Wow! Thanks Jan. I’m still trying to understand why replacing links that start with / work because my feed was printing relative URLs with ... It seems to work though. I’m happy 🤯

There are some srcsets from some older articles that have relative URLs but let’s hope no one will take a look at those old posts. Maybe I’ll try to figure out a way to parse those attributes. Would be a bit more complicated though.

Love the animated GIFs! The background!

Thanks 😁

One thing: my feed reader has a hard time handling the relative image URLs in your RSS…

Thanks for letting me know that. I didn’t know that was an issue. May I ask which RSS reader you’re using? That’ll be hard to do with Hugo. There’s no way to tell it to use absolute URLs in the feeds only. I’ll need to set up an extra step of some kind. I’ll check it out.

(Also, I couldn’t help but notice that RSS items lack the “context” that makes replies and such so much more understandable. Not a huge issue, just thought I’d let you know.)

Interesting, I noticed today my ActivityPub feeds had that problem and I already fixed them to include the “reply” part. I’m not aware if the RSS can have that kind of context. Can they? Also, just checked and the JSON feeds don’t support that kind of things. However, my page’s all use microformats and I just checked and they’re correctly parsed.

Shower thought: do you think the boxes with context about replies, likes and reposts are needed? I’m trying to reduce the complexity and cut edges that I don’t think are needed. I could just re-style it in a way to show that it is a like or repost with a link without the “entire” information - which, most of the times, is not the entire stuff because I set a maximum length.

If you’re reading this, what’s your opinion? Is it really required? Do you find it useful? Or just pretty?

The IndieWeb own-your-data-thing can be complicated sometimes. Since there are no full fledged systems that allow us to interact with other social media without having to implement it ourselves, sometimes we get to the point where we feel kind of limited. I’m trying not to use other services or, if I do, I’m just POSSE’ing to them. Sometimes it’s hard because there are communities that are more connected on some social media (e.g., Twitter) and the bridge is not always perfect.

Edit: I just hope someday we can have a federated social network that can easily interact with all others…

I’m thinking about adding a photos page to this website and start using Instagram less and less for that purpose. I’d like to serve them with the best resolution possible (not directly, but through a link) but some of them occupy several megabytes of space and I can’t afford to add that to Git. In addition, Hugo doesn’t seem to play well with Git LFS.

I thought about using BunnyCDN’s image optimization service to provide images in different formats and sizes but that costs 9.5€ a month and I do believe that that would be much more than what I need. Hugo’s capable of generating all the pictures I need. However, there’s the space problem. Where do I put them?

Also, do you use any CDN? If so, how do you backup the data you have on it?

I think just successfully added ActivityPub support to my website. You can now follow @[email protected] from any ActivityPub instance and receive my latest posts! Here’s a gist of the changes I made. For now, I just support follow requests and create requests which are converted to webmentions!

I just spent a lot time trying to send signed requests to accept ActivityPub followers. It’s not working! I make the requests to Mastodon and their servers reply with 202 but the ‘Cancel follow request’ button does not change to ‘Unfollow’ and I don’t know what the problem is. In addition, the test suite has not working for over a year it seems. Ugh…