Diaspora API Dev Progress Report 8 2018-10-25 While I’m on the road I’ve been hoping to get some more work in on the API. Yesterday was a bust, and I knew it would be. Today looked like it was going to be a bust but I actually was able to get some time in tonight due to some plans that were cancelled last minute. (More ...)

Diaspora API Dev Progress Report 7 2018-10-22 I’m still making good albeit slow progress on the Posts Endpoint. While the Posts Endpoint doesn’t have a lot of methods the complexity of the send and the return data is far greater than the other endpoints I’ve done so far. (More ...)

Diaspora API Dev Progress Report 6 2018-10-21 Today I didn’t get as much progress as I had hoped on the API but still important work was done. Yesterday I discovered that something was probably off in the way that the repository rebasing was done when I did it about a week ago. (More ...)

Diaspora API Dev Progress Report 5 2018-10-19 Another day another progress report on the state of the Diaspora API development. I had hoped by now that I’d be picking up a little more speed but I always underestimate how minute working on high coverage unit tests are. (More ...)

Diaspora API Dev Progress Report 4 2018-10-18

Being in the early phases of getting the implementation started it was inevitable I would encounter a little extra inertia to overcome. Part of that is my own doing, but all of it is important to have confidence in what I’m developing. The easiest part was filling out the API Implementation Stoplight chart so everyone, including me, can track what is going on with the development. Then it was on to a fork in the road of sorts: do I want to start an external test harness now or wait until more is implemented. I decided for former.

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Diaspora API Dev Progress Report 3 2018-10-16

While I made progress with a few hours of Diaspora API Dev yesterday it wasn’t until today that I finished my first code change towards the API: completing the Likes Endpoint.

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Diaspora API Dev Progress Report 2 2018-10-15

Yep, two Diaspora API dev reports on one day. After taking a break for dinner and just watching some TV I got back to figuring out how to properly interface with the authentication and API from an external client. I was re-reading the OpenID spec, watching some videos, reading some presentations, et cetera. If I’m going to be working on the API this is something I definitely need to be deep diving into a lot more. My initial order of business however was just getting it working.

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Diaspora API Dev Progress Report 1 2018-10-14

I’m only a few hours into getting fully going on the Diaspora API development project. I had been pre-flying that whole experience earlier last week by studying the existing code base, familiarizing myself with the discussion threads et cetera. Over the last couple of days I’ve been trying to focus more on moving the ball forward as well. Before really doing that though there is still a little ground work to do.

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Milestone: Higher Responses on Diaspora instead of Facebook 2018-10-13 The Cambridge Analytical debacle from earlier this year and the subsquent #deletefacebook storm brought me into the alternative social media platform Diaspora. At the time, as I wrote here, I had hoped to leave the walled gardens forever. (More ...)

Let the Diaspora API Deep Dive Begin! 2018-10-12

I can’t express how happy I am that I have the privilege of having a combination of time, ability, desire, and energy to contribute substantially to the Diaspora project right now. Ever since I started using it in the spring it’s something I’ve wanted to be able to help with. I certainly got my feet wet back then on some tweaks to the Twitter and Facebook interaction code, the latter of which is permamently broken thanks to Facebook’s new API spec. With the amount of getting up to speed on Ruby, Rails, and the Diaspora code base I’m looking forward to helping tackle a much larger and persistently requested piece of code: a Diaspora API.

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