I don't blog much since I started working full time... mostly just a few twitter reposts. But I still maintain a bunch of websites on the side, and one of my favourite things about that is when making updates like I've just done I just push my changes to just one server.
That server happens to be dobrado.net, which can talk websub, and the other servers are subscribed to an updates feed for software changes. So when I make a change, I build it so it can be fetched which then also posts to the updates feed. Each server sees the new feed entry, downloads the change and installs it automatically. In the case of a javascript change it also creates a new minified version and updates the version number in the query string for some cache busting.
This has been working for a few years now, I'm always surprised that it does what it's meant to.
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This morning’s Micro.blog update included performance improvements, bug fixes to ActivityPub and Micropub, scrolling to current post in conversations (thanks @sod!), and a server hardware upgrade.
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"text": "The other day I posed the question:I've started two end-user open source social platforms: Elgg and Known, from the web2 desktop and mobile era respectively. Imagine I was going to create an open source community platform today. What would be different about it?As you might imagine, I expected the answers to be broadly related to web3 and crypto: perhaps a decentralized platform where each community is interrelated and identity and reputation can be transferred.But I really liked this reply from Colin Walker:Everything on social networks is too easy \u2014 that's why I used to like Google+ when it launched. There was no API, no way to share something to the network from outside, everything had to be an intentional act.There\u2019s something really powerful about the idea of anti-virulence. Instead of optimizing around a platform\u2019s K-Factor, we should make the conversation just hard enough to require a thoughtful reply.The indieweb - blogging in general, actually - has this characteristic. You can\u2019t just knock off a blog post in 10 seconds without time for your brain to kick in. It requires thought, but at the same time, you\u2019re not writing an essay for the New Yorker. In other words, it requires just enough thought. It\u2019s definitely the medium for me.I wonder what a community platform that was centered around long-form thought would look like? Medium, perhaps? Or something else?",
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I’m attendingHomebrew Website Club (virtual) tonight at 6PM Pacific.
Join us if you’re interested in talking about personal websites and the independent web!
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At its very core, the rules of the web are different than those of “real” markets. The idea that ownership fundamentally means that nobody else can have the same thing you have just doesn’t apply here. This is a world where anything can easily be copied a million times and distributed around the globe in a second. If that were possible in the real world, we’d call it Utopia.
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A date has been set for the IndieWeb personal libraries pop-up session: February 19th. Looking forward to it! 📚
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I am RSVP'ing yes to the IndieWeb Personal Libraries pop up being held in February.
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Don’t see making your own web page as a nostalgia, don’t participate in creating the netstalgia trend. What you make is a statement, an act of emancipation. You make it to continue a 25-year-old tradition of liberation.
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"text": "I\u2019ve added two links to the bottom of every page on my website.The first is to the IndieWeb webring: a directory of personal websites from people who are a part of the indieweb movement. These sites run the gamut of topics, but they\u2019re mostly personal profiles from people who like to write on the web. Just like me! (You can click the left or right arrows to get to a random site.)The second is to Blogroll.org, which I learned about from a post on Winnie Lim\u2019s site. It\u2019s exactly what you\u2019d expect from the name: a categorized list of blogs. I love it and I\u2019m glad it exists.I want more of you to blog. Please write about your personal experiences! I want to read them! And doing it on your personal space is far better than simply tweeting, or using something like Facebook or (shudder) LinkedIn, simply because you can be more long-form, and build up a corpus of writing that really represents you. And sure, yes, Medium is fine. But I want to read what you have to say, and other people do too.",
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Has anyone done anything interesting aside from cloud provider deployments with the #OIDC support in #GitLab and #GitHub? Thinking I may use it as a means to automatically publish notes to my site via #Micropub when publishing a new version of a library
