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Last weekend we held IndieWebCamp Brighton 2024, the first in Brighton since 2019. I thought I'd collect my thoughts both as a host, and as an attendee…

I've been tracking my Japanese language study session since 2022. You can see the first year report for comparison…

This time last year I put together some custom scripts to send a record of each study session to my personal site using the micropub endpoint. You can see them here. Each entry says what I did, how long I did it for, and when I started doing it. On their own these aren't particularly interesting or useful. They mostly serve to hold me accountable. However, now that I have a full year of data, it seems like a good time to see if there are any trends…

Markdown is the standard for writing in techie circles these days, but it's pretty minimal. For a readme it's all you need, but if you create a site around Markdown like I have then you pretty quickly bump into its limitations. Markdown is deliberately limited, so it's no fault of the language or its creator…

This site uses a static site generator to build plain HTML pages. Since there's no database to add, update, or delete pages from, determining when to dispatch mentions can be challenging! Here's how I use a Netlify build plugin and an atom feed to manage it…

I had a great time last weekend at IndieWebCamp (IWC) Brighton. The first day was filled with discussions on various IndieWeb related topics. I attended discussions on…

I mentioned a new service which handles webmentions in a previous post. I decided to replace the glitch I've been using for one which is much leaner. It uses the library which powers webmention.app to handle webmention (and also older technologies like pingback) endpoint discovery and mention dispatch so I took this opportunity to ditch my own discovery code…

In a previous post I talked about an npm script I had written to be executed by a GitHub action…

I really like webmentions. They provide a way to let folk know that you're writing about their blog posts. I see them as an alternative to comments which encourages better discourse…