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Jeremy Cherfas

So disappointing that @slackhq is giving up on the gateway between Slack and IRC. I wonder why. No reason given. https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/201727913-Connect-to-Slack-over-IRC-and-XMPP

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Mar 07 2018 on twitter.com

@jeremycherfas Probably lack of usage, which doesn't justify supporting it any longer. But I'm disappointed to see this, too, even though I haven't actively used it myself. Another case of a company shutting down integrations and bridges based on open standards.

lukas, Mar 07 2018 on micro.blog

@jeremycherfas I wonder if any other kind of bridge is possible for the IndieWebCamp channels. I connect via Slack and it seems like several other people do as well.

manton, Mar 07 2018 on micro.blog

Sorry about this. Can you tell us what about Slack makes this a difficult change? We’re more than happy to share possible workarounds.

Slack, Mar 07 2018 on twitter.com

@lukas Wish more of Slack's native API had been built on standards — with extensions where necessary — to avoid this kind of thing. Too easy for them to cut off compatibility after they reach a certain level of success. (Also, welcome!)

manton, Mar 07 2018 on micro.blog

@manton I wish I knew, but I am by no means expert enough. I generally use IRC, but Slack is handy to catch up and, especially, to remind myself to look at links and things when I get back to my computer. If that is possible in IRC I have not discovered how.

jeremycherfas, Mar 07 2018 on micro.blog

@aaronpk Great news!

manton, Mar 07 2018 on micro.blog

@lukas I wonder how much support it really takes. I don't suppose the API is set and forget, but is it really that time consuming, for a lot of goodwill.

jeremycherfas, Mar 07 2018 on micro.blog

@jeremycherfas @manton doesn't matrix.org support this sort of bridging? (also, I think it is interesting when “bridging" is used v. when “tunneling" is used in text describe this sort of linkage)

eli, Mar 07 2018 on micro.blog

@eli I don't know enough about Matrix or bridging to know. If Slack is giving up on maintaining support for open standards, will Matrix be able to access Slack?

jeremycherfas, Mar 07 2018 on micro.blog

The good news is that #indieweb -- the main channel for which I want both IRC and Slack -- should be OK as it uses the Slack API. Or so I am reliably informed ...

Jeremy Cherfas, Mar 07 2018 on stream.jeremycherfas.net

how about a blog post explaining your reasoning for the change? without it, we're all left to guess, and the guesses (say, lack of concern for interoperability…) will make Slack look worse than good reasons explained thoughtfully

Troy Davis, Mar 07 2018 on twitter.com

@SlackHQ I like the extra functionality of, eg, reminding myself about messages and the overall usability of Slack. I wouldn't want to be tied to a closed silo though. Bridging with IRC allows #indieweb people to own their messages.

Jeremy Cherfas, Mar 07 2018 on stream.jeremycherfas.net

I like the extra functionality of, eg, reminding myself about messages and the overall usability of Slack. I wouldn't want to be tied to a closed silo though. Bridging with IRC allows #indieweb people to own their messages.

Eat This Podcast, Mar 07 2018 on twitter.com

@manton @lukas @jeremycherfas Stewart Butterfield regretted the IRC support, so I am not at all surprised to see it go.

clonezone, Mar 07 2018 on micro.blog

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Jeremy Cherfas

People of the interwebs: I know someone famous said something about a crank being a little thing that makes revolutions, but can I find it? Can I heck. If you know better -- and I know it was not Abe Lincoln -- please let me know.

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Mar 06 2018 on twitter.com

Henry George? “A crank is a little thing that makes revolutions”

frenchtart., Mar 06 2018 on twitter.com

but now that i’m googling, it appears it’s attributed to a few people.

frenchtart., Mar 06 2018 on twitter.com

Why wouldn't DDG find that for me? Mind you, it is only "attrib." And ironically, considering it is you, my memory has it down for Ho Chi Minh, but I didn't want to say so.

Eat This Podcast, Mar 06 2018 on twitter.com

Think it was Schumacher

Sheila Dillon, Mar 06 2018 on twitter.com

Could have been. Certainly fits.

Eat This Podcast, Mar 06 2018 on twitter.com

weird. I haven’t seen a reference to HCM yet - only a few vague ones to a socialist vegetarian journal published in Victorian times.

frenchtart., Mar 06 2018 on twitter.com

It's EF (Fritz) Schumacher. I heard him at a conference in 1976 where he declared that he was proud to be called a 'crank'. "A crank" he said "is a device for transforming a small movement into a great revolution." Also see a similar quote david-boyle.co.uk/books/moneycha… @SheilaDillon

Kamayoq, Mar 06 2018 on twitter.com

Thanks. That's two votes for Schumacher. The description of Rupert Brooke predates him, so it isn't original, but that isn't attributed to anyone.

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Jeremy Cherfas

Giving tyme-app.com a try. It has to be smoother than Toggl.

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Jeremy Cherfas

I will never understand the special hell in which the people who do not understand Word styles must live.

