I had read about IndieWeb, webmentions, and Fediverse a few years ago and was very excited about it! It's a monumental under taking and a great example of good (read: ethical) tech.

But I am not a web developer 🤣, and while I can appreciate what the engineers have accomplished, I was never too sure how to get it going, end-to-end.

I've been burning quite a few tokens while LLMs are still…

Today I learned how to setup fediverse webmentions + giscus comments

I had read about IndieWeb, webmentions, and Fediverse a few years ago and was very excited about it! It’s a monumental under taking and a great example of good (read: ethical) tech.

But I am not a web developer 🤣, and while I can appreciate what the engineers have accomplished, I was never too sure how to get it going, end-to-end.

I’ve been burning quite a few tokens while LLMs are still…

Blogger Michael Harley wrote a post about adding webmention support to his blog. I am pro-webmention (see my NLJ post on site-to-site conversations, so I sent my congratulations in webmention form. He explained that he had previously held off on implementing webmentions because his particular static site generator set-up had made it complicated. To be...

Blogger Michael Harley wrote a post about adding webmention support to his blog. I am pro-webmention (see my NLJ post on site-to-site conversations, so I sent my congratulations in webmention form. He explained that he had previously held off on implementing webmentions because his particular static site generator set-up had made it complicated. To be sure, reading about the set-up made me happy…

2026 May 9

Mike, Now With More Money

I'm working full time. As of a few weeks ago I've taken an employed position as a FileMaker developer for a large educational nonprofit.

I'm still freelancing a little on the side, keeping a few of my long-time clients happy in my evenings and weekends, but mostly trying to focus on the full-time job and getting life back on track after a prolonged…

I’m starting a series called /lost+found/net to highlight corners of the web that deserve sharing.

When I first applied to PhD programs, I emailed a professor who wanted a link to a personal website instead of a traditional CV. So, I put together this site. Personal websites for researchers have been around for decades, and it’s a great way to showcase your research independent of your…

2026 Apr 4

This website is no longer accessible via direct links or webmentions from any sites listed by the personalwebsit.es "Personal website directory" sca^h^h^h, er, project, as that seems to me to be run by trolls. While I don't know these people and have never spoken to them, this weekend they went out of their way to personally insult me. A few weeks ago on a whim I made a move to…

(See part 1 of my reply.)

Mr. Powiertowski writes that the point on which he would "push back gently is on the implication that AI-assisted media is somehow lesser for being assisted," using early negative views of photography as an example. While my largely negative views of the current AI moment in the context of online writing and “content” are well-documented (including in links from A…

I published a short post titled A Positive Technologist Identity, wherein I offered my thoughts on a longer post by Wojtek Powiertowski titled The tool, the craft, and the joy. In the main, I appreciated his take on defining oneself as a "technologist" in a positive way, that is, in terms of what one is for rather than what one is against. That emphasis, I noted, was wholly consistent with my…

Maddy Miller wrote a good essay titled I wish reply articles worked better. As a fellow fan of site-to-site conversations (and not at all a fan of social media), I too wish that reply articles work better and agree with her sentiments entirely. As a partial solution, she implemented Webmentions on her site (may this cross the internet sea as a Webmention). This site has "full" Webmention support…

Chaque dimanche je vous donne à voir un peu de la vie du site, des liens vers les articles de la semaine, des échos de l’atelier et pour la mémoire un article puisé parmi les 1127 déjà en ligne. ✍ Notes en marge Le printemps des poètes a commencé et je voulais lui donner écho […]

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Le site vient de rejoindre il y a peu le Fédiverse (fédération d’univers, de réseaux, de serveurs indépendants capables de communiquer entre eux). Dans l’idée d’approfondir notre indépendance vis à vis des géants du Web, je me suis intéressé aux webmentions. Et quand je dis « webmentionnons-nous les uns les autres », c’est une façon de nous […]

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In the interest of continuing to repeat myself I'm writing, once again, about adding webmentions to a blog.

In the interest of continuing to repeat myself I'm writing, once again, about adding webmentions to a blog.

My blog is currently hosted on weblog.lol which allows for a simple and configurable weblog managed in git with posts formatted in markdown.

My blog is currently hosted on weblog.lol which allows for a simple and configurable weblog managed in git with posts formatted in markdown.