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Updated #USPS policy says #postmarks might not indicate the first day the Postal Service received the mail, but rather the day it was handled in one of its processing centers. Those centers are increasingly likely to be further away from certain communities because of recent consolidations within the Postal Service, which could further delay postmarks.

#law #ElectionLaw #MailBallots #elections #midterms #VoterSuppression

Updated #USPS policy says #postmarks might not indicate the first day the Postal Service received the mail, but rather the day it was handled in one of its processing centers. Those centers are increasingly likely to be further away from certain communities because of recent consolidations within the Postal Service, which could further delay postmarks.

#law #ElectionLaw #MailBallots #elections #midterms #VoterSuppression

USPS says mail-in ballots might not get postmark on same day they’re dropped off #USPS #postmarks #elections #ballots #cartoon #gregkearney #kearney

USPS says mail-in ballots might not get postmark on same day they’re dropped off #USPS #postmarks #elections #ballots #cartoon #gregkearney #kearney

#Postmarks are no longer based on when you drop mail off, but on when it’s FIRST PROCESSED by an automated FACILITY. That delay can turn an on-time #BALLOT, #HEALTHCARE appeal, or #LEGALDOCUMENT into something that APPEARS "late" @[email protected] reacts #DeadlineMail youtu.be/njg25mT-zBM?...

URGENT: USPS Quietly Changed P...

Updated ​my #Postmarks and #TvMarks instances this week. For some reason I created a docker container for each of these, when a LXC on ProxMox would have been a ton easier.

I've learned a few things about building docker compose files, so that's not a bad thing.

Started watching Owl House for my fun, light show - just 1 episode in.

https://watch.box464.social/show/35073#season1

Here's a fun bookmark. BirdNet Pi users can create a mastodon bot to list your top captured bird calls daily.

https://github.com/mcguirepr89/BirdNET-Pi/issues/1159

Updated ​my #Postmarks and #TvMarks instances this week. For some reason I created a docker container for each of these, when a LXC on ProxMox would have been a ton easier.

I've learned a few things about building docker compose files, so that's not a bad thing.

Started watching Owl House for my fun, light show - just 1 episode in.

https://watch.box464.social/show/35073#season1

Here's a fun bookmark. BirdNet Pi users can create a mastodon bot to list your top captured bird calls daily.

https://github.com/mcguirepr89/BirdNET-Pi/issues/1159

Just updated Tvmarks to 3.0 as I finally transition it to typescript.

I avoided typescript before as Postmarks was not and Glitch really struggled with the build step needed for typescript.

Typescript will only make adding new features easier as adding bugs will be harder.

I continue to love Tvmarks and I use it every day!

https://github.com/stefanhayden/tvmarks

#postmarks #tvmarks #webdev #fediverse

Just updated Tvmarks to 3.0 as I finally transition it to typescript.

I avoided typescript before as Postmarks was not and Glitch really struggled with the build step needed for typescript.

Typescript will only make adding new features easier as adding bugs will be harder.

I continue to love Tvmarks and I use it every day!

https://github.com/stefanhayden/tvmarks

#postmarks #tvmarks #webdev #fediverse

P.S. If you want to see something fun, take one of the Hundred Rabbits themes (repo below) and drag it onto my #Postmarks install.

https://github.com/hundredrabbits/Themes

Still have to update the RSS and GitHub icons so they change color along with everything else, but I'm feeling pretty good about this.

/cc @rek @neauoire

P.S. If you want to see something fun, take one of the Hundred Rabbits themes (repo below) and drag it onto my #Postmarks install.

https://github.com/hundredrabbits/Themes

Still have to update the RSS and GitHub icons so they change color along with everything else, but I'm feeling pretty good about this.

/cc @rek @neauoire

The good news: I got #Postmarks running on Node 24, upgraded all of its dependencies, fixed the Mastodon follow problem, and deployed it on Fly.io.

The bad news: I've made so many changes that I am very nervous about sending all of them upstream to @casey. :melting_sweat:

The good news: I got #Postmarks running on Node 24, upgraded all of its dependencies, fixed the Mastodon follow problem, and deployed it on Fly.io.

