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I do remember reading it, in part because the text wouldn't load for me on Chrome (paywall issue perhaps?), and in part because I've been to the two farmers' markets mentioned at the top and bottom of the article. They're probably actually worse than depicted in the piece, not to mention that they're all also anti-vaxxers to boot.

It reminds me of an April Fools prank news story last week which was pretty funny and that you'll likely appreciate: http://boffosocko.com/2017/04/01/literal-farm-to-table-heres-the-dirt-on-chefs-cooking-with-dirt-the-salt-npr/

Also a bit reminiscent of a piece my friend Matt wrote with his 2017 food predictions: https://medium.com/@worldmatt/my-2017-food-trend-predictions-are-the-only-2017-food-trend-predictions-you-need-to-read-because-8f0bdfba3e1d. To truly appreciate it be sure to read how well his 2016 predictions went at the bottom of the piece.

 

I'm not seeing the HTML export on the desktop version of Kindle (from 2015) on my work laptop at the moment, but I'm positive it's hiding somewhere on my desktop machine, which is currently out of commission for some quirky problems. When I get it running, I'll try to document the feature as I don't think I've seen it mentioned anywhere else and it was tremendously easy and helpful.

I hadn't tried Bookcision as I'd stumbled across what I supposed was an easy answer, but there are a few edge cases for non-Amazon books in my collection that might benefit from using it as Amazon doesn't always play well with content that doesn't originate from the "mothership".

A while back, I'd bookmarked http://the-digital-reader.com/2015/02/21/how-to-download-your-kindle-notes-and-highlights-and-export-them/ as one of the better articles explaining most of the pathways currently available. If I remember the comments were relatively helpful as well.

For general file conversion you might appreciate Pandoc: http://pandoc.org/

There are also some in the community who have tools (like Kevin Marks' http://www.unmung.com/ ) which can do inter-conversion. I can't recall specifics at the moment, but someone in the chat will likely know of the others, or you can search github to find some of the opensource ones https://github.com/search?q=indieweb&ref=opensearch (it can be an interesting browse in general for things you didn't know you needed/wanted).

Finally, I liked the teleprompter.css hint for marked2, but if you've not come across it, I often read newspaper, magazine articles, and fiction on my mobile using RSVP-related technology (Rapid Serial Visual Presentation) which has been patented (though I'm not so sure it's enforcable) by http://spritzinc.com/get-spritz and for which there are multiple apps floating around for multiple platforms. My favorite thus far is Balto-reader which I think may only be available in the Amazon store, but it's one of the few I've found that can break through Amazon's encryption to allow using Spritz-like technology on my Kindle Fire or Android Phones. I don't recommend using it to read technical documents or passages which require more thought, but it's lovely on mobile and has a nice bookmarklet for reading web-based articles quickly. If it's something you think you'd use, but you can't find something that can access Amazon books, let me know and I can suggest some workarounds that will allow Amazon book access.

 

JetPack has shortcode support for recipes that adds some markup (schema if I remember). I'm not a huge fan of shortcodes, but I've been meaning to finish tweaking their code to add microformats markup too. https://en.support.wordpress.com/recipes/

https://github.com/Automattic/jetpack/issues/4470 if you'd like to pile on...

 

@cosenalgo @michael_nielsen If I remember, @kevinmarks did some work last year on BBC recipe collection w/ microformats semantic markup too

 

@cswordpress I hadn't run across the keyboard issue with the bookmarklet yet, but I'm glad you're taking a look at fixing it. If you get some time, feel free to add your fix and links to the code at http://indieweb.org/accessibility so that others can benefit from your expertise. I know there was some significant discussion about accessibility at one of the early IndieWebCamps in 2016, but I don't remember which.

Several of us in the WordPress IndieWeb "camp" have been pushing to have more microformats2 compatible themes available to increase the selection. If you can push the Genesis framework project to include them, that would be phenomenal! Some of the notes on this work can be found and added to at https://indieweb.org/WordPress/Development#Brainstorming

 

@Chronotope I remember back in the day when Josh Kesselman had that in development...

 

@TJ_Kelleher I remember fondly those trips across the Tennessee state line.

 
 

Always remember: you choose which void you shout into.

 

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Thanks everyone for taking a look and for the help!

Apologies if I offended anyone -- without having read through any of the brid.gy code, I wasn't quite sure what was going on. My suspicion for a while has been that using the [uf2 plugin](https://github.com/pfefferle/wordpress-uf2/) for WordPress certainly isn't quite always the best, though it's fairly impressive what it **will** allow. I've been hacking around at a new/different theme that adds microformats directly rather than programmatically to have greater control of exactly where they're put, but it's also a one-off solution rather than a solution for the masses. Better microformats injection into themes is certainly a small stumbling block for coming generations.

