Douglas Perkins - Microca.st

2016-06-04T12:57:55Z via Microca.st Web To: Public CC: Followers

Debugging.

Fun.

:-)

Taiwan

2016-06-04T12:30:01Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers

Anyone been to Taiwan? I'm thinking of going this August. Expect it to be hot, except up in the mountains and maybe even then. But still should be an exciting trip. Thinking of maybe three days in Taipei and then some coast and mountains on the eastern side of the island for another four?

My friend lives near Hong Kong, but he says it's way too hot there in the summer, so I suppose the winter or spring would be better. Leaves the summer for Taiwan.

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I lived in Hong Kong for a couple of years and visited Taipei over one weekend. Hong Kong is best around May and August. 30 degrees Celsius with 90% humidity is not enjoyable. When in Taipei, don't miss the volcanic crater in the mountains a bit outside the city.

Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) at 2016-06-04T12:36:15Z

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To clarify: August in HK isn't too bad. June and July is the worst part. And I hate HK winters. I prefer Swedish winter with snow and with decent indoor temperature to HK winter with 10 degrees C outside, 10 degrees indoors and still 75% humidity. Freezes me to the bone. If you have the choice, stay out of HK Nov-Feb.

Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) at 2016-06-04T12:40:22Z

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2016-06-04T12:22:26Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers

PumpTweet tries to shorten Notes so that they'll fit into one Tweet when posted to Twitter, plus a link back to the original Note. But since Twitter does weird URL shortening/lengthening, I've had trouble finding the right values for short URLs. Well, one approach is to use a method that will automatically split over-length Tweets into two. This is one way of making the problem less severe, although it doesn't precisely solve it. Testing shortly.

I think from memory friendica's connector just used a short version (up to what would fit) and included a link ..

twitter users would see the shorter version with a link to the full version on the auithor's site.

not sure what more can be done when its a long post and they only allow 140 chars

not really so keen on splitting it up into multiple tweets,

That seems to be what pidgin does when posting to friendica using a "twitter-api" connector (which unfortunately also assumed twitter's length limit even though longer posts are ok on friendica)

they end up being multiple posts split in odd places (about where the limit is, even if thats mid-word)

I don't really like auto-split without warning in sms either ..

Michael at 2016-06-04T15:32:14Z

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Hiking

2016-06-04T12:14:33Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers

The plan for tomorrow is to climb Mt. Takao with my school's English Club students. But maybe it's going to rain. June is the rainy season in Japan, after all. We have an art museum as backup. It's supposed to be a cool museum; I haven't been there. Not sure about lunch. I was looking for a Mexican place, but there are none in the vicinity. Oh well!

Nice plan =)

JanKusanagi at 2016-06-04T13:11:15Z

A small fix

2016-06-04T12:01:49Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers

This should fix a PumpTweet warning. https://github.com/dper/pumptweet/commit/a158728cacf5df8f49dc679e0e15b26bf1247efc

pumptweet/pumptweet/MLStripper.py:10: DeprecationWarning: The value of convert_charrefs will become True in 3.5. You are encouraged to set the value explicitly.

Unicode and HTML

2016-06-04T11:49:12Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers

Here is an arrow using HTML: → Here is one using unicode: →. Time to play around with them.

Bug fixing

2016-06-04T11:41:20Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers

Time for a little PumpTweet bug fixing... :-)

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Sweet!

Marcel van der Boom at 2016-06-04T11:47:17Z

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Christopher Allan Webber at 2016-06-03T03:08:35Z via Microca.st Web To: Public , Christopher Allan Webber CC: Followers

It turns out collapsing on the floor for a while was the right idea after all.

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OwnCloud

2016-06-02T11:44:52Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers

I once submitted a (very small) OwnCloud pull request and was ignored. Later someone said maybe it's cuz I hadn't agreed to some developer agreement. So I gave up.

It was an obvious factual error in the documentation that would have taken two sentences to fix, which I tried to do. Oh well? And surely others feel the same way, except much more strongly because they would like to make larger contributions.

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nextcloud supposedly won't require cla's so perhaps it will be easier

David "Judah's Shadow" Blue at 2016-06-02T21:06:48Z

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Croquette

2016-06-01T13:44:30Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers

A delicious appetizer from Monday's motorcycle ride.

Obaku

2016-06-01T13:30:45Z via Microca.st Web To: Public CC: Followers

Obaku, a kind of Japanese porridge with miso and green onions.

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PumpTweet with Python3

2016-06-01T13:24:16Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers

PumpTweet now uses Python3. https://github.com/dper/pumptweet/releases/tag/v2.0

If you're upgrading, see https://github.com/dper/pumptweet/issues/30. It is a very simple procedure.

There are no changes to functionality. I wanted to use Python3 because it cleans up a few library calls. Supporting both Python2 and Python3 seemed pointless, since I assume most people have installed Python3 by now. Since this project is small, the necessary changes were also small. Yay!

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I will make a PyPI release at some point in a few weeks, perhaps, after seeing whether any major problems come up.

Douglas Perkins at 2016-06-01T13:25:18Z

PumpTweet to python3

2016-06-01T12:39:08Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers

Migrating PumpTweet to python3. Testing some stuff now.

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python-twitter 3.1

2016-06-01T11:28:53Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers

Moving PumpTweet up to python-twitter 3.1 shortly. :-)

Done.

Douglas Perkins at 2016-06-01T11:32:25Z

Shortly indeed =)

JanKusanagi at 2016-06-01T12:23:37Z

2016-06-01T11:22:36Z via Microca.st Web To: Public CC: Followers

It is nice that everything is going again.

Hooray for microca.st being up. However, the general problem still exists. Although a new home is being sought for these pump.io servers, so far one has not been located. As long as that's the case, I'm wary of investing too much time and energy here. The delicate part (for me) is that I self-host email and XMPP, so I don't want to self-host pump.io. If my server went down, I'd lose too much communication.

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A survey for self-hosters

2016-06-01T11:18:01Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers

Greetings, pumpers!

If you run your own Pump.io node, it would be a huge help if you could check nodecompat.com to see if the operating system you run your node on is listed. If not, please file an issue on GitHub. It's really helpful to have this information as we evaluate when we can drop support for old Node.js versions.

Thanks!

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I am debugging PumpTweet a Strugee post. (And the post itself is worth repeating, so it's dual purpose.)

Douglas Perkins at 2016-06-01T11:18:44Z

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