Now is a great time to reflect on all the IndieWeb gifts shared in 2022! It’s your < 10min update on the #IndieWeb community!
This Week in the IndieWeb audio edition for December 24th - 30th, 2022. https://martymcgui.re/2022/12/31/this-week-in-the-indieweb-audio-edition--december-24th---30th-2022/
Now is a great time to reflect on all the IndieWeb gifts shared in 2022! It’s the audio edition for This Week in the IndieWeb for December 24th - 30th, 2022.
You can find all of my audio editions and subscribe with your favorite podcast app here: martymcgui.re/podcasts/indieweb/.
Music from Aaron Parecki’s 100DaysOfMusic project: Day 85 - Suit, Day 48 - Glitch, Day 49 - Floating, Day 9, and Day 11
Thanks to everyone in the IndieWeb chat for their feedback and suggestions. Please drop me a note if there are any changes you’d like to see for this audio edition!
Are you dressed for a celebration during eternal Caturday?
Are you taking a step into the future during eternal Caturday?
Are you clued in to the signals during eternal Caturday?
Do you feel someone reaching out during eternal Caturday?
Are you figuring out a new toy during eternal Caturday?
Are you enjoying a warm blanket during eternal Caturday?
Do you detect holiday spirit during eternal Caturday?
Gift calendar season continues and join us for the final meetups of the year. It’s your < 10min update on the #IndieWeb community!
This Week in the IndieWeb audio edition for December 17th - 23rd, 2022. https://martymcgui.re/2022/12/24/this-week-in-the-indieweb-audio-edition--december-17th---23rd-2022/
Gift calendar season continues and join us for the final meetups of the year. It’s the audio edition for This Week in the IndieWeb for December 17th - 23rd, 2022.
You can find all of my audio editions and subscribe with your favorite podcast app here: martymcgui.re/podcasts/indieweb/.
Music from Aaron Parecki’s 100DaysOfMusic project: Day 85 - Suit, Day 48 - Glitch, Day 49 - Floating, Day 9, and Day 11
Thanks to everyone in the IndieWeb chat for their feedback and suggestions. Please drop me a note if there are any changes you’d like to see for this audio edition!
Are you pushing past your boundaries during eternal Caturday?
Do you have everything in hand during eternal Caturday?
Are you putting things in their place during eternal Caturday?
Are you near or far during eternal Caturday?
Oh you know just Kim doing amazing things. Feast on this one!!
Are you ready for wrapping during eternal Caturday?
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Pineapple Improv is thrilled to present:
FURY: EARTH’S MIGHTIEST IMPROV hosted by Young Ethel’s in Park Slope!
After a 3-year Covid hiatus, FURY is making it’s most triumphant return to the stage with four incredible teams doing what they do best!
Featuring BIZZO, Intrusive Thoughts, the cast of FURY, and musical guest The Mustache Apologies!
Where: Young Ethel’s Bar - Park Slope, BK
When: Saturday Dec 17th, 4:30-6pm
Cost: FREE ADMISSION, but purchasing a drink is most appreciated!
Gift calendar updates, Twitter meltdowns, and a return of webactions. It’s your < 10min update on the #IndieWeb community!
This Week in the IndieWeb audio edition for December 10th - 16th, 2022. https://martymcgui.re/2022/12/17/this-week-in-the-indieweb-audio-edition--december-10th---16th-2022/
Gift calendar updates, Twitter meltdowns, and a return of webactions. It’s the audio edition for This Week in the IndieWeb for December 10th - 16th, 2022.
You can find all of my audio editions and subscribe with your favorite podcast app here: martymcgui.re/podcasts/indieweb/.
Music from Aaron Parecki’s 100DaysOfMusic project: Day 85 - Suit, Day 48 - Glitch, Day 49 - Floating, Day 9, and Day 11
Thanks to everyone in the IndieWeb chat for their feedback and suggestions. Please drop me a note if there are any changes you’d like to see for this audio edition!
Are you escaping your shell during eternal Caturday?
Are you becoming part of the experience during eternal Caturday?
Are you immersed in the experience during eternal Caturday?
Delighted and honored to be playing in with the FURY team at this lovely and FREE* #improv show at Young Ethel’s this Saturday evening! ✨
https://martymcgui.re/2022/12/17/fury-earths-mightiest-improv/
Are you cleansing your palette during eternal Caturday?
Pretty excited that GIPHY is having professionals write alt text for their images. It’s even already in their documentation.
I’m pretty excited to get that into Kapowski. I switched out GIPHY support for gfycat when Facebook acquired GIPHY. Now they’re being made to sell it off, but I need to re-evaluate how the terms of use and privacy issues may have changed.
Are you testing your reflexes during eternal Caturday?
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I’m bringing TWITIWAE back! It’s your < 10min update on the #IndieWeb community!
