as an implementor, one of my favorite things about the IndieWeb protocols is that they use SSL and certificates for basic identity, integrity, and privacy, instead of their own crypto layer. crypto is a great tool, but it’s horrible for interop, debugging, and accessibility to implementors. it defaults to opaque and unreadable. you have to invest a lot of time and effort into tools to make it debuggable. browser vendors have done exactly that for SSL, which makes implementing and debugging ...

Tonight’s pre party for the IndieWeb Summit was great! Always excellent to see people offline and break bread (or pizza!) over a people-centric Web.

When I was promoting the last Homebrew Website Club on Twitter ( https://twitter.com/JamieTanna/status/1138339357121744897 ), a friend of Craig's tweeted to mention to him about it. We then spent a couple of days talking about it - and boom, Craig is now running his own Homebrew Website Club on 18th July ( https://getdoingthings.com/homebrew-website-club-barnsley-1/ ).Last night Craig posted this great post about joining the community and with some great explanations for newbies. Welcome, Craig!

Short post about how I use things like Aperture and Granary to interact with silos from my own site.

Short post about how I use things like Aperture and Granary to interact with silos from my own site.

It looks like I will be speaking at IndieWeb Summit! Specifically, I’ll be giving a keynote about how to “Own Your Mobile Experience”. As a long-time enthusiast for these tiny computers we carry, I try to make most of the things I can do online into things I can do on my phone or tablet. That turns out to be… a lot of things. I’ll probably keep the technical details light, other than naming specific IndieWeb building blocks that each piece relies on. I plan to make a (set of?) ...