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Jeremy Cherfas

Twofer! Adactio's Ways and means and Tim Bray's Reviewing Ethics

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Two savvy treats on one day. Jeremy Keith takes a general look at the power of internet companies in his post on Ends and means. Tim Bray focuses specifically on the utility that is Google Maps in his post Reviewing Ethics.

Jeremy: Going back to the opening examples of online blackouts, was it morally wrong for companies to use their power to influence politics? Or would it have been morally wrong for them not to have used their influence?

Tim: Call me crazy, but I’d pass leg­is­la­tion to keep Google from do­ing what they’re do­ing. They should be able to sell space on the map­s, and they should be able to pro­vide qual­i­ty fil­ter­s, and col­lect feed­back on re­views and down­grade or up­grade them ac­cord­ing­ly. But no damn way should they own the map and the crowd­sourced value-adds on the map.

No collusion, I'm sure, just two smart people addressing their concerns about good behaviour by those who make and use the web.

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good work

fredy, Nov 24 2018 on stream.jeremycherfas.net

I have a few different ways that I subscribe to blogs. If I “like” your blog, I will subscribe through Feedly or I will check back regularly. But if I LOVE your blog, I will subscribe via email. ( https://mightyessays.com/ ) This is because I don’t want to risk missing a single update! I want all the new posts as soon as they’re available.

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Jeremy Cherfas

I may need a new work timer, having inadvertently upgraded the old version of @Toggl. The new one is silly complex.

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You're talking about the mobile app, correct? What in particular seems to be the problem with it?

Toggl, Feb 26 2018 on twitter.com

@toggl Overall, the font size and lack of contrast make the screen hard for me to read on my iPhone 6+ and more specifically, switching between manual and automatic is more difficult and selecting clients and projects more cumbersome.

Jeremy Cherfas, Feb 26 2018 on stream.jeremycherfas.net

Overall, the font size and lack of contrast make the screen hard for me to read on my iPhone 6+ and more specifically, switching between manual and automatic is more difficult and selecting clients and projects more cumbersome.

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The worst possible feedback: it works for me.

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One of the good things about WordPress is how flexible it seems on the surface, able to perform all sorts of wizardry. One of the bad things about WordPress is how that very flexibility often makes it extremely difficult to achieve any sort of wizardry. That seems particularly true of anything to do with the .

So I was surprised to learn that Aaron Davis was having difficulty implementing a ZenPress child theme

Surprised because I run fornacalia.com with a ZenPress child theme and cannot recall any difficulties in setting that up. I think there may have been some issues with capitalisation of various names, but beyond that, I'm at a loss. I'd love to help -- but not sure how best to do that.

Maybe I should just share my child theme.

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Thank you Jeremy for sharing your theme. I really don’t know what is going on with my Zen children. I still could not get things working with your child.
Here is a screenshot of Zen:
Zen screenshot
Here is a screenshot of your child:
Jeremy's child theme
I thought that it might be some other plugin, but then why would the original theme work fine, but not the child? Mustified.

Aaron Davis, Feb 25 2018 on collect.readwriterespond.com

This is what we have been needing for the sims mobile cheats online.

hack sims mobile, Oct 06 2018 on stream.jeremycherfas.net

Jeremy Cherfas

@dgold if you are in IndieWeb IRC, can you figure out what just happened? Every one left in a hurry. Something about *.net *.split

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@jeremycherfas just wait, it’ll heal itself eventually. It’s annoying, but it is the price of having a widely dispersed meshed irc network.

dgold, Feb 23 2018 on micro.blog

Jeremy Cherfas

Odd. Encrypt.me seems unable to secure a connection on this free WiFi network at the airport. In which case, what’s the point?

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Jeremy Cherfas

About webmentions

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Webmentions are the glue that sticks all the bits in all the sites together.

That’s my one-liner about one of the core ideas about the , but it doesn’t actually tell you very much if you want to know how the glue works. I’ve kind of absorbed a moderately high-level abstraction over the past little while of playing with webmentions, but a friend asked for more:

Do you know of any diagrams that explain how this stuff works without all the … words that web communities seem to enjoy creating? I keep coming back to this topic every so often, and every time I return things just appear more complicated and broken than before …

I don’t think that last opinion is merited, but then I would say that. And right now I don’t have the time to write up my understanding. I’m pretty sure I saw something clear and to the point a little while back, but I’m blowed if I can find it now. So here are four pieces I have found.

These may not answer the question fully, but they are a start. And they might inspire me to write my own version, especially if I could have a synchronous discussion about it with my interlocuter.

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Nice collection @jeremycherfas. I always find it hard when directing people. I made my own attempt too collect.readwriterespond.com/webmentio... I guess that the IndieWeb site is a good place to start.

mrkrndvs, Feb 15 2018 on micro.blog

I'm writing a long-ish piece for A List Apart that should appear in the next couple of weeks. I'll try to ping you when it appears.

Chris Aldrich, Mar 09 2018 on stream.boffosocko.com