Tagged indieweb

• Mar 22, 2023, 4:02 PM -04:00

  Bookmark of https://werd.io/2022/the-fediverse-and-the-indieweb

  

  Ben Werdmuller

  Nov 29, 2022, 6:03 PM -05:00

  The fediverse and the indieweb

  I love the indieweb and what it stands for:When you post something on the web, it should belong to you, not a corporation. Too many companies have gone out of business and lost all of their users’ data. By joining the IndieWeb, your content stays yours and in your control.This principle is absolutely true, but on a deeper level, I’m also uncomfortable with the level of wealth hoarding and rent seeking on the modern internet. There’s no need for us all to be pouring our conversations, identiti...

• Apr 25, 2022, 8:37 AM -04:00

  Receiving and Displaying Webmentions in Eleventy

  It turns out other people have done most of the work for displaying webmentions in #Eleventy

  Webmentions are the way people have conversations on the Indieweb, but integrating them - or, indeed, any kind of dynamic content - into a static site can be a little tricky. Luckily, many people have run into this issue before and so there wasn't much for me to do but steal.

  To be clear, I'm talking about receiving and displaying webmentions here, not sending them. How I ended up sending them will be a separate topic, as it is tied into how I manage POSSE and backfeeding on my site.

  The previous, pelican-based incarnation of my blog used a homegrown system involving a webmention listener that handed off data to a redis server and ultimately resulted in a new webmention being committed to my site's repo, causing the whole thing to be rebuilt. It certainly worked, but it required a fair bit of maintenance. It also failed to take into account certain edge cases that I hadn't previously considered (like a commentator's avatar image going missing).

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• Apr 4, 2022, 3:00 PM -04:00

  Link Contexts In Eleventy

  An #indieweb aware approach to unfurling URLs in @eleven_ty

  As a participant in the IndieWeb, I publish my share of likes, replies, reposts, and bookmarks. These posts all have one thing in common - they refer to another, external URL and only make sense in the context of that URL.

  This being the case, it's nice to give my readers (and myself) some sense of what I'm referring to when I post that content. The process of scraping metadata from URLs for display purposes is called "URL unfurling" and implementing it efficiently on an Eleventy based website is not entirely trivial, especially when you're trying to save your Netlify build minutes, so it's worth sharing what I've learned.

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• Mar 21, 2022, 6:53 AM -04:00

  Changes To Post Organization

  After some consideration I've decided to remove the articles from my "Posts" feed and rename it to "Notes". It now contains just my notes and photos (and videos if I ever start posting those). As before, my articles are available in my "Blog" feed.

  Initially, my reason for mixing articles, notes and photos into one "posts" feed was that I suspected at least some of my readers would want a feed just for "original content", and the "posts" feed provided that. I still think this is true, but some other insights have led me to reconsider the approach.

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• Mar 10, 2022, 1:03 PM -05:00

  Recent interactions on Twitter have led me to clarify the purpose of all my feeds with descriptions, so hopefully people will have a better idea of what they are in for :-)
• Mar 10, 2022, 12:20 PM -05:00

  Reply to https://twitter.com/nhoizey/status/1501967877305470981

  I'm trying something new :-) There's currently no way to see just my notes or photos. You can see my notes+blog+photos (i.e. what I call my "Posts") or just my blog. I may change this if more people complain ;-) Usually the two feeds diverge more because I don't blog so much
• Mar 10, 2022, 12:13 PM -05:00

  Reply to https://twitter.com/FalconSensei/status/1501967593363558415

  In my case, I send the webmention automatically and then immediately parse out the Location header from the response, and commit that as my syndication link, which triggers another recompile.
• Mar 10, 2022, 12:13 PM -05:00

  Reply to https://twitter.com/FalconSensei/status/1501967593363558415

  Right, so you would have to include an empty link to Bridgy's twitter publish URL somewhere in your h-entry. Then you need to send a webmention to that URL (unless it's automatic).
• Mar 10, 2022, 11:54 AM -05:00

  Reply to https://twitter.com/FalconSensei/status/1501961557806178306

  I use Bridgy to syndicate the post after I publish it (by automatically sending a webmention), and then I re-compile the site with the syndicated location embedded in the post.
• Mar 10, 2022, 11:26 AM -05:00

