Jan Boddez @[email protected]

I’ve been using Mastodon for quite a while now—since #DeactiDay, give or take—but have never posted a proper #introduction.

So, I’m a thirtysomething mechanical engineer and lousy guitarist. I work in the semiconductor industry, spend most of my spare time developing for the web, and own quite a few affordable (!) electric guitars, a handful of Raspberry Pis, and a couple hacked together MAME—I know—cabinets. Also, happily married, father of two, wannabe investor.

#introductions

What I’m saying is, interests include #PHP, the #IndieWeb, #PunkRock, #HomeRecording, #art, and personal finance.

To do: look into `fseek()`? My guess is we don’t need it; we `fopen()` a remote stream, forward a range header (whatever the browser sends us), and directly output, using `fpassthru()`, whichever resulting bytes we’re being sent by the upstream server—i.e., they’re doing the “seeking” for us. Also “Content-Length” and so on, we’re merely passing on. May wanna prevent a time-out, tho.

Allowing a 206 HTTP status and Accept-Ranges header (and passing thru Range request headers) seems to have done the trick. A next step would be `preload="none"` (rather than `metadata`) on `video` elements, and a (possibly autogenerated) poster image.

New feed reader challenge: have the proxy properly “stream” video files. PHP’s `fpassthru()` isn’t enough, it seems, tho it could be a Laravel thingy, too.

Anyone looking to add Fediverse (Mastodon, Pixelfed, et al.) icons to Twenty Twenty-One’s footer menu, the theme comes with two filter hooks that make this sort of thing really easy. https://github.com/janboddez/add-fediverse-icons-to-jetpack/issues/4#issuecomment-885560883

(https://jan.boddez.net/notes/c34198c067)

Like, I could probably get things working with a keyboard shortcut and a WordPress hack or two.

Totally using my feed reader as a read-it-later app and it’s awesome. On mobile. I need a proper desktop/in-browser Micropub client.

(https://jan.boddez.net/notes/aa8437d936)

There’s a single site my feed reader can no longer handle, and I think it’s IPv6-related and that I might be able to work around it.

(https://jan.boddez.net/notes/7174b4b8aa)

#Tusky crashes when I refresh the notification tab. (Tusky Test, too.)

Bookmarked https://www.marketwatch.com/story/dogecoin-co-creator-blasts-crypto-as-a-scam-to-help-the-rich-get-richer-11626310808.

“Dogecoin co-creator blasts crypto as a scam to help the rich get richer”

(https://jan.boddez.net/notes/1241fd87be)

Bookmarked https://wptavern.com/wordpress-org-meta-team-fixes-search-snippet-issue-with-download-page-promoting-wordpress-com.

Just shows, once more, how algorithms are lacking.

> Google was skipping our defined page descriptions in favor of some in-page content.

(https://jan.boddez.net/notes/2e05dc15b8)

Bookmarked https://jsonfeed.org/version/1.1.

(https://jan.boddez.net/notes/c98779e2b1)

Happy to see that while https://css-irl.info/rss.xml is still broken my reader downloads new posts just fine.

@mdales Just a quick question: I noticed my feed reader times out trying to fetch https://www.mynameismwd.org/index.xml, a whopping 3.43 MB with 1713 posts in it. Now, I know more users of static site generator do this, i.e., include _all_ of their posts rather than the most recent 20 or so, and I wonder if it's a conscious choice? Like, isn't it up to readers to regularly poll for new entries?

Reposted https://werd.io/2021/im-really-excited-for-when-everyone-gets by Ben Werdmüller.

> I’m really excited for when everyone gets over newsletters and discovers blogs and feeds.

(https://jan.boddez.net/notes/2ea1669ba3)

Might replace the sidebar with something better suited for admin pages.

Plugins!