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Announcing slice.breadpunk.club

1. Case Duckworth (case (a) acdw.net)

(mirrored at gemini://breadpunk.club/bakers/breadw/slices/1598160221.gmi)

Thanks to sloum's wonderful work at
=> gemini://gemlog.blue
as well as their generosity in sharing their codebase with me, I'm pleased 
to announce that breadpunk.club now has a web-facing gemini authorship tool:
=> https://slice.breadpunk.club

Bakers at breadpunk.club are now able to author posts in their gemini 
capsules on the web, without using ssh, ftp, or other protocols that might 
be blocked (as is the case for me!).  As of now, all posts will appear in 
a slices/ subdirectory in bakers' user capsules, but I might try and 
change it to allow editing of any URL the baker owns.

If you're not already a baker at breadpunk.club, you can join through the 
instructions at https://breadpunk.club/join/.

To get started, ssh into breadpunk.club and create a sigil file at 
~/.slice.  Immediately afterward, go to
=> https://slice.breadpunk.club/reg.php
to register your username and password with slice.  That should be it!  
You can start posting immediately.

I hope this makes it easier for some of our bakers update their breadlogs 
(which don't necessarily have to be about bread, by the way!).  I know I will be.

# Notes

Much of slice's functionality is the same as gemlog.blue's -- you can add 
"slices," or posts; you can edit and delete them; and you can update your 
password or delete your whole slice directory.  In the future, I want to 
enable users to edit their slice index.gmi, add options to "auto-title" 
slices, and possibly edit anything in their public_gemini folders.

I'd love to hear what other ideas yall have, or thoughts or concerns or 
whatever!  I *think* my code is secure, but I'm pretty green, so who 
knows?  (Should I be admitting that on the internet?)

~ breadw (acdw)

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2. colecmac (a) protonmail.com (colecmac (a) protonmail.com)

This is cool! It's nice to see another thing similar to gemlog.blue,
although it'd be nice as well to not end up creating an ecosystem that
relies on this all the time. Two questions:

What do you mean by "create a sigil file"?

And is the source code of this site available? That'd be great.

Cheers,
makeworld

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3. acdw (acdw (a) acdw.net)

On 2020-08-28 (Friday) at 18:07, colecmac at protonmail.com wrote:

> This is cool! It's nice to see another thing similar to gemlog.blue,
> although it'd be nice as well to not end up creating an ecosystem that
> relies on this all the time. 

This is a really fair point. I really just made this (and use gemlog.blue 
all the time) because I don't have ssh access at work, and I figure others 
don't either. Ideally, there'd be another server that's like Phoebe but 
non-wiki-fied, or something like it -- using a partner protocol to upload 
content "in-band," as it were. Maybe something for me to work on!

> 
> What do you mean by "create a sigil file"?

Hey, sorry this wasn't clear. Since I wanted to limit the users of this 
site to users of breadpunk.club, I have the user verification just look at 
the users on the system to see if it's valid. Of course, I realized that 
there needed to be a check when someone *creates* a user account -- since 
the user list is public, anyone could impersonate a current user and post 
as them, basically. The best idea I could come up with is a file, 
~/.slice, to act as a sort of sigil or sign -- if a user wants to post 
using slices.breadpunk.club, they'll need to ssh in and add that file (and 
since only they can do that, it'll ensure it's them) before they sign up.

Of course, there's still some insecurities there: there's a lag between 
the creation of the slice file and signing up, for example. I admit I'm 
relying on the smallness of this space to keep secure, which ... isn't great.

> 
> And is the source code of this site available? That'd be great.

As of now, no -- let me "clean it up" and post it somewhere tonight or 
tomorrow, and I'll ping this thread again. I need to comb through it a 
little more and make sure it's as secure as I can make it.

This is the first "real" PHP I've written (copy-pasted), so I'm a little 
nervous! Thanks for the interest though :)

-- 
~ acdw
acdw.net | breadpunk.club/~breadw

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