#moof

  • Finally got round to allowing my reposts to have a comment/content to support Twitter’s new(ish) retweet-with-comment...
  • 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.
  • Using camo for SSL image proxying


    I’ve just set up SSL image proxying on my website through camo to make sure any external non-https images are served via...
  • 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...