IndieWeb is — um —
The IndieWeb is a people-focused alternative to the “corporate web”.
Been fascinated for years, but finally started exploring it more. Fortunately, IndieWeb is the sort of meal you can eat one bite at a time.
I killed some redirects for accessibility and likes
Clearing the tracks as we go is part of the fun
An ongoing conversation…
If I waited until I had the perfect toolchain for it, then I’d never start. Better to just start typing now, and see where my impatience carries me.
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.
Debugging My Site With a Little Help From My Friends
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!
Pondering My Indieweb Guinea Pig
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!
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!
h-entry Microformat for Indieweb Posts
In which I go overboard with Hugo and Python for a quick Sunday task
Using microformats to build a profile page
Yay I Added Mentions and Replies
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.
IndieWeb contains most of the philosophy behind my notes project: Own your own data, make what you need, use what you make, longevity, and most important:
Have fun. When the web took off in the 90’s people began designing personal sites with tools such as GeoCities. These spaces had Java applets, garish green background and seventeen animated GIFs. It may have been ugly and badly coded but it was fun. Keep the web weird and interesting.
Have a few draft blog posts that I need to get back to, but I swear I’m working on the documenting part. And there’s not much to open-source yet. It’s mostly process, which — yeah — needs to be documented.