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Thursday, November 7th, 2019
Sunday, June 30th, 2019
Weeknotes #16 | Trys Mudford
Just look at these fantastic pictures that Trys took (very unobstrusively) at Patterns Day—so rock’n’roll!
Patterns Day notes
Stuart took copious notes during every single talk at Patterns Day—what a star!
Friday, March 15th, 2019
Other people’s weeknotes
Paul is writing weeknotes. Here’s his latest.
Amy is writing weeknotes. Here’s her latest.
Aegir is writing weeknotes. Here’s his latest.
Nat is writing weeknotes. Here’s their latest.
Alice is writing weeknotes. Here’s her latest.
Mark is writing weeknotes. Here’s his latest.
I enjoy them all.
Thursday, September 6th, 2018
Weaknotes 1
I really like Alice’s updates.
I think I’ll do weaknotes. Some collections of notes. Sometimes. Not very well written probably. Generally written with the urgency of someone who is waiting for a baby wake up.
Monday, July 2nd, 2018
Three Missions | Field Notes
Okay, I think I’m going to have to get this pack of three notebooks: Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo.
Ampersand 2018 | Rob Weychert
Rob attended the excellent Ampersand event last Friday and he’s made notes for each and every talk.
Wednesday, April 4th, 2018
My POSSE plan for evolving my site | Dries Buytaert
I approve of Dries’s plan!
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2018
The Way of the Web | Jeremy Keith | Hooked On Code
Here are Torre’s notes on my talk at An Event Apart Seattle. (She’s been liveblogging all the talks.)
LukeW | An Event Apart: The Way of the Web
Here are Luke’s notes from the talk I just gave at An Event Apart in Seattle.
Tuesday, December 19th, 2017
Micro.blog - @adactio
I’m syndicating my notes to micro.blog now.
Sunday, August 6th, 2017
Alpaca Lunch (@alpaca_lunchnote) • Instagram photos and videos
Jon’s been drawing a lunch note for his daughter every day since she was four years old. They are somewhat puntastic.
Wednesday, July 26th, 2017
Posting to my site
I was idly thinking about the different ways I can post to adactio.com. I decided to count the ways.
Admin interface
This is the classic CMS approach. In my case the CMS is a crufty hand-rolled affair using PHP and MySQL that I wrote years ago. I log in to an admin interface and fill in a form, putting the text of my posts into a textarea
. In truth, I usually write in a desktop text editor first, and then paste that into the textarea
. That’s what I’m doing now—copying and pasting Markdown from the Typed app.
Directly from my site
If I’m logged in, I get a stripped down posting interface in the notes section of my site.
Bookmarklet
This is how I post links. When I’m at a URL I want to bookmark, I hit the “Bookmark it” bookmarklet in my browser’s bookmarks bar. That pops open a version of the admin interface tailored specifically for links. I really, really like bookmarklets. The one big downside is that they don’t work on mobile.
Text message
This is something I knocked together at Indie Web Camp Brighton 2015 using the Twilio API. It’s handy for posting notes if I’m travelling somewhere and data is at a premium. But I don’t use it that often.
Thanks to Aaron’s OwnYourGram service—and the fact that my site has a micropub endpoint—I can post images from Instagram to my site. This used to happen instantaneously but Instagram changed their API rules for the worse. Between that and their shitty “algorithmic” timeline, I find myself using the service less and less. At this point I’m only on their for the doggos.
Swarm
Like OwnYourGram, Aaron’s OwnYourSwarm allows me to post check-ins and photos from the Swarm app to my site. Again, micropub makes it all possible.
OwnYourGram and OwnYourSwarm are very similar and could probably be abstracted into a generic service for posting from third-party apps to micropub endpoints. I’d quite like to post my check-ins on Untappd to my site.
Other people’s admin interfaces
Thanks to rel="me"
and IndieAuth, I can log into other people’s posting interfaces using my own website as the log-in, and post to my micropub endpoint, like this. Quill is a good example of this. I don’t use it that much, but I really should—the editor interface is quite Medium-like in its design.
Anyway, those are the different ways I can update my website that I can think of right now.
Syndication
In terms of output, I’ve got a few different ways of syndicating what I post here:
- RSS feeds for my journal, links, articles, and notes.
- JSON feeds for my journal, links, articles, and notes.
- Twitter accounts for my journal, links, articles, and notes (that one is my main Twitter account).
- I syndicate most of my my photos to my Flickr account.
- I syndicate most of my journal posts and articles to my Medium account.
- I used to syndicate my links to my Delicious account but at some point that became fairly pointless.
- Whenever I post a link, The Internet Archive gets pinged and makes a copy for the wayback machine. Here’s an example of a recent link.
- I syndicate just about everything to my Facebook account using If This, Then That recipes (RSS to Facebook posts). Facebook is a roach motel. I never post any original content there—everything starts here on my site.
Just so you know, if you comment on one of my posts on Facebook, I probably won’t see it. But if you reply to a copy of one of posts on Twitter or Instagram, it will show up over here on adactio.com thanks to the magic of Brid.gy and webmention.
Tuesday, April 4th, 2017
Sketchnotes from AEA Seattle | Krystal Higgins
I love Krystal’s sketchnotes from my talk at An Event Apart Seattle. Follows on nicely from Ethan’s too.
LukeW | An Event Apart: Evaluating Technology
Luke is a live-blogging machine. Here’s the notes he made during my talk at An Event Apart Seattle.
If it reads like a rambling hodge-podge of unconnected thoughts, I could say that you had to be there …but it kinda was a rambling hodge-podge of unconnected thoughts.
Tuesday, January 3rd, 2017
Indie Microblogging: owning your short-form writing by Manton Reece — Kickstarter
Here’s an interesting Kickstarter project: a book about owning your notes (and syndicating them to Twitter) to complement the forthcoming micro.blog service.
Sunday, May 29th, 2016
A little progress
I’ve got a fairly simple posting interface for my notes. A small textarea, an optional file upload, some checkboxes for syndicating to Twitter and Flickr, and a submit button.
It works fine although sometimes the experience of uploading a file isn’t great, especially if I’m on a slow connection out and about. I’ve been meaning to add some kind of Ajax-y progress type thingy for the file upload, but never quite got around to it. To be honest, I thought it would be a pain.
But then, in his excellent State Of The Gap hit parade of web technologies, Remy included a simple file upload demo. Turns out that all the goodies that have been added to XMLHttpRequest
have made this kind of thing pretty easy (and I’m guessing it’ll be easier still once we have fetch
).
I’ve made a little script that adds a progress bar to any forms that are POSTing data.
Feel free to use it, adapt it, and improve it. It isn’t using any ES6iness so there are some obvious candidates for improvement there.
It’s working a treat on my little posting interface. Now I can stare at a slowly-growing progress bar when I’m out and about on a slow connection.
Friday, April 15th, 2016
Clarity 2016 Wrapup by Chris Coyier on CodePen
As well as compèring the event, Chris took the time to make notes at the Clarity conference, dedicated to all things patterny.
Tuesday, April 5th, 2016
Clarity Conf: Brad Frost
I wish I could’ve made it to the Clarity conference—I had a Salter Cane gig to play—but luckily for me, Brad took lots of notes.
Sunday, June 21st, 2015
Responsive day out 3: the final breakpoint | hiddedevries.nl
A fantastically-detailed write up of the whole day out. Each talk is described, and then the threads are tied together at the end. Great stuff!
As may have become clear from my notes above, Responsive Day Out 3 was a day full of variety. I had the feeling it could have easily been called Web Day Out, and I guess that makes sense, as responsive web design has naturally grown to be a pleonasm in the past few years.