Category Archives: Known

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Like with other free software / indieweb projects, lot of development discussion regarding Known takes place on the IRC channel #Knownchat.

I lurk there, but I kept missing stuff, and besides it’s useful to have a log of some of the conversations. I think the founders were going to set something up, but since I know they’re very busy, I thought it’d be useful to hack something together until something better comes along.

So, I hacked together a quick bot IRC logging bot.

This bot outputs logs in Markdown, and I’ve set up a quick cronjob that will take those logs once a day and push them to a github repository for everyone to see.

Pending something better, I thought this might be useful. Standard caveat; these logs should in no way be considered “official” or endorsed by the project, I made them for my own use with hopes that they’ll be handy for other folk as well.

» View #Knownchat logs...

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So, following on from the theme of other week’s post, this is a very quick plugin which will opportunistically encrypt email sent by Known.

It works in much the same way as the similar WordPress code; if a key for a user is in the keyring, the email is encrypted before it is sent. It is particularly handy when combined with my PGP Signin code, since that will provide key discovery.

I wrote this for my own use, so it’s not perfect. For example, since Known sends all email as HTML (unless my plain text email patch is also applied this patch was merged into core), my plugin currently just strips tags, which at least makes the email somewhat readable.

Anyway, kick it around.

» Visit the project on Github...

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So, the other week I told you about the improvements to my access logging tool, which will now keep a user by user track of account activity.

This tool also makes a call to a GeoIP lookup hook, but until now remained unanswered. So, I wrote a quick tool that implements this GeoIP lookup hook using PHP’s built in geoip functions.

Once installed and configured (and the appropriate GeoIP database set up), this plugin will respond to any geoip/lookup event requests by looking up ['ip' => '....'] and returning the a country.

If installed along side LoginSyslog, you should start seeing the country listed along side the IP address!

» Visit the project on Github...