By @edent · mastodon MastodonAPI metadata NaBloPoMo ogp · 16 comments · 750 words · read ~367 times.
Mastodon - the distributed social network - has two interesting challenges when it comes to how users share links. I'd like to discuss those issues and suggest a possible way forward. When you click on a link on my website which takes you to another website, your browser sends a Referer0. This says to the […]
Continue reading →By @edent · facebook HTML meta metadata ogp standards twitter · 7 comments · 550 words · read ~1,336 times.
Facebook Meta - like many other tech titans - has institutional Shiny Object Syndrome. It goes something like this: Launch a product to great fanfare Spend a few years hyping it as ✨the future✨ Stop answering emails and pull requests If you're lucky, announce that the product is abandoned but, more likely, just forget about […]
Continue reading →By @edent · HTML5 meta metadata schema.org semantic web WordPress · 2 comments · 850 words · read ~150 times.
As regular readers will know, I love adding Semantic things to my blog. The standard WordPress comments HTML isn't very semantic - so I thought I'd change that. Here's some code which you can add to your blog's theme - an an explanation of how it works. The aim is to end up with some […]
Continue reading →By @edent · HTML5 metadata schema.org · 5 comments · 450 words · read ~2,403 times.
Inspired by John Hoare at the Dirty Feed blog - I've asked the British Library to assign my blog an International Standard Serial Number (ISSN). An ISSN is an 8-digit code used to identify newspapers, journals, magazines and periodicals of all kinds and on all media–print and electronic. Why? Shut up. OK. It turns out […]
Continue reading →By @edent · exif gps metadata photography · 2 comments · 150 words · read ~185 times.
Here's a quick one-liner to reduce the precision of location stored in a photo's EXIF metadata: exiftool -c "%.2f" -TagsFromFile @ -GPSLatitude -GPSLongitude photo.jpg (Thanks to the EXIFtool Forum for their help.) Why is this useful? Modern phones automatically attach a GPS location to every photo you take. GPS resolution is around 10 metres. When […]
Continue reading →By @edent · metadata php schema.org WordPress · 1,200 words · read ~104 times.
This is a real "scratch my own itch" post. I want to add Schema.org semantic metadata to the book reviews I write on my blog. This will enable "rich snippets" in search engines. There are loads of WordPress plugins which do this. But where's the fun in that?! So here's how I quickly built it […]
Continue reading →By @edent · audio metadata ogg opus · 1 comment · 1,750 words · read ~527 times.
I'm trying to create some ridiculously tiny audio files. The sort where every single byte matters. I've encoded a small sample. But the opusenc tool automatically adds metadata - even if you don't specify any. Using the amazing Mutagen Python library I was able to completely strip out all the metadata! import mutagen mutagen.File("example.opus").delete() It […]
Continue reading →By @edent · email metadata NaBloPoMo · 3 comments · 600 words · read ~814 times.
For many years, my email footer said "Sent via my Casio cPhone" - my attempt to poke fun at the users who hadn't updated their iPhone's default email signature. This leads to an interesting question: Marc Blank-Settle @bbcmarc on Threads@MarcSettleIs there an easy way to see what device an email is sent from? If I […]
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