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In the last 24 hours I’ve swung back into the IndieWeb orbit. I think this was mostly prompted by a general disatisfaction with social media right now.

The last time I was here I was trying to work out how to “scrobble” tracks from Amazon Music to this site. I was trying to do this with Shortcuts on iOS and IFTTT.

This time I have been looking at how I can better share my watches from Letterboxd. I have an IFTTT applet that uses an RSS feed Trigger on my Letterboxd and uses the WordPress Action to post here. It’s not very flexible, the formatting is kind of crappy, and, as a result, all the watches are sat in Drafts, waiting to be beautified.

I have been doing a lot with Microsoft Power Automate at work recently and that got me thinking that maybe I could manipulate the data coming in from the RSS feed. I mostly rely on 3rd party tools as I am not skilled enough to whip up and deploy my own API/handle turning apps.

I started scouting around to see if I could find a tool to convert the RSS into another format that I could manipulate a bit more and then feed that into IFTTT (or w/e). I didn’t have much luck, so I thought I better have a look at IFTTT and see if there was anything I could do on their side. I couldn’t remember there being anything. Turns out IFTTT added this thing called filter code. I think the idea is, as the linked article suggests, that it gives you a bit more control of the flow. But it turns out you can basically re-write the applet. You can read the data from the Trigger and set the parameters for the Action.

I came up with a nice regex to remove the username from the feed url, so you can get a link to the movie page on Letterboxd. So, now I should be able to feed that into the Response properties for a watch. I’ll update with a link to the applet when it does exactly what I want.

At that point I was pretty happy and decided to go to bed. That was about 10pm ish. Obviously my brain didn’t fancy that so I ended up looking at my Shortcuts scrobble again… two hours later I was successful. Learned a lot of “obvious” stuff, which I’ll leave to reflect on another day.

When you reply to a request with “I don’t understand what you need me to do” and the response doesn’t actually provide any clarification but expands on why the person cannot do it themselves…
 
It means they don’t understand what they need you to do either.

“Oh, I need a non-breaking space in a JS regexp, how hard can that be?”
?

\u00a0

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The search function on the CQC website is absolutely terrible. I have no idea what is going on in the background.

This page (https://www.cqc.org.uk/search/site/press-releases) shows 4207 results. The most recent (at time of writing) shown is 7 April 2022. However, if you filter by Region to “South East” the most recent becomes 13 April 2022.

Wut?

Then, head back to the main list again and download the data using the link at the bottom. Gives me 4212 results. That’s five more than shown on the site.

If you do any sort of search it is so fuzzy the results are meaningless. I assume it then sorts by “best match” (but so fuzzy…) and you can’t then sort by anything else.

Just terrible.

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The horror of having to review your whole training session so you can add timestamps to the video…

I’m push 2FA across our organisation (8 people). Five, including me, are up and running. The other three I have not heard a word from. In a bigger organisations, that would be incurring a cost. Don’t be one of these people.