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Unfortunately it's only 18 degrees, so not roasting, but quite nice and warm compared to the UK this last week!

I've written about how I added it to my own site www.jvt.me at https://www.jvt.me/posts/2019/08/26/setting-up-micropub/ if you'd like more info on how you'd go about it - as my site is built around Git as the source of truth, I simply need to get it committing the changes for me and that's it!

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TLDR: Nearly everyone who wants micropub support writes their own library, endpoint, or whole cms or blog engine.

I believe part of this is because Micropub requires intimate knowledge of how your own site is set up, so unfortunately can't be written as a generic solution, because most folks won't have things set up the same way, even on ie WordPress using common IndieWeb plugins

It's still a good point that maybe we need to look at creating an out-of-the-box Micropub endpoint for some of the common tech stacks.

My preferred photo always sits at https://www.jvt.me/img/profile.png which makes it super easy as I always know where it is, for this exact reason!

I'd be interested to hear an answer if you find out - I have a similar post that only seems to come via the same URL

Tbh I'm still using Twitter, just replying from my own site where possible (to own the data) and even when not, I'm using other #IndieWeb tools so none of it is mine per se, but at least all FOSS. And definitely better ownership. I'm looking to soon import all my old tweets to my site, as well as my #Spotify data which I received today for the last decade (via https://www.jvt.me/posts/2019/12/29/spotify-wrapped-data-request/)

Technically my reply to this tweet is the latest thing on my blog (see the link at the end) but https://www.jvt.me/posts/2020/01/14/ruby-parse-unix-epoch/ is the last, super short #blogumentation blog post

#npm allows you to do things like this, with other people's code (in a good way):

Is there any way to get one of those awesome stickers otherwise? 🙀

The tweet above you has an even better alternative for breakfast 😂💊

I was wondering how you were finding time to write so many good posts! I've been enjoying it 🤓

That is, ~4 minutes later due to the time it takes to publish the site and then syndicate the content to other platforms - so not quite as realtime

I'm definitely a Hugo person since moving from Jekyll last year - I'd be happy to share any experiences you'd like.

Not sure anyone has linked you to https://www.staticgen.com/ btw, for all the known static site generators

Haha thanks! I wish I could take credit for it - I'm not sure who in the IndieWeb community made it, but it is pretty awesome

It does! This post is coming straight from my website using brid.gy publish!

You can certainly come join us for a place to work with others, that'd be alright :)

As I published this to my site first, it makes more sense to tag her URL, but I need to get some rewriting for Twitter syndication so it tags her Twitter account - all in good time!

This is an interesting one, because I've recently been very frustrated with Firefox and captive portals, as it attempts HTTPS first, then ends up retaining HSTS - it's a difficult one to get right though, and I agree that attempting HTTPS first is a better idea.

I found that writing short blog posts as a form of documentation https://www.jvt.me/posts/2017/06/25/blogumentation/ helps lots with reducing the barrier to blogging, as well as writing one post a day for Nablopomo https://www.jvt.me/posts/2019/11/01/national-blog-post-month/

Yeah I'd say unfortunately that's then removing the effectiveness of using a CDN. I've seen issues when using two CDNs as it can make cache invalidation etc a bit harder

Also doing NaBloPoMo (https://www.jvt.me/posts/2019/11/01/national-blog-post-month/ ) helped lots as I got used to publishing pretty quickly, which was kinda the point of it, for me at least

I used to refine things lots, but it meant spending hours on a post that took 5 minutes to read. Long posts I do still refine over time, but generally want them done at most a few days after it's finished being written.

If it's a Blogumentation post (https://www.jvt.me/posts/2017/06/25/blogumentation/ ) then I'll actively not refine it too much as a long post as the point is that it's for me in the future so if its not as readable I'll just edit it then

This is a great idea! I'm planning on doing a similar thing to this based on the "Week Notes" that Ton does ie https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2019/12/week-notes-1952/ as a visible way of recounting weekly achievements / what kept you busy

In the last couple of days, I've also added media support for my Micropub server, and have encountered the same issue.

Thankfully the changes to Indigenous are soon going live, but I was surprised not being able to use it elsewhere.

I believe https://quill.p3k.io supports it, as long as you're posting it with a note?

Glad to hear it! I've been toying with the idea for a few years but have never found the guts to do it

In 2018 I wrote 60 posts (92k words) but in 2019 I wrote 159 posts (107k words). Of those, 41 and 73 posts respectively were under the term "Blogumentation" https://www.jvt.me/posts/2017/06/25/blogumentation/ which I am a huge fan of.

Don't write for anyone else - just yourself!

