The personal website of Piers Cawley
(they/him)
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FolkSinger, photographer, carer and occasional programmer.
Now I can display received Webmentions, I need to start working on sending them.
I don’t want to rely on an external service if I can help it, because that’s how my old setup decayed, so don’t hold your breath.
But the output of rsync --itemize-changes ... is looking tasty as a mechanism for spotting which URLs have changed between deployment runs.
Time to start experimenting.
Hmm… the first experiment doesn’t look too promising.
In which we finish with Webmentions for the time being by massaging a flat list of mentions into a two-level hash table/JSON object that’s easy to make use of in Hugo.
And speculate about how we could improve things further, because things can always be improved.
I’ve reinstated webmention processing here and have semi-automated it with a pile of Emacs Lisp and a Makefile, so I thought I’d write up some of the gory details.
Part 1 of… some?
The beauty of using a static site generator to build your website is supposed to be that it’s all delightfully simple. Simple markdown formatted files go in at one end and a slim, fast and easy to serve website comes out the other end. All that remains is to upload those files to the appropriate directory on your server and all is well.
But never underestimate the ability of a long time Emacs user to complicate things.
In which Piers attempts to explain why he’s not been blogging in years, and makes vague noises about getting back to it again, in the hope that this time his IndieWeb inspired enthusiasm will last longer than a couple of weeks.