another test post for a different server. 😉 #

now i'm going to do a test post on a public server. #

There's always time for a test post. #

This is an interesting moment. Let us see if we like what we see. OK. Thanks. #

Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends. #

We need another test post. This should be the final one hehe. 😉 #

I have metadata flowing from WordLand draft to its WordPress post. 

Let's call this version an "alpha" — a request for comment, not frozen. #

I am looking at adding metadata to posts so that when Scott writes code that runs in the page, he can access all the data that WordLand is keeping for the document.

Most importantly for now, this includes the link element on the item representing this post in the RSS feed that WordLand maintains for this site. 

In theory we should be able to access that data, and put together a home page for the site that works like the Links tab on Scripting News.

I have it working, still tweaking up the names to be consistent as possible with prior art.

Still testing… #

Yesterday I was chatting with Tim Bray on Mastodon about coming up with a design and implementation for incoming feeds for ActivityPub. I promised to show how WordPress does it.

So this is an example of a WordPress post, but I'm providing a link to this post as it is viewed on Mastodon via the AP interface that the Automattic people have done. 

It's a heroic effort imho. And it shows that Mastodon doesn't have a character limit, and it can do simple styling and links. Posts can have titles, and can be edited. 

These are important features that are not new to writing on computers but are new to social media. Tim and I are old enough when writing tools routinely provided these features for web writing. Speaking for myself I want them back.

Happy to ramble

Now I'm rambling on purpose to show how long-winded one can be using this connection. Someone will point out that I could have said what I have to say here in 140 characters. It's so true! But I feel free to go on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on but at some point you have to say enough is enough and just stop for crying out loud.

I enjoy working on the wpIdentity package, esp a design-heavy, code-lite feature like the metadata. 

This is an example post for the docs on the metadata feature that has been added today. 

Here's a list of seven things whose names begin with O.

1. Oreo cookies
2. Optimism
3. Organic food
4. Opportunity knocks
5. Oregon
6. Ooops!
7. Offred