Okay, enough, I’m joining! Aaron has been doing this for ages now (that is, 26 days): 100 days of IndieWeb, in which he builds an IndieWeb related feature into his site or some other service.

I’ve been doing my own 100 days of IndieWeb for a while now, but I never blogged about the outcomes of each day. There also wasn’t much focus. I did multiple things at once and was never really satisfied. So my 100 days of IndieWeb is not about doing more, it’s about doing less, but more consistent.

My updates here won’t all be as spectacular or useful to other people as Aaron’s, but they will be updates. My site will improve a small bit every day.

I wanted to start off with something simple, and since I’m already copying Aaron I’m going to do something he did a few days ago, that is: fixing my reposts.

Before today, they looked like this:

As you can see I default to the hostname when I don’t have an author cached. In the case of a retweet, this is not useful at all! Luckily I already had the data cached from the Twitter import, so with a few tweaks I was able to show that on the page:

To make things more interesting I now have a /reposts feed too.

Over the last months I’m on IRC more often. I like the simplicity of sending plain-text messages, but from time to time I like to send a picture as well. The best way to do that on IRC is to upload the file somewhere else and send a link. Uploading files can be a hassle though.

I must admit that this problem is somewhat born because I already found a solution for it elsewhere. I followed Aaron’s recipe for creating a folder that uploads images, but for the times I needed it, I found it tedious to drag my screenshots to that folder. So here’s my alteration of it.

My workflow is nearly the same, but I choose the type ‘Voorziening’ (what’s that in English?), which makes it available in the right-click-menu. I can just select a file, right-click, and go to Voorzieningen > Upload to Media Endpoint.

I let it accept images, but you can go for documents in general as well, and the rest of the workflow is the same as Aaron’s. (Make sure to pass the input to the shell script as arguments!) The only thing is that it will receive a list of files, so I changed the shell script to:

for f in "$@"
do
    curl -i -F "file=@$f" -H "Authorization: Bearer xxx" https://example.com/media-endpoint | grep Location: | sed -En 's/^Location: (.+)/\1/p' | tr -d '\r\n' | pbcopy
done

Note that this uploads multiple files and only saves the last url to the clipboard. I just select one file per upload, so that will be fine.