The bad news: I've made so many changes that I am very nervous about sending all of them upstream to @casey. :melting_sweat:

I DID IT. I only had 2 #glitch apps I cared about but I'm off glitch now. Both now on digitalocean with caddy as my reverse proxy and pm2 running the app.

my #postmarks https://links.stefanhayden.com/

my #tvmarks https://tv.stefanhayden.com/

I DID IT. I only had 2 #glitch apps I cared about but I'm off glitch now. Both now on digitalocean with caddy as my reverse proxy and pm2 running the app.

my #postmarks https://links.stefanhayden.com/

my #tvmarks https://tv.stefanhayden.com/

Ah of course! I forgot that @casey worked there and also that's what #Postmarks @updates is on and also everyone's federated bookmarks that were linked to that domain will now probably be sorta messed up.
https://sharetron.com/@casey/114552653673971169

Also so sorry to hear Casey I hope you find an amazing next opportunity!

Ah of course! I forgot that @casey worked there and also that's what #Postmarks @updates is on and also everyone's federated bookmarks that were linked to that domain will now probably be sorta messed up.
https://sharetron.com/@casey/114552653673971169

Also so sorry to hear Casey I hope you find an amazing next opportunity!

Hey yall I forked #Postmarks and made #Tvmarks a new way to track your tv watching. Data hydration from tvamze but all data hosted on your own local database. Updates to shows and episodes are posted to the #fediverse and you can follow the account it creates!

https://stefan-tvmarks.glitch.me/

I guess I need to find a new place to host this since #glitch is shutting down.

Hey yall I forked #Postmarks and made #Tvmarks a new way to track your tv watching. Data hydration from tvamze but all data hosted on your own local database. Updates to shows and episodes are posted to the #fediverse and you can follow the account it creates!

https://stefan-tvmarks.glitch.me/

I guess I need to find a new place to host this since #glitch is shutting down.

Habe mir gestern #postmarks installiert, damit ich meine Lesezeichen online verwalten kann. Ist direkt Teil des Fediverse, so dass man @updates folgen kann. Oder im Web unter https://links.zedlitz.de
So kann ich meine Lesezeichen verwalten und nebenbei noch etwas über die Technik des Fediverse lernen.

https://github.com/ckolderup/postmarks

Habe mir gestern #postmarks installiert, damit ich meine Lesezeichen online verwalten kann. Ist direkt Teil des Fediverse, so dass man @updates folgen kann. Oder im Web unter https://links.zedlitz.de
So kann ich meine Lesezeichen verwalten und nebenbei noch etwas über die Technik des Fediverse lernen.

https://github.com/ckolderup/postmarks

The Fediverse Chick has appeared on my #Postmarks Network page. lol.

The Fediverse Chick has appeared on my #Postmarks Network page. lol.

Love that #postmarks helps answer the question that if have no followers is it even worth broadcasting?

nope!

#thisIsJustAJoke

Love that #postmarks helps answer the question that if have no followers is it even worth broadcasting?

nope!

#thisIsJustAJoke

@Sarah
> Is there a fedi platform for pins and pinboards like pinterest?

Here's an article describing the #Fediverse bookmarking service (with #SelfHosting option), #Postmarks:

https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/08/with-postmarks-social-bookmarking-is-back-but-this-time-its-built-on-the-fediverse/

@updates

@Sarah
> Is there a fedi platform for pins and pinboards like pinterest?

Here's an article describing the #Fediverse bookmarking service (with #SelfHosting option), #Postmarks:

https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/08/with-postmarks-social-bookmarking-is-back-but-this-time-its-built-on-the-fediverse/

@updates

I created a very long #postmarks issue outlining all the steps I took to debug my inability to follow my postmarks account from mastodon.

https://github.com/ckolderup/postmarks/issues/201

I created a very long #postmarks issue outlining all the steps I took to debug my inability to follow my postmarks account from mastodon.

https://github.com/ckolderup/postmarks/issues/201

Another #postmarks oddity is

this link redirects me to the HTML page instead of JSON
https://delicious-links.glitch.me/u/stefan

while this link show me json:
https://dfk-postmarks.glitch.me/u/bookmarks

as far as I can tell the code is the same:
if (!req.headers.accept?.includes('json')) {
return res.redirect('/');
}

I'm not sure it's effecting anything but trying to debug any difference.

Another #postmarks oddity is

this link redirects me to the HTML page instead of JSON
https://delicious-links.glitch.me/u/stefan

while this link show me json:
https://dfk-postmarks.glitch.me/u/bookmarks

as far as I can tell the code is the same:
if (!req.headers.accept?.includes('json')) {
return res.redirect('/');
}

I'm not sure it's effecting anything but trying to debug any difference.

I can get my #postmarks to follow other postmarks but I can't get it to be followed from my mastodon account.

When I search for the account from the mastodon UI I see the request in glitch but my mastodon app never seems to act like it found the account.

I can get my #postmarks to follow other postmarks but I can't get it to be followed from my mastodon account.

