Week 9, 2026

SOTU : Spectacle, Degeneration, and the Weaponization of Language

TL;DR The recent State of the Union spectacle was not just political theater. It reflects a deeper degeneration of representative democracy, where language is weaponized, institutions are hollowed out...

Deep Dive into Wafrn: How One Platform Self-Hosts Both ActivityPub and Bluesky Identities

The fediverse and Bluesky are often discussed as competing visions of decentralized social media. ActivityPub is a W3C standard implemented by Mastodon, Misskey, Lemmy, and hundreds of other projects....

Inside Indiekit: How 30+ Plugins Turn a Node.js Server into a Federated Personal Web Platform

This post is a guided tour through the architecture of the system that powers this site. It’s built on Indiekit, an open-source Node.js IndieWeb server created by Paul Robert Lloyd. I forked it becaus...

ActivityPub Federation Tests Fedify 2

You can easily fork this repo, customize the tests to your usecase and then run the test suite. git clone git@github.com:rmdes/activitypub-tests.git ActivityPub / Fedify Compliance Report Field Value...

Damn, 5K github starred repo’s sorted in less than 3h How

Syndication Readiness Gate for Indiekit Fixed a race condition where posts were syndicated to Bluesky and Mastodon before Eleventy finished building them — causing 404 links and wrong OG images that p...

Interesting, I just noticed Bluesky has now a “Live Stream” integration with Twitch, Streamplace and Bluecast. You can add your link and it show up as “live” when live. Mastodon could do that with Pee...

41 free tools to understand what’s really happening in your Claude Code sessions. cc-toolkit Zero dependencies · Runs entirely local · Free

Reorganizing 3k GitHub starred repo’s via GH cli

Hegseth is making a spectacle of punishing Anthropic—just like ICE made a spectacle of videotaping each immigrant deportation, and just like the CCP made a spectacle of disappearing Jack Ma for critic...

History have proven that there is no such thing as an American War Crime Meaning, whatever the US does is shredded with Impunity

This should go to my roadmap page perhaps but I’m keeping it here as a note just to remember : ActivityPub Improve Quotes display on my AP reader Improve image rendering Improve Quick Reply (replies t...

Suspendu …

continuing from my previous post, now I also have a “read it later” plugin for indiekit, this means i can save things for later from several parts of my backyard microsub RSS feeds collection Blogroll...

Reclaiming My RSS Workflow For years, my RSS reading and my writing have lived in parallel worlds. I consume through feeds, but I publish through my blog. I am increasingly convinced that this separat...

Rumored : Israeli Strike Kills Khamenei’s Relatives, Military Secretary; Khamenei Likely Dead 4 minutes ago Israeli strike reportedly dropped 30 munitions, killing relatives of Iran’s Supreme Leader A...

I was reading this is this really all we can do ?

Le pire c’est que les personnes qui suivent ces formations et qui font ces expériences sont persuadées d’avoir trouvé le graal ou en tout cas quelque chose de plus que les gens qui ne suivent pas le t...

After listening to this Podcast: Conspiracy Theory Nation Conspiracy Theories Never Helped Epstein’s Victims The recent renewed attention around the Epstein files has reignited a familiar chorus onlin...

I wish I could use IndiePass to connect to my Fedify/Indiekit ActivityPub server so to have a unified publishing/reading experience for both Indieweb and ActivityPub right now I have this but only on...

Read it Later, the way I always wanted it : So my indiekit blog is where I publish on the open web but also syndicate to Bluesky/Fediverse/Linkedin when I want to but its also a content hub, for examp...

Petite histoire HelloFresh Je ne suis pas client HelloFresh. Je n’ai jamais commandé quoi que ce soit chez eux et pourtant qu’elle ne fût pas ma surprise de tomber sur 2 domiciliations, ce même mois d...

kind of fascinating that I can browse the Fediverse, explore Public API timeline from my own Fedify powered reader and do so without storing much of the streaming content coming from my near 3K follow...

Vraiment @cert_eu@infosec.exchange , un blog sans flux RSS ?

Added a nice lightbox effect on the photos on my blog, so now when you read this deep dive into #wafrn you can see the diagram in full view

Near 300 deployments, meaning code changes, commit, npm publish, rebuild docker images, deploy, to reach the state I’m now with my blog :) it has been a wilde ride !

Finally fixed it, now all your reactions against my posts will display your nice facepile/avatar on my interaction page and below each full post

What if I could deploy my own Bluesky PDS and selfhost my Bluesky data in the same way I turned my Indiekit powered blog into an ActivityPub instance overnight with Fedify ?

Deep dive into Indiekit + Eleventy + Fedify https://rmendes.net/articles/2026/02/25/deep-dive-inside-indiekit/ #fedify #activitypub #indiekit

I wish I had more UI/UX skills… when I look at the design of a bunch of the blogs I follow via my Microsub reader I feel my blog is completely outdated in terms of design.

Really liking the flexibility I built into my indiekit + eleventy deployment where I can create content in different ways : markdown files micropub create post endpoint store data in MongoDB static ht...

I created this page to describe the Indiekit architecture powering this blog & AP server #fedify #indiekit #indieweb

One of the best hack I did to my Eleventy theme with Alpine is to store my session in the browser localStorage and then display to authed users a FAB, with contextual web actions on any part of the si...

I can now configure my h-card from the indiekit backend :)

Curious to see if #Fedify will support Quotes soon…

The first time you click a Fediverse button on my site, you’ll be asked to enter your home instance — in other words, your own Fediverse server. This can be a self-hosted instance or a platform like M...

One of the downside of self-hosting one’s own ActivityPub server is the loss of Brid.gy backfilling social reactions to one’s content. This is why I developed this indiekit plugin, it basically transl...

Added a bunch of colors to my blog, per post types, I’m far from the frontend design I dream about but the important is, its getting better and its home made ! https://rmendes.net/blog/

Finally fixed my green check rel=me link !

juste un peu marre de voir du Epstein partout pendant que l’invisibilité de ses victimes continue. de quoi les systèmes de Justice ont besoin pour arrêter Robert Spatz alors même qu’il fait appel d’un...

Storing this here for future exploration in the context of indiekit/ATproto integration https://standard.site/ https://sequoia.pub/

Signed this petition, Stop Google from limiting APK file usage #LeaveApkAlone

Android will become a locked-down platform in 184 Days if you don’t make your voice Heard. https://keepandroidopen.org/

quelques photos de mon intervention impromptue à ceci n’est pas une religion.

Je traînais par là hier en cherchant un point GLS/Bpost j’avais pas encore vu que la passerelle avait été terminée et qu...