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[tantek] https://onlinephp.io/ was amazing for quickly checking and narrowing down bugs in cassis
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aaronpk i wonder if anyone has built a github action that can add webmentions to a static site
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doesnm maybe it exist
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[qubyte] Sounds like something I’d make, but I haven’t. It’d only do likes though. I prefer to check anything else. I use a netlify function as an endpoint, and it does some quick checks of the source and then uses the GitHub API to open an issue with some details of the mention.
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[qubyte] Right now I use actions to schedule posts, update the copyright year, and convert and resize images.
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perryflynn aaronpk: would be interesting how the state handling is solved. so that not on every build all pages sending notifications.
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aaronpk classic SSG problem yeah
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aaronpk but i was actually referring to receiving webmentions
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aaronpk wasn't clear sorry
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perryflynn maybe it could be extracts from the files changed depending if simple commit or pull requests.
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perryflynn aaronpk: aaah, kk.
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perryflynn I plan exactly that for my new interface. will add a webhook feature which triggers gitlab CI if a new mention was added to the APIs DB.
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[aciccarello] perryflynn I use a netlify build plugin for webmention sending on my static site https://github.com/CodeFoodPixels/netlify-plugin-webmentions
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[aciccarello] I know benji uses a Netlify serverless function for handling micropub. I imagine you could do the same for webmentions. https://github.com/benjifs/micropub
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Loqi [preview] [benjifs] micropub: Serverless Micropub and media endpoints to publish to static site
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[aciccarello] I'm not sure that I'd want to do it that way though. Adding commits for every mention seems noisy.
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[qubyte] For state I compare the atom feed before and after.
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[aciccarello] I'm already using Indiekit so accepting mentions on that server would probably be a better fit for me. https://github.com/getindiekit/indiekit/issues/429
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Loqi [preview] [davidcelis] #429 Webmention support
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[qubyte] I do that in a netlify (for now) build plugin. Any thing new/changes/gone triggers dispatches.
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[aciccarello] qubyte, are you using a public plugin?
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[aciccarello] I've been wanting to add a diff check to the plugin I'm using https://github.com/CodeFoodPixels/netlify-plugin-webmentions/issues/4
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[qubyte] My own code. Free to look at for inspiration.
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[qubyte] Pretty scrappy code tbh. More work to do to shore it up and test it, but it does work. https://github.com/qubyte/qubyte-codes/blob/main/plugins/dispatch-webmentions/index.js
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perryflynn [qubyte]: comparing feed is a great idea. 👍
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[benji] I have a version of a serverless wm receiver. It uses netlify's blobs as key value store which does ok but havent had time to finish writing tests to switch to this yet.
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[benji] For sending I use a post build netlify plugin that caches last sent and uses my fork of http://webmention.app to send: https://github.com/benjifs/benji/blob/main/plugins/send_webmentions/index.js
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doesnm wait, how it possible to **receive** webmentions via actions?
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[aciccarello] Thanks for sharing the code
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[qubyte] You can’t receive by actions. You need a server of some kind (inc lambda-like functions).
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[aciccarello] qubyte++
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Zegnat doesnm: I think it would require a separate public webmention receiver (like webmention.io) and retrieve your mentions from there?
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Zegnat specifically for GitHub, you can actually receive Webhooks by triggering your action on repository_dispatch. But the Webhook body must have a specific format (JSON object with 2 members, "event_type" and "client_payload"). So a very thin Webmention proxy could accept mentions, transform the request to a GitHub dispatch, and forward it straight to an Action.
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Zegnat Still would need to host that thin proxy somewhere that is not static.
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Zegnat aaronpk: was that along the lines you were thinking?
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Zegnat Fow people who have never seen GitHub action webhooks, I thought this was a good summary with example https://www.howtogeek.com/devops/how-to-trigger-github-actions-remotely-using-webhooks/ and this is the API https://docs.github.com/en/rest/repos/repos?apiVersion=2022-11-28#create-a-repository-dispatch-event
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aaronpk interesting
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aaronpk At the very least it sounds like I could make a webhook in webmention.io for that
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Zegnat If there is a place I can store my personal Bearer token in webmention.io, yeah, should not be too hard to send a webhook
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aaronpk yeah, definitely doable without much effort on my end. do you think there would be enough interest?
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aaronpk it already supports webhooks, wouldn't take much to add another format for it https://github.com/aaronpk/webmention.io/blob/main/helpers/web_hooks.rb
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carrvo aaronpk++ that seems like a neat project (albeit not one I would use).
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Zegnat I think it is interesting, but whether there would be interest ...
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[artlung] I have completed the backlog of CSS Battle Daily Targets. I have filled youtube with 4 days, 14 hours, 24 minutes, 5 seconds of me writing CSS. I added some `popover` goodness so you can watch in-page. And I added keyboard navigation too. I am not sure why I did this other than as practice. CSS. Video editing. Video troubleshooting. Video is such a pain. Write up in the next few days. https://artlung.com/cssbattles/
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Loqi [preview] Days with videos: 678 Days without videos: 0 How many videos? 371 My goal in each video: reach 100% match if I can. I'd like to be able to r...
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[schmarty] hahaha sheesh who lets me run code on the public internet 🤦 😂 https://git.schmarty.net/schmarty/gem-diamond/commit/799d586eb9b815a7757a9ff75ac611bbb9f1e832
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Loqi ahahaha
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[artlung] Fricking SQL, how does it work?
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[artlung] [schmarty]++ bug stomping!
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[tantek] @schmarty++ now that’s what I call a bugfix!
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