@Andy_Truc I saw it after I made some calls and after I finished writing the post below. The tougher question is why were they all closed through rush hour? Was there some major change in the fires in the last two hours?
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Interestingly, as I'm writing a complaint about road closures, I see this tweet from CalTrans that I can only assume to be a major error, as it definitely wasn't the case an hour and change ago:
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@CaltransDist7 Have things so drastically changed in the last hour and change that they've all been re-opened?! When I was forced to drive through this morning EVERYTHING was closed from the 2FWY to Sylmar.
@Andy_Truc @LAFD Why then is @CaltransDist7 doing ramp closures on Pennsylvania and Lowell in Glendale and thereby forcing locals to drive through the worst of the smoke only to turn back and drive back through it again?!
@cswordpress @redcrew @andrea_r @miklb @JJJ noterlive.com is awesome! It provides simple html so people can cut/paste their thread. Here's an example on my site from a conference last year:
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@Andy_Truc Though I've just heard that the Dunsmore Public Elementary School in NorthWest Glendale is evacuating children early today as a precaution.
It might take a slight bit of tweaking, but you can combine using the micropub features of the www.woodwind.xyz feed reader to post directly to your site with something like https:/
I'd been looking for something like this for a long time too.
For the past couple of months, I've been using an IFTTT recipe that takes anything I watch on YouTube, which I designate essentially with their thumbs up, and it creates a draft post on my site.
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Some things I keep privately while others get posted publicly. You could write most of the format of your "like" within the IFTTT interface, including the u-like-of.
For a while I've been using the Post Kinds Plugin to parse the URL and pull in the meta-data as well as wrapping it with the u-like-of. Despite being more of a PESOS workflow, it's pretty quick and simple. Here's a recent "watch" post: http:/
Post Kinds Plugin is theme-able so you can modify things to display the way you'd like, though I generally find the default is pretty solid.
Alternately, Post Kinds also allows you to create a bookmarklet that imports the URL directly to quickly create a post (of almost any type). I've detailed how to do it here: https:/
@sereedmedia @briannaorg Were there slides for this, or do I have to wait for the recorded copy?
I don't think I've ever heard it mentioned, but many of these platforms are essentially digital Ollendorffs with some learning psychology of programmed repetition built into them.
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It's a great idea, though my initial reaction was that Japanese, which I've been plodding along at lately, isn't available on Duolingo yet. But I've just checked, and apparently they've recently released a beta version of it there! Glad I ran across this.
Rob, you might notice at the top of that generations page it says, "Each generation is expected to lower barriers for adoption successively for the next generation."
I like your idea about de-jargoning some of the vocabulary and you even had a specific rewording. Why not use your site to log into the wiki and make that change manually, in the spirit of the quote at the top of the page? I have a feeling you'll get more praise than flack for trying to improve things. :)
With the help of Jeremy Cherfas and some others, we recently created the page for "cross-posting" and fleshed it out to help make the jargon jump between Gen1 and Gen2 a bit easier to handle.
I've found a lot of fun and value in subverting much of my Gen1 knowledge to help bridge things to the better angels of my Gen2 side. Better than writing mediocre code (in comparison to others), I find that I can have a more profound effect by helping Gen2 and Gen3 find their way based on what I've done. The bumps we find along the road also get reported back up the chain where those with more chops have been mightily swinging away to continually improve.
As for Homebrew Website Clubs or Camps, definitely try to attend one either in person or virtually regardless of your perceived level. (Austin is coming up next weekend!) I've seen folks like tantek, aaronpk, adactio and kevinmarks ever-so-kindly helping Gen4 people out to set up websites either in person or via chat!! It's definitely a site to see and is the rough equivalent of having Albert Einstein teaching you arithmetic, but it incrementally helps to make the world a nicer and kinder place, and definitely helps move the needle on the larger movement.
Do what you can and keep on hacking!
Khürt, I can feel your pain. I know that SNAP just made a recent major release that changed a lot of it's code base, so I've been half purposely waiting to update while they work out some of the kinks. I'm just about to download the most recent and test it out on a server before I upgrade to the latest version on my production site, since the old version is still doing a relatively good job and it's a lot of overhead to update/upgrade going into the holidays.
There's a frequent phrase that many in the chat will use: #ManualUntilItHurts by which they mean try doing everything manually to work on getting the output and workflow to work the way you want it to and only then try automating things based on your manual experience.
There are many ways of doing syndication, so before settling on one, try doing things by hand for a bit while you're testing out other potential options. I often find that even though I've got automated means of doing things very quickly, I actually often prefer the manual methods sometimes, particularly when it means I know exactly what the output will be. With POSSE you'll find that with some of the automated means, the easier it is to set up, the less options you'll have for control, while the more control you get means a much more difficult set up.
Try a few options and then go with what works for your needs until it drives you so crazy you have to change it. In the meanwhile, documenting the issues and problems either on your site or in issue queues will slowly help things get better.
In the end it can't be much worse than people who are syndicating their Facebook content to Twitter that simply shows up as just the raw https:/