Bridgy
Bridgy Test 5
I was frustrated after my previous test of Bridgy Fed appeared to have no effect. I tried to reverse engineer how to format these posts to come in as full text ("note") instead of an excerpt and a link to the original ("article). However, looking back at my Eleventy template I...
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My frustration continues at getting these posts to show up the way I want in Mastodon. You may ask "Considering how few people read them, why do you care?" Fair question. The truth is that I just don't want to lose to the computer. I am trying a new tactic. I got the Bridgy Fed code from...
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Turns out I used "p-content" to wrap up my posts instead of "e-content". Why does this one element use the "e" prefix? Nice and confusing. When this shows up in Mastodon via the Bridgy push I want it to be a full post, not the link to the post with short summary. I...
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The first test worked somewhat in that it did actually push to the fediverse. The format sucked and calling it an "article" made it be a link rather than the text of a post. I changed my Eleventy format to make them be "notes" instead which should splat out the full text. Let's...
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This is a test. After watching Henry Desroches at the 11ty conference I renewed my efforts to get Bridgy Fed working. I tried before and failed, I think at the IndieLogin stage. This time it worked so let's see if the Rube Goldberg machine is working. If so, this should show up in the Fediverse. If...
read articleEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast for October 3, 2014 - Stacks and Heavyweights
In this episode, I talk about systemic failure in life; I talk about the POSSE system that I am using to post and receive activity from my blog to social networks and back; I discuss adding Piwik stats to my websites; I talk about migrating vs starting things fresh; I mention GTD, Evernote and The...
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