! Full time web developer – Adafruit NYC! @adafruit #PHP
Full time web developer – Adafruit NYC!.Adafruit Industries is looking for a full time Internal Web Developer to work at Adafruit Headquarters in SoHo, New York City.
Tue Jun 25

Why so many websites went down on Monday, Facebook Libra points the way to an even darker cyberpunk timeline, and more.

Another great @violetblue Cybersecurity Roundup: June 25, 2019.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/cybersecurity-25-27886989

Sun Jun 23

Sunday snoozing

Wed Jun 19
πŸ“• Finished reading Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente ISBN: 9781472115072
Marty makes a quirky grin while staring into his phone

It looks like I will be speaking at IndieWeb Summit! Specifically, I’ll be giving a keynote about how to “Own Your Mobile Experience”.

As a long-time enthusiast for these tiny computers we carry, I try to make most of the things I can do online into things I can do on my phone or tablet. That turns out to be… a lot of things.

I’ll probably keep the technical details light, other than naming specific IndieWeb building blocks that each piece relies on. I plan to make a (set of?) posts on my site explaining the plumbing, afterwards.

With just about a week and a half left to plan my ~10-15 minute set of demos, here are some things I am thinking of discussing / demoing.

  • Reading! With an [indie reader](https://indie web.org/reader) setup based on Microsub and the Indigenous iOS app.
    • Including following folks on Instagram and Twitter with the help of Granary
  • Replying and responding to things I read directly on my site via Indigenous and Micropub.
  • Posting my own notes and photos with Indigenous and Micropub
  • Seeing notifications on my devices when someone posts a response to my own posts.
  • Doing so many things with Shortcuts
    • Save articles to read later (similar to IndiePaper)
    • Save podcasts to listen later (via huffduffer.com)
    • Edit posts on my site and my private notes site via the Drafts app
    • Upload images and other files to my site
    • Track what I read (a Shortcut that extracts info from goodreads.com to post to my site)
    • Track what I eat / drink
    • Post iOS Live Photos as looping videos
  • Cheat a bit using external services
    • Checkins with Swarm go to my site via ownyourswarm.p3k.io
    • Podcast listening history with the Overcast app goes to my site via a script and the Overcast “All data” export
  • And other more exotic stuff that technically uses web apps but work well on mobile:
    • Syndicating to Twitter and updating my post with the syndication URL thanks to micropublish.net
    • Post silly animated GIF responses with Kapowski

Obviously this is too many things to demo in ~15 minutes. So, I’m looking for feedback!

What things on this list do you care to see most?

What things do you already do with mobile apps or social silos that you’d like to do on your website?

What things do you do with your website that you wished worked on mobile?

(Posted from an iPad mini, composed using Drafts, Micropub’d via Indigenous)

Tue Jun 18

Learning some Unity with Hunter!

Please enjoy an awful thing we made!

πŸ”– Bookmarked The New Wilderness (Idle Words) https://idlewords.com/2019/06/the_new_wilderness.htm

“Even experts don’t have a full picture of the surveillance economy, in part because its beneficiaries are so secretive, and in part because the whole system is in flux. Telling people that they own their data, and should decide what to do with it, is just another way of disempowering them. "

Tue Jun 11
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πŸ“ Checked in at New York Pizza Suprema, New York, NY.
πŸ“— Want to read Resilient Management by Lara Hogan ISBN: 9781937557829

Facebook shuts down a tool used to find human rights abuses.

For a company whose main problem is the public finding out about human rights abuses (and genocide) facilitated with its platform, or Russian attacks on American society, or the prevalence and activities of nationalist and neo-Nazi hate groups on Facebook, or any number of things, it’s a brutal tactic from a company that will apparently protect its own interests at any cost.

Another great cybersecurity roundup from @violetblue.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/cybersecurity-11-27548521

Sun Jun 9

IndieWeb Meetup 2019-06-09 Wrap-Up

New York City's first IndieWeb Meetup of June 2019 met at Think Coffee in the Meatpacking District on June 9th, with me playing host.

Here are notes from the "broadcast" portion of the meetup.

amyhurst.com β€” Did not work on her site today. Been updating her NYU-generated faculty page, instead, and thinking about how it fits in with her site. Trying to fix links to things like research papers, which are normally behind paywalls.

mfgriffin.com β€” Managing TODO lists today! Trapped in a "oh all these wonderful tools to choose from" situation. Made a lateral move to put his notes about IndieWeb into a local notebook in OneNote, re-reading them and splitting things up. Finding lots of old TODOs from IndieWebCamp and other meetings. Got FTP to his website functioning again. Amy reminds him to set up griff.fun to redirect to his main site, as it's parked right now.

tiaramiller.com β€” Been learning Amazon Web Services stuff, finding lots of IndieWeb examples of folks hosting on S3 and other services there. Doing research and making lists for things to try and learn next.

martymcgui.re β€” Updated his homepage feed of upcoming events. Previously, it would show future events that he had posted on his site, but it now also shows RSVPs

Other topics of discussion

  • We got a pretty decent table and an outlet, even! Sundays are pretty quiet here so that's good. The A/C was quite aggressive, though!
  • AWS does so many things and also has a very steep learning curve!
  • IndieWebCamp shirts are available now in two styles!
  • We're officially over the name "Homebrew Website Club" and we're currently feeling "IndieWeb Meetup". Maybe we'll make some arts for signs?
Left-to-right: martymcgui.re, amyhurst.com, mfgriffin.com, tiaramiller.com

Thanks to everyone who came out! We look forward to seeing you again at our next meetup on Saturday, June 22nd. Location to be announced soon, but will likely be in Brooklyn near Atlantic Station.

Photo for today’s IndieWeb Meetup NYC!

Tue Jun 4

Always enjoy @violetblue spilling the cybersecuritea. Click for the Baltimore ransomware drama. Stay for the thrice-dunked Facebook. Then, learn how moralizing capitalists make bank creeping on and silencing sex workers.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/cybersecurity-4-27371489

Mon Jun 3

HWC NYC 2019-05-11 Wrap-Up

New York City's first (and, oops, only) Homebrew Website Club of May met at Think Coffee in the Meatpacking District on May 11th, with me playing host.

We didn't really have a "broadcast" portion of the meetup, but we discussed some things and worked on personal projects! I'm writing this up nearly a month late, so I have forgotten many of the things we talked about. 😬

Matt (mfgriffin.com) and myself (martymcgui.re) researched ways for Matt to capture and process the many text, audio, image, and video artifacts that he creates across many projects, both personal and professional.

I showed off a bit about how I do this on my own non-public notes site, and spent some time working on an iOS Shortcut to post notes more quickly to that personal site.

Marty makes a wild-haired, wild-eyed grin, while Matt provides a more relaxed pose.
Left-to-right: martymcgui.re, mfgriffin.com

We look forward to seeing folks at the next HWC NYC, at another weekend meetup on June 9th. We'll be meeting at the same location, and may even be able to grab some outlets this time!

#tbt that time last month when we held a tiny Homebrew Website Club NYC!