Posting this note from barnabywalters.bit — been experimenting with namecoin, got .bit domains resolving on my machine by following instructions namecoin.bitcoin-contact.org, installed namecoin wallet on my VPS and registered a name, pointed it at my web server.
Surprisingly it was a fairly straightforward process. The most difficult part was getting hold of some namecoin to register names with — I ended up trading some of my DOGE for NMC on vircurex.com.
I am inordinately proud of this tiny #namecoin progress bash snippet:
watch 'echo "$(namecoind getblockcount) / $(curl -s http://explorer.dot-bit.org/stats/block_count.txt) * 100" | bc -l'
Now comfortable with Pizza, Dim Sum is my next food project. #tabdump:
For those seeking perspective and groundedness, might I recommend xkcd.com/980/huge #whatsapp #insanity
Or, heck, a good book, or going outside, or cooking some food, or playing some music.
Too windy to go to board game night, off to Grótta to enjoy the wind to the full!
postcardsocial.com by @kylnew is very much inline with #indieweb #ownyourdata #selfdogfooding attitudes, looks like a great project! Salivting over potential integration with indiewebcamp.com/micropub and indieauth.com…
Celebrating Skólapúlsinn’s 4th birthday @ Vísar HQ
Prepping an old machine for demoing crypto tech at the cryptoparty tonight, windows being a complete pain. I have a feeling I’m going to be spending most of the evening apologising for other people’s bad UI decisions.
#TIL about Unifont http://czyborra.com/unifont/
@snarfed ah, I tend to scrape twitter.com using github.com/indieweb/php-mf2-shim as it’s forced to return results which are useful to humans :)
Christian Bromann:
@barnabywalters unfortunately many other validators and browser plugins doesn't support microformats2 h-card :-/
@bromann all the interesting work being done in the indiewebcamp.com community (e.g. cross-site comments are being done with mf2, and they’re easier to author+more clearly documented than classic mf, so makes a lot of sense to start using now!
Looks like twitter no longer demands that replies start with the @-name of the person they’re directed to, e.g. https://twitter.com/BarnabyWalters/status/435030572860465152
This makes @t-style reply-to-self as continuations of notes even more feasible as a practise.
Christian Bromann:
step up your semantic web game by adding an #hcard into the source code of your personal website http://microformats.org/code/hcard/creator …
@bromann even better (and easier!), add microformats2 h-card microformats.org/wiki/h-card, validate with indiewebify.me/validate-h-card
Micah N Gorrell:
@BarnabyWalters Those would work as well but would limit it's use to an actual browser. What is wrong with an HTTP header for this?
@_minego links with the rel semantic can be used both in human-visible markup for improved back-compatibility and quick error-spotting (as well as layering on top of existing solution) and also in HTTP headers for machine-only use
Micah N Gorrell:
@BarnabyWalters It should be an HTTP header, so that existing clients aren't broken by the change.
@_minego which existing clients would be broken by adding a classname or rel value to the HTML page someone downloads something from, or a Link header to the download itself?
Barnaby Walters:
#idea: a microformat for download signatures/checksums, allowing browsers to automatically verify files without people having to go into the terminal and use shasum or gpg --verify
Of course the more significant thing is UI considerations: how to offer this info to the downloader, how to explain what the various possible outcomes mean and what action the user should take as a result of them
Justin Cormack:
@janl @BarnabyWalters sure, it needs extending but I think http headers are the right place for this.
@justincormack @janl possibly, human-visible links/keys less likely to go out of date, also better BC as easier for people with dumb browsers to manually verify than invisible header info
#idea: a microformat for download signatures/checksums, allowing browsers to automatically verify files without people having to go into the terminal and use shasum or gpg --verify
Sophie Dennis:
@BarnabyWalters I mistook part of the handwritten notes for "disco" - an extreme example of varying tune for different dance types :)
@sophiedennis haha yeah “dissociation” is the French word for trompette rhythms to go with the melody, abbreviated to “disso”. But if anyone could do disco gurdy, it’s Gregory Jolivet ;)
Tantek Çelik:
#HouseOfCards s2e1 was good.
But the best thing yesterday was getting to try a Boosted electric skateboard: http://boostedboards.com/
Amazing. Handheld trigger remote control via Bluetooth. Forward and reverse. And I only tried it in "turtle" mode. In "rabbit" mode it can apparently do 20 miles an hour. Up hill. Jetsons-like motor sound included.
Forget about Segway, Boosted's electric skateboard feels like an object from the future dropped into the present, more in the realm of Marty's hoverboard (Back To The Future II & III) and Y.T.'s Smartwheels skateboard (Snow Crash).
@t woah that looks amazing — also loving their detailed, transparent blog (very similar tone to blog.technical.io) and selfdogfood framing e.g. "what would we want on our own personal longboards?"
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Presumably you’re already aware of the brain-controlled skateboard?
Ryan Barrett