This Week in the IndieWeb audio edition for December 3rd - 9th, 2022. https://martymcgui.re/2022/12/10/this-week-in-the-indieweb-audio-edition--december-3rd-9th-2022/
I’m bringing TWITIWAE back! It’s the audio edition for This Week in the IndieWeb for December 3rd - 9th, 2022.
You can find all of my audio editions and subscribe with your favorite podcast app here: martymcgui.re/podcasts/indieweb/.
Music from Aaron Parecki’s 100DaysOfMusic project: Day 85 - Suit, Day 48 - Glitch, Day 49 - Floating, Day 9, and Day 11
Thanks to everyone in the IndieWeb chat for their feedback and suggestions. Please drop me a note if there are any changes you’d like to see for this audio edition!
Have you found something to sink your teeth into during eternal Caturday?
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Are you caught in a fishbowl during eternal Caturday?
Volume 3, Resources 24: Patricia's Best Books of 2022!
[...] this year had some absolute bangers. [...] I’ve included links to podcast episodes where I talk about the books (if applicable) and as always, links are affiliate links and you can shop directly through my Bookshop link.
Patricia Elzie's Infophile newsletter continues to be must-read and I see a lot of stuff on her 2022 reading list I want to check out!
Are you feeling plugged in during eternal Caturday?
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The famed Hampden Christmas Calliope
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tl;dr – Kapowski is a simplified tool for finding and posting reaction GIFs to your personal website. It works without a sign-in and gives you HTML to copy-paste into whatever posting interface you use for your website. It's "progressively enhanced" with IndieWeb building blocks, so if your site supports them it becomes faster and easier to use. Search and content are currently powered by Gfycat.
Kapowski supports IndieAuth and Micropub. If your site supports these, you can sign in using your website as your identity and then use Kapowski to post the image to your site directly.
But that's not all! If your site supports sending Webmentions and markup for reply posts, you can use Kapowski to make your post a photo reply!
I really like Micropub as an IndieWeb building block. As a developer, it's easy to understand on the wire. It's very extensible because the spec provides very few constraints over what you can post with it.
However, that flexibility comes at a coordination cost. I had (have!) a dream that being able to rapidly iterate on special-purpose Micropub clients will let many ways of posting bloom. I also loved (love!) Glitch as a place to build web apps in the open where other folk can see how they work and remix them to make them their own.
So, I built and stealth-launched Kapowski built on Glitch back in 2018. I didn't use it myself very much (but definitely some), and even shared it around some IndieWeb events, like when I talked about mobile posting at the 2019 IndieWeb Summit.
I kept Kapowski intentionally simple, hoping that some other IndieWeb folks might use it, give feedback, and iterate on the idea of what a good user experience might be for posting reply GIFs on the IndieWeb.
I ... didn't get much feedback! As far as I know, few people have used it. However, I very much did notice that it kept breaking.
Giphy, the original service Kapowski used, was bought by Facebook with the intention of, I don't know, tracking all the GIFs people posted. I didn't like that, so I switched things over to Gfycat. (Although with Facebook (Meta) being forced by UK regulators to sell off Giphy, maybe it'll be time soon to bring it back.)
The biggest problem, though, was that server-side Javascript bits rot. I want to be able to stand up a hobby project and forget it for months or years at a time. For a project of this pace, especially one that I think of as being very simple, the Javascript stack moves fast. I would get notices every week or so that this or that dependency had a required security update. Sometimes apply what looked like a small point update would cause a breaking change in an API (Axios!). Eventually, it became not-fun to think about keeping up Kapowski.
Multiplying this maintenance across a number of other Micropub clients I had managed to barely knock together on Glitch led to me burning out on the idea. So, I stopped maintaining it and at some point it stopped working.
I still want to see a thousand Micropub-powered flowers bloom, but I don't have the personal project bandwidth to build the tool set on Glitch that I thought would make that possible. I'm just not that fluent in server-side Javascript development and project management, and it's too far of a road right now to git gud.
That said, there are styles of web app development I am much more comfortable working in! I think I can take this stuff a lot further by sharpening the knives I already know how to use.
So, I've spent a good chunk of free time this year quietly porting some of my IndieWeb projects to PHP and hosting them on a virtual private server. That's stuff I know how to do! As I've re-built each one, I've also looked to extract the common points of similarity and complexity into a kind of "Micropub kit", with a common-but-extensible engine. That's made each client easier to build and deploy, and that's very exciting.
(This "micropub kit" isn't ready for public consumption at all but it is available for looking-at if you want. Here's the micropubkit source.)
Since it's IndieWeb Gift Calendar season, I think I'll spend the next month polishing up and posting more about this work. If you have thoughts about Kapowski, "micropubkit", or posting weird stuff on the IndieWeb in general, I'd love to read them! Just reply to this post on your own site and send me a Webmention.
If you aren't ready to reply in words... maybe a GIF would do? :)
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