  Reply to https://twitter.com/nhoizey/status/1501888419907186691

  @nhoizey For more info on why I organize my posts the way I do, see https://desmondrivet.com/2022/02/27/post-type-org
• Mar 10, 2022, 8:22 AM -05:00

  Reply to https://twitter.com/nhoizey/status/1501888419907186691

  @nhoizey All of my post related templates (for the tag, archive, bookmark, blog pages, etc.) are directly under post/, but the posts themselves are tucked under posts/feed. @eleven_ty can sometimes blur the line between content and presentation.
• Mar 10, 2022, 8:08 AM -05:00

  Reply to https://twitter.com/nhoizey/status/1501888419907186691

  @nhoizey I was thinking, perhaps naively, that someone who is interested in my notes would also interested in my blog (and my photos), hence the combined feed. The reverse may not be true; someone who is interested in my blog may not want my notes, hence the isolated blog feed.
• Mar 9, 2022, 4:46 PM -05:00

  Eleventy For IndieWeb Enthusiasts - Basic Setup And Post Organization

  Classifying your #indieweb posts with @eleven_ty

  As mentioned previously, I recently converted my website over to Eleventy. I'm an IndieWeb participant and, moreover, my website is fairly complex so I ended up writing (or, in some cases, pilfering) a fair amount of code to make it all work together in an acceptable manner. I thought I would document the process via a series of blog posts in case anyone else finds it of value.

  None of this is intended to be an Eleventy tutorial and you'll get the most from these posts if you already know something about how Eleventy works.

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• Mar 6, 2022, 7:57 PM -05:00

  Bookmark of https://mxb.dev/blog/indieweb-link-sharing/

  

  Max Böck

  Aug 10, 2019, 8:00 PM -04:00

  IndieWeb Link Sharing

  A pain point of the IndieWeb is that it's sometimes not as convenient to share content as it is on the common social media platforms.Posting a new short “note” on my site currently requires me to commit a new markdown file to the repository on Github. That’s doable (for a developer), but not really convenient, especially when you’re on the go and just want to share a quick link. Twitter and other social media platforms literally make this as easy as clicking a single button, which makes it te...

• Mar 1, 2022, 1:57 PM -05:00

  Much Ado About (Indieweb) Bookmarks

  The ins and outs of owning your bookmarks on the #indieweb

  Like many Indieweb participants, I post bookmarks, likes and reposts to my website.

  From a technical standpoint, there's virtually no difference between these kinds of posts; they're all permalinked h-entries which house another, usually external, URL and which often contain no other content beyond that link. They differ solely in the microformat which annotates the link, indicating the intent of the post.

  And intent make all the difference here. A like is supposed to convey that the author actually enjoys or appreciates the content to which the post is linking. A repost is supposed to convey that the author wishes, for some reason, to share that content on their own feed. A bookmark is supposed to convey that the author...ugh...err...

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• Mar 1, 2022, 8:08 AM -05:00

  More generally, is there any advantage to hosting your albums on an #indieweb enabled website, as opposed to a dedicated application, assuming the app was under your control (in other words you still own your data)?
• Mar 1, 2022, 8:02 AM -05:00

  So what does the #indieweb use for storing photos/albums? I run a micropub media server on a remote machine, storing the photos on disk. Any advantage to switching to the cloud (a bucket, for example)?
• Feb 28, 2022, 12:52 AM -05:00

  Like of https://snarfed.org/2022-01-08_happy-10th-birthday-bridgy

  

  Ryan Barrett

  Jan 9, 2022, 1:44 AM -05:00

  Happy 10th Birthday, Bridgy!

  https://snarfed.org/10th_birthday_cake.jpg Today marks 10 years to the day since I first launched Bridgy, my little IndieWeb side project to connect social networks and personal websites. Happy Birthday, Bridgy! I’ve always loved the internet, but I’m not a Very Online person, exactly. I don’t really hang out there. I didn’t fall in love with the people, or the community; I fell in love with the network. The physical reality of packed switched routing, the awkward unlikely miracle of a bunch...

• Feb 27, 2022, 5:51 PM -05:00

  A Place For Everything

  Taming the #indieweb post type zoo

  If you're a programmer of a certain age, you've either read or know about Design Patterns, a book on software architecture popular in the 90s and early 2000's. The book was sort of like a repository of TV tropes for the Object Oriented Programming (OOP) world in that it provided a convenient vocabulary for describing what were usually eminently recognizable software engineering techniques that nonetheless often lacked punchy, easy to remember names.

