Notes
Short thoughts, updates, and quick posts. (1647 total)
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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 !
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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
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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 ?
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Deep dive into Indiekit + Eleventy + Fedify https://rmendes.net/articles/2026/02/25/deep-dive-inside-indiekit/
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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skills… when I look at the design of a bunch of the blogs I follow via my Microsub reader I feel my blog is completely outdated in terms of design.
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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 html serving like demo
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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 site :
- create a new posts, bookmark, article etc…
- edit the current post
this allow me to search anything via the frontend to edit, it works on mobile or desktop and its a life-saver !
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I can now configure my h-card from the indiekit backend :)
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Curious to see if #Fedify will support Quotes soon…
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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 Mastodon, Pleroma, and others.
Once that’s set, clicking on an “Also on” syndicated post link will open the corresponding URL directly inside your own Mastodon instance. From there, you’ll see it as a native Mastodon post, which means you can reply, boost, or favourite it just like any other post in your timeline.
The same logic applies to the “Fediverse” sidebar widget. It reads the instance you previously saved in your browser’s localStorage and uses it to trigger a remote follow request directly from your own Mastodon account.
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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 translate ActivityPub activity on one’s content into JF2 format so that this page can aggregate all the interactions with my content in one place. It also provide an API so that I can display a webmention widget in the frontend that Eleventy + AlpineJS can use to display new interactions live on the frontend.
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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/
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Finally fixed my green check rel=me link !
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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’une énième décision de Justice, suite à sa condamnation de 2022, tout en étant vautré dans la récidive?
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Storing this here for future exploration in the context of indiekit/ATproto integration
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Signed this petition, Stop Google from limiting APK file usage
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Android will become a locked-down platform in 184 Days if you don’t make your voice Heard.
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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 every single day. When you depend on a tool and its interface constantly gets in your way, the motivation to fix it becomes very real.
I’ve always been more drawn to backend infrastructure than frontend development. That’s where I feel most comfortable. But it’s precisely when you’re stuck using a clumsy or poorly designed interface that you start caring about the user perspective. Frustration becomes fuel.
I’ll probably need to spend more time reading through the codebases of projects like Elk or Phanpy to better understand alternative ActivityPub UI patterns and design choices.
There’s a lot to learn from how others approach the same problems. My current self-hosted ActivityPub reader works, technically.
But from a UI perspective, it’s still rough around the edges and that’s something I want to throw some energy & focus to improve.