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...
Site update: I now secure all content on here with SSL, including the admin/posting interface.
Unless I’ve missed any hard-coded URLs, everything should be served via https meaning there’s a little green lock icon in your address bar (depending on your browser).
I’ve also been dabbling with Micropub to support external posting from tools like Quill. More on that later.
Prompted by Dropbox’s announcement of webhooks, yesterday, I resumed my semi-regular thoughts about powering this site using a combination of Drafts on iOS, Dropbox and Heroku, perhaps with tweets via Tweetbot using a callback chain. Might have a hack on that sometime.
I’ve added a page explaining how to comment on posts on my site with IndieWeb comments.
There’s now a new help link under each post. Next step is to support in-context posting from compatible sites, but that can probably wait for a higher volume of comments.
I think I’ll need to hide replies on my homepage posts list. It can get a bit noisy when I’m in a conversation on Twitter and my own public content slips down the page.
Perhaps I should move replies to a dedicated replies page like Aaron Parecki has?
The mixed public/replies approach is actually something I dislike when visiting profiles on Twitter: I want to see what people are sharing, not (only) their replies to others.
Update, 9pm: Done.
