I'm looking forward to learning about and discussing #accessibility, systems, #WebComponents, personal websites and the #IndieWeb.

Outside of work, I enjoy reading books, playing records, and being mediocre on guitar.

I'm married to a visual artist, and together we have a child under 1 and a dog over 7, in a house built 100 years ago.

You can learn a bit more about me on my personal website: https://nicksimson.com/info/

Since my last attempt at developing a Hugo theme for my homepage got bogged down in faffing about with presentation before I'd got anything close to a structure in place, I'm forcing myself to develop this next one differently. I started with a tree-view sketch of how I wanted to organize content, imported @kev's simple.css, and am strictly prohibiting myself from messing with CSS until I've got a reasonable handle on the the basic structure of the site.

The contents of the menu can change—let me just make a menu for now.

I'm definitely going to change how tags are displayed—but first, let me get them displaying at all.

Turns out, maintaining a bit of focus discipline like this can help me get a lot more done! Who'da thought? 🙄

#indieWeb #WebDesign
Website for EFFAustin.org, with a headline reading "Indieweb and Mastodon: The Time is Now". An arrow pointing to their social media buttons which features Twitter but not Mastodon.

@anildash I chose indieweb.social because of the #indieweb focus and the user size. I wanted an active community that isn't so large I'd worry the admins will be overwhelmed running it.

OMG! There is so much to love here about these processes and to see people in the wild experimenting with them and figuring them out.

Scott (@schopie1), you are not alone! There are lots of us out here doing these things, not only with WordPress but a huge variety of other platforms. There are many ways to syndicate your content depending on where it starts its life.

In addition to Jim Groom and a huge group of others’ work within A Domain of One’s Own, there’s also a broader coalition of designers, developers, professionals, hobbyists, and people of all stripes working on these problems under the name of IndieWeb.

For some of their specific work you might appreciate the following:

https://indieweb.org/Indieweb_for_Education
https://indieweb.org/A_Domain_of_One%27s_Own
https://indieweb.org/academic_samizdat
https://indieweb.org/WordPress
https://indieweb.org/Category:syndication

Incidentally, I wrote this for our friend Kathleen Fitzpatrick last week and I can’t wait to see what she’s come up with over the weekend and in the coming weeks. Within the IndieWeb community you’ll find people like Ben Werdmuller who created large portions of both WithKnown (aka Known) and Elgg and Aram Zucker-Scharff who helped to create PressForward.

I’m thrilled to see the work and huge strides that Humanities Commons is making some of these practices come to fruition.

If you’re game, perhaps we ought to plan an upcoming education-related popup event as an IndieWebCamp event to invite more people into this broader conversation?

If you have questions or need any help in these areas, I’m around, but so are hundreds of friends in the IndieWeb chat: https://chat.indieweb.org.

I hope we can bring more of these technologies to the masses in better and easier-to-use manners to lower the technical hurdles.

#academic-samizdat #domainofonesown #humanities-commons #indieweb #indieweb-for-education #indieweb-welcome #posse #pressforward #rss #syndication #wordpress

https://boffosocko.com/2022/12/05/55812399/

How many #Indieweb people actually use that feature on their site, anyway?

use of a nickname cache
Not using a nickname cache

the only thing that the Wordpress #Indieweb plugin doesn't currently have is a nickname cache for contacts, which the Indieweb drupal module does have, but I'm willing to take that on as a way of learning PHP if somebody wants.

It's been a long time I haven't posted a #microblogpub update, so here we go:

On the #ActivityPub side:

A blocked server entry now blocks all subdomains
New "GIF mode" for video without audio (as Mastodon converts GIF to video, we now autoplay them in a loop when "hovered")
The media proxy is more stable (bigger timeout + retries)
A bunch of bug fixes and improvements

On the #IndieWeb side:

Webmentions replies/likes/reposts are now being merged with ActivityPub interactions
Improved microformats2 markup in templates

Also, in case you're worried, microblogpub is not vulnerable to the activitypub-troll[.]cf "attacks", as we're not fetching all the profiles mentioned in a note.

And I also pushed a #YunoHost update.

Thanks to all the new contributors!

Bridgy Fed updates

Near-term Plans for My Twitter

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So Mastodon 4 went js;dr, which means it requires JavaScript to render content. That means that server-side fetches of Mastodon 4 user profiles and posts, eg indieweb.social/@snarfed, no longer return the actual contents in the response. They definitely no longer include microformats. 😐

JavaScript and SPAs are their own conversation, but regardless, this is a step backward for the open web and server-to-server communications like the IndieWeb uses. Fortunately, there’s a workaround: use granary! Plug any Mastodon 4 profile or post URL into granary’s ActivityStreams 2 converter and you’ll get the full contents in HTML, Atom, RSS, or any other format you want. Works via REST API and pip-installable Python package. Here’s an example. Happy hacking!

I am trying, trying to get my Hugo blog running. Trying to understand Hugo as a non-techie is making my brain melt. But I SO want to have my own little online notebook to tinker with, and I really want to participate in #IndieWeb and I really REALLY want to to be able to explain how to ... blog.eilloh.net
#indieweb #fediverse #TwitterMigration #ActivityPub #SocialWeb #OpenStandards #OpenWeb
🎁 Happy December 1st and welcome to another year of the #IndieWeb Gift Calendar! (inspired by #advent calendars)

https://indieweb.org/2022-12-indieweb-gift-calendar

Thanks to https://martymcgui.re/ (@schmarty) for our first IndieWeb gift of the month!

is indiewebing: I was just reminded how in the early days of Twitter to Facebook cross-posting, it prefixed your Facebook status with “is twittering:”

🎁 Happy December 1st and welcome to another year of the #IndieWeb Gift Calendar! (inspired by #advent calendars)

https://indieweb.org/2022-12-indieweb-gift-calendar

Thanks to https://martymcgui.re/ (@schmarty) for our first IndieWeb gift of the month!

No instance, that’s the best part! I’m using Bridgy Fed which lets me federate select posts by adding a link to fed.brid.gy and sending a webmention. Check out the notes page on my site for the original posts. It even backfeeds responses via webmention.

I’m not sure Bridgy Fed supports regular at-mentions yet, but it should support replies like this, notes, articles, likes, and reposts.

Kapowski: reaction GIFs for the indie web

#micropub #IndieWeb #Kapowski #Bayside #gif #giphy #gfycat