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    First steps in displaying location in the Tanzawa admin interface. Default point is Mount Tonodake in the Tanzawa mountain range. Still using the default OSM map included with GeoDjango.

    I imagine this will be a Leaflet powered map in the end. I've got a couple of different ideas surrounding the location interface:

    1. 1. I'm probably not going to display the full address form and instead have a single unified search form + map when no location is set.
    2. 2. Once an address is set, I may show it in plain text below the map. Perhaps there with an "edit" link to manually override the address for whatever reason.
    3. 3. I'll probably do an initial release as-is (using OSM) and then focus one of my later sprints on really polishing the mapping interface.
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    Handling "related" data about an entry is proving to be a bit more difficult than anticipated. It could be the way I've chosen to validate data. For my micropub endpoint I'm using DRF for request validation and then transform and pass that data to the Django Form I use when posting with the admin interface. The Django Form is important because it's where I prepare the actual records that get saved into the database.

    Handling this complex data with DRF in micropub feels natural – mostly because DRF Serializers handle nested data natively and microformat data is nested. Django Forms are made for regular forms (single level) and don't handle nested data.

    Flattening all nested "related" data (like locations) and putting it into a single form isn't a good long-term solution. That said, I do flatten nested data for content as it's required to create an entry. However using both Forms (for base entry data) and DRF serializers (for related data) in both my admin views and micropub endpoint seems like a bad architecture as I'm mixing concerns.

    Rather I think it's I need to start introducing Formsets for related data for my webforms. And then have my micropub endpoint continue doing what it's currently doing: sanity-check  the request, transform it into format that matches my web form request, and then process as usual. This will also keep the data flowing a  single direction:

    micrpub request: Micropub -> DRF -> Form Input -> Form -> DB
    admin request: Form Input -> Form -> DB
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    Started working on support for checkins (posted via backend micropub only) and adding locations to any post kind. I'm not sure how I'll expose adding a location to a post. One way would be get your current location. The other would be to let you just pick a point on a map. Or maybe default to your current location and let you adjust it?

    Since my coordinates are all stored as a geo-django PointField, my hope is that it will allow me to create fun little apps on top of Tanzawa. "Make me a rollup of my checkins in Yokohama", "Show me my photos from Texas", and so forth.

  • Response to The small web is beautiful

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    However, it’s not just about raw size, but about an “ethos of small”. It’s caring about the users of your site: that your pages download fast, are easy to read, have interesting content, and don’t load scads of JavaScript for Google or Facebook’s trackers.

    I bookmarked this post over on the Tanzawa blog, but I felt this post was worth a proper response on my regular blog.

    Ben's thinking about the small web overlaps a lot with what I think: the small web is beautiful. Not just small size (so it's fast, uses less power and so forth), but as he says an "ethos of small". He expands to say we should use smaller images and fewer scripts. (Consistent, no-nonsense, efficient and lazy loading images were actually a major motivating factor for me starting Tanzawa)

    While Ben extends this ethos of small about caring about your users - I feel it goes a step further than that.
    An "ethos of small" is about respecting your readers. Respect that they may not be on the latest and greatest machine. Respect they might be on a limit Internet plan. Respect they might be running on battery. Respect their (and your) privacy.

    The small web is about "just enough". Just enough code. Just enough html/css/Javascript. Just enough infrastructure. We are the small web: Just enough.

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    As you may be able to tell from the previous post I just launched Bookmark support in Tanzawa. I'm contemplating if I shouldn't add a dedicated "bookmarks" page that just makes a long list of bookmarks, but for now it's good enough.

    I realized one of the hardest parts about microformatting your html is making sure you haven't broken it in some subtle way. Mine were broken. I added some tests that verify a) I fixed them and b) they won't get broken again.
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