  Notably, the book was more descriptive than prescriptive. It described preexisting techniques that were already in use in the "wild", so to speak.

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• Sep 3, 2021, 11:31 AM -04:00

  Like of https://blog.b-ark.ca/2019/12/22/indiewebbing.html

  

  Brett Kosinski

  Dec 22, 2019, 3:58 PM -05:00

  Personal Archiving and the IndieWeb

  The indieweb is about controlling your identity. But it’s also be a great way to claw back all that content I’ve been scattering across the web so I can get better at archiving! #indieweb #personalarchiving #ownyourdata

• Aug 1, 2021, 5:15 PM -04:00

  Like of https://www.jvt.me/posts/2021/08/01/books-microformats/#demo

  

  Jamie Tanna

  Aug 1, 2021, 8:42 AM -04:00

  

  Introducing a Microformats API for Books: books-mf2.fly.dev

  Announcing the Microformats translation layer for book data.

• May 30, 2021, 11:07 AM -04:00

  Like of https://doubleloop.net/2021/05/29/when-did-you-join-the-indieweb/

  

  Neil Mather

  May 29, 2021, 2:18 PM -04:00

  When did you join the IndieWeb?

  (Hopefully this appears at https://www.indieforums.net) I think I first heard of the IndieWeb movement in 2016 sometime. It’s a bit hazy now, but I’ve a memory that I stumbled on it through a trail of links starting on Wikity. I’ve tinkered with web sites in some form or another for a long time, and I have happy memories of various weird Geocities experiments, sadly lost to the sands of time it seems. As far as independently hosting goes, I appear to have had a self-hosted blog since 2006 at ...

• Apr 14, 2021, 9:25 PM -04:00

  Bookmark of https://aaronparecki.com/2021/04/13/26/indieauth

  

  Aaron Parecki

  Apr 14, 2021, 12:15 AM -04:00

  How to Sign Users In with IndieAuth

  This post will show you step by step how you can let people log in to your website with their own IndieAuth website so you don't need to worry about user accounts or passwords. What is IndieAuth? IndieAuth is an extension of OAuth 2.0 that enables an individual website like someone's WordPress, Gitea or OwnCast instance to become its own identity provider. This means you can use your own website to sign in to other websites that support IndieAuth. You can learn more about the differences be...

• Feb 15, 2021, 12:17 PM -05:00

  Reply to https://social.johanbove.info/2021/02/15/testing-a-new-browser-gave-me-the

  I don't organize my bookmarks, though I've always meant to. That being said, isn't the point of IndieWeb's bookmark entry type to avoid relying on an external service for this?

  

  Johan Bové

  Feb 15, 2021, 4:25 AM -05:00

  Testing a new browser gave me the incentive and opportunity to clean up my pile of "bookmarks". Wondering how most people use and organise their browser #bookmarks? Do you keep everything in separate folders? Never gotten around in using one of those "pinning" services, even-though I've been "bookmarking" interesting things using my "Known CMS" site, but I don't organise those properly using tags.

• Jan 7, 2021, 1:31 PM -05:00

  Bookmark of https://hiddedevries.nl/en/blog/2021-01-04-how-i-turned-my-goodreads-data-into-a-self-hosted-website-with-eleventy

  Hidde de Vries (@hdv@front-end.social) is a web enthusiast and accessibility specialist from Rotterdam (The Netherlands). He currently works with the NL Design System team and is a participant in the Open UI Community Group. Previously, he worked for W3C (WAI), Mozilla, the Dutch government and others as a freelancer. Hidde spoke at 64 events, most recently in Eindhoven, Netherlands. Buy me a coffee Follow @hdv on Mastodon

  Jan 3, 2021, 7:00 PM -05:00

  How I turned my Goodreads data into a self-hosted website with Eleventy

  In the last week of 2020, I decided to export my Goodreads data to display it on my personal website. This post is about what I did and how. Screenshot Why export? First, I quite like Goodreads. It lets me see the reads of friends and acquaintances. It lets me share my own. This is all splendid, but it is still somebody else’s site. Somebody with very different life goals from my own, in fact. For more control on what I display and how, I decided to create a new section of this website ded...