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"text": "Over the last decade or two tech has become dominated by the startup: a small, new business that rapidly reinvents itself in an iterative process. Once upon a time, the aim of that process was - or at least, seemed like it was - to be as useful as possible to a well-defined target group of users. These days it feels like the aim is mostly to gain as high a valuation as possible by moving from venture capital funding round to funding round, eventually making bank through an exit event.That startupification has had an interesting effect on tech communities. I\u2019m from the utopian era of the web, when we all thought we could build something to connect that world, and by doing so that we would make it more peaceful. These days, it seems like people are mostly in it to make millions of dollars - which feels like an emptier, less exciting goal, to say the least. The possibilities for social change used to seem endless; now the conversation is mostly about funding rounds or financial yield. In itself, it\u2019s boring, but it also changes who is attracted to the space: we\u2019ve gone from a loose group of weird social idealists to being overwhelmed by a bolus of the most boring possible people. The tech workforce is becoming Wall Street in hoodies, far more concerned with the performance of their RSUs than the impact they\u2019re having in the world.Of course, there are still idealists: people who believe in making the world more equal and democratic, and that technology has a part to play in making it happen. The indieweb movement remains one great example of this; there are also plenty of people working on tech for good, or mission-driven endeavors where the social impact comes first. Even in companies that are a part of this financialization of tech, there are people doing great work on inclusivity, unionization, and advocacy for social responsibility. Nonetheless, at this point, these groups are in the minority.I find that personally demotivating - it\u2019s not why I got into the space, or why I\u2019m excited about it - but it\u2019s also kind of counterproductive. If you\u2019re laser focused on helping a defined group of people, you\u2019re more likely to build a valuable company, because you\u2019re literally generating value. Conversely, if you\u2019re focused on making money as a goal rather than a means to an end, you\u2019re more likely to make shallower decisions that undermine your value. Being focused on helping your user means you\u2019re aligned with them; being primarily focused on your financial goals means you\u2019re primarily aligned with yourself. To put it another way, if the aim is to raise a round or make a bunch of money personally, you\u2019re more likely to make decisions that screw your users and undermine that goal to begin with. It\u2019s also just a selfish, stupid way to look at the world.Remember this Apple campaign?Here\u2019s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes\u2026 the ones who see things differently \u2014 they\u2019re not fond of rules\u2026 You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can\u2019t do is ignore them because they change things\u2026 they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.It doesn\u2019t say here\u2019s to the stockbrokers, is all I\u2019m saying. Tech could use a little more crazy, a little more outside thinking, a little more equity-mindedness, and a little less greed. That\u2019s how the world gets changed: by focusing on people, not on dollar bills.",
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The first #HomebrewWebsiteClub London/Europe meetup of 2022 is beginning this evening. If you want to chat about blogging, personal websites, or the web, consider joining the meetup today! 💻
https://events.indieweb.org/2022/01/homebrew-website-club-europe-london-XueKi4mitTMM
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🎂 Happy birthday Bridgy! Congrats Ryan (@schnarfed), contributors, users!
10 years of bridging #indieweb & #socialmedia. #POSSE posts, #backfeed responses. #Federate systems, like the web was invented to.
Stats & charts & more: https://snarfed.org/2022-01-08_happy-10th-birthday-bridgy
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From Patrick Tanguay:
A list of small micro-publishers — most of them run by one person — putting out great content through their websites, newsletters, and podcasts.
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"text": "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!\nI\u2019ve always loved the internet, but I\u2019m not a Very Online person, exactly. I don\u2019t really hang out there. I didn\u2019t 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 of computers \u2013 rocks we flattened and jammed lightning into \u2013 talking to each other. Interacting.\nWhat\u2019s more, we managed to connect a bunch of these separate networks together, begged and borrowed time on long strings of copper buried underground and hung high up on top of wooden poles, stretched across cities and countries and entire oceans until they circled the globe. Kind of amazing.\n Continue reading \u2192",
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I enjoy the IndieWeb pop-ups that have become popular in pandemic times. Easier to commit to a couple hours on Zoom than a full weekend. This month there’s Analog Meets Online and in February there’s Personal Libraries.
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