Progress report, day 2: The #osmose has been set up as #mpe controller for the #hydrasynth desktop and the #steampipe. It took an anonymous poster to help me figure out how to send mpe to the steampipe (reduce the midi channels/voices to 8). The recording below titled “The puppet dances” - my first recoding for this configuration - is a tribute to our dear leader Marionetka Krasnov. Next stop, adding the #digitone for sequencing and percussion.

"Users of the WordPress API may enjoy the abstraction — and standardization — that a SQL interface provides. If you need to query multiple WordPress sites, Steampipe's connection aggregator will be really handy. And if you want to integrate data from WordPress with data from other APIs wrapped by other plugins, performing literal SQL JOINs across disparate APIs is a heady experience."

https://thenewstack.io/building-a-steampipe-dashboard-for-wordpress-with-llm-help/

All the Steampipe plugins are now also:

- standalone Postgres foreign data wrapper (FDW) extensions that translate APIs to foreign tables

- SQLite extensions that transate APIs to virtual tables

- standalone binaries that export data from APIs

It's kind of a big deal! I'm especially curious to know what @simon thinks about all the new SQLite extensions that just appeared in the world.

https://steampipe.io/blog/2023-12-sqlite-extensions

Excellent work by @sjvn.

I only roughly get what GitOps is, as both a conceptual framework and a set of tools. But this article suggests to me that as git becomes the source of truth for infra as well as appdev the #Steampipe GitHub/GitLab plugins will become even more interesting than they already are.

https://thenewstack.io/gitops-as-an-evolution-of-kubernetes/

The software demo videos from #FediForum are now on-line, including demos of #Mammoth, #Owncast, #Steampipe, #Bridgy Fed, #Flipboard, #Whalebird / #Fedistar, #Planetary, #microblog and #Wordpress ActivityPub plugin.

There are also extensive notes from almost all sessions that people ran on so many #Fediverse subjects, ranging from technology and standards to moderation, to enterprise needs to community building and more.

Check them out at https://fediforum.org/ . And join us next time?

As I begin viewing the Fediverse through the lens of #Calckey, the most interesting thing so far is search. Example: Looking for "InfoWorld" finds posts by others, and also by me in two places: mastodon.social and social.coop.

How does this work? Is it the case that Mastodon instances are more comprehensively searchable by way of ActivityPub than by way of the Mastodon API?

Should a #Steampipe plugin for ActivityPub be a next project?

Playing around with @judell's plugin and mod that provides access to the #mastodon #api using #steampipe. pretty cool!

Steampipe: https://steampipe.io/
Plugin: https://hub.steampipe.io/plugins/turbot/mastodon
Mod: https://github.com/turbot/steampipe-mod-mastodon-insights

Curious if anyone else is using steampipe for anything?

#introduction

Past affiliations: Lotus, BYTE, Safari Books Online, InfoWorld, ITConversations, Microsoft, Hypothesis.

Work: Community lead for https://steampipe.io.

Play: Using #steampipe to prototype alternate UX for Mastodon, cycling and hiking in the North Bay.

Known for: LibraryLookup (https://jonudell.info/LibraryLookup.html), Heavy Metal Umlaut (https://jonudell.info/umlaut.mp4), screencasting (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screencast).

@fncll Here's one way, using https://hub.steampipe.io/plugins/turbot/mastodon.

You could install #Steampipe plus the Mastodon plugin to run queries like this. Alternatively you could do it in cloud.steampipe.io.

I was already planning to migrate to social.coop. Then, today:

1. I listened to @natematias's remarks on https://publicinfrastructure.org/podcast/do-you-trust-that-justice-is-just-with-nathan-matias-tracey-meares-and-tom-tyler-trust-episode-4/)

2. I asked #Steampipe who I follow there, and it answered: Boris Mann, Chris Lott, christina bowen, Dan Connolly, Dan Phiffer, Doug Belshaw, Ed Summers, Erik Moeller, Evan Boehs, J. Nathan Matias , Johannes Ernst, Luis Villa, Nate Angell, Nathan Schneider, Robin DeRosa, smallcircles (Humane Tech Now), Steve E, Zane Selvans.

Both confirmed my choice.