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This was such a nice read. I especially resonated with "posting versus publishing" and that a blog can be an "archive and long memory".
I've now implemented a way to download mentions from Webmention.io and display them on my blog posts. My blog is a static site. So the way it works is that I download mentions via the Webmention.io API. Then I extract only the information that I need to display the mentions on my blog. I save that information in json files that I can read when the website is generated. Right now, they look like this: $ cat posts/2023/04/06/what-should-a-ci-server-do/mentions.json | jq { ...
Here is how I test microformats markup on my website. First I install mf2py: sudo dnf install python3-mf2py Then I define this one-liner Bash function: mf2test() { python -c 'import sys; import mf2py; import json; print(json.dumps(mf2py.parse(url=sys.argv[1])))' $1 | jq; } And then I can test a website like this: $ mf2test https://blog.rickardlindberg.me/2026/02/05/075110.html { "items": [ { "type": [ "h-entry" ...
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