It's even worse than it appears.
Wednesday, June 9, 2021
Just did my first Spaces session. I have a suggestion. When you start a space, ask the user if they want to set a time limit. Then display the time limit for everyone to see. Maybe even have a clock counting down. And when it's over, just shut it off. I'd do more of them I think.#
More and more I'm seeing Twitter as a writing tool. Both as a writer and as a developer. #
So many people are stuck on Chapter 1 of story of the downfall of the US as a democracy, when events are already in Chapter 4.#
Pet peeve: Companies that send nagging personal reminders, using your first name, and the messages come from no_reply@yousuck.com.#
Related thought: I'd like to have a site where I could, with one click, send some hate to one of these asshole companies, publicly of course.#
GitHub notifications via WebSockets#
  • A new project I started. #
    • An app that stores files on GitHub. #
    • Other apps can be notified when any of these files changes, via WebSockets.#
    • This is accomplished by a very thin publicly accessible server app that gets WebHook calls from GitHub, accepts subscriptions from browser apps and mobile apps, really any kind of app, over WS.#
    • I like that it relies on GitHub. It performs well, and it'll probably be around for a while. And it's free to use, all you have to do is set up an account. 😄#
    • Other apps are using it as backend-storage for web apps. I am interested in trying that out too.#
    • The files themselves contain the ws:// address of the server app as metadata, so all you need is the address of the data to hook up to the correct server that does notifications over WS.#
  • Here's a schematic of the relationship between the apps. I apologize for my handwriting which used to be much better. I hardly write by hand anymore these days. #
  • Schematic.#
  • This, btw is exactly the infrastructure neeed by an Instant Outliner via OPML. The apps that generate the OPML could be outliners, or really any app that wants to deal in outline-structured data. But the protocol is general enough so it could be used for any data file type. #
  • In a few days, once the app has been running for a while, and I have a good demo put together, I'll publish a pointer to a compatible OPML file, and provide example code running in a browser for requesting notification via Web Sockets. #

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