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The Adafruit web team is hiring!

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

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

Sunday snoozing

Thanks, Chris! I am thinking exactly along the lines of what you described. The ultimate “oh no I hope nothing breaks” demo for my site and all the apps and services that make it go! 😅

Great suggestion and I would love this as well. I am a bizarre person who is terrible at managing my own music experiences, so unfortunately I don’t have anything for this right now! I’m open to try things if folks have ideas.

Thanks! I hope to show that (at least with Shortcuts on iOS), it’s possible to “be the mobile layer over IndieWeb building blocks” you want to see in the world.

I share a lot of these syndication frustrations, since I don’t want to build it into my site’s backend. For Wordpress sites I think it can be automated with plugins (brid.gy syndication links?).

I’m considering getting a Shortcuts flow going before Summit. 😅 Long term I would love a service that does this with Micropub.

I think for markdown it’s double-tildes.

Thanks for the feedback! Keeping it super profesh in all aspects of game development. 😂

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 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.schmarty.net

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)

Learning some Unity with Hunter!

Please enjoy an awful thing we made!

It’s the White Truffle Ash Brie and I am told that it is vegan! A faux brie! It was quite tasty.

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

Eek! With summertime in full swing, we had too many cancellations. No IndieWeb Meetup this time around.

See y’all next time, sometime after next week’s IndieWeb Summit!

Time for another IndieWeb Meetup! We’re meeting in Brooklyn to be a little closer to the Mermaid Parade.

Come on our and work on your personal website, take ownership of your online identity, content, and relationships! You can do it, we can help.