The Definitive Location
Forcing webmentions for conversations on websites that don’t support Webmention Within the IndieWeb community there is a process called backfeed which is the process of syndicating interactions o
I attended an event that I heard about while attending Friday night services at Chabad here in Sofia, in commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
In my walking tours of Sofia, the tour guides touched on the history of Bulgarian Jews during World War 2. At the event, one survivor spoke…the individual translating for me did not cover everything, but the same individual spoke the day before, and it was covered here.
If I got the gist correctly, he said that the idea that all Bulgarian Jews were saved was not true, there were victims. Either way, it’s complicated.
The documentary featured a survivor returning with school age children to tell them about what she experienced at Auschwitz and was very powerful.
As someone who has been to a fair number of Holocaust remembrance events, this was very meaningful to me, especially that I could be a part of it even though I was far from home, even though I did not understand everything that was said.
Opened in 1909, the Sofia Synagogue is one of the three largest in Europe. The Chandelier is supposedly the biggest in the Balkans.
On April 13, 1944, a bomb fell in the northeastern corner of the building, but did not explode. The building has been restored, and is used, but I could not find anyone who told me anything about services, if any.
IndieWebCamp Online 2020 is a two day online event for independent web creators of all kinds, from graphic artists, to designers, UX engineers, coders, hackers, to share ideas, actively work on creating for their own personal websites, and build upon each others creations.
Been unable to attend an i…
Why not, right?
I shipped a great bug yesterday. A big thanks to Chris Aldrich for catching that and sending me a DM today to let me know.
With all my cleverness around separating comment types for display below posts, I forgot to check for cases where there was some kind of Webmention, but no regul…
I am eager to see custom comment types and statuses…I’ve been following those tickets since the beginning
The specification for Webmentions became a W3C recommendation three years ago, on January 12, 2017. The whole idea of a webmention, like its predecessors, is it is a way for one site to notify another that it is linking to it.
The receiving site gets to decide what to do with the notification…display it, store it, use it for stats…etc.
Now, in recent times, with additional Indieweb protocols being developed, webmentions are not getting the attention they once did in discussions. That is the sign of maturity. But there are still areas to explore.
On the development front, I have been slowly submitting improvements to the webmention plugin in WordPress. The webmention functionality in WordPress is bifurcated into two plugins, Semantic Linkbacks and Webmentions. They are being merged, piece by piece, each piece being improved and redesigned as it is merged.
The webmentions plugin now has the MF2 Parser, which it hasn’t since its early days. In future iterations, it will be hooked up and start parsing microformats, gradually moving this away from Semantic Linkbacks.
