Kevin C. @kcoram@librem.one
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- https://kevin.thecorams.net/
Joined Jun 2019
Blog Post: Nest Micropub - First Steps
Now and then I feel like it would be convenient to be able to post quick notes, or to quickly save bookmarks, here on my blog. The obvious IndieWeb solution would be to add Micropub support. Since I have a desire to learn more about the NestJS framework for creating NodeJS servers, it seems like creating a Micropub server using NestJS will be a nice personal project. . . .
https://kevin.thecorams.net/posts/2020/07/nest-micropub-first-steps/
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New Video Out!
YouTube: https://youtu.be/ALHUdkh-hr8
PeerTube: https://peertube.co.uk/videos/watch/bb1c892f-a19d-43a6-a1e3-9a3bab69451a
LBRY Link Coming Soon ^ ^
thanks to
@ChrisWere and @Main_Tomato for showing me this awesome browser
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"The Truth Is Paywalled But The Lies Are Free"
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/08/the-truth-is-paywalled-but-the-lies-are-free/
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I wrote a short script that downloads YouTube videos from channels I like so I can watch them wherever I want, whenever I want, and with whatever media player I want.
https://secluded.site/replacing-youtube-invidious
Addendum added : With the default example Gitea configuration, I found that I was still getting Unauthorized errors. I had to watch the network calls to get access to the full error message. The problem was that even though I was authenticated, I was not actually authorized. I had to chose to either enable the allowAllUsers setting, or I needed to add specific users to the whitelist. (Details posted at https://kevin.thecorams.net/posts/2020/07/nginx-oauth-addendum/ )
New blog post after a long hiatus:
Adding OAuth Authentication to an Nginx Website
https://kevin.thecorams.net/posts/2020/07/nginx-oauth/
@amolith Honestly, unless someone has been working for like 20+ years, the resume should still only be one page. Potential interviewers don't have the kind of time needed to wade through pages and pages.
A nice one-page "resume" summary with an optional more-complete CV attachment could also be acceptable.
Brought to you by someone whose been having to interview programmers for years . . . .
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The code I’m still ashamed of
https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/the-code-im-still-ashamed-of-e4c021dff55e/
Required reading
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Day 72 of the #100DaysToOffload Series:
I've been living at work for the last four months, and I need that to stop.
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Effective reading involves a great deal of work on the reader's part and can't simply be a passive act. It requires actually thinking about what's on the page and making personal connections before the content can really be understood and "learned".
#100DaysToRead
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Ending #100DaysToOffload and starting #100DaysToRead, a pursuit of knowledge and more stuff to write about 
https://secluded.site/100-days-to-read
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@matrix Doctorow was arguing for forced interoperability (regarding antitrust) for a while. e.g. here: https://www.economist.com/open-future/2019/06/06/regulating-big-tech-makes-them-stronger-so-they-need-competition-instead
You might be an Internet Ancient if you:
@yarmo @screenbeard@aus.social I'm glad the post came across my feed, and doubly glad for the mention of #Keyoxide. I've been looking for a replacement for Keybase for the purposes of publishing proofs that I control the identities I have on various services. I will have to look deeper into Keyoxide -- I think it might be exactly what I've been looking for!
@amolith That would be awesome. I've been wondering how their project has been going!
@aral I missed listening to the live stream, but I was able to watch the recording at https://heyst.ac/lectures/in-conversation-with-laura-kalbag-from-the-small-technology-foundation
@laura : It was a good talk, and I'm glad I had a chance to catch up on it. Thank you!
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"How do I get started contributing to open source? What are some good entry-level tasks to work on?"
These are questions I am often asked, so here's the answer for everyone to read:
Scratch your own itches. Find bugs that are causing you problems, conspicuously missing features you would find useful, and implement them - in literally any free/open-source software you're using. Don't worry about not being familiar with the codebase or programming language or whatever, just solve one problem at a time.
Try this: next time you go to report a bug, report it, and immediately start working on a patch which fixes the problem.
Scratching your own itches is the best source of motivation and maximizes your productivity.
Often that means not contributing to my projects at all, if you're asking how to get started with a specific project. Maybe you like it because it's flawless 😉 (hah!), in which case it wouldn't need your help anyway. Go fix something which is bugging you in another project. Spread the contributor wealth around and eventually it'll come back to my projects, too.
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You can find a recording of my talk on Small Web at Creative Mornings Istanbul today at https://small-tech.org/events
(The audio is rather hot and there’s an audio mismatch which I’d thought I’d handled in my tests this week – I’m running off a laptop at the moment and it’s having trouble keeping up – but hey, this was the first time doing anything with this new setup so I will tweak as I go.) :)
- Keybase
- kcoram
- Personal Site
- https://kevin.thecorams.net/
Joined Jun 2019
