#dev 2026-03-31

2026-03-31 UTC
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[KevinMarks] Interesting https://denodell.com/blog/youre-looking-at-the-wrong-pretext-demo
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[jeremycherfas] Protomaps looks really interesting. I’m hoping we can have a general mapping/GPS session at DUS.
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[KevinMarks] Not sure I see the advantage over using leafletjs and existing tile formats
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[capjamesg]1 Heads up for anyone using modern JavaScript stacks: https://thehackernews.com/2026/03/axios-supply-chain-attack-pushes-cross.html
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[capjamesg]1 [Murray] I am using Micropub with a syndication target.
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[capjamesg]1 I am using Benji’s https://sparkles.sploot.com as my client.
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[capjamesg]1 I can check a box to submit a bookmark to IndieNews:
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[capjamesg]1 https://chat-uploads.indieweb.org/files/2026/03/dev-20260331-131258-screenshot_2026-03-31_at_14.12.44.png
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[Murray] Ah nice, yeah that makes sense, make it as easy as possible. This is one of those SSG issues: I often bookmark things and then don't end up rebuilding for ages. So I've never added syndication, because I don't want to flood it (and because most sharing feels time sensitive). Really need to fix that.
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[capjamesg]1 Yeah. The flow currently is: create post in Sparkles, which creates a request to my Micropub endpoint, which is parsed by the endpoint to create a file with the microformats2 JSON data, which is used to build my site.
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[capjamesg]1 After my site is built, webmentions are sent for syndication if applicable.
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[Murray] So you automatically trigger a build whenever the micropub endpoint is hit? My issue with that is my builds take 1-2 minutes, and during that time the site goes down (another thing I need to fix 😅)
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[Murray] Now that I'm off Netlify and don't need to care about build minutes, I should probably just write a cron job to do it every night at some period with low traffic
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[capjamesg]1 Yep! It takes ~10s for my site to build.
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[Murray] nice!
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[capjamesg]1 I would like to make this shorter but the amount of work to do that is too high right now haha.
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[Murray] honestly, given your site's size, that's pretty impressive. I'd be surprised if I had more pages than you do
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[capjamesg]1 I am using a custom-rolled generator. I might open source the code at some point but I’m not sure I’m ready to maintain it as open source.
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[capjamesg]1 Following up on the bookmarks discussion from yesterday, the permalink structure is now https://jamesg.blog/2026/03/31/846a21, where the bit at the end is the first six letters of a SHA hash representing parts of the post content. I’m happy to have everything in the same namespace as my posts.
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Loqi [preview] Make a Website
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[schmarty] awww yiss, we talkin' about custom site builders to support micropub??
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[capjamesg] Yes 🙂
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[capjamesg] I want to build an art-related Micropub client but I’m not sure what to make yet haha
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[capjamesg] The Met in NY has a terrific API…
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[capjamesg] (and several other museums do too!)
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[schmarty] i have hugo compile into a separate folder from where my site is actually hosted. then i use a local `rsync` to copy over changed files. that keeps the site up during compilation.
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[schmarty] i also have `rsync` spit out a machine-readable version of the list of changed files, which is used to decide what pages to send webmentions for.
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[schmarty] capjamesg: very excited to hear more about your micropub client ideas! i'm still (very) slowly marinating on "Micropubkit" - a PHP micro-framework for banging out micropub clients. it powers all the little clients at https://bayside.pub/ (and some retired ones like Kapowski)
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[schmarty] https://git.schmarty.net/schmarty/micropubkit
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[capjamesg] Ooh I love Slater!
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[capjamesg] I think my idea is a client that lets you post public domain artworks to make a gallery page on your website.
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[capjamesg] The Met specifically has various works labelled as CC0 under their Open Access programme.
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[aciccarello] I've had a few special pages I've wanted to have a quick micropub posting process for. I've thought about (ab)using tags to indicate when I want some special logic but haven't implemented anything.
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[Michael_Kupiet] Anyone have any idea why Bridgy Fed might randomly not syndicate posts? I have several posts, all with
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[Michael_Kupiet] `<a class="u-bridgy-fed" href="https://fed.brid.gy/">Fediverse</a>` in the h-entry, and I can't see any rhyme or reason to what got syndicated and what didn't. It seems random.
