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2020-05-08

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Debugging my site with a little help from my friends

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It’s probably redundant to test HTML structure for my pages, but what the heck.

– Me, a couple months ago

There’s no rule, but obviously every webmention to my site will have full author info including photo.

– Me, a few weeks ago

Look honey I added Webmentions to my Datasette dashboard!

– Me, this morning

Sweet, jmac liked my mention! Wait why are tests failing? Maybe check the dashboard?

– Me, an hour ago

I fixed it!

– Me, a few minutes ago

The fix is reasonable defaults for response author info. I got other fixes in mind, including a default “card” for anonymous response authors. Also, inferring author info from source site. Thanks for the help and the ideas, Jason McIntosh!

Activity Log

hackers.town: 2020-05-08 Fri 07:27

Pause during pup walk for morning #flowers

Flowers

hackers.town: 2020-05-08 Fri 09:15

Preordered the album. Downloaded as soon as it was available. Waited until today to listen as a special Friday ear treat.

#NowPlaying

Man Man — Dream Hunting in the Valley of the In Between

https://album.link/i/1496668360

hackers.town: 2020-05-08 Fri 18:44

Far be it for me to judge, but I’d enjoy your backyard social gathering / one-man concert more if I didn’t have to hear it.

[puts headphones on]

The intermittent buzz saw accompaniment provided by another neighbor is an interesting touch.

hackers.town: 2020-05-08 Fri 20:31

I wrote a note:

Debugging My Site With a Little Help From My Friends

https://randomgeekery.org/note/2020/05/debugging-my-site-with-a-little-help-from-my-friends/

hackers.town: 2020-05-08 Fri 20:51

… and at some point my outgoing mentions won’t be me manually editing the send-mention Perl script every time.