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Internet of "Just Janitor Things"

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Internet of "Just Janitor Things"

I suspect these are simple bluetooth low energy beacons. Will find out more on my next visit. I have to wonder about the cost-benefit of these. It seems like you should already have a regular schedule for cleaning. So that leaves out-of-band events. Seems like a sign with a phone number for call/text would have worked as well...

 

1500 Word MTU Experiment: Day #1

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1500 Word MTU Experiment: Day #1

[lynx-ified version below]

End of day #1 with Known. I'm quite pleased with the results.

Good Stuff

* brid.gy is awesome. Having +1's, likes and comments consolidated is so nice.

* Webhooks! I'm thinking of writing one to automatically archive pages to archive.org.

* PuSH appears to be fully working. Again, could extend things there..

* Google+ renders images well.

* The editor saves drafts.

* Lightweight page editor should be useful.

* AMP support is there (add ?_t=amp to any page) Some validation issues, but works.

* Real anchor tags and hyperlinks. No more writing [1] [2] in posts with multiple links (like lynx)

Rough Edges

* The built-in Photo type doesn't send the permalink to Twitter, so now I have a weird post without context. Flickr, Facebook working perfectly, might try another setting.

* I need to get to writing a Google+ outbound connector. I'm doing those by hand now.

* TInyMCE sucks. It has always sucked! If only Medium would open source their editor. At least markdown is an option.

* Looks like syndicated Google+ links are using profiles.google.com instead of plus.google.com.

* Some profile pics cloned from G+ are coming back with size 0. This shows as broken images.

* Long status posts have extra long permalink URLs.

* Built-in analytics are weak. Would rather avoid using GA for that.

* Limited import options. Will need to convert Typepad export file to Wordpress format.

* Bulleted lists line-height is tight, tight, tight.

Overall I'm pretty happy and excited about getting more content in place.

And who knew that a post on SSL/TLS certs would be soooo exciting?

 

Look at that upstream rate from the KMTel's (http://kmtel.com) $45 fiber plan.

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Look at that upstream rate from the KMTel's (http://kmtel.com) $45 fiber plan.

... as I sit here with 20% Comcast packet loss on my 30/7 for double the money.

An interesting article about this phenonemom:

http://www.yesmagazine.org/new-economy/tired-of-waiting-for-corporate-high-speed-internet-minnesota-...

 

I just got an SSL cert as a 1-liner. exciting!

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I just got an SSL cert as a 1-liner. exciting!

https://letsencrypt.org/

letsencrypt --text --email lindner@inuus.com--domains www.inuus.com,inuus.com,mirth.inuus.com --agree-tos --renew-by-default --standalone --standalone-supported-challenges http-01 certonly

 
 

Gopher, 25 years on. Long, fun read.

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Gopher, 25 years on. Long, fun read.

Twenty-five years ago, a small band of programmers from the University of Minnesota ruled the internet.

And then they didn’t.

Original: http://www.1500wordmtu.com/2016/gopher-25-years-on-long-fun-read

 
 

Highly recommended watching.

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Highly recommended watching.

Hyperbolic discounting of future costs and Ulysses pacts are apropos to many situations. For example, technical debt.

 

Attending day 2 of the Decentralized Web Summit. Hope to see some familiar and new faces.

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Attending day 2 of the Decentralized Web Summit. Hope to see some familiar and new faces.