Neil Mather, Author at doubleloop

Watched https://octodon.social/@cwebber ‘s FOSDEM talk about Racket (
https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/guileracket/), and made me remember Fluxus, the super old generative audio/visual environment built on Racket that I used to play around with.

http://www.pawfal.org/fluxus/

Makes me want to dig it out again!

5th May 2019

Demos of personal websites and the opportunity to create, update or experiment on your personal website

Just before heading off to IWC Utrecht!

5th May 2019

“So, if Facebook is “Windows”, what would be the “Linux” of social platforms? Ie. decentralized/federated/privacy respecting platform? Here the goal being to keep in touch with select friends – privately sharing photos, stories, comments, etc; _not_ a public broadcasting platform.”

Hubzilla ticks a few of these boxes (https://zotlabs.org/help/en-gb/about/about#What_is_Hubzilla_)

I don’t think it has iOS support though sadly!

Also on:

5th May 2019

Note to self: need more trees in my life.

5th May 2019

Admin question: how do single-user instances affect the dynamics and daily activity of community management? Do they make the life of managing an instance with many users harder, easier, makes no difference?

#Fediverse

5th May 2019

Hmm, will definitely give WordPress ActivityPub a try next. Wondering how it will work with posts made via Micropub. Bridgy Fed will work fine, as it’s just technically another syndication target. Given WP AP is by Matthias though I’m pretty sure it’ll play nicely with the other Indieweb plugins. https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/

#IndieWeb

4th May 2019

Join an experimental distributed and open web book club to read Mike Monteiro’s Ruined by Design.

4th May 2019

In part 1, I discussed why you might want to bridge your Indieweb site to the Fediverse.

In this follow up post, I’ll describe one way of doing it that I’ve been tinkering with recently.

The tl;dr: using WordPress Indieweb plugins and Bridgy Fed; it works pretty smoothly; still a few quirks at present; it’s awesome and lots of fun to mess around with.

Continue reading “Bridging the Indieweb and the Fediverse with Bridgy Fed, part 2”

4th May 2019