ChrisHardie

@ChrisHardie@mastodon.social

Software developer, newspaper publisher. #Journalism, #LocalNews, #WordPress, #Laravel. Indiana, USA. He/him.

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ChrisHardie, to wordpress

Any folks using to do feature testing of subscriptions and memberships features and cart/checkout/account workflows? Looking for examples.

ChrisHardie, to RSS

People say content is being locked up in proprietary silos but look all I had to do to get an RSS feed of articles on a certain site was install a mitm proxy to intercept their mobile app's requests, fake an SSL certificate to inspect them, reverse engineer their internal APIs, then write a script to discretely query aforementioned APIs and generate an RSS feed file on a schedule. Simple! 🙄

ChrisHardie, to RSS

Unless I'm missing something, Google seems to have deactivated the "www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml" endpoint that is unofficially used to generate RSS feeds of YouTube channel video content. Now returns 404. Going to break a lot of feed reader and website/widget content pulling if so.

shawnhooper, to Theatre
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Today’s office.

ChrisHardie,

@shawnhooper part of me hoped the alt text would explain the function of each button, slider and lever 😀

jeffjarvis, to random
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I write this reluctantly, asking whether it is time to give up on old news, on the legacy industry.

https://medium.com/whither-news/is-it-time-to-give-up-on-old-news-488194f359ba

Remember:
I always crosspost on my blog, without walls:
https://buzzmachine.com/2024/01/24/is-it-time-to-give-up-on-old-news/

ChrisHardie,

@jeffjarvis I really appreciate this write-up. We publish a local print weekly and celebrate our successes while bracing and preparing for the future you describe. I find hope and relief in giving up the search for any kind of singular solution and instead cheering on the thousands of diverse experiments in local news being conducted all the time. Onward!

ChrisHardie, to random

Google is planning a data center in Ft. Wayne, Indiana. https://www.ibj.com/articles/company-behind-845m-data-center-in-indiana-identified-as-google

moira, to wordpress
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Anybody here use the modern Wordpress block editor for actual editing of text? Because it's destroying work underneath me literally every day.

I've gone back to Classic editor for now, but wow does that create some other issues.

I wrote about it here:

https://solarbird.net/blog/2024/01/07/giving-up-on-block-editor-going-back-to-classic/

#wordpress

ChrisHardie,

@moira While early releases of the block editor had some issues here, there shouldn’t be any paragraph eating going on these days. As a commenter on your blog post suggested, it’s likely something else about the environment: bad plugin, slow/misconfigured server, etc. Might try typing a sample post on a temporary site at https://playground.wordpress.net/ to see if the experience is any different and to see how the editor is supposed to work.

bookstack, to random
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Today on the blog we look back over 2023, to review the project over the past year including:

💵 Project funding
🌟 Platform changes
📈 Site and video activity
🤖 AI impact

https://www.bookstackapp.com/blog/bookstack-in-2023/

ChrisHardie,

@bookstack just finished reading this in my RSS reader and came here to say, what a great write up! Nicely reflects the challenges and opportunities of managing a modern open source project. Makes me even more proud to be a supporter. Thank you!

ChrisHardie, to random

Wishlist for the new year:
More RSS feeds
Less nazis
More patience and kindness
Less tribalism
More climate action
Less waiting for other people to do the hard work
More “how can I help?”
Less “you should…”

dangillmor, (edited ) to random
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My academic subscription to the New Yorker just soared in price for renewal ($50->$130, online only), so I called to cancel.

The customer-service person did the unthinkable: actual customer service.

She was polite and understanding, and didn't try to argue me out of it. The call took about a minute.

ChrisHardie,

@dangillmor I agree with this approach but also want to offer a counter-example: we publish a local weekly newspaper, with auto-renewal turned on by default. We send out an email reminder of the upcoming billing charge several days in advance, make it easy to cancel without having to call or email, and gladly refund soon after the fact if the renewal was unintentional. We hear from our subscribers that they like not having to worry about interruptions to paper delivery.

ChrisHardie, to random

In the distant future, wealth will not be determined by access to energy or water or currency, but on how many firmware images you bothered to save locally for all your stupid IoT devices that need resetting after the vendor downloads site is no longer around.

ChrisHardie, to random

Trying to come up with pithy-but-kind replies to "I can't read your article, I reached my free paywall limit" comments on our newspaper's social media posts. Suggestions welcome.

ChrisHardie,

@darren in our case, giving away access to a few articles per month and then requiring a subscription to keep reading resulted in a jump in paid online subs and no observable drop in reach or interest in our reporting. Also made us more comfortable putting more of our print edition online as individual articles, which led to an increase in site traffic.

ross, to random
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This Cloudflare outage is really something. I’ve worked alongside data center operations and I’ve seen multiple-redundant systems fail in chaotic ways like this. It’s so hard to predict. And yet, stuff like “they needed to be physically accessed … access control system was not powered by the battery backups, so it was offline” is such an obvious design flaw with hindsight.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/post-mortem-on-cloudflare-control-plane-and-analytics-outage/

ChrisHardie,

@ross Wow. I’m glad they shared this. And I may need to be “unaccompanied technician” next Halloween.

ChrisHardie, to random

“Look, if you don’t get me the graphics we discussed by the deadline I will just fill this cereal box design with barcodes. Barcodes forever, got it? Don’t test me, I’ll do it.”

Photos of an Aldi cereal box where a barcode wraps around three sides of the box and takes up significant space.
Photos of an Aldi cereal box where a barcode wraps around three sides of the box and takes up significant space.

ChrisHardie,

@ross is that what we’ve come to? Just throw all aesthetics out the window to please the robots?! 😅

ChrisHardie, to Laravel

I’m thinking of writing an introduction to for current . Would you find this useful? And for anyone who’s already crossed that divide, what do you wish you’d known earlier?

ChrisHardie,

@ross wow that’s awesome! Great minds, etc. 😅 I don’t think mine would be that extensive but will let you know what I come up with.

andrewfeeney, to random
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Just catching up now on #laracon talks. After watching @taylor's keynote I can't help but chuckle to myself that we're back to writing PHP code above html/blade in single file page templates.

(I'm not saying it's bad, volt and folio look pretty great for lots of use cases, and are clearly an improvement from old school vanilla PHP spaghetti templates.)

ChrisHardie,

@andrewfeeney there’s definitely something I don’t get yet about why that entangling is appealing, my brain loves having things separated; need to spend some more time trying it out, I guess.

ChrisHardie, to random

New blog post: "Why should I pay for a local subscription when the same info is available online for free?" https://stumble.press/2023/news-is-free/

ChrisHardie, to Pubtips

I blogged about trying to practice radical in managing and a community . https://stumble.press/2023/transparency/

chris, to random
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    ChrisHardie,

    @chris Exhalation: Stories by Ted Chiang
    The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
    Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

    ChrisHardie, to random

    The notion that an offering from Meta/Facebook could be held up as a free, open or stable alternative to Twitter is laughable, and journalists should not make that suggestion without proper context. FB has pioneered walled gardens and the practice of encouraging people to build communities and tools around their platforms only to disable APIs, feeds, features and access on a whim.

    dmoser, to random
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    This Climate Graphic is quite powerful 👇👇

    ChrisHardie,

    @dmoser very compelling, would be great to get the source info / link so it can be shared with confidence.

    ChrisHardie, to programming

    Anyone have a favorite self-hosted document tool/platform? Tempted to build it as a app alternative to Docusign and the like, but would rather support an existing option.

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