I mean, I said that an hour or so ago, but that was before the site had deployed... Turns out https://www.jvt.me/posts/2019/11/11/gotcha-netlify-lowercase/ caught me out again and isn't fixed until https://gitlab.com/jamietanna/jvt.me/merge_requests/638 is in (although I've done a temporary deploy from my local machine to get the site up).

Very annoying!

This is really great stuff!

I've raised an issue on the https://brid.gy repo at https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy/issues/905 as I feel this could be a great fit for the project, as it'd handle that syndication for you, instead of you needing to set it up yourself.

It may not be needed by the community, but if it is, there's hopefully a good fit there.

If you want inspiration / don't want to write your own - https://indigenous.realize.be is great. I use it daily and it's a great Microsub client.

If so I've definitely been doing my Christmases wrong! Can't even think when the last time I saw it was

Out of interest where are you moving to?

Because GitHub is willing to work with ICE https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/13/github-faces-more-resignations-in-light-of-ice-contract/ but at least GitLab are being up front about their politics?

Although yes I agree they're not amazing

All my code hosting is on https://gitlab.com/jamietanna

Static site hosting is on https://netlify.com and VPS hosting is on https://hetzner.cloud

Although some things that I contribute back to are on https://github.com

Huge congrats Shaun!

Ah fair enough. Have you blogged about it before? Would be quite cool to read about it!

Nice! That sounds like a it's worth a blog post explaining how you did it?

I guess, that's a fair point. Would still be good if we can improve the usability of password managers for not-as-technical folks

I work on Open Banking APIs for a UK credit card provider.

A large reason I see that the data isn't made directly available to the customer is because if the customer were to accidentally leak / lose their own data, the provider (HSBC, Barclays etc) would be liable, not you. That means lots of hefty fines.

You'd also likely be touching some PCI data, so you'd need to be cleared / set up to handle that safely (or having some way to filter it before you received it).

Also, it requires a fair bit of extra setup and the use of certificate-based authentication (MTLS + signing request objects) means that as it currently sits you'd be need one of those, which aren't cheap as they're all EV certs.

Its a shame, because the customer should get their data. But you may be able to work with intermediaries that may provide an interface for that data, who can do the hard work for you, ie https://www.openwrks.com/

Have you by any chance heard of the #IndieWeb movement? We've got a great group of folks who are looking at what it means to #OwnYourData and #BeYourOwnSocialNetwork

I've written about it https://www.jvt.me/posts/2019/10/20/indieweb-talk/ and we've got a large wiki too https://indieweb.org/why

Thanks for sharing - I've been wondering about getting it since getting a Switch and may reconsider

I like that idea - automagically parsing the data from a URL is reasonable, and is mostly automatic but a little manual so there's the ability to correct issues (as mentioned in https://aaronparecki.com/2019/12/21/12/ )

Would we also be interested in iCal feed parsing, or just stick with MF2 for now?

This is really amazing - great work on this!

Out of interest, would there be any interest in the ability to syndicate events from our own websites to https://events.indieweb.org so there's a bit less manual process for adding them to the official list?

Aw thank you! It's my last day in Notts today tho so unfortunately won't be able to make it. Hope its good though - did you go see it with work on Thurs or is today your first one?

Also looks like this post doesn't have a valid in-reply-to url!

Could be that your reply is an h-cite maybe? So parsing it isn't happy? Odd as there's definitely a url in the body that references my post so it should be ok

Interesting - I'll look at giving Granary a go over the next few days and see if it's what I'm looking for

Thanks Chris - I'll look into it as both you and Aaron have recommended it.

As an FYI this post didn't send me a webmention and when sending it manually it said no_link_found - not sure if it's a known issue?

I've been using GitLab for almost 4 years now, largely for reasons stated in https://www.jvt.me/posts/2017/03/25/why-you-should-use-gitlab/ but also for all the extra stuff they've built on top over the years.

Originally it was just because of private repos, but evolved into a love of the platform being built in a way that folks can contribute, unlike GitHub.

Folks posting to their own websites and owning their content, but syndicating it to sites such as https://dev.to, https://lobste.rs or https://news.ycombinator.com for better discoverability

Sorry! Hope it didn't cause too much of an issue.

I wonder if these b issues you and Aaron have seen could be related and put into the spec for implementers?

As I've gone all in on the #IndieWeb technologies, I've been using @AaronPK's service https://aperture.p3k.io which supports the open https://indieweb.org/Microsub standard, which supports RSS among other formats - may be worth looking into as it's a great protocol for building better readers, even if it's not solving your need right now. Drop me or the folks at https://indieweb.org/discuss a line if you want to talk more about it!