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I’ve been up since 5:30am, so I’ve been taking the time while everyone is still in bed to catch up on the keynotes. Great job by all involved! I’d love to listen to expanded versions of each of the presentations sometime 👍

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For some bizarre reason, syndication targets have suddenly stopped working on my site in the last few hours…?  The WordPress editor doesn’t list any available, Micropub clients don’t see any, and the default targets given by the Syndication Links plugin have disappeared from the settings UI. The custom targets I set up still show in settings, but don’t appear anywhere else.

How odd. One to dig into tomorrow 🤔

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I finally got around to setting up an IRC client on my home PC, so I could lurk on the IndieWeb channels. I don’t think I’ve used IRC in around 15 years, so it was a bit of an adventure! My Gnome installation came with 2 different clients – HexChat and Empathy (the Gnome Project’s chat client). HexChat was by far the easier to setup; Empathy required me to install a whole other package, which I only found out after I had to search online to troubleshoot why I wasn’t getting the option to add accounts of any type whatsoever.

Once it was setup though, I found Empathy just that little bit nicer to use and read (at least, on “stock” settings). For mostly just following along, that’s probably enough.

Now I’m connected, I’m reminded why I like IRC: it’s slow, low stress communication. The only thing I need to care about is what’s written during the time I’m connected to a room, and there’s no annoying ping or notification on each message (or even if I’m mentioned). If I disconnect, my client won’t display what I missed when I reconnect – and I’m perfectly fine with that. I don’t (won’t) have a client on my phone, so IRC will be that thing I can only hang out in when I’m at my desktop. How very retro 😎

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I was trying to enrol my iPad into the iPadOS public beta, but the portal seems to be having all sorts of issues, so I can’t get logged in yet. I’ll wait until the rush dies down. FWIW, these are what I’m most excited for:

  • Better mutli-tasking
  • Mouse support
  • Better file-management
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Come to think of it, my entire day has been taken up with really annoying database issues. I still don’t understand fully why either happened, but fingers crossed, I think I’ve fixed them. If not, tomorrow is going to be more of the same…

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I switched my Manjaro installation to Gnome instead of KDE last night, as a lot of the tools I use seem to assume a Gnome/GTK environment and some of the integrations didn’t work right on KDE.

Anyway, I can now use my home PC as a space heater 🔥

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I managed to work a little on Saorsa this evening, for the first time in a while. Mostly working on the markup of the comments, and adding little accessibility and microformat improvements where I can. I’m really trying not to put arbitrary timelines on things, but I’d like to have the skeleton HTML mostly locked down in time for IndieWeb Summit 2019. Whether that’s achievable will be determined by how much more I can get done over the weekend.

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That awkward moment when – while merely throwing around ideas for a project – you realise you’re at £100 in 3D-printed parts before even buying a single miniature to go with those parts… 🤔

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I’ve ran out of space for paints, so I got this handy corner paint rack. Some assembly required, but it was nice and straightforward. I’ve spent more time blogging it than making it 😂

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Speaking of IndieWeb Textpattern, I need to get back in the groove of writing up articles for it. I’ve got a backlog of 5 or so still to do.

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I just switched my Micro.blog site back on, as I want to experiment with it again, and I’ve been impressed with the slow, steady, progress Manton has been making with the service. My previous attempts have all been focussed on being a “WordPress replacement” but this time I want to just start afresh and see what I find it useful for.

I think I’m going to have to learn Hugo templating though, as none of the default themes are really inspiring me.

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I’ve just received the update to the Citadel Paint app (now called “Citadel Colour”) and y’know what? It’s *really good*. It looks better, there’s several quality-of-life improvements, the guides are much more detailed, and the new “My Projects” bit is super handy.