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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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completely blind computer geek, lover of science fiction and fantasy (especially LitRPG). I work in accessibility, but my opinions are my own, not that of my employer. Fandoms: Harry Potter, Discworld, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Buffy, Dead Like Me, Glee, and I'll read fanfic of pretty much anything that crosses over with one of those.
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Location Ottawa
Birthday 1987-12-20
Pronouns he/him (EN)
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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I have a to be pile about a hundred books high. I flip through the stack and go "...Nah..." and then go find something completely new to read. Why am I like this? Sigh.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Anyway the word for overly familiar in, you know, a fake kind of way, is unctuous. But my brain went "...oh that word...no, not octagonal...octagonal isn't the word we want, because octagonal is the wrong word, and now we will think of absolutely no other possibilities but the word octagonal, because that's not the right word, so obviously it needs to take up all brainspace forever."
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Enafore: "What's on your mind? When autocomplete results are available, press up and down arrows and enter to select."

Me, after sitting here for five minutes with a word on the tip of my tongue: "Oh, if only!"
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Anyway, could those of you running active instances that don't exist please shut them down? It's confusing. Thanks!
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Well, I can see my fediverse software is in a good and normal operating state.
Total instances: 12831
Active instances: 12842
Nope. Nothing wrong here at all. I'm sure everything is just fine!
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@xogium Should work
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@xogium Right.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@xogium @xogium If your on Linux take a look at Hugo. It has ways of doing the same kind of thing.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@xogium @xogium So the mastodon api is what apps like tweesecake use. It’s not part of the activity pub protocol. I looked at write freely and didn’t use it for accessibility reasons. I write my posts in markdown, save them in a special folder, and run my powershell script to update the blog.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@xogium @xogium Oh got it. If it supports the mastodon API giving the post url would work. But I doubt it does.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@xogium The disadvantage of my approach is if I don’t share a post on this account, it can never have comments. Also people get horrible warnings because error checking is for weaklings, not brilliant men like me.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@xogium You mean write freely posts to your mastodon account for you?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@xogium Then any reply to that toot shows up as a comment.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@xogium No, you have to refer to the url of a post on mastodon. So the workflow is: post to the blog, share on mastodon, then update the blog post with the url of your toot.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@xogium Nope. It can be a post on any server that supports the mastodon api. When a visitor loads the page the JavaScript runs and goes to get the comments. It all happens client side. That’s why you have to have the plain html link to the comments. If someone visits with JavaScript off the comments won’t load.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@xogium Oh! You're absolutely correct. I moved that for...reasons...Yeah. So the full bit you would insert would be everything between lines 128 and 136.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@xogium We can jump on a call Monday night and I can help if you haven’t figured it out by then
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@xogium I’m not at my desk. But view source on an article from my blog and it should be obvious. You’re looking for the fediverse comments js file in the head section and the div in the body that refers to fed.interfree.ca
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@xogium Basicly you ad some JavaScript in the head section, and a div on every post with the url of a mastodon post to get replies to.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@xogium I’ve never used write freely sorry. You’d need to modify the template or theme somehow.
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