gRegor Morrill gregorlove.com

Homebrew Website Club San Diego

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        "text": "The first Homebrew Website Club San Diego was a success! There were four people in attendance. We started with introductions and talked a bit about our websites \u2014 or desire for a website.\n\nJoe Crawford: Has been blogging since 2001 and recently been posting lots of drawings and comics. Tonight he updated the header on his site to include one of his drawings. He is running WordPress, so he installed the indieweb plugins: Webmention, Semantic Linkbacks, and Microformats 2. He made some updates to his h-card and used indiewebify.me to test it.\n\nSimon Prickett: Used to only post on Medium, but now has all his posts on his site and syndicates copies to Medium. Tonight he worked on some templates for an upcoming Women Who Code event. The goal is to have a few starter templates they can use to teach Jekyll and be able to publish a page on Github Pages.\n\nJordan Yonts: No website\u2026 yet. He used to have a domain but let it lapse and all the content is gone. He is happy to leave that content in the past but would like to get a site set up and organize some of his hobbies there.\n\ngRegor Morrill (you are here): I\u2019ve been working on a login system and mailing list opt-in so people can subscribe and get my posts by email. This is something I really want in place before I am off of Facebook, to allow people to still get my posts by email.\n\nWe talked about how often to have these meetups and decided on monthly, at least for now. The next meetup is tentatively on January 15, 2020. I\u2019ll follow up with an event page soon.\n\nReflections:\n\nSubterranean was a pretty good venue for this. I was a little concerned because while it is a big coffeeshop, it is often pretty full during the day. After 5pm there were only a handful of people, though, so it worked well. We could have comfortably hosted 8-10 people tonight. They have good food and drinks, and happy hour overlapped. They also have good art (see below) and music; tonight it was Talking Heads.\n\nThe awesome Bowie painting in our group picture.\nShould we rename to Home-Bowie Website Club? y/y",
        "html": "<p>The first <a href=\"https://gregorlove.com/2019/12/homebrew-website-club/\">Homebrew Website Club San Diego</a> was a success! There were four people in attendance. We started with introductions and talked a bit about our websites \u2014 or desire for a website.</p>\n\n<p><a class=\"h-card\" href=\"https://artlung.com\">Joe Crawford</a>: Has been blogging since 2001 and recently been posting lots of drawings and comics. Tonight he updated the header on his site to include one of his drawings. He is running WordPress, so he installed the indieweb plugins: Webmention, Semantic Linkbacks, and Microformats 2. He made some updates to his h-card and used <a href=\"https://indiewebify.me/\">indiewebify.me</a> to test it.</p>\n\n<p><a class=\"h-card\" href=\"https://simonprickett.dev/\">Simon Prickett</a>: Used to only post on Medium, but now has all his posts on his site and syndicates copies to Medium. Tonight he worked on some templates for an upcoming <a href=\"https://www.womenwhocode.com/sandiego\">Women Who Code</a> event. The goal is to have a few starter templates they can use to teach Jekyll and be able to publish a page on Github Pages.</p>\n\n<p>Jordan Yonts: No website\u2026 yet. He used to have a domain but let it lapse and all the content is gone. He is happy to leave that content in the past but would like to get a site set up and organize some of his hobbies there.</p>\n\n<p>gRegor Morrill (you are here): I\u2019ve been working on a login system and mailing list opt-in so people can subscribe and get my posts by email. This is something I really want in place before I am off of Facebook, to allow people to still get my posts by email.</p>\n\n<p>We talked about how often to have these meetups and decided on monthly, at least for now. The next meetup is tentatively on January 15, 2020. I\u2019ll follow up with an event page soon.</p>\n\n<p><b>Reflections:</b></p>\n\n<p>Subterranean was a pretty good venue for this. I was a little concerned because while it is a big coffeeshop, it is often pretty full during the day. After 5pm there were only a handful of people, though, so it worked well. We could have comfortably hosted 8-10 people tonight. They have good food and drinks, and happy hour overlapped. They also have good art (see below) and music; tonight it was Talking Heads.</p>\n\n<p>The awesome Bowie painting in our group picture.</p>\n<p>Should we rename to Home-Bowie Website Club? y/y</p>"
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Tantek Çelik tantek.com

