IndieWeb

I often see “such and such static site generator is simple!” tweets, and wonder what exactly they’re comparing it to. DIY dentistry perhaps?

As much as I love puttering with static site generators, “puttering” is the main charm of an SSG. The hooks to customize are right there on the surface. Heck some SSGs are nothing but hooks. And having everything in a git repository is just a developer-focused version of a smart backup plan.

For the Jamstack side of things, I’m not sure I see the advantage of relying on a load of external services over oh say for example having a database and an internal comment system. You know, like Wordpress. Something I’ve been thinking about a lot in relation to my own site leaning so much on webmention.io.

An ongoing conversation…

I agree. Sorry for the delay in replying. I needed to create and/or fake the missing pieces of my workflow so I could reply.

And your reply came through just fine! Course, now I need to go fix the bit where it’s not showing up on the note you’re replying to.

It’s probably redundant to test HTML structure for my pages, but what the heck.

There’s no rule, but obviously every webmention to my site will have full author info including photo.

Look honey I added Webmentions to my Datasette dashboard!

Sweet, jmac liked my mention! Wait why are tests failing? Maybe check the dashboard?

I fixed it!

The fix is reasonable defaults for response author info. I got other fixes in mind, including a default “card” for anonymous response authors. Also, inferring author info from source site. Thanks for the help and the ideas, jmac!

Jason McIntosh seems like a reasonable choice to test Webmentions on. I wouldn’t know about the IndieWeb if not for him. I know I’ll try his Web::Mention library eventually. But first, webmention-tools.

The other stuff didn’t work and didn’t give useful errors. I ended up using Web::Mention. It’s fine. Just half to rewrite half the post. That’s fine.

Skimming through my fraidyc.at updates and oh hey! Something from john sj anderson!

friend of the blog brian wisti had a great post about adding h-entry microformats on his blog, which led to me adding some h-entry stuff here too.

My words helped make something better!

Not real time, of course. It updates when I build the site. The layout needs touching up. But all the details are there.

I used Max Böck’s Webmentions post as a starting point.

And yes, I’m far enough along with the Indieweb stuff that my study notes would make a decent blog post. Maybe a couple.

Been meaning to get webmention integration for a while. Went the easy way, using webmention.io and brid.gy. Easier than writing everything myself.

For now it’s just like counts, with a Invoke task checking my mentions feed at Hugo build time. More stuff is planned, but first I decide how much information to show and from which sources. Not every tweet reply is intended as a blog comment.