When I search for the account from the mastodon UI I see the request in glitch but my mastodon app never seems to act like it found the account.

I wonder what #Postmarks would be like if it added a weekly/monthly newsletter option?

Though, you'd probably also want some editorial content with that?

cc @casey @updates

I wonder what #Postmarks would be like if it added a weekly/monthly newsletter option?

Though, you'd probably also want some editorial content with that?

cc @casey @updates

Casey talking about #Postmarks (@updates) at the social web room now!

Casey talking about #Postmarks (@updates) at the social web room now!

@tom @BeAware

...huh. I had not heard of #postmarks before, but I _had_ been looking for a #Fediverse alternative to Linktree. Maybe this will do.

@tom @BeAware

...huh. I had not heard of #postmarks before, but I _had_ been looking for a #Fediverse alternative to Linktree. Maybe this will do.

Good morning @casey, I was wondering how complicated would it be to bump my #postmarks instance, that still lives a year in the past.

Do you have any Upgrade Notes, anything to care about? DB migrations or something? I can't manage to find anything on the Repo

Good morning @casey, I was wondering how complicated would it be to bump my #postmarks instance, that still lives a year in the past.

Do you have any Upgrade Notes, anything to care about? DB migrations or something? I can't manage to find anything on the Repo

@casey Hey, I like #Postmarks and I still use it regularly. https://drikkmarks.glitch.me/ Maybe this is a stupid question: How do I update my project to the newest version? https://postmarks.glitch.me/ looks a bit nicer, especially with the tags column and the RSS button.

When I poked around with Postmarks (a federated bookmarking service) last year, I briefly mentioned another federated server, Shuttlecraft… but I never followed up on that.

Shuttlecraft is a single-user ActivityPub-compatible application that can run on a platform like Glitch – in fact, it’s more-or-less a single-click deployment to fork and install on Glitch.

I’ve written about being all-in on the Fediverse and I generally try a lot of different things out. I created a Shuttlecraft instance for myself around the same time I set up Postmarks last year – both run on Glitch, both are somewhat experimental / in-progress and unfinished. The fact is that I use my Postmarks instance all the time for logging links of interest, but Shuttlecraft has really just been sitting there without very much interaction. That’s mostly deliberate, it’s a playground more than anything else, and it can be handy for playing with interactions with other ActivityPub servers.

However – yesterday I thought I’d take a quick look at it, only to discover that my Glitch app was down.

After doing some digging in the console and logs, I found that Node was complaining about being unable to load a module. That was surprising to me, as I hadn’t changed anything there for a long while. It turned out that what was actually happening was that the container’s disk allocation had run out, and the log message itself was spurious.

To be fair, the Shuttlecraft README is very clear that a) it’s an unsupported side-project from the author Ben Brown, and b) …

all data is written as PLAIN TEXT FILES to the disk.

Right now, the app builds an IN-MEMORY INDEX of EVERY SINGLE POST. This will work for several thousand posts, but … maybe not for 10,000s of posts. I’m not sure how far it will go. I have ideas about being able to shard the index into multiple files and page through it, etc. But.

It took a bit of very messy and imperfect cleanup inside hidden directories in the Glitch container, but for now, I have my small instance back up again. Realistically, it is probably not worth following / I don’t look at it much / it will fall over again, before much longer – but it’s also a fun thing to tinker with, and the code is quick to tweak in the Glitch editor.

In the past few months, quite a few things have changed in the ecosystem – for example, I’m now on Threads, and my account is federated out from there. Shuttlecraft is missing something in its ability to play nicely with that, which is a bit sad… maybe I’ll have to have a look into it at some stage.

I’ll have to look at some more Fediverse-compatible apps soon, hopefully more resilient ones! 🙂 Fediforum is coming up next month, and that’s usually a great place to learn about what developers are working on across the ActivityPub ecosystem.

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#Blaugust2024 #100DaysToOffload #activitypub #Coding #fediverse #glitch #postmarks #selfHosting #singleUser

When I poked around with Postmarks (a federated bookmarking service) last year, I briefly mentioned another federated server, Shuttlecraft… but I never followed up on that.

Shuttlecraft is a single-user ActivityPub-compatible application that can run on a platform like Glitch – in fact, it’s more-or-less a single-click deployment to fork and install on Glitch.

