An interesting read, but I would personally say to stick to the language-specific process. Ie Rakefiles for Ruby, a task in your build.gradle or npm run deps as it'll handle things nicer in a language / stack you're more familiar in, although I totally see why you'd want a language-agnostic interace

There may still be some dupes for now, looks like my async work has meant there are clashes with trying to write to the DB https://gitlab.com/jamietanna/www-api/issues/75

Looks like I've done it now - https://gitlab.com/jamietanna/www-api/issues/74 is the root cause, which I'll fix this evening properly. For now, I've put a hacky hotfix in to get it working

But this unfortunately has not worked - I'll have a look at debugging this in the morning!

I'm on the waitlist currently - but hopefully will be able to make it!

The link doesn't seem to be working BTW 🤔 seems to go to https://mrkapowski.com/2019/11/Array

Well, I think I've cracked it - after a few weeks of on-and-off work on making my webmention sending not spam everyone (see https://www.jvt.me/posts/2019/10/30/reader-mail-webmention-spam/ ) - it's now not re-sending them if they're successful. This is a good first step, but I'll be improving it to re-send if the post's data has changed since last time it tried (in the future). Note that this isn't quite done yet, expect it to be live tomorrow perhaps.

Welcome, Matt! Thanks for blogging about your experiences, it's really great to see, especially because it was through me you've been interested in it! I'd heavily recommend https://github.com/PlaidWeb/webmention.js/ by https://beesbuzz.biz/ as I currently use it on my site and love it because I don't need to rebuild my site to show new Webmentions, although it does mean that my viewers need client-side Javascript. If you get a chance, come and talk to us on the IndieWeb chat (more details on https://indieweb.org/discuss )