Photo of Barry Frost

This is Barry Frost’s personal website.

40p a day for all this! A world without the BBC (and its presenters) would be a worse one. #bbcpay

https://twitter.com/bbcpress/status/887718771280023552

Homebrew Website Club London group photo

Homebrew Website Club London attendees

New @hwclondon (Homebrew Website Club London) site https://hwclondon.co.uk + new venue at WeWork South Bank Central. Join us Wed 12th - 6pm.

Reposted Photo of Margaret Davidson Margaret Davidson’s post on Twitter
Loving this 'Accidental Wes Anderson' reddit. http://mymodernmet.com/accidental-wes-anderson-reddit/ https://t.co/KbtAPluYwb

Ice cream bribery 🍦

I’ve been working on a WebSub hub called Promulgate. It’s fairly basic and although it passes the WebSub.rocks tests it needs a bit more polish. I’ll probably also add background processing via Sidekiq so that publish requests aren’t blocking.

Reposted Photo of Venntro Development Venntro Development’s post on Twitter
Settling in to our new London office: http://dev.venntro.com/2017/06/new-london-office-at-wework-south-bank-central/ https://t.co/ZFyINw4j9j

I love Sebastiaan Andeweg‘s new day page with an icon summary of his activity that day. And his Reacji facepiles are also very nice. 😍 Plenty of inspiration for some changes I want to make to Transformative.

I know of a superb graphic designer looking for his next role in the Windsor/Berkshire area. DM me for details if you’re hiring.

My dad built Henry this amazing play boat from scratch

A couple of recent site/Transformative changes:

  1. I’m now using Acquiescence, my new IndieAuth server for auth/tokens, on this domain.
  2. You can subscribe to a new JSON feed for homepage content. The RSS feed hasn’t gone away but I thought I’d also support the new JSON Feed format.

Delighted after the first half of the #FACupFinal but nerves are kicking in. Chelsea can’t be that bad in the second half can they?

Acquiescence: a basic IndieAuth server

IndieAuth is a method for using your own domain name to sign in to other sites and tools. It’s one of the key parts of Micropub, the (newly) W3C recommended standard for posting to your site. IndieAuth.com is the original and one of the very few public implementations of an IndieAuth server that you can use, but recently I’ve been having problems getting it to work with my site’s SSL setup.

So I decided this was a good opportunity to try building my own IndieAuth authorization and token endpoints using the detailed documentation in the IndieWeb wiki.

And Acquiescence is the result. It’s very simple (~160 lines of Ruby) and allows me to use my GitHub account to authenticate, authorise and grant scoped access to third-party tools like Micropublish. I’m now using it for this site’s domain.

I’ve used my favourite stack of Ruby, Sinatra and Heroku for hosting, plus Redis to store the auths/tokens. The source code is available at https://github.com/barryf/acquiescence if you want to poke around.
Reposted Photo of W3C W3C’s post on Twitter
Micropub is a W3C Recommendation http://ift.tt/2q8FGm5

Yay Micropub! 🎉

A little test, posting from Micro.blog for the first time.

“Problem roadmaps not feature roadmaps” https://medium.com/lookback/the-problem-roadmap-only-build-what-matters-to-customers-e878c18d6a61 👏❤️ #roadmap

Splash

Reposted Photo of gRegor Morrill gRegor Morrill’s post on Twitter
Today is a good day to review your permissions on various silos. Handy links on https://indieweb.org/freemyoauth

Just drank: Tea

(Just testing with Teacup).

Handy pollen/hayfever status web app that I’ll surely be using daily this summer:

https://pollen.fyi

https://twitter.com/almonk/status/852092612618092545