Week 8, 2026

Hacking on Indiekit to customize my blog

Lately, I have been investing a significant part of my free time into extending my Indiekit fork with features I personally needed. What started as a few tweaks progressively evolved into a broader ef...

How to Self-Host FeedLand with Docker Compose

FeedLand is an open-source feed reader and sharing platform created by Dave Winer , the pioneer behind RSS itself. It describes itself as “an ecosystem of feeds, news and people” — a place to subscrib...

Religion, pouvoir et silence : le mythe bouddhiste occidental

TL;DR : En Occident, le bouddhisme tibétain bénéficie d’une image d’exception morale, perçu comme la “dernière religion pacifique”. Cette idéalisation rend toute critique suspecte et toute parole de v...

The uncomfortable truth is that I rarely think about UI/UX until I’m forced to use it and realize there’s no way around it. Nothing pushes you to improve something quite like experiencing its flaws ev...

It took me more than a month of intense paced AI assisted development to get where I wanted to be, but https://rmendes.net/changelog/ this blog/AP has all the #indieweb spec backed in + AP + simulatio...

Having implemented Fedify to power the ActivityPub implementation for Indiekit, I’m confronted to an issue I never had to think about : how do you consume AP content in a way that makes you want to ha...

One more bug solved Quick reply (quick reply test) — in_reply_to_id: “116115945039999145” threaded under the original post - From rick@rmendes.net via the self-hosted AP server The replyTarget fix res...

286 times : the amount of times I iterated/reviewed on different parts of the indiekit fork codebase triggering a build & deploy to move forward several new features, among them Microsub & ActivityPub...

Fixed : IndieAuth login broken for third-party apps After adding security headers (Content-Security-Policy) to harden the site, logging in with IndiePass and other IndieAuth clients silently failed —...

Alright, testing #IndiePass #Indiekit #Fedify 2.0 if you see this post on the Fediverse or Bluesky it means syndication works and my blog is my own AP server. #activityPub public profile : https://rme...

Huh 👀 Music Mouse rebirth/reimagined? https://www.eventideaudio.com/

Finally got my #fedify rel=me link working properly from the view of other Mastodon/Fediverse clients

Oh My God :)) Now You can interact with my posts from your fediverse instance, by setting your instance in your browser localstorage , once this is set, click the Fediverse icon and you’ll see my post...

Updated indiekit AP implementation to Fedify 2.0 !

Crafted this nice ActivityPub profile page for my Fedify/indiekit AP implementation, this is obviously for browsers, AP server receive an AP representation of my profile Screenshot below is Fedify 2.0...

Caches GET/HEAD responses for ActivityPub endpoints (actor profiles, featured posts, notes, webfinger, nodeinfo) so hundreds of simultaneous fetches from federated instances are served from nginx inst...

My indiekit blog now support comments authentication using RelMeAuth or IndieAuth, it also supports webmentions if you’re part of the #indieweb dance !

Cool stuff, a Thread reader for the fediverse : https://ap-thread-reader.fly.dev/

This post is made from my indiekit #fedify spec implementation turning my indiekit blog into an effective AP instance on the fediverse first I thought, why not reuse Microsub reader to consume AP cont...

ActivityPub / Fedify Compliance Report Indiekit Field Value Target rmendes.net ( @rick ) Date 2026-02-20T21:20:08Z Tests 22 total: 22 passed, 0 failed, 0 skipped Grade A+ — Full compliance — all tests...

Testing ActivityPub syndication after Fedify feature completeness update — this note should appear on the fediverse. 🧪

Really cool, now when I like / repost / reply to a URL, be it a #indieweb blog or a Fediverse post, the resulting web action (reply, like, repost, bookmark) display a nice unfurl of the opengraph tags...

Testing syndication from my indiekit blog to self-hosted fedify AP implementation

As seen in FediDB node explorer tool : { "$schema": "http://nodeinfo.diaspora.software/ns/schema/2.1#", "version": "2.1", "software": { "name": "indiekit", "version": "1.0.0" }, "protocols": [ "activi...

Hi #fediverse community I’m an old timer here and other Mastodon server since 2016 I was previously @rmdes@mstdn.social and very recently moved to my own #Fedify #indiekit AP instance meaning I’m the...

Test Fedi from #indiekit activitypub plugin

Test indiekit #activitypub plugin

Very much in development but I have thinkered around Microsub and developing a Fedify driven indiekit plugin so that I can be my own AP actor in the fediverse from where I run my blog (indiekit) https...

Test from Indiekit ActivityPub plugin, if you see this, please react :)

I Guess I’m now the first ever Indiekit Instance on the #fediverse Thanks to Fedify { "@context": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams", "https://w3id.org/security/v1" ], "type": "Person", "id": "...

Lately I have spent more time bookmarking /podcasts episodes I don’t want to miss than actually listening to them !

“Let’s just call this what it is: Donald Trump’s administration wants to silence anyone who says anything bad about Trump on TV, because all Trump does is watch TV, OK? He’s like a toddler with too mu...

Anyone can now install #FeedLand on their #Cloudron without building anything : deploy repo package is here cloudron install --image rmdes/feedland-cloudron:latest --location feedland.example.com

Integrated a Feedland widget on my blog sidebar https://rmendes.net/content/articles/2026-02-14-deploying-your-own-indieweb-site/ (you’ll have to scroll down to see it) #blogroll

My indiekit blogroll plugin now supports feeding a blogroll page/widget from OPML URL, OPML FILE, Microsub and Feedland the first two are a given, but the microsub source basically reuse the already s...

So now I have an #ActivityPub server, using the ActivityPub protocol as a layer on top of my existing indieweb/indiekit...

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