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        "text": "hosting #IndieWeb Homebrew Website Club TONIGHT 17:30 @Mozilla SF!\nhttps://tantek.com/2019/345/e1/homebrew-website-club-sf\n\nNo #bluesky today, let\u2019s discuss Twitter\u2019s @bluesky:\nhttps://twitter.com/jack/status/1204766095988576256\n\n@adactio will be there. Join us! @jack @ParagA @JackyAlcine @benwerd @dietrich @AndiGalpern @generativist @pvh @JohnMattDavis @html5cat et al",
        "html": "hosting #<span class=\"p-category\">IndieWeb</span> Homebrew Website Club TONIGHT 17:30 <a class=\"h-cassis-username\" href=\"https://twitter.com/Mozilla\">@Mozilla</a> SF!<br /><a href=\"https://tantek.com/2019/345/e1/homebrew-website-club-sf\">https://tantek.com/2019/345/e1/homebrew-website-club-sf</a><br /><br />No #<span class=\"p-category\">bluesky</span> today, let\u2019s discuss Twitter\u2019s <a class=\"h-cassis-username\" href=\"https://twitter.com/bluesky\">@bluesky</a>:<br /><a href=\"https://twitter.com/jack/status/1204766095988576256\">https://twitter.com/jack/status/1204766095988576256</a><br /><br /><a class=\"h-cassis-username\" href=\"https://twitter.com/adactio\">@adactio</a> will be there. Join us! <a class=\"h-cassis-username\" href=\"https://twitter.com/jack\">@jack</a> <a class=\"h-cassis-username\" href=\"https://twitter.com/ParagA\">@ParagA</a> <a class=\"h-cassis-username\" href=\"https://twitter.com/JackyAlcine\">@JackyAlcine</a> <a class=\"h-cassis-username\" href=\"https://twitter.com/benwerd\">@benwerd</a> <a class=\"h-cassis-username\" href=\"https://twitter.com/dietrich\">@dietrich</a> <a class=\"h-cassis-username\" href=\"https://twitter.com/AndiGalpern\">@AndiGalpern</a> <a class=\"h-cassis-username\" href=\"https://twitter.com/generativist\">@generativist</a> <a class=\"h-cassis-username\" href=\"https://twitter.com/pvh\">@pvh</a> <a class=\"h-cassis-username\" href=\"https://twitter.com/JohnMattDavis\">@JohnMattDavis</a> <a class=\"h-cassis-username\" href=\"https://twitter.com/html5cat\">@html5cat</a> et al"
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Jeremy Keith adactio.com

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Ben Werdmüller werd.io/profile/benwerd

