Who is Bailey?

We'll never know. All we know is that Lionel Essro...

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Just a quick follow up on Reading, coding and commenting.

I used the twigfeeds plugin to bring in a feed of my links on Reading.am to the sidebar here. Chris Aldrich pointed out that when I use Reading.am as a way to read something again, it helpfully inserts because of Jeremy Cherfas at the end of the RSS entry. And if I can filter one piece of fluff out with a regex, I can do it for two. Here, then, is the code snippet for sidebar.html.twig with the final filter. Obviously, you would change it to suit your own needs.

<div class="sidebar-content">
<h4>Reading</h4>

{% for name, feed in twig_feeds if name == 'Reading' %}
    {% for item in feed.items %}
        <p>
            <a href="{{ item.url }}">{{ item.title | regex_replace(['/Jeremy Cherfas is reading /', '/ because of Jeremy Cherfas/'],['','']) }}</a>
        </p>
              <time>{{ item.date.date|nicetime(false) }}</time>

    {% endfor %}
{% endfor %}

</div>

Maybe someone will find this useful.

Notes, as much for my own memory as for anyone following along, on a couple of recent tweaks

Reading

I read a lot, on and offline, and forget almost as much, so I have various places where I try to save bookmarks, notes and what have you. Then I noticed that someone whose footsteps I have been ...

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A few days ago, searching for something completely different, I came across a post by John Hawks -- The futility of science communication conferences -- which I duly bookmarked. The real point of that, of course, was to remind myself to go and read the foundation post: Communication, Literacy, Policy: Thoughts on SciComm in a Democracy, by Rick Borchelt.¹ It's a beaut, and not just because it pushes all my confirmation bias buttons.

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It makes me happy that another pilgrim on the road to IndieWeb has found some of my efforts helpful. Ron Chester has taken up blogging and microblogging and is now wondering whether he ought to get into webmentions. In that connection, he had some nice things to say about my write-ups on that subject, although in the end he decided that he doesn't want to take that particular giant baby step.

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