I’ve been posting likes to Seblog for a few weeks now. I like the likes, but they al looked like ‘Seb likes this’, so I was like: looks like I like to fix my likes.

Today I hooked up XRay to Seblog, so now my site can see things on URLs I link to. (I actually run a version on a ’secret’ URL, to keep things on my own server.) This way I can grab the name of the post I liked and show that, together with the author. If it has no name, but a photo, it says ‘Seb likes a photo’. It adds the author if it knows who it is. If it really doesn’t know anything about the page, it still defaults to ‘this’. I can fix those manual if I want.

XRay’s format consists of two parts: a data part, with information about the page it looked at, and a refs part, which is a list of URLs that are mentioned or embedded on the page. Retweets, for example, show the original tweet in the refs. I added a refs field to my pages, where I store the data part under the url of the page I mentioned and the refs part under the urls they came with.

An example, with Kirby Data and YAML:

Like-of: http://example.com/a-post

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Refs:
  "http://example.com/a-post":
    name: A Post
    author: Someone
    repost-of: http://another-example.com/a-photo
  "http://another-example.com/a-photo":
    photo: http://another-example.com/a-photo/img.jpg
    author: Someone Else

I can be more efficient with the moment I grab the data. For example: to send webmentions, my server already reaches out to all links in the post to find their Webmention Endpoint. If I parse the page then, I don’t need another call from XRay later on.

I also need to fiddle a bit with the things I want to display. But for now it’s okay: my server has the data for my likes. I even download pictures if a post has a photo property. I now not only own my likes, I also have my own archive of the things I like.

Today my brother and I made a silly little movie. I used the light on my iPhone to shine through the Apple logo on his MacBook, from the back, while the brightness of his screen was all the way down. All this under a blanked. We had fun and I wanted to share it.

I made a commitment to post everything I post on Instagram or Twitter on my site first, so I used my standard ‘Foto op Seblog’ Workflow to post the video. But it turned out that just adding a video to my photo field didn’t work.

So I did a little tweaking and my site now does support video. In honor of the late Vine I looped it with autoplay. Let’s see how long that lasts.

Experiment met lampjes en laptops. Met broer Wut.

Busy day today, so no big Indieweb updates. It’s not about the big updates though, it’s about useful updates.

Yesterday, I went to an event. I kind of got into the habit of just getting on my bike and cycling to events, without actually looking up any details at home. Sometimes I don’t even know the exact place I need to go, just that it’s somewhere in the city center. It’s a bad habit, but it’s a habit now.

Since I posted an RSVP to my site for yesterdays event, I was able to find the information I was looking for quickly on my phone. I have been away from Facebook for almost 3 years now and I forgot how useful this feature is.

A combined feed of my RSVPs and Events can now be found at /agenda (Dutch for ‘calendar’), so I can easily find information about where I have to go when I’m cycling and running late next time.

This is a thing I wanted for some time now. Since my weblog is now more a timeline than a blog, long posts disappear fast in the stream of short ones. But since the long posts hold their value longer, I wanted to show them longer.

Also, since I started with this #100daysofindieweb-thingy, I also started to blog in English, which I never did before. My stream of posts gets flooded with English posts.

Today I made a homepage widget. It only shows on the main page, and I can put different parts in it. It now contains a blog list for both Dutch and English, a list of blogposts with #100daysofindieweb, a stream of likes and bookmarks, and the most recent photo post.

This way I can provide a summary of what’s going on on my site. It gives me a framework, where I can always swap parts. The #100daysofindieweb tag, for example, is now a good thing to have, but is less needed 100 days from now.

I’ve been doing this #100daysofindieweb thing for 10 days now, so I thought it was time for a summary post. Here are the things I've been working on:

Presentation

I fixed how things look here on my site quite a lot. On Day 1 I fixed how my reposts look. They are not longer just a url, but now actually show the original post, which I stored during the Twitter dump. I don’t do an automated grab of the external page yet!

I also changed now my RSVPs look on Day 7. First they where just a reply post, with a weird textual representation of ‘yes’ or ‘no’, but now they have icons.

On Day 8 I launched a ‘new post type’. In a way, this is just an different presentation of the posts I write for the purpose of writing them. I now only show the word count on those posts, not the text, because the actual text is less important.

Webmentions plugin

On Day 3, I fixed some bugs regarding relative urls, not only in my own Webmentions plugin, but also in the Kirby Toolkit. It eventually led to a new test on Webmention.rocks.

Today I also added an auto-archive function to my plugin, so it triggers archival copies for any url I mention.

Importing posts

I spend Day 5 and Day 6 importing old posts, which was actually quite hard and is still not really finished. I’m quite picky about how things should look, and they don’t look very good at the moment. There are also a lot of duplicate posts, because I imported my Twitter, and I used to link to my blog on Twitter. I still need to fix these things, but since I already spend two days on this, I postpone it some more.

Markup and headers

On Day 2, I marked up my deleted posts. If a post has a dt-deleted in the past, it returns a 410 Gone header on it’s own page, and shows up as a hidden tombstone in the feed.

And on Day 4 I changed the HTTP header of posts with a dt-published in the future to 404 Not found. Together with hiding them from the feed, this makes scheduled posts.

Finally I fiddled a bit with my Microformats on Day 9, so my site comes out better on Indiecards.

All in all it feels like a productive first 10 days! Only 9 of those sets to go :)

Yesterday Tantek encouraged people to trigger an archive in the Internet Archive for every url they mention. It is not that hard to do.

So today I added an auto-archive function to my Kirby webmentions plugin, which you can find here. I’m not aware of anyone using it beside myself, but it is set up more or less so that everyone with a Kirby site can use it. (I am planning some breaking changes though.)

I guess, by posting this to my blog, I trigger an archive to a page describing how to trigger an archive. How meta.