13 Features of iOS 13: The long press
This sounds like a feature that works exactly as I should and as expected.
Here’s what’s great about iCloud sharing:
The main problem is that it is exclusive to the Apple ecosystem. That excludes part of the family. If I’m going to change things up it would also be nice if the new solution was hosted on a server controlled by me.
So, a self-hosted alternative to iCloud photo sharing, with apps for viewing on both iOS and Android. Any recommendations are much appreciated.
Since you don’t listen to that many shows I’d say Overcast is the best way to go.
Anyway, thanks for adding it to the wiki. Follow up question though, what wiki? Where do I find it?
I wonder how many webmentions I receive if I also reply to my original post here?
Regarding your second post,
1) Used the share sheet and selected ”Dela som fil”, which I assume is called ”Share as file” (or possibly ”Save as file”) in English. That brings up a second share sheet in which I could save it to the files app. From there I uploaded it to GitHub.
2) I’m not sure and haven’t tried it, but I assume you could use the download link on GitHub, save it so files and then open it there and chose to import it.
Be aware, the Shortcut is very much a hack solution right now. It totally butchers the result if the post you are trying to reply to originates from a non-hosted micro.blog account.
@MrHenko 😀 Enjoy. I also like that there are extensions you can choose to install and then you can customise the order they appear in too.
So first off, here’s my setup. I self host a WordPress blog. It uses a theme that I’ve made myself and quite a few plugins that I didn’t make. The important plugins in this context should be IndieWeb, Post Kinds, Semantic-Linkbacks and probably most important Webmentions.
There’s a help page on micro.blog about called ”Replies and @-mentions” that tells us that:
For an external blog post that is a reply to a specific Micro.blog post, the external blog can send a Webmention to Micro.blog. As long as the sending blog is associated with a Micro.blog user, that post will be copied to Micro.blog as a reply and threaded into the conversation. Micro.blog’s Webmention endpoint is: https://micro.blog/webmention
So that’s what I tried to set up. I created an iOS Shortcut for my iPhone and iPad that I can trigger from the ”Share” menu in the micro.blog app that creates the hyperlink and fills in the @username-part. It then asks me for my reply as input text and finally sends it off to my blog.
On the Mac I don’t have quite such a nice automation workflow yet. Instead I just have a TextExpander snippet to fill in the hyperlink a bit faster.1
I also mark up the hyperlink with class="u-in-reply-to", though from the help text I suspect that’s not fully necessary.
The thing I knew I had to tweak was the part about how ”as long as the sending blog is associated with a Micro.blog user”. I’ve had multiple people reporting to me before that my webmentions shows up as sent by anonymous rather than as me, so I figured I had to sort that out first. To do that I used the Indiewebify.me service and checked how well my blog did the ”Become a citizen of the IndieWeb” and ”Publishing on the IndieWeb Level 2 – 1. Mark up your content (Profile, Notes, Articles, etc…) with microformats2” parts.
They showed that I had some tweaking to do, mostly because I had mistakenly only marked up part of my h-card as such so a lot of things where missing.
When that seemed to work I made a test reply to one of my own posts on my blog and the webmention had my name attached to it, so that seemed like progress.
I then sent out a post asking for people willing to receive some test replies and John (@johnjohnston) and Ron (@ronguest) where kind enough reply. The first proper test almost worked. It did show up a a reply but it identified as sent by blog.henrikcarlsson.se instead of by @MrHenko, so some part of micro.blog identifying me as me didn’t work.
So I dug around some more and realised that I had inputed http://henrikcarlsson.se as my web site in micro.blog’s account settings. While that is technically true, as my blog posts comes from the subdomain http://blog.henrikcarlsson.se, so I tried changing to the latter in micro.blog and that worked. My replies on my blog arrives properly threaded in micro.blog and properly attributed to @MrHenko.
One glaring problem remained though. Every reply from me got double-posted. I assume that is because I technically do send two things to micro.blog. A webmention from the blog post and then the post itself because it shows up in my RSS feed that is used to feed micro.blog.
My solution was to post my replies in a special ”interactions” category that I use the Ultimate Category Excluder plugin to exclude from my main RSS feed. And with that in place things more or less worked as intended.
Every time I make a new reply in a thread in a micro.blog conversation, that’s a new post on my blog.2 That is in itself not a big problem but the curious part is that every reply that somebody else makes in the thread results a webmention/comment to multiple of the posts that I’ve made that has been threaded in that particular conversation. So I get duplicate comments, but on differens posts on my blog.
Right now I deal with it by only approving the comment to the earliest post I’ve made in the thread but that doesn’t really quite work since my subsequent comments doesn’t show up as comments on my own first post on my blog. So I’ll need to look more into this.
