Webmention Setup for Eleventy

Here’s a quick run-through of how I retrieve and utilise Webmentions with my Eleventy website.

• updated Sunday, 14 January 2024
• published Thursday, 25 August 2022
• 16 responses to this article

Time to Cache Up

For a long time I’ve been searching for a sound solution to storing the entire Webmention history of my blog, as packaging it up with the rest of the repository was not cutting it for me. Enter the world of async.

• updated Monday, 24 January 2022
• published Monday, 23 November 2020
• 12 responses to this article

Reply Targets

Providing a useful context to content written in response to someone else's blog post, tweet, toot, etc. helps a reader to understand the conversational nature of these back-and-forths. What abstractions can we make to the data that holds these reply targets, and how can those abstractions make for a richer reading experience and for a leaner publishing workflow?

• updated Wednesday, 26 June 2019
• published Wednesday, 19 June 2019
• 5 responses to this article

Another 🐇 🕳 idea… Input a YouTube channel URL → The channel’s Atom feed is added to your Microsub "YouTube" channel. YouTube subscriptions without a Google account. No idea how original this idea is, but for now I’ve built https://chrisburnell.com/get-youtube-feed/...

• published Friday, 3 May 2019

I definitely have improvements to make, but at present I use the Twitter API to create a tweet, and I pull the URL of the tweet from the response into the front-matter/YAML of the Jekyll post which I then commit...

• published Thursday, 11 April 2019

Up too late, again, working on my latest rabbit hole project. So close!… but got to sleep.

• published Friday, 5 April 2019

🔖Quill

Quill is a simple Micropub client for creating posts on your own website. To use it, your website will need to have a Micropub endpoint, and this app will send requests to it to create posts.

• published Sunday, 17 March 2019

Works for me. Can’t wait!

• published Tuesday, 29 January 2019
• 1 response to this note

Super pleased to say that I just gave a short presentation about #indieweb to my team at work, and I didn’t butcher the explanation too badly, so everyone’s on-board! Feels great to be a part of this community and welcome...

• published Thursday, 6 December 2018
• 5 responses to this note

At long last, I’ve managed to add the ability to edit my existing notes through my Micropub endpoint, and given my track record of totally making no mistakes, this is a good thing. #indieweb

• published Tuesday, 4 December 2018
• 3 responses to this note

If this makes it onto Mastodon 👋, it means my Micropub endpoint is syndicating correctly!

• published Monday, 1 October 2018

Today at #hwclondon I’ll be attempting to enable my Micropub endpoint to accept JSON #indieweb

• published Wednesday, 25 July 2018
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Looking forward to this again!

• published Monday, 2 July 2018

If this makes it onto both Twitter and my website (PESOS for now), then it looks like my endpoint is working!

• published Friday, 29 June 2018
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Rolling my own Micropub server is proving immensely difficult. Way out of my depth. Feels good to learn, albeit slowly, though.

• published Thursday, 21 June 2018
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At my first Homebrew Website Club meetup! Planning how to roll my own micropub endpoint... #hwclondon #indieweb

• published Wednesday, 24 January 2018
• 6 responses to this note

This is my first Note that I'm posting and syndicating automatically!

• published Wednesday, 18 October 2017