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...