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Newsletter February 2026: IndieWeb
This month I got really into the IndieWeb which they describe on their website like this: We are a community...Written by Rickard Lindberg
in #newsletter #indieweb (also on IndieNews)This is the first post I've seen on the IndieWeb that has multiple in-reply-to links. I guess that makes sense. Nice!
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in #indieweb (also on IndieNews)Yesterday I watched Peter Van Hardenberg - Local First: the secret master plan. I've come across Peter and Ink & Switch before. It caught my interest then, and it caught my interest now again.
This time I saw similarities between the local first concept and IndieWeb.
One of the requirements for local first (particularly in the context of collaboration) is the ability to diff different versions of a document and sync changes between different people. In the programming world, we have had this luxury for a long time with version control systems. But they want to enable that for all types of documents. This sounds so cool.
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in #indieweb (also on IndieNews)I found the URL design page particularly interesting.
I have given URL design some thought. I should maybe write up the thinking behind the current design.
However, I've sometimes gotten frustrated because I felt that I couldn't reach a perfect design. And perhaps there is no right and wrong. Only trade-offs as in other types of design.
I want to implement URL rewriting so that I can fix bad URL design with HTTP redirects so that old links can keep working while still promoting the newer better design.
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in #indieweb (also on IndieNews)I'm curious about how private posts could look like on the open web.
I see a need to share certain posts only with certain people and not have everything on my blog public. Today I have to share that in another way. And I'm not sure they can all co-exist on my blog and what that would look like.
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in #indieweb (also on IndieNews)This was such a nice read. I especially resonated with "posting versus publishing" and that a blog can be an "archive and long memory".
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in #indieweb (also on IndieNews)I've now implemented a way to download mentions from Webmention.io and display them on my blog posts.
My blog is a static site. So the way it works is that I download mentions via the Webmention.io API. Then I extract only the information that I need to display the mentions on my blog. I save that information in json files that I can read when the website is generated. Right now, they look like this:
$ cat posts/2023/04/06/what-should-a-ci-server-do/mentions.json | jq { "https://blog.rickardlindberg.me/2026/01/24/how-does-ci-work-in-projects2.html": { "wm-property": "mention-of", "wm-received": "2026-02-04T19:41:15Z" } }Replied by Rickard Lindberg
in #indieweb (also on IndieNews)Here is how I test microformats markup on my website.
First I install mf2py:
sudo dnf install python3-mf2py
Then I define this one-liner Bash function:
mf2test() { python -c 'import sys; import mf2py; import json; print(json.dumps(mf2py.parse(url=sys.argv[1])))' $1 | jq; }And then I can test a website like this:
$ mf2test https://blog.rickardlindberg.me/2026/02/05/075110.html { "items": [ { "type": [ "h-entry" ...Written by Rickard Lindberg
in #indieweb (also on IndieNews)IndieWebify.Me? Yes please!
In today's exploration of getting on the IndieWeb I try out IndieWebify.Me. It is a service where you can post...Written by Rickard Lindberg
in #indieweb (also on IndieNews)Sending my First Webmention
I'm trying out the guide Sending your First Webmention from Scratch and following it step by step. Add link to...Written by Rickard Lindberg
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