Blob-goggles

Here's an idea - browse the butts via blobs (specifically images).

There exist a bunch of blobs on your computer, and a bunch of blobs mentioned by users in messages. I want to see a wall of images, and click on them to go find the context of exciting or cryptic images.

Here's a taster of the vibe

where did these images come from... who posted them, and why... what's the story (or stories) they're a part of. Who is that person, what are they smiling about?

Click on them to jump into a story !

In Patchbay the click-catching needs fixing D: the links are:

blob 1 | blob 2 | blob 3 | blob 4

@iain mmm there are a couple of approaches, some combination of them would be good:

• sbot.blobs.ls : http://scuttlebot.io/apis/scuttlebot/blobs.html#ls-source apparently lists the blobs in your store
• flume : would allow me to index all messages to make a lookup like:

{
  ''&sfoIYo0kKKGI+TJYnznVDSs3BM/HjMWdCPXirvj9BfE=.sha256': [
    {
      msg: "%SkBwBFxgrNjNlu99WkYP16clQqz+GDJfPLAZBtCZ+cc=.sha256"
      author: "@MIX23420934lsdjflksjdf",
      timestamp: 243234243324
    }, {
      msg: "%bJRqChs48WKYni+2caoSvobUTmqnIO03K2KX1hF87do=.sha256"
      author: "@IANsdfakjsd09343xj239",
      timestamp: 324093409834
   }
  ] 
}

e.g. this one blob was used in a couple of places by a couple of people at different times. Having this data would let you do interesting sorting and queries. Query by friends, by strangers, maybe add data structure to put a score next to it indicating how much you've engaged with that blob - was it in threads you were active in. This could hep you discover interesting things you missed.

key:

• starts with & => blob
• starts with % => msg
• starts with @ => user

In my mind I'm imagining something like http://www.panoptikos.com/r/earthporn

@masukomi

but it doesn't seem to work in patchwork. Clicking just loads the image in an external browser instead of going to the url you specified.

This is because of: https://github.com/ssbc/ssb-markdown/blob/master/index.js#L40

ssb-markdown wraps all images in <a>, but if you also wrap it in an <a> via markdown, it ends up getting wrapped in two <a>s, but only the inside one will get triggered.

Could be tricky to fix!

Nice, didn't realize this, I can browse all my stored blobs with
image-viewer-command .ssb/blobs/sha256/*
4252 of them by now :O

awesome @gmarcos87 where's that code, would be fun to take it for a spin!

@gmarcos87

Oh, something that you might be interested in is that it is possible to get a list of all messages that reference a given blob ID using ssb-backlinks.

hey @gmarcos87 if you wanted to make a dirty plugin module, it's easy to add things to Pathcbay without polluting the main codebase. Anyway if you're interested I'd love to help - I would generally, but in addition I'm just super pumped about jamming on this idea

In the latest version of patchwork, you can right click on one of the images above and select "Find Link References", and it will give you a list of all posts that have that blob.