I've just released a simple #ActivityPub debugging tool. It's hosted on Glitch so you don't have to worry about spinning up servers or SSL certs etc. You clone your own copy of the project, set it up, and you can create ActivityPub accounts that can send any raw JSON payload you specify to its followers. I use it for testing new and novel ActivityPub objects, and to test compatibility with messages sent from remote servers without needing to create an account on them.
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Darius Kazemi (darius)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Dec-2019 20:11:07 UTC Darius Kazemi -
Darius Kazemi (darius)'s status on Monday, 28-Jan-2019 03:01:28 UTC Darius Kazemi If you're a computer programmer and you've heard of the Dat protocol but looked at the docs and still scratched your head (I was there myself a few months back), there's a new guide that explains in very clear, very detailed language what Dat is and how it works.
Just to be clear, I do not recommend it for non-programmers as that is not the intended audience but I *highly* recommend it for programmers:
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Darius Kazemi (darius)'s status on Thursday, 24-Jan-2019 05:59:49 UTC Darius Kazemi I contacted the Computer History Museum and paid them a small fee to have them scan the first 9 RFCs. I'm happy to say those scans are now online.
My post with interesting excerpts and things I learned looking at the scans: https://write.as/365-rfcs/update-scans-of-early-rfcs
The listing of the scans in their catalog, with a link to the PDF: https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102661172
You can follow along with my series commenting on the first 365 RFCs here @365-rfcs
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Darius Kazemi (darius)'s status on Friday, 30-Nov-2018 01:17:38 UTC Darius Kazemi I would like to give a shoutout to Rob Oschorn's Gentle, which is word alignment software. You give it an mp3 of people talking and a transcript and it spits back a JSON file with millisecond-level fairly accurate guesses as to timestamps for when each word starts and stops. https://github.com/lowerquality/gentle
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Darius Kazemi (darius)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Nov-2018 17:02:30 UTC Darius Kazemi Idea: every American city except for Seattle WA, Long Island City NY, and Crystal City VA should launch a "move here! there is no amazon HQ in our city" campaign
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Darius Kazemi (darius)'s status on Monday, 22-Oct-2018 18:40:34 UTC Darius Kazemi Just FYI, Mastodon v2.6.0 web client adds a nice feature that makes having inline RSS feeds (via something like my RSS-to-ActivityPub converter, https://bots.tinysubversions.com/convert ) much more convenient. The feature adds a "read more" to any post that is taller than a certain number of pixels, so now my "podcasts" list renders in a way that makes more sense. ("Read more" opens up a detail dialogue where you can read the full post in-client.)