Twitter's Project Bluesky

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        "text": "This morning, Jack Dorsey announced that Twitter would be funding an independent group that would develop an open standard for decentralized social networking, with the expectation that the company would use it.\nTwitter is funding a small independent team of up to five open source architects, engineers, and designers to develop an open and decentralized standard for social media. The goal is for Twitter to ultimately be a client of this standard. \ud83e\uddf5\n\u2014 jack \ud83c\udf0d\ud83c\udf0f\ud83c\udf0e (@jack) December 11, 2019\nI've been involved in decentralized social networking since 2004, when I released the first version of Elgg, the open source social networking platform. As I said in an interview with ZDNet in 2006:I think in the future, networks or meta-networks won't be an issue: the network will be decentralised. What I'd like to see is a set of open protocols that mean you can connect to anyone, anywhere, no matter which site they happen to be using.I still fundamentally believe in this vision. My second attempt at an open source platform, Known, uses indieweb standards to a user of a Known site to interact with any other user of any other indieweb-compatible site. Decentralization was something I looked at carefully when I was west coast Director of Investments at Matter Ventures. And it was core to the work I did with the Unlock Protocol.There have been many other attempts. My friend Evan Prodromou created StatusNet and then the ActivityPub protocol; the latter underlies the Mastodon \"fediverse\" of federated social networking platforms. (Known has committed to also joining the fediverse.)Twitter's announcement today builds on many of these efforts in spirit, but it goes its own way. I think this is probably right: whereas all of the aforementioned projects were created by hobbyists, Twitter as a company and a worldwide platform has different needs. If the goal is to run over 126 million daily active users on a decentralized platform, and for the associated platform companies to make money in the process, something new is needed.I don't believe that this new project will come out of lengthy committee deliberations. So while it might rile long-term open standards collaborators, I think this tweet from Twitter's CTO, Parag Agrawal, bodes well:\n3 - The traditionally slow and deliberate consensus-building approach to evolving standards might fail to keep up with a rapidly changing ecosystem and set of consumer needs.\n\u2014 Parag Agrawal (@paraga) December 11, 2019\nThe key will be rapid iteration in the public interest, repeatedly testing not just the feasibility of such a protocol (whether you can build and maintain it at scale), but also its desirability (user risk) and viability (business risk). In other words, it's not enough to make something work. It also has to be able to win user trust, serve as the foundation of an ecosystem, and allow businesses built on the platform to become valuable. As yet, open standards processes have not shown themselves to be capable of this kind of product development.To be clear, this kind of leadership can and does still lead to open projects released under open source licenses. That's what Twitter will need to do here.For Twitter, there are many obvious business benefits as champion of this platform. Particularly in a world where anti-trust reform and regulation of social networks are becoming more prominent topics, getting ahead of the trend and locking in decentralized openness is smart. It could also disrupt other social networking platforms who aren't, or can't be, so forward-thinking.Building it on a blockchain - not Ethereum, but a new, faster, purpose-built chain - may also make sense as a way to lock in both openness and the ability to build value. One interesting property of blockchains is that nodes typically have to process the whole chain; that means that as the traffic on the new protocol increases, the difficulty of processing the chain increases and the number of entities capable of processing it decreases. The value of being an entry point that processes on behalf of others increases. So there's a business in providing an easy access point for developers. But more importantly, designing the protocol from scratch allows a mutually beneficial business model to be baked in. It's not about hoarding the riches for Twitter: it's about baking an ever-increasing pie that everyone can have a slice of.There are lots of very reasonable arguments that open communty advocates will make for this being something to be wary of. But while this move is very, very late in community terms (we've been talking about decentralization for decades), it's very early in corporate terms. The time is right for tech companies to make the shift into open protocols, in a way that allows businesses to make money, users to own their data, and a thousand new social networking interfaces to bloom. And I think that's a progressive move for the web.\u00a0Photo by Anthony Cantin on Unsplash",
        "html": "<p><img src=\"https://werd.io/file/5df124f3b16ea130f6402d12\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"666\" /></p><p>This morning, Jack Dorsey announced that <a href=\"https://twitter.com/jack/status/1204766078468911106\">Twitter would be funding an independent group that would develop an open standard for decentralized social networking</a>, with the expectation that the company would use it.</p><blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\">Twitter is funding a small independent team of up to five open source architects, engineers, and designers to develop an open and decentralized standard for social media. The goal is for Twitter to ultimately be a client of this standard. \ud83e\uddf5</p>\n<p>\u2014 jack \ud83c\udf0d\ud83c\udf0f\ud83c\udf0e (@jack) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/jack/status/1204766078468911106?