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@MrHenko Thanks for writing this up; I’ve added it to the wiki.
I think for your replies to show up under your original post, you have to also send a Webmention to it (as well as to the Micro.blog reply you’re replying to), although since you’re getting replies from the Micro.blog Conversation to multiple different reply-posts you’ve made on your site that are part of the Conversation, it seems like Micro.blog should have also sent a Webmention back to your original post when your reply-post was added to the Conversation….
(I also think I remember seeing someone who had gotten on-blog-replies to comments that arrived from Micro.blog as Webmentions to be sent back to Micro.blog as Webmentions in response to those comments…but I can’t remember who, so maybe I’m imagining it…)
My head hurts from trying to keep this straight… ;-) But the two things you did figure out are really helpful 👍
@MrHenko Also, 1) how did you liberate the Shortcut from Shortcuts in order to get it into GitHub, and 2) how does one then install it into Shortcuts from GitHub?
The Shortcut sounds really useful for (at least as a starting point in customizing for their own blog) everyone who does get the Webmention-to-Micro.blog stuff working 👍
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I’ll see if I can get around to it today or tomorrow.
If so, this one should only show up once since it’s posted in a category that’s excluded from my feeds.
@MrHenko that fixed it, but I see 2 messages in the main timeline? Only one in conversation view (mac app).
@MrHenko here you go.
@MrHenko YOLO
Does this show up in micro.blog as well?
@ronguest I wonder if this will show up in micro.blog?
@blog @MrHenko it does! I see the re comes from @blog but it has your avatar. Are you using the post_kinds WordPress plugin for replies?
@MrHenko that fixed it, but I see 2 messages in the main timeline? Only one in conversation view (mac app).
@MrHenko Are you planning on doing a write-up about this process when you’re done? It looks like you and @johnjohnston found at least two areas where extra care was needed (m.b webpage URL has to match blog url, webmention replies “doubled” if not also excluded from feed sent to m.b), and it would be good to have a detailed-ish document about WordPress webmention replies and Micro.blog out there on the web (and in the wiki)….
@johnjohnston Hrm, you’re @johnjohnston in that reply, even though your M.b profile URL matches your blog URL…. (And there’s that strange “Like this:Like Loading…” at the end.)
@smokey @johnjohnston Oh, weird; something’s busted in @-mentions for “domain usernames”; it’s truncating at the period (which explains John’s mentioning of “blog” in this reply)…
@MrHenko @smokey Thanks! If you write this up, feel free to include bug reports in the blog post too. 🙂 The double posts might be a bug, but I noticed that the URL is different for those 2 posts: one uses the format p=10756 in WordPress, so Micro.blog can’t know that it’s the same as the other permalink.
@MrHenko Did you remove one of the duplicates? It’s no longer showing up in the conversation, but it was a little while ago.
@MrHenko I’m interested in knowing more about what you did. I’m sending my blog here, and using webmentions on my blog to track convos, but hadn’t seen how to link stuff here back there. I generate different rss entries for short and long blog posts (I created “microposts” on my blog which come through as simple messages, while normal ones do the ”title, link” thing).
@smokey @MrHenko @manton the “Like this:Like Loading…” comes from my use of the Jetpack like button. I probably need to give that up or understand a bit better how a mention is grabbed from a post…
My micro.blog account has johnjohnston.info/blog/ verified. I guess the incoming mention is reduced to the domain and not the folder my blog is in. Would it help for me to add a rel link to micro.blog on the home page? Will that confuse things? I’ve got the link on /blog/
@johnjohnston Ah, I see. Yes, Micro.blog assumes for incoming Webmentions that the verified site is just a domain name without a path. I don’t think you need to add anything else, because you do have a rel=me on the reply pages already (but Micro.blog doesn’t check that currently).
@manton if I added rel=me on my domain page and verified that, would that break anything or help anything?
@johnjohnston You’d also need to update the URL on your profile to just be the domain name. That may be a good short-term change while I consider if there’s more Micro.blog could do here. Thanks!
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I’m hoping that turning this switch to “off” in Overcast will decrease the amount of mindless listening and get me to make more conscious choices about when to listen and to what.
(Also I love any excuse to use my Pencil.)
This is my backpack. (Nerdy Log Lady for scale.)
It’s not fancy or elegant but I like it. A lot.
Mostly I like it because it contains all the things I use to get my work done. Most importantly it contains my computer and its various peripherals.
When it comes to getting my work done, a real computer has always been my tool of choice and for as long as I’ve had my current job, that computer has been a MacBook Pro.
