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by JamesThose that are familiar with micropub know that there's two ways to use the endpoint. One is as a regular json api and the other is a plain-old form submit endpoint. Almost all integrations these days are done with json apis, so the idea of support a form api seems antiquated at first.
But once you realize that any site can publish to your site, including file attachments(!), with a simple form on their website, it doesn't seem so antiquated after-all. It feels quite liberating. In fact, it may be my favorite part of micropub.
Currently regular json requests can create a post. And form requests with file attachments can also create a post. Tanzawa automatically inserts the photo into the post and does its exif stripping, lazy loading, and other image loading optimizations.
Testing with the Quill article interface - image attachments are sent in base64 encoded strings in the img tag. Extracting those images, saving them to disk, and rewriting the html will take me another day to complete.
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Feedly is still mangling my posts. Besides the figure tag messing things up for feedly, another theory I have is that it doesn't like text content not wrapped in a <p> tag. Trix (the editor Tanzawa uses) wraps all content in a <div> tag and text is raw inside of it. I pushed an experiment to rewrite that <div> to a <p> tag in the RSS feed. Hopefully this fixes it.Mangled posts in Feedly -
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by JamesCoded entirely by 18-year-old An, 'SpaceHey' harnesses nostalgia and a distaste for modern social media to bring the Old Internet back from the dead.
Happy to see SpaceHey getting more users. I don't use it, but the world needs more social places online where you aren't you're free to customize it to your heart's content.- Tagged with
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by JamesI've noticed some errors when Feedly parses my Tanzawa RSS feed. Namely that it doesn't show any content when I include an image. I have no idea why it's stripping all text from the posts.
Other fixes to the RSS feed include removing a / from the guid and setting the permalink to false, since the guid was not a url. As the guid change, most reads will show old posts as new - sorry about that.
This mostly a test post to see if adding titles for my statuses (the first 128 characters of plain text) will make Feedly parse properly when I include an image.
If this doesn't work, I have a theory that Feedly may not like <figure> tags, so I may try to rewrite my html content to be simpler for rss feeds.A photo of my new titles in NetNewsWire -
by JamesMicropub is going to be a larger task than anticipated. As such I think I'll roll it out incrementally, expanding the capabilities of the micropub endpoint as Tanzawa can support them natively.
Today I managed to get my first post from Quill to Tanzawa!A first post to Tanzawa originating outside of Tanzawa! -
by JamesAdded support for verifying and revoking tokens. One thing I like about API development vs regular page/form development is the inputs and outputs are clearly defined. You don't need to worry about things like layout or looks. It's either valid or it's not.