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 11, 2019</a></p>\n</blockquote><p>I've been involved in decentralized social networking since 2004, when I released the first version of Elgg, the open source social networking platform. <a href=\"https://www.zdnet.com/article/run-your-own-myspace-with-elgg-spaces/\">As I said in an interview with ZDNet in 2006</a>:</p><blockquote><p>I think in the future, networks or meta-networks won't be an issue: the network will be decentralised. What I'd like to see is a set of open protocols that mean you can connect to anyone, anywhere, no matter which site they happen to be using.</p></blockquote><p>I still fundamentally believe in this vision. My second attempt at an open source platform, Known, <a href=\"https://tantek.com/2019/301/b1/redecentralize-indieweb-standards-methods\">uses indieweb standards to a user of a Known site to interact with any other user of any other indieweb-compatible site</a>. Decentralization was something I looked at carefully <a href=\"https://medium.com/matter-driven-narrative/build-the-media-platform-of-tomorrow-49e00e246d20\">when I was west coast Director of Investments at Matter Ventures</a>. And it was core to the work I did with the <a href=\"https://unlock-protocol.com\">Unlock Protocol</a>.</p><p>There have been many other attempts. My friend Evan Prodromou created <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_social\">StatusNet</a> and then the <a href=\"https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/\">ActivityPub</a> protocol; the latter underlies the <a href=\"https://joinmastodon.org/\">Mastodon</a> \"fediverse\" of federated social networking platforms. (Known has committed to also joining the fediverse.)</p><p>Twitter's announcement today builds on many of these efforts in spirit, but it goes its own way. I think this is probably right: whereas all of the aforementioned projects were created by hobbyists, Twitter as a company and a worldwide platform has different needs. If the goal is to run <a href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/02/07/twitter-reveals-its-daily-active-user-numbers-first-time/\">over 126 million daily active users</a> on a decentralized platform, and for the associated platform companies to make money in the process, something new is needed.</p><p>I don't believe that this new project will come out of lengthy committee deliberations. So while it might rile long-term open standards collaborators, I think this tweet from Twitter's CTO, Parag Agrawal, bodes well:</p><blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\">3 - The traditionally slow and deliberate consensus-building approach to evolving standards might fail to keep up with a rapidly changing ecosystem and set of consumer needs.</p>\n<p>\u2014 Parag Agrawal (@paraga) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/paraga/status/1204766192163901440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 11, 2019</a></p>\n</blockquote><p>The key will be rapid iteration in the public interest, repeatedly testing not just the <em>feasibility</em> of such a protocol (whether you can build and maintain it at scale), but also its <em>desirability</em> (user risk) and <em>viability</em> (business risk). In other words, it's not enough to make something work. It also has to be able to win user trust, serve as the foundation of an ecosystem, and allow businesses built on the platform to become valuable. As yet, open standards processes have not shown themselves to be capable of this kind of product development.</p><p>To be clear, this kind of leadership can and does still lead to open projects released under open source licenses. That's what Twitter will need to do here.</p><p>For Twitter, there are many obvious business benefits as champion of this platform. Particularly in a world where <a href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/26/facebook-most-likely-to-suffer-in-antitrust-war-on-silicon-valley.html\">anti-trust reform</a> and <a href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-47135058\">regulation of social networks</a> are becoming more prominent topics, getting ahead of the trend and locking in decentralized openness is smart. It could also disrupt other social networking platforms who aren't, or can't be, so forward-thinking.</p><p>Building it on a blockchain - not Ethereum, but a new, faster, purpose-built chain - may also make sense as a way to lock in both openness and the ability to build value. One interesting property of blockchains is that nodes typically have to process the whole chain; that means that as the traffic on the new protocol increases, the difficulty of processing the chain increases and the number of entities capable of processing it decreases. The value of being an entry point that processes on behalf of others increases. So there's a business in providing an easy access point for developers. But more importantly, designing the protocol from scratch allows a mutually beneficial business model to be baked in. It's not about hoarding the riches for Twitter: it's about baking an ever-increasing pie that everyone can have a slice of.</p><p>There are lots of very reasonable arguments that open communty advocates will make for this being something to be wary of. But while this move is very, very late in community terms (we've been talking about decentralization for decades), it's very early in corporate terms. The time is right for tech companies to make the shift into open protocols, in a way that allows businesses to make money, users to own their data, and a thousand new social networking interfaces to bloom. And I think that's a progressive move for the web.</p><p>\u00a0</p><p><em>Photo by <a href=\"https://unsplash.com/@arizonanthony?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Anthony Cantin</a> on <a href=\"https://unsplash.com/s/photos/blue-sky?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Unsplash</a></em></p>"
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Jonathan LaCour cleverdevil.io/profile/cleverdevil