I’ve written about being all-in on the Fediverse and I generally try a lot of different things out. I created a Shuttlecraft instance for myself around the same time I set up Postmarks last year – both run on Glitch, both are somewhat experimental / in-progress and unfinished. The fact is that I use my Postmarks instance all the time for logging links of interest, but Shuttlecraft has really just been sitting there without very much interaction. That’s mostly deliberate, it’s a playground more than anything else, and it can be handy for playing with interactions with other ActivityPub servers.

However – yesterday I thought I’d take a quick look at it, only to discover that my Glitch app was down.

After doing some digging in the console and logs, I found that Node was complaining about being unable to load a module. That was surprising to me, as I hadn’t changed anything there for a long while. It turned out that what was actually happening was that the container’s disk allocation had run out, and the log message itself was spurious.

To be fair, the Shuttlecraft README is very clear that a) it’s an unsupported side-project from the author Ben Brown, and b) …

all data is written as PLAIN TEXT FILES to the disk.

Right now, the app builds an IN-MEMORY INDEX of EVERY SINGLE POST. This will work for several thousand posts, but … maybe not for 10,000s of posts. I’m not sure how far it will go. I have ideas about being able to shard the index into multiple files and page through it, etc. But.

It took a bit of very messy and imperfect cleanup inside hidden directories in the Glitch container, but for now, I have my small instance back up again. Realistically, it is probably not worth following / I don’t look at it much / it will fall over again, before much longer – but it’s also a fun thing to tinker with, and the code is quick to tweak in the Glitch editor.

In the past few months, quite a few things have changed in the ecosystem – for example, I’m now on Threads, and my account is federated out from there. Shuttlecraft is missing something in its ability to play nicely with that, which is a bit sad… maybe I’ll have to have a look into it at some stage.

I’ll have to look at some more Fediverse-compatible apps soon, hopefully more resilient ones! 🙂 Fediforum is coming up next month, and that’s usually a great place to learn about what developers are working on across the ActivityPub ecosystem.

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#Blaugust2024 #100DaysToOffload #activitypub #Coding #fediverse #glitch #postmarks #selfHosting #singleUser

Finally managed to bridge my #postmarks account through to bluesky

Finally managed to bridge my #postmarks account through to bluesky

I run a couple of my sites #MadeWithGlitch on @glitchdotcom + @devs and I can see these new features and the news today is encourage me to use it even more. Also, that’s where #postmarks (federated bookmarking) started thanks to @casey …

tl;dr they just enabled free developer accounts with all of the Fastly features.

https://fastly.com/pricing

I run a couple of my sites #MadeWithGlitch on @glitchdotcom + @devs and I can see these new features and the news today is encourage me to use it even more. Also, that’s where #postmarks (federated bookmarking) started thanks to @casey …

tl;dr they just enabled free developer accounts with all of the Fastly features.

https://fastly.com/pricing

#Linkblocks looks very interesting - another federated social bookmark manager joining #Postmarks (and did I read somewhere #Grimoire was going to federate?) https://www.rafa.ee/articles/introducing-linkblocks-federated-bookmark-manager/

#Linkblocks looks very interesting - another federated social bookmark manager joining #Postmarks (and did I read somewhere #Grimoire was going to federate?) https://www.rafa.ee/articles/introducing-linkblocks-federated-bookmark-manager/

@anders_von_hadern @kathrinpassig Hab ich neulich auch mal wieder dran gedacht. Zweiter Teil des Posts, da gibt’s mit #Postmarks jetzt auch ein Tool fürs #Fediverse. https://drikkes.com/?p=18583

@anders_von_hadern @kathrinpassig Hab ich neulich auch mal wieder dran gedacht. Zweiter Teil des Posts, da gibt’s mit #Postmarks jetzt auch ein Tool fürs #Fediverse. https://drikkes.com/?p=18583

A poorly researched idea for a distributed, manually curated search engine/index:

This idea is focused on Postmarks for now as it's a federated bookmark manager.

Phase 1:
1. Create a meta search for Postmarks instances. This means we delegate search to the individual Postmarks instances.

Phase 2:
1. Fork Postmarks. (We can always merge back in)
2. Implement a crawler to allow Postmarks instances to individually index a bookmarked site, page. The data would be stored on their servers. So they should have control over what gets indexed.
3. Improve Postmarks search functionality to include indexed data
4. Use the previously made meta search engine

#OpenSource # #Coding #postmarks #FOSS #coding

@betula @bouncepaw FWIW I'm not currently able to follow the Betula instance from #Postmarks, but that looks like another area we can collaborate to figure out! Exciting times.

... and ~11 hours later, the only one still doggedly trying to extract value from my personal (but federated) bookmarks store is... "DataForSeoBot". #postmarks #spammyrobots