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[Michael_Kupiet] All the microformats stuff is inserted on the server level, so I know it's consistent from post to post.
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[aciccarello] Do you have logs of the mention to http://fed.brid.gy? Some web mention receivers provide some feedback or a URL for checking the mention processing. I can't remember if bridgy does that.
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[aciccarello] Also, if you log into http://fed.brid.gy you should be able to see a list of activity including posts it saw you post
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[Michael_Kupiet] My access to BF's info seems minimal... I have a page at https://fed.brid.gy/web/michaelkupietz.com that shows the posts that have been syndicated, and not much else. Also, I just changed the skipped post's type from a WP custom "blog post" post type to a regular post, and suddenly it syndicated, even though "blog post" posts had previously syndicated.
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[Michael_Kupiet] Oh, and, apparently, it re-spammed Indienews with another mention, which I'm not crazy about...
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[snarfed] [Michael_Kupiet] happy to look if you have an example post that didn't work
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[Michael_Kupiet] And apparently BF is redirecting all links from Mastodon posts to my latest syndicated post, regardless of what the link actually is too... oy vey. https://michaelkupietz.com?p=33140 points to the correct post, but https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://michaelkupietz.com?p=33140 points to a different post.
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[snarfed] also I think [aciccarello] meant that you can click on the "X minutes/hours ago" links on eg https://fed.brid.gy/web/michaelkupietz.com to see the raw logs from each post
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[Michael_Kupiet] Ah! Thanks, didn't realize that. Let me have a look.
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gRegor I noticed it was showing the WP post ID permalinks in Bridgy Fed, which seemed odd, unless maybe your posts are marking those up as the u-url?
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gRegor your site is down for me, possibly others https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/michaelkupietz.com?proto=https
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gRegor or maybe just loading slowly... browser still trying
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[snarfed] yeah down or just consistently slow. [Michael_Kupiet] BF uses a default HTTP fetch timeout of 15s; if your site consistently exceeds that, you'll have a bad time 🤷
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[Michael_Kupiet] [gRegorLove] I have to look and refresh my memory but that may very well be... it does use the ?P= links for permalinks in most places.
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[Michael_Kupiet] re: slowdown Yes, my server has been doing this lately. Once or twice a day it chokes for a few minutes. Haven't figured out why yet. I think my opcache gets flushed and it's rebuilding my navigation menus. You all happen to be trying to hit it at the exact time it's happening.
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gRegor Eventually got a cloudflare error, 524
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gRegor I can give you the CF Ray ID if you'd like
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[Michael_Kupiet] [snarfed] basically whenever I'm updating the site, you get a minute or two of slowdowns as the cache flushes and rebuilds everything. The cron job that sends the webmentions runs every 5 minutes... I suppose if I submit a post update at 4 minutes 50 seconds, and the webmention gets sent at 5 minutes, it might still be rebuilding the menu, and if BF tries immediately to fetch the page, it'll time out. So, for the record, BF doesn't
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[Michael_Kupiet] retry if it doesn't get a response?
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[Michael_Kupiet] [snarfed] Also, for sure, all posts syndicated to Mastodon have their https://fed.brid.gy/r/ redirecting to the post https://michaelkupietz.com?p=32703instead instead of the correct posts, even though the links in the Mastodon posts contain the correct ?p= IDs. See https://mastodon.social/@michaelkupietz.com@michaelkupietz.com for examples. All links in the same posts syndicated to BSky
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[Michael_Kupiet] https://bsky.app/profile/michaelkupietz.com.web.brid.gy are working as expected, and point directly at the correct articles on my site. Do the mastodon posts have to include that http://fed.brid.gy redirect instead of the actual permalink? I looked in the BF logs for the posts that are linking correctly from BSky and incorrectly from Mastodon and don't see any examples of wrong permalinks. Thanks!
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[Michael_Kupiet] In case you can't see the Mastodon posts... try https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://michaelkupietz.com?p=33149 or even a nonexistent ID like https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://michaelkupietz.com?p=98765 . They're all redirecting to post 32703. The site itself is handling the ?p= permalinks correctly if you enter them directly.
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[Michael_Kupiet] Confirmed from both Firefox and Chrome... thought maybe it was a weird browser caching issue but it's not.
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gRegor I can answer part of that. yeah, Mastodon requires that the link in the post, it's part of the AP stuff being delegated to that domain