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        "text": "Hey, @jack, I\u2019d like to nominate @aaronpk and @t to lead @bluesky, perhaps with an assist from @benwerd. They\u2019ve got quite the head start with the #IndieWeb!\n\n\n By the way, I posted this via my own website... how decentralized of me!",
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Manton Reece www.manton.org

Twitter to decentralize… something

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        "html": "<p>This morning, Jack Dorsey <a href=\"https://twitter.com/jack/status/1204766078468911106\">dropped a bombshell</a>:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n<p>Twitter is funding a small independent team of up to five open source architects, engineers, and designers to develop an open and decentralized standard for social media. The goal is for Twitter to ultimately be a client of this standard.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>I should be excited about this, but instead my first reaction was frustration. Ten years after early Twitter employees like Blaine Cook and Alex Payne were pushing for a more open architecture, <em>now</em> Jack Dorsey realizes Twitter is too big and creates a team to work on\u2026 <a href=\"https://twitter.com/jack/status/1204766085037248512\">blockchain-based solutions</a>?</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n<p>Finally, new technologies have emerged to make a decentralized approach more viable. Blockchain points to a series of decentralized solutions for open and durable hosting, governance, and even monetization. Much work to be done, but the fundamentals are there.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>The first step should be to check out <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/\">the IndieWeb</a>. There are people who have been thinking about and working toward more open social networks for years.</p>\n\n<p>After a closer reading of Jack\u2019s tweets, though, I think my first interpretation wasn\u2019t quite right. Twitter isn\u2019t necessarily interested in decentralizing <em>content</em> or even identity on their platform. Why would they be? Their business is based around having all your tweets in one place.</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https://twitter.com/jack/status/1204766082206011393\">Early in the thread</a>, Jack hints at what Twitter is trying to do:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n<p>First, we\u2019re facing entirely new challenges centralized solutions are struggling to meet. For instance, centralized enforcement of global policy to address abuse and misleading information is unlikely to scale over the long-term without placing far too much burden on people.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>This \u201cburden on people\u201d is the resources it would take for Twitter to actively combat hate and abuse on their platform. Facebook, for example, has hired thousands of moderators. If Twitter is hoping to outsource curation to shared protocols, it should be <em>in addition to</em> \u2014\u00a0not a replacement for \u2014\u00a0the type of effort that Facebook is undertaking. I\u2019ve outlined a better approach in my posts on <a href=\"https://www.manton.org/2019/06/02/open-gardens.html\">open gardens</a> and <a href=\"https://manton.org/2018/09/07/the-way-out.html\">4 parts to fixing social networks</a>, which don\u2019t seem compatible with Twitter\u2019s current business.</p>\n\n<p>I\u2019m going to be paying close attention to this. Good luck to Jack and the new team. I hope they seriously look at existing standards, because we\u2019ve come too far to start over.</p>",
        "text": "This morning, Jack Dorsey dropped a bombshell:\n\n\nTwitter is funding a small independent team of up to five open source architects, engineers, and designers to develop an open and decentralized standard for social media. The goal is for Twitter to ultimately be a client of this standard.\n\n\nI should be excited about this, but instead my first reaction was frustration. Ten years after early Twitter employees like Blaine Cook and Alex Payne were pushing for a more open architecture, now Jack Dorsey realizes Twitter is too big and creates a team to work on\u2026 blockchain-based solutions?\n\n\nFinally, new technologies have emerged to make a decentralized approach more viable. Blockchain points to a series of decentralized solutions for open and durable hosting, governance, and even monetization. Much work to be done, but the fundamentals are there.\n\n\nThe first step should be to check out the IndieWeb. There are people who have been thinking about and working toward more open social networks for years.\n\nAfter a closer reading of Jack\u2019s tweets, though, I think my first interpretation wasn\u2019t quite right. Twitter isn\u2019t necessarily interested in decentralizing content or even identity on their platform. Why would they be? Their business is based around having all your tweets in one place.\n\nEarly in the thread, Jack hints at what Twitter is trying to do:\n\n\nFirst, we\u2019re facing entirely new challenges centralized solutions are struggling to meet. For instance, centralized enforcement of global policy to address abuse and misleading information is unlikely to scale over the long-term without placing far too much burden on people.\n\n\nThis \u201cburden on people\u201d is the resources it would take for Twitter to actively combat hate and abuse on their platform. Facebook, for example, has hired thousands of moderators. If Twitter is hoping to outsource curation to shared protocols, it should be in addition to \u2014\u00a0not a replacement for \u2014\u00a0the type of effort that Facebook is undertaking. I\u2019ve outlined a better approach in my posts on open gardens and 4 parts to fixing social networks, which don\u2019t seem compatible with Twitter\u2019s current business.\n\nI\u2019m going to be paying close attention to this. Good luck to Jack and the new team. I hope they seriously look at existing standards, because we\u2019ve come too far to start over."
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gRegor Morrill gregorlove.com

