Enjoying this (much-linked) Nathan Barley 10-year retrospective which times nicely with my visit to Hoxton tonight http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/feb/10/nathan-barley-charlie-brooker-east-london-comedy
A few small site updates this evening. I’ve updated my Micropub syndication handling to work with PHP-style arrays as per Aaron’s new approach.
Secondly, after a few garbled webmentions, I’ve switched away from the Ruby Microformats 2 parser to use the PHP library which seems to be more complete, especially for nested attributes.
New feature on this site courtesy of Bridgy: I can now “like” photos on Instagram. Using Quill I first post a like to an Instagram photo’s permalink. This is then sent to my site’s endpoint which creates the page and sends a webmention for Bridgy to notify Instagram. Meanwhile my site grabs the image thumbnail and title to display on my site.
For example: here’s a like from this morning: barryfrost.com…
All very easy. I just glue together the loosely coupled pieces.
And so it’s time to launch a new version of my personal website, barryfrost.com.… Over the last few weeks I’ve been building this new platform from scratch with a few new key aims:
Hosting all of my 10+ years of Pinboard/Delicious bookmarks, Twitter tweets and blog articles
Sending replies, reposts and likes to IndieWeb sites and silos like Instagram
Store all my content in files rather than in a database but cache/index using SQL/NoSQL
Exposing a Micropub endpoint for creating new...
Watching this Jekyll pull request for incremental regeneration of Jekyll sites with huge interest. The prospect of selective rebuilds makes using Jekyll much more attractive for sites with large numbers of small posts (like this one).