I was previously aware that the entry-content div on my theme overextended itself (https://github.com/WordPress/twentysixteen/issues/470), but didn't realize that the hentry/h-entry was being injected too early via uf2.

I saw some of the resulting discussion in the -dev channel, so I'm glad my beastly banging on and breaking of things may help improve things for coming generations. ;)

@dshanske We should remember to ping the Independent Publisher theme if you decide to make changes, as I suspect it'll have the same issue(s). It's been a while since I looked at the code for it, but I recall he created a mf2.php in the theme to inject microformats similarly to uf2 or one of your recent blogposts.

 

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Nope, Twitter links work like they should (as do most others I've run across on https).

I do remember @petermolnar having a possibly related issue back in March. It had something to do with his server supporting SSLv3. See also:
https://github.com/idno/Known/issues/1360
and if necessary https://github.com/kylewm/KnownReactions/issues/8

 

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Sorry, I should have mentioned it explicitly, but I did doubleckeck and the patch was still there. (I'd put it in manually and couldn't remember having installed any Jetpack patches lately, but checked just in case it may have been overwritten.)

 

I remember looking at Rebelmouse and thinking it was very interesting, but I was doing so probably at just about the same time I was getting into the IndieWeb concept and that killed it all for me.

Sorry to hear that it's all going down as I know how much you've invested in it. Plans to build a replacement? ;) I've been doing some thinking about how to better/more easily do content curation in an IndieWeb forward manner, but yet to have work out a complete workflow for it.

 

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Thanks @snarfed, brilliant find as I wouldn't have thought of it. I took out the first one which I'd had hiding in a widget and moved into my header for clarity a few months back.

I vaguely recall putting the others in many months ago, but honestly I can't remember for the life of me where they came from (probably IWC) or which portion of my WordPress is actually generating them now. I also don't seem to recall where I was hiding my code that injects my rel="icon" photos (primarily for shortcut buttons on iOS and Android), though I'm guessing they're in the same place. Any suggestions on where a clever guy who's too sleep deprived to find them right now may have hidden them? None of the IndieWeb plugin sub-plugins would be generating them quietly could they?!

The quirky part is that all three lines have been in there a while and (to my knowledge) haven't been causing problems until about a week ago.

The 6 or so outstanding webmentions went right through without any issue, so I'll mark this as closed for now unless problems continue.

 

IndieWeb and Android Mobile

@dshanske I remember you mentioning it briefly the other day and then saw something more specific this morning: http://indiewebcamp.com/irc/2016-05-03/line/1462285944410

Have you hacked around with either Bookmarklet Free or URL Forwarder apps from the Google Play store? They’re mentioned in the following two places:
https://snarfed.org/easy-indieweb-interactions-on-android
http://stream.boffosocko.com/2016/sharing-from-the-indieweb-on-mobile-android-with-apps-and

I’d gotten URL Forwarder set up and configured to make mobile sharing for my WithKnown install to make bookmarking, sharing, reposting, and a few other functionalities work incredibly quickly and well. I’ve put off doing so on WP since I have some other back-end dependencies that need tweaking so that I don’t create redundant loops with some of my other configuration. With any luck one or the other will get you pretty far without having a full micropub application.

With these you can use Android’s ubiquitous sharing icon and share to one or the other of the apps which will do the URL scraping to be able to do some of the posting types you want. Depending on the output, you may need one or two additional tweaks, but it’ll give you a reasonable template for a workflow. I’m sure some further url parameters and integration could be put in to auto checking the correct post kind and thereby making your posts fully indieweb compatible on WP. Adding Indieweb Press This https://github.com/pfefferle/wordpress-indieweb-press-this/ functionality for bookmark, share, watching, listening, et al. would complete a larger cycle of functionality.

Then, I’m sure there’s the additional functionality of API calls to Twitter/Facebook/etc. to implement the actual retweet/like on the native platform, but that could be handled later/separately (though Bridgy Publish might be able to handle this? I seem to remember a mention of it in the bookmarklet set up.)

Finally, if “Post Properties” could import the same URL and scrape the metadata, the entire process would be almost too simple and not need a “traditional” mobile app at all.

For URL Forwarder the base settings should be:
Reply: http://YOURSITENAME.com/wp-admin/press-this.php?v=8&type=reply&u=@url
Like: http://YOURSITENAME.com/wp-admin/press-this.php?v=8&type=like&u=@url
Repost: http://YOURSITENAME.com/wp-admin/press-this.php?v=8&type=repost&u=@url

Hopefully this gets you a few steps further on android mobile without a huge amount of work…