1. Stuart Langridge: @adactio ooh, that's cool. Why not just use pingback? I assume the answer is "XML-RPC, man, why", for which I apologise :)

    @sil @adactio fwiw, pingback was extremely valuable prior art for webmention, the first indieweb comment implementation used pingbacks, and some indieweb sites (my own included) support comments using pingback as the notification transport, often using webmention.io as a proxy

  2. : Indieweb

    @tgb nice article — you absolutely are a creator! You’ve set up your own site, made it your online identity with rel-me, set up POSSE and indieweb comments. Glad to know that could help you, looking forward to seeing what you make next! See you at an indiewebcamp soon, hopefully :)

  3. If you’re using pika as a client and are getting “ConnectionClosed” exceptions, test or look very carefully through the code being executed — it is probably not a pika or rabbitmq issue but some other exception.

    E.G. I just spent half an hour tearing apart pika connection handling code when it turns out the exceptions were caused by passing a dict rather than an instance of template.Context to template.render().

  4. More dream-weirdness: text-only dreams. As in, the stuff that’s happening isn’t experienced visually/physically, but instead feels as if I’m reading it in a book. Is this dreaming the dream in text-form, or dreaming that I’m reading?

  5. So here’s a challenge for anyone who claims to be able to read meaning into dreams:

    Walking back to my apartment. Go in, it smells of smoke — turns out a hob was left on, and burnt some food. I turn it off. To get rid of the smell, I open a bunch of windows. They all have different window-opening devices, which all have short phrases written on — from inspirational quotes to adverts.

    To be clear, the whole “house is on fire” thing was a minor part — the main focus was the window handles. Does this have some profound meaning?

  6. I really think that’s part of the fun of — there’s no in-game pedagogy so you have to figure out what to do by trial, error, internet research, reading wiki/forum pages. It’s an interesting sort of game experience, very messy with unclear boundaries. Fun!