Also respect to the kid who clearly didn't come in costume, but made the most of their red and black uniform by hand drawing a Deadpool mask on cardboard.
🤔 I'm looking into things I could possibly do for work that are outside of my normal (i.e. software/web development). The idea of proofreading is sticking with me. It's something I've done in all aspects of my work for many different people.
So, how do I find people who need proofreading work?
📺️ Hey, #Lucasfilm, I have an idea for a Disney+ series: #StarWars Ascendancy. Explore the Chiss post- #Thrawn. It's basically #GameOfThrones in space!
All the family rivalry and politics and jockeying for power is there. As is the background threat (white walkers / Grisks), those guarding against it while the families fight (Night's Watch / Expansionary Defence Fleet), the chosen one with the mystic powers of seeing into the past / future (Bran / Cheery), seven kingdoms / six star systems...
You are also free from most of the established Star Wars canon, being in the unknown regions (aka The Chaos).
⌨️ I think my next hyperfocus is going to be building a multiplatform status.log equivalent.
I have a desire to try and build a #MAUI #Blazor hybrid app, and working with the #omg.lol API seems pretty fun. Plus, I'm a bit jealous that the current app is apple-only
I couldn't see any docs on the #some.pics API, and I'll have to figure out the OAuth flow, but surely it shouldn't be hard?
🗣️ It's not static, but I've added JavaScript to load replies to my weblog.lol posts (the ones that are linked to a friendica post, anyway). So you can visit the the weblog and see the conversation as a comments thread, then link off to interact with the conversation on your own instance (if you "log in" first).
I really should do a full write-up of what I've done with my site so far... Maybe after I commit to putting it on my main domain.
Update: I committed to putting it on my main domain. Now available at death.id.au/ I'm quite proud of it, but I still can't help wondering what I want to add to it next.
I also started writing up some stuff about how I built it but... I don't know, I feel like I write too verbosely. Maybe I need to split it up into multiple posts...
🗂️ A new version of #Wavebox has afforded me the incentive to reorganise all my apps/tabs.
In doing so, I realised something: apart from numbering, it's organised like a #JohnnyDecimal system! I've got Spaces for Areas, Groups for Categories and "Apps" and/or pinned tabs as individual ID points. All other tabs are temporary and will be trashed when I close the browser.
💬 Sometimes I just can't help myself. My deathau.weblog.lol site now has a fediverse "login" — you enter fediverse handle and it will look up your avatar and subscribe link via webfinger, saving those to local storage. Then, it replaces all the links to my friendica instance with links to that same post in your instance (as per the subscribe link).
I just need to figure out how to get the reply/reblog/like counts of my posts in there, too.
Also, at some point, I want to replace the emoji font (currently Noto Color Emoji) with the same 3D Fluent ones that status.lol uses. Any tips, @Adam :prami: ?
@Adam :prami: I went down a rabbit hole, and for something that is literally bundled with Windows, it's hard to pin down. I found this GitHub Repo which has a custom CSS to replace Discord emoji with the Fluent ones, and it has the Teams animated ones as an option! So I grabbed a copy of that CSS for my site. They're being served from some guy's personal website at the moment (mirrored from this repository, I believe), so I'll probably want to host a mirror myself somewhere at some point, but they look great!
!Friendica Support If I have the URI of a post (e.g. https://death.id.au/objects/0e03068e-3466-3cb4-8207-08c267219144) and retrieve it via a JSON API call, I get the ActivityPub representation of that post. This does not include the replies/reblogs/favourites count.
If I retrieve the post through the Mastodon-compatible API, using its local id (e.g. https://death.id.au/api/v1/statuses/342306) I will get the counts, as well as the URI.
But if I'm starting with the URI, how do I get the local id to then call that API?
@Gordon Pedersen The identifier you're looking for is called uri-id, it's a numerical representation of all the URIs that are recorded by a Friendica node. Every post has one, as well as all contacts, etc...
The item-uri table actually makes the correlation between a guid and a uri-id.
@Gordon Pedersen I expect the search endpoint (/api/v2/search) to return the post object including its identifier. Just use the remote post URL as search string. Here's the documentation for it: docs.joinmastodon.org/methods/…
@Hypolite Petovan I'm experimenting with showing the counts on my personal blog. deathau.weblog.lol/ If you click the icon on the top right (or any "Interact on the Fediverse" link) then enter your handle, the page should refresh and show counts on posts.
@Gordon Pedersen Oh, I see, definitely an interesting feature, although as you've found out, there's no reference to the uri-id in the public ActivityPub representation of a post.
@Michael Vogel What are the risks of including the uri-id of a post in the /objects/ output?
@Michael Vogel @Gordon Pedersen We do check the authentication token for the search, which requires an account on the remote system you're probing for interaction counts.
🚧 Hooray! I've managed to rig things up so that future posts from status.lol post directly to deathau.weblog.lol/ This is part of a wider effort to both migrate my website to omg.lol and consolidate my online presence. There is still a lot of work to do in this regard, but this felt like a solid step in the right direction.
🧑🔬 (The previous post was supposed to also be a test of my new workflow for adding status.lol posts to my blog, but I messed something up with env variables, so I'm going to use this post to test instead)
📧 Okay. Fastmail is cool. I've been using it for a while now, but I only just realised that the way I have things set up, not only does it not matter what goes before the @, but I can have an unlimited depth of subdomains. As long as it ends with my domain, I'll get the email.
I'm not the kind of person who cares about numbers like likes or follower count. I'm not, nor do I ever aim to be, an "influencer". But I do kinda wish I had more followers just so I had more people around to help answer whatever random question I have on my mind at any given moment.
Does anyone know of a good #mobile #keyboard that I can use hand-held? I want to be able to type on something with actual tactile feedback (I hate touch screen keyboards) but doesn't sacrifice portability by having to set the phone down somewhere while I type. (My brain seems to be on overload right now)
Does anyone know of a good #mobile #keyboard that I can use hand-held? I want to be able to type on something with actual tactile feedback (I hate touch screen keyboards) but doesn't sacrifice portability by having to set the phone down somewhere while I type. (My brain seems to be on overload right now)
I'd really like something like the TREWGrip, but that is a little bulky to be carrying around, has a bit of a learning curve and ultimately never succeeded as a product anyway...
I think what I really want is something like a game grip (example ), but instead of controller buttons, a full split qwerty keyboard, like the old Nokia 5510
I found this image in a search, but the link to the website is broken, and I can't find a source. It claims to be a combined keyboard and power bank. And it might be specific to iPhone, whereas I use Android, but this is in the right direction, at least...
The obvious answer, when I write my question in those words, is to first get clarity. Lack of clarity is a big part of what kills my motivation. Unfortunately, the task is debugging. Getting clarity is the goal of the ambiguous task.
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