I also like my computer. A lot. It’s the last of its kind, really. It is the 2015 15″ Retina MacBook Pro model that was sold up until last summer, which was when I bought this one. It’s the tool that I use for most of the things involved in my job. I do carry a physical notebook and a pen quite often and use it to scribble down my thoughts but it is the computer that is the main work machine.
There are other things in the backpack that help me get my work done. In fact, I have a thirty-eight (38) items long checklist in OmniFocus for the things that should ideally be in the backpack. The notebook and pen I just mentioned are two of the items on the list. A charger for the computer is another one. There’s also an external hard drive, adapters for Thunderbolt to Ethernet, Thunderbolt to FireWire 800, a FireWire 800 cable(!), a FireWire 800 to 400 adapter(!?!?), Mini DisplayPort to VGA, Mini DisplayPort to HDMI, an Ethernet cable, all kinds of USB cables, a PowerBank and adapters for camera and microphone mounts. Oh, and an umbrella and various non-prescription medications.
(Just some of the stuff is actually in the picture.)
And that’s just the basic configuration of it. Some days I might carry another external hard drive, or maybe a iPad Air. And most days I carry my lunchbox in it as well.
In many ways this is a really good setup. The bag is heavy, but most days I sling it on one shoulder for the twenty steps walk to the car, dump it in the passenger seat next to me where it rests while I drop the kids off at preschool and then drive to work. Arriving at work I take a similar twenty to forty steps walk with the backpack on my back before arriving at my office and dumping it on the floor where it will rest until I walk back to the car and drive home.
The computer is also heavy, but it lives its life mostly either docked to an external display and keyboard and trackpad at my office at work, in a similar arrangement at my home office, or in the backpack being transported between work and home.
This setup is also good for travel, because as long as I have the backpack with me I have everything that I might need to get work done with me. There’s nothing1 that I need to do that I can’t get done.
However, or but,
This setup is also really bad for travel because it’s heavy and, even worse, bulky. It takes up a lot of space in the car. That’s not a problem when commuting to work but when I actually travel somewhere by car it’s often with the family and that always means there are a ton of stuff being packed already. My backpack just adds insult to injury, and for all kind of travel that’s not commuting, it is always just one of my bags. I’ll always need to bring at least one more bag for clothes and toiletries.
Heavy and bulky is also applicable to the computer unfortunately, which is why it is not a solution to get a smaller bag and pack less stuff in it, as long as the computer is part of the stuff being packed. If the computer should be brought, the backpack in question is the best way to bring it because even though it’s heavy and bulky it sits nicely on my back.
But maybe there’s different way to do this…
A silly amount of computing devices.
@MrHenko A few weeks back I was with my family down the shore. There were stacks of MacBooks. 🙃
@MrHenko Do you have a favourite?
@Bruce But that was multiple people’s devices, right? This was just my stuff, trying to get some work done. :)
@martinfeld Generally answer to that would be the MacBook Pro. It enables me to do 100% of my work and everything else that I might ever want to do on a computer.
However, I’m right now reconsidering the technology I’m using to get work done. I’m drafting a longer blog post about this but haven’t quite gotten around to finish it yet. The short version is that I’m right now testing out the iPad Mini, and that’s the reason for the insane pile of technology yesterday as I was trying to get it setup just right. My hope is to have a setup where I can do 80% of the work on the iPad Mini but still do most of it on the MacBook Pro. The benefit I’m hoping to get out of it is to be able to grab the iPad at a moments notice and go for a walk or just sit down at a different place when I feel the procrastination coming. It’ll also help a lot on the days when I’m staying at home with one or more sick kids and need to get some lighter work done in a more portable setting.
@MrHenko Great answer! I’ve always been a Mac fan but I also enjoy the ability to just pick up the iPad and start doing something away from a desk. I look forward to your longer blog post!
🎞 Watched: Black Panther (2018)
The MCU movies keeps on delivering. This was another really good one.
@MrHenko This film blew me away. I saw it first at a second run theater with smallish screens, so I jumped at the chance to see it at the science museum’s jumbo theater, then later in one of the few theaters outfitted with 70mm equipment. Stunning.
@macgenie That sounds like a lot cooler circumstances than we watched it in. For us it was a 37″ television at home, with the kids literately sleeping on the other side of the wall that the tv hangs on. So the audio and visuals didn’t quite give the impact that I think Nolan was going for. Probably why the music, that everybody seems to think is brilliant, sort of underwhelmed me.
Okay, let’s give this a try then!
oo this looks like a fun project
Den som förespråkar liberal frihet förväntas ofta visa att detta resulterar i att människor väljer klokt och resultatet blir gott. Men människor måste också vara fria att fatta svåra beslut och ta risker.
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And yes, things are progressing nicely now.
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