I never really realized how much candy bar logos have changed over the last couple decades until I saw this old vending machine which apparently never got the memo.
That said, I totally agree that specs without implementations are dangerous. I didn't bother adding Microformats to my website until there was a clear consuming use case for the additional markup. But that was like 7+ years ago now.
I still don't understand where this "without a consumer" is coming from, there are plenty of consumers of those, including the app I am typing this reply from.
That’s tricky. hCard (Microformats 1) was/is indexed by Google. The Webmention spec (published in 2017) was published after years of implementations working in the wild. Before Webmention existed, h-card/h-entry was used with Pingback to send comments back and forth.
Wait were you referring to schema.org vocabs in your comment about pushing specs that don’t have implementations? Because yeah I agree completely on that front.
ahh I'm going to just miss you! But it would be great to see you and/or @balloob at IndieWebCamp Nürnberg (Oct 20-21) or Berlin (Nov 3-4)! indieweb.org/Events#October
Thanks! It was recorded, but will take a little while for them to publish all the videos from the conference. The videos will end up here eventually! qs18.quantifiedself.com/prog…
This year I reached the ten year mark of continuously tracking my location! Very happy to have had a chance to share the project at #qs18!
#gps#location#quantifiedself
I'm not sure what you mean... the vast majority of interactions happen because of polling web pages rather than websub, and even webmentions -- while the notification itself is a push -- require fetching the site to get the actual data.
What type of accuracy do you need? Bluetooth beacons can tell you when someone is in the immediate vicinity. If you need positioning at arbitrary locations that's a different story. I used a Wi-Fi system once, no software required in the phone but requires hardware in corners.
Right! I've been signing in to an alternate iCloud account on my shared devices so that people can't turn on iMessage and start getting my messages, but this is a lot better!