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        "text": "Check out @aaronpk's post about readers: https://aaronparecki.com/2018/04/20/46/indieweb-reader-my-new-home-on-the-internet\n\nI've been using Monocle and really enjoying it! More on https://indieweb.org/reader\n\ncc @Edw1nS1984",
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                "text": "I really miss having an RSS feed reader. I miss the days when that's how I would aggregate all my content. Maybe it's time to redownload NetNewsWire."
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Jamie Tanna www.jvt.me

RSVP yes to https://www.eventbrite.com/e/indiewebcamp-london-2020-tickets-85763160923

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IndieWeb Challenge Day 11

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        "text": "A very, very small fix today.1\n\n\nThe formatting of footnotes had been driving me nuts, but not nuts enough to do anything about it. Until today. The marker is now where it ought to be, and the font size a smidgen smaller.\u00a0\u21a9",
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Jamie Tanna www.jvt.me

It’s Time to Get Personal

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Vika fireburn.ru

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        "text": "Writing the API gateway for serious-business and Kittybox is a two-part job. I want that sweet, sweet React goodness but I can't leak my access token that can read arbitrary posts from my Micropub endpoint! so I have two layers:On the top, there is the frontend. It calls to an API gateway via fetch() to receive data (and pass access control checks with cookies - they'll be signed)\nAPI gateway has the token and, never revealing it to the client-side code, fetches posts from Kittybox.\nThe token is not revealed, my private posts are safe, my readers have client-side rendering, everyone is happy!",
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Vika fireburn.ru

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        "text": "The spirit of #IndieWeb is constantly rewriting your site from scratch but being able to keep all your old posts because they are in a universal format! #ownyourdata",
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Jamie Tanna www.jvt.me

“Link In Bio” is a slow knife

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Vika fireburn.ru

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Vika fireburn.ru

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        "text": "\u043f\u043e\u0445\u043e\u0436\u0435, \u0447\u0442\u043e \u044f \u043d\u0435 \u043e\u0434\u043d\u0430 \u0432 IndieWeb \u043f\u0438\u0448\u0443 \u043d\u0430 \u0440\u0443\u0441\u0441\u043a\u043e\u043c! @marinintim \u043f\u0440\u0438\u0432\u0435\u0442!\nLooks like I\u2019m not the only Russian speaker writing in my native language on the IndieWeb! Hi @marinintim",
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Vika fireburn.ru

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        "text": "THIS IS IT. I\u2019ve finished the h-entry React component. Looks beautiful, isn\u2019t it? #React #nextjs #IndieWeb",
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Vika fireburn.ru

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        "text": "Success! Thanks to #nextjs I\u2019m able to use #React to render my posts without losing ability to curl them. #indieweb #JSDR\nIt even looks pretty enough without JS; though Twemoji icons aren\u2019t rendered.",
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Vika fireburn.ru

{
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    "url": "https://fireburn.ru/posts/1575759300",
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    "syndication": [
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        "text": "So, I\u2019ve started to learn Next.js and #React. It feels kinda interesting. I was able to start drafting a React component for rendering an h-entry. #indieweb",
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Vika fireburn.ru

{
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        "text": "I\u2019m using webmention.io to handle webmentions currently, so it should handle this? :3 I don\u2019t know, still haven\u2019t gotten around to actually showing webmentions",
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Vika fireburn.ru

{
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    "syndication": [
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        "text": "I got a weird idea of React-based IndieWeb components. With next.js they will be server-side rendered, JS;DR won't be a problem.",
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