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There a LOT of error cases when writing a #webmention server implementation #indieweb #goldfrog

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I know I’ve done a good job integrating my social media posting into my site when I want to reply to my own posts. #indieweb #posse

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Obviously I need to add media uploading to my syndication code #indieweb #goldfrog

http://monkinetic.blog/2020/02/22/txt-fd6090d

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I added an edit button for Notes on this site and it’s like #twitter only awesome #indieweb

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On sharing and owning your content https://zerokspot.com/weblog/2020/02/11/sharing-and-owning-content/ #indieweb #blogging

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Yesterday I imported 7800+ tweets into Goldfrog, my blog/cms, as part of owning my own content. Tweets (or Notes) will be published on monkinetic.blog and be syndicated to Twitter. See my archive page (20 years worth), blue are posts and pink are notes

http://monkinetic.blog/archive

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Did my first live webmention test on monkinetic #webmention #indieweb #goldfrog

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Aaron Parecki has a great tutorial on Sending your First Webmention from Scratch. #webmention #indieweb

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Thank you #indieweb folks for https://webmention.rocks/

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For my next #indieweb trick: I’m working on adding support for Webmention in #goldfrog.

https://github.com/sivy/goldfrog/issues/9

Client:

• Endpoint discovery (header, link, a)
• Send basic webmentions
• Send “special” webmentions (ie Likes)

Server:

• Provide discovery (header, link, a)
• Receive basic webmentions
• Receive “special” webmentions (ie Likes)

Ultimately I’d like to break out my webmention code into a releasable #golang module that can provide reusable http.Handler functions that can be plugged into any Go mux that supports them.

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ICYMI: working on #indieweb in goldfrog https://t.co/9DKVvHYwzP

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Towards IndieWeb: POSSE and Notes

#posse #blogging #webmention #indieweb

https://t.co/15Q3wsMv9J

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POSSE is the #IndieWeb acronym for Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Everywhere. It’s something I’m playing with in Goldfrog.

A common idiom is to differentiate Notes (small microblog-like posts) from Articles (longer blog posts with a title). Right now Goldfrog has a basic blog Post type, with (ID, Title, Slug, Tags, Body). I’d like to keep the posting experience as simple as possible, so I’m thinking about how to handle something that literally just has a Body (and Tags, because I parse and attach any #hashtags - see? - in the content).

My Posts have an ID, though a uniqueness constraint on the slug means I could use that instead. But Notes don’t have a title to “slugify” (it is too a word). Goldfrog also writes every post to the filesystem as a Jekyll-compatible markdown file, so I would need to figure out what format and filename/slug would be appropriate so that they get a permalink.

Url Options

• 2020/01/16/note-ab43f6 unique hash id
• 2020/01/16/note-13:25 HH:MM

Actual Progress

An upcoming build of Goldfrog will support new “kind” of Post, albeit only differentiated by the presence of a title. I’ve made a few UI and backend changes to support notes:

• Notes get a slug that is constructed from the string “txt-” + a shortened hash based on the note’s content, like txt-8213d2c
• Since notes are short enough to look weird on a typical post-detail page, I created a new “Daily Digest” page on the site that shows only the posts for a given day. This is the default target for the permalink for Notes. The slug is used as the id attribute on the note, so the link jumps directly to the note on the digest page. This results in a “permalink” like “YYYY-MM-DD/#txt-8213d2c”
• The Syndicate options (currently for Twitter and Mastodon) are now enabled by default for notes.
• Clicking the “post form” link takes me to a longer post form with options for a title, custom slug, tags, and a larger content area for writing.

Still to work out

• I’m thinking about implementing Webmentions for Goldfrog, since I control the code.
• I’m still pondering how to connect a post or note with it’s syndicated version, to allow likes from this site to propagate to the syndicated site. That feels… harder than I want to dig into right now, but I’ll be looking for ideas.

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#indieweb folks: how do you post a tweet via the API with a link back to the original? As in, why didn’t this link expand? #posse https://t.co/hiXKxJkQUG

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Back towards the IndieWeb: Another aspect to creating my own blogging software: I can finally start implementing some of #indieweb principles I’ve been watching for a while.

One of those is POSSE (Publi

http://173.255.215.158/2020/01/back-towards-the-indieweb

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Another aspect to creating my own blogging software: I can finally start implementing some of #indieweb principles I’ve been watching for a while.

One of those is POSSE (Publish Own Site, Syndicate Everywhere) - which means everything you write starts on your own site, and content is syndicated to the appropriate kinds of sites as desired. This could include things like:

• Articles are syndicated via RSS (done, no brainer)
• Short posts (notes) are automatically or optionally published whole to Twitter, Mastodon, or the microblog of your choice
• Articles are automatically or optionally shared to a microblog site with a link back to your own site

Goldfrog + Twitter

While I generally find Twitter overwhelming and frustrating (not nearly as much so as the less-privileged do), I just finished adding a Twitter cross-poster to #goldfrog. I’ll be implementing a Mastodon cross-poster in the next few days (/me waves @ toot.cafe), now that I’ve figured out and implemented the pattern.

The Twitter cross poster will send the title, some text, and a link back to the post. So, let’s see if deploying the new feature worked. :D

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RT @aaronpk: As much as I enjoy the benefits of running my own server, I really don’t like running my own server. #indieweb

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Home sick on a Sunday (ew), hacking on boxpub and making my site a little more #indieweb. That feels good.

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Anyone know how to get Wordpress P2 to post status updates to Twitter? #indieweb

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Imaging a way that @t could have arranged the AWS outage to promote #indiewebcamp :P

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Man, wish I could have been @ #indieweb this weekend. You, my friends, are awesome. #keepitindie

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back to working on blogging independence: http://t.co/FnbMZ3Tn and Skitch posting to http://t.co/No1xpceU #indieweb

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#indiewebcamp is where I wanted to be this weekend, instead having great time with family. #winwin

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