It’s increasingly clear that WordPress (steered by Automattic) isn’t particularly interested in blogging anymore. I agree that a solid, open source, turnkey solution for IndieWeb compatible personal websites is important. I also think Eddie is right that having several would be even better.

We have a great start in Known, which is what I use on my website, but we badly need more contributors. If you’re looking for a place to dive in and help solve this problem, I would highly encourage you to take a look at Known!

Eddie Hinkle I think we have some issues with brid.gy/webmention.io (not sure where's the problem) catching your syndicated stuff, your actions are doubled up! It feels weird.

Sometimes I'm afraid to post silly stuff that I can post on social networks to my website. But I think this is a thing I need to do - because that makes IndieWeb closer to the social networks! If you can post silly stuff on silos, why not post it on IndieWeb?

After discussing the finer points of multitags in the IndieWeb chat today, I decided to add support for it to my site. Thanks to my recent re-architecture in November, it was actually really quick and easy. Took less than 30 minutes!

I broke webmentions to bridgy

I'm gonna be debugging webmentions to Twitter, things are gonna get noisy.

Marty McGuire

My 2019-01-01 Commitment

This morning I gave a brief talk about IndieAuth at the @W3C Strong Authentication and Identity workshop. I just finished transcribing the recording and published the slides and video! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeCNlB7v08I

ugh, that frustration when you wanna use a function on your site which you have broke yourself and you NEED to fix it... really good for #motivation #indieweb

2018-12-09 08.43.13

I just got my new IndieAuth login screen to work for real! Successfully authenticated in Quill, confirming my identity on my server via password... I'm always excited when things work! #indieweb #programming

oh, hey, I found a bug in my code again! it wasn't sending any webmentions at all because it was crashing when searching for possible targets.

I hope Micropub still works on a new site!

@manton @danielpunkass @cheesemaker Is it common to do many small Frameworks or a single large one? In a WWDC Session they said you shouldn't have more than 6 frameworks in an app? I'm packing my IndieWeb code and trying to decide if they should be 3 or 1. Any thoughts?

Interview on Plutopia podcast

Good morning, Austin! Tonight is Homebrew Website Club, 6:30pm at Mozart’s Coffee. We’ll meet at a table outside to talk about the IndieWeb, plan for the upcoming IndieWebCamp Austin, or work on your own web site.

12 days of microblogging: photos

For the IndieWeb Day 3 challenge, I saw on the To Do list that we needed to clean up the Personal Domains page and the Domain Registrar page and merge them. I took a swing at it, and it can be seen here. If you have further thoughts, please help contribute!
I decided to work on my website theme for a bit.  In order to support it, today I shipped(with a minor bug, sorry), a new Indieweb plugin that adds the ability to add the rel-me links inside the h-card widget instead of by themselves. I’m now using it. In my theme, I added support for a dedicated h-card page. I’ll be turning it on on my site likely in future as I experiment with moving my feed off of my main page.
Adding an SSL to my domain has now presented me with a headache for my #indieweb logins.

One of the many great things about the Indieweb is that I can use my domain URL to log into and use different services. But now changing from http: to https: those services see that as a new URL.

Disabling the redirect in the .htaccess file only works for the root. Once I try to authenticate with the WordPress element we’re right back to using the secure URL.

Most of this problem is of my own creation. I don’t run WordPress for my whole site. Only the /blog part is WP as I wanted to retain a POSH homepage and be able to play around on the non-blog parts.

This means the URL I have to use is https://davidjohnmead.com/blog. Not great as most things are geared around the root.

I think I’m just going to have to discard my old URL login and start anew with the secure one.