This site is my personal hub for long-form writing, curated bookmarks, and open-web experiments — where ideas about tech, autonomy, democracy, and digital culture meet. Since February 2026, this site is also my personal ActivityPub instance, every posts you see on this blog can be fetched from the fediverse.
White House authorizes private companies to launch ‘hack-back’ cyberattacks that destroy data and systems, targeting foreign cybercrime organizations — vetted organizations can now conduct offensive cyber operations | Tom’s Hardware https://share.google/vkx5E0RRVXU2Mwi42 What could go wrong?
Damn… There isn’t one single actively developed IndieWeb/Micropub mobile app on the Android playstore. Even IndiePass has been discontinued. I don’t want to start from scratch but I’m considering if I should do something about it. I’m fine publishing on mobile using my browser but IndiePass was quite handy and better integration with Android Share to targets.
Test post without Syndication
I think my #Indiekit fork might be one of the very few setups where this happens: You post from Phanpy or Moshidon — regular Mastodon clients, no Micropub support at all. My custom Fedify AP answers the Mastodon client API, turns that request into a Micropub post, writes it to my own site as Markdown, and then federates it as #ActivityPub . My blog via that same plug-in answers the Mastodon API.…
They are killing Hyperlinks
Had fun coding a small python script for weechat that relay mentions of my handle to my self hosted private ntfy sever allowing me to get IRC notifications while on the go, the notification carries the actual message of the user on IRC so I can quickly check if it needs a reply or not. Yes very useless and fun 😅
Testing Plume from Firefox, now you can see the steps indieauth take against your site for the initial connection, there is also a welcome tab for onboarding (Inspired by Omnibear)
Improved Plume onboarding and fixed a few bugs https://rmdes.github.io/plume/ #micropub and just after publishing this new version, I found a new bug, there should be 1.5.1 very soon !!!
Test post from Omnibear #micropub extension
I’m refactoring my AP implementation first so that I can properly build C2S later on, for now I’ll keep the API layer, since it already covers a lot of ground but the refactoring will allow me to have a more robust implementation and I’m finding this https://www.stevebate.net/activitypub-client-api-a-way-forward/#flowz very inspiring
It really sucks to have a properly configured email server, running on your own domain — thanks, Cloudron — only to have Google, Microsoft, and the other giants systematically dump your messages into spam anyway. And yet I now find myself sending important emails twice , or using another provider, just to make sure they actually reach the person on the other side. Email was supposed to be an open,…
Mark Zuckerberg’s manifesto rests on a single elegant idea: safety comes from distributing power so no one actor can impose their will. It’s a fine principle. It’s also the exact opposite of how he has run everything he has ever touched . Start with the structure of Meta itself. Through dual-class shares, Zuckerberg controls roughly 61% of the voting power of a company he does not majority-own. No…
C’est horrible à dire, mais peut-être que lorsque nous en aurons assez de voir la nature et nos maisons partir en fumée, nous prêterons davantage attention aux rapports « alarmistes » du GIEC — qui, au fond, n’avaient rien d’alarmiste. Mais surtout, peut-être mettrons-nous enfin la question du dérèglement climatique au-dessus du « wokisme » et autres sottises. Car une chose est certaine : notre…
A health check that reports “healthy” is not the same claim as “this loop is still running.” I spent a chunk of today’s session learning that distinction the hard way, on a bot whose only job is to relay earthquake alerts to Bluesky. The setup: a queue drain loop calls health.updateActivity() once at the top of every tick, before it checks whether there’s anything to post. If the queue is empty,…
Damn, stumbled on a black hole of the past, really sorry to all the blogs that interacted with mine circa 2016 and that I never replied to, I was in a huge Justice battle IRL and my site at the time was not giving me as much control and view over what’s happening than it is today, some of these replies I’m seeing now for the first time. There is also quite a few dead links that I never managed to…
Thanks for sharing RSC ! There is still a lot of work before I start to really enjoy using it as I envision but its been really fun to develop :)
Cross-browser Micropub client extension. Post to your IndieWeb blog from any page. rmdes.github.io/plume/ - now with Draft support, right in your browser of choice !
I need to fix duplicate webmentions 1 is coming from legit webmention 2 is coming from fed.brid.gy I need to think about how to fix this
really glad to hear that :)
Test from Chromium based browser, Plume Micropub extension