Aaron Parecki

#monocle

Aaron Parecki https://aaronparecki.com/ • Oct 2
I replaced Monocle's Font Awesome SVG+JS icons with their SVG sprite icons and it loads soooo much faster now! There was always a visible delay while the JS loaded in the SVG icons. Now it's just handled by the browser with no JS.

I always assumed that it was a slow network causing the issues, but I opened up the browser tools to check and it turns out the slowdown was happening while rendering the page, not when fetching external data. Goes to show it's a good idea to open up the browser tools once in a while to check out what's happening under the hood!

It looks like switching to no-JS icons in monocle totally fixed the issues I was having with it! Sometimes when I opened a page it used to block on all interactions like marking things read or favoriting for a while. I didn't realize that it was the icon JS that was blocking it! Now that the icons don't require JS, it's free to start handling user interaction sooner and I can scroll and mark read even before the rest of the assets are loaded!

Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, DEU

Thu, Oct 3, 2019 11:10am +02:00 #p3k #indieweb #monocle
I replaced Monocle's Font Awesome SVG+JS icons with their SVG sprite icons and it loads soooo much faster now! There was always a visible delay while the JS loaded in the SVG icons. Now it's just handled by the browser with no JS.

I always assumed that it was a slow network causing the issues, but I opened up the browser tools to check and it turns out the slowdown was happening while rendering the page, not when fetching external data. Goes to show it's a good idea to open up the browser tools once in a while to check out what's happening under the hood!

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, NLD • 52°F

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Wed, Oct 2, 2019 9:29pm +02:00 #p3k #indieweb #monocle
Mark All Read in Monocle (mrkapowski.com)

Mon, May 27, 2019 5:20pm -04:00 #indieweb #monocle #p3k
Chris McLeod https://mrkapowski.com/

Mark All Read in Monocle

Toronto, Ontario

Mon, May 27, 2019 10:17pm +01:00 (liked on Mon, May 27, 2019 5:20pm -04:00) #collaboration #contributing #indieweb #monocle #open-source #reader #social reader
Post-IndieWebCamp hacking continues at the hotel bar! Made a few more minor improvements to Monocle:

• Defaults to "https" when you type in a domain, and if that fails, will fall back to http, rather than the other way around
• Added a logout button
• Added mobile screenshots to the wiki
• Updated the indieauth-client-php library to bubble up things like ssl errors so that apps using the library can report errors better

Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, DEU

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Sun, May 12, 2019 11:43pm +02:00 #indiewebcamp #indieweb #monocle
So nice to be able to look back through #indiewebsummit posts in my own reader that's been collecting them over the last few days!

Portland, Oregon, USA • 63°F

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Thu, Jun 28, 2018 10:32am -07:00 #indieweb #monocle #indiewebsummit
An IndieWeb reader: My new home on the internet (www.godaddy.com)

Fri, Apr 20, 2018 4:55pm -07:00 #indieweb #monocle
An IndieWeb reader: My new home on the internet

I have a new home on the internet. I don’t visit the Twitter home timeline or the Facebook news feed anymore. I don’t open the Instagram app except when I post a photo. I still have accounts there — I just don’t visit those sites anymore. Instead, I have my own new space on the internet where everything I’m interested in is consolidated, and I can read and reply to things from there. But before I go too far into my new online home — an IndieWeb reader — some background.
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Fri, Apr 20, 2018 9:00am -07:00 #indieweb #monocle #reader #microsub
pstuifzand https://github.com/pstuifzand • Mar 28

#11 Mark read multiple entries parameters entry[0], entry[1], ...

Yep you're right, Monocle should not be sending numeric indexes in the arrays. You can thank PHP's http_build_query for that. I just pushed up a fix!

Portland, Oregon • 44°F

Wed, Mar 28, 2018 6:55am -07:00 #monocle
I think it might be time to turn off email notifications from GitHub since it's nicer to read these in Monocle where I can reply inline!

Portland, Oregon • 40°F

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Sun, Mar 25, 2018 9:26am -07:00 #monocle #indieweb
Building an IndieWeb Reader

Over the last several months, I've been slowly putting the pieces in place to be able to build a solid indieweb reader. Today, I feel like I finally have enough in place to consider this functional enough that I am now using it every day!
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Mon, Mar 12, 2018 5:03pm -07:00 #indieweb #monocle #aperture #microsub #micropub #watchtower #reader
Monocle just got real fancy. I can now set a default account for each channel from which responses should be sent. (Stored in my Microsub server, not in Monocle, so it can work across clients). Monocle recognizes when alternate accounts are available and provides an account switcher UI in the footer. Any "like/repost/reply" actions are then sent via that account instead of to my main site!

Portland, Oregon • 49°F

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Thu, Mar 8, 2018 2:54pm -08:00 #microsub #monocle #aperture #p3k
https://github.com/aaronpk/Monocle

add support for mp-destination

query the micropub endpoint and store the destination list in the session
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Mon, Mar 5, 2018 10:15am -08:00 #monocle #ui
https://github.com/aaronpk/Monocle

add video player to stream view

Mon, Mar 5, 2018 10:07am -08:00 #ui #monocle
https://github.com/aaronpk/Monocle

improve multi-photo layout in stream view

Mon, Mar 5, 2018 10:07am -08:00 #ui #monocle
Monocle+Aperture are coming along nicely!

I just got my GitHub notifications piped into the reader, which is a much nicer experience than reading them via email or trying to track them down on github.com!

I have a few channels set to show just an indicator dot when there are new posts rather than showing the number of new posts, a much calmer experience.

Unread posts show up with a faint yellow glow around them, and they're automatically marked as read when they scroll off the screen.

At this point, I've actually moved all of the feeds I was previously following from IRC into Aperture as a way to force myself to continue putting the finishing touches on it!

Portland, Oregon, USA

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Sun, Mar 4, 2018 2:22pm -08:00 #monocle #aperture #microsub
Monocle is coming along nicely! It now automatically marks things as read as you scroll through the timeline. The unread counts in the sidebar update automatically when new posts come in as well! I'm getting so close to being able to completely switch off of IRC as my reader!

Portland, Oregon, USA

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Fri, Mar 2, 2018 4:38pm -08:00 #irc #monocle #microsub
Monocle is Offline

When I first built Monocle, I modeled it after the "timeline" or "stream" view now common in social networks, but made it possible to subscribe to h-entry feeds as well. The main UI showed a stream of posts, with the full post contents rendered inline, along with the author info and favorite/repost/reply buttons.
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Tue, Apr 26, 2016 8:08am -07:00 #monocle #indieweb
Just launched PuSH 0.4 support for Monocle! If you want to see realtime feed updates in Monocle or Woodwind, check out this guide to using PuSH! https://indiewebcamp.com/how-to-push

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Tue, Mar 17, 2015 8:37pm -07:00 #monocle #indieweb #push
Designing an IndieWeb Reader Based on How I Read Social Media

In the current world of silos dominating the social media space, people typically have to visit half a dozen websites or apps to see all the latest content from friends. At this point I'm sick of this "multiple inbox" model that I want to find an alternative as fast as possible.
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Thu, Mar 5, 2015 7:30pm -08:00 #indieweb #p3k #monocle #reader

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