Excursions

I am part of so many interesting conversations at micro.blog that make me wish for a way to follow and persist them. So, I just created a small project for myself, a sample available here.

Finally watched The Big Sick. It’s refreshing to see some real couples, doing normal couples’ stuff. Performances are patchy throughout, but heartfelt.

A fresh, unpredictable treatment to the plot makes this romcom a good watch.

It’s been a very hectic week, loaded with work and hobby projects. Sleep is affected. Life with family is affected.

Weekend is marked for the recovery - quality time with family, and lots of rest!

@manton I started working on an app based on Micro.blog APIs — started as a project to learn and explore. I do want to open it up to others now, in case if it helps them.

Is there any process? I did generate an app token, not using login API as of now.

I look at some people and heartily feel the society does not deserve them. I am confounded as to what covert energy drives such lot.

There is no way your regular earthly diet can prepare you for the routine assault marring your senses.

Dave Winer wrote about Google’s recent strike on non-https sites.

When big companies try to force you to change your web site, say no. The web does not belong to them. Defend the web. The answer to Google is no.

I am torn on this. On one hand, I absolutely hate that Google wants every website owner to go through the hassle of obtaining certificates and enabling https — even if it’s a plain simple text blog. But on the other hand, I realise that it’s too much to expect that regular users understand the technicalities of which sites have to be secure and which are ok if they are not.

Making all sites secure will shift the onus to the site owners rather than the readers. Those who know how to, will find a way to do so. Those who don’t are hopefully with platforms, like Wordpress, that are making it simple to enable https. It can’t be a loss for anyone, can it?

Yee-haw! Alto’s Odyssey is here. Farewell to some hours of productivity. And welcome some hours of relaxing glides. 😊

You code. Or you write. Rarely can you do both together. That context switching is not so seamless.

I guess it has to do something with that left brain-right brain thing 🤓

On my IndieWeb Journey, there are few things I haven’t sorted out yet.

To set up a media endpoint for micropub.

To (auto) send webmentions to the linked sites.

To get mentions from Twitter on syndicated microposts. Bridgy’s sending webmentions only to the ones with explicit URLs.

I had been displaying the webmentions on the posts for some time now. Idea was to validate if things were setup correctly. Once I had an idea on which mentions needed to be surfaced and how, I got to work today.

Finally, I feel I have something I am satisfied with.