#webdev

A Quick Guide to Everything I Know about Webmentions

Collection of tutorials on webmentions including the basics — you can get up and running with only two lines of HTML! — using microformats to enrich your mentions; adding a webmention form; and parsing, displaying, and updating them with Eleventy, Netlify, and Bridgy.

ルビとHTML

I took a few years of Japanese classes in undergrad, and today I'm returning to that and discussing some HTML markup for Japanese and other East Asian languages.

Location Test

May 2025 IWC—More Easily Joining Small Web Communities

For this month's IndieWeb carnival on “small web communities,” I'm thinking about lowering the barrier for web independence and freedom

I Would Rather Spend an Evening on a Web Scraper than Use Your App

My Swedish textbook publisher wanted me to listen to audio examples on their site or in their app. I had other ideas.

Liked | play; ground | James' Coffee Blog

Liked | Welcome to the IndieWeb - Serverless Industries

RSVP | Front End Study Hall #028 | May 20, 2025 | IndieWeb Events

A Grimoire of Shell Scripts

Today I'm discussing my thoughts on “home-cooked” and “situated” software, and how that's inspired me to start a collection of useful script tools for myself.

Liked | In defense of unpolished personal websites

RSVP | Front End Study Hall #025

Blogrolls as a Social Network

I added an OPML file of my blogroll, and I talk about some really cool ideas from around the IndieWeb for using blogrolls as social web infrastructure

Webmentions Without Plugins

At yesterday's Pacific Homebrew Website Club meeting, I got some great feedback and was able to figure out making my own code to bring in webmentions!

Displaying Webmentions

I finally figured out displaying webmentions on my site without any client-side JavaScript!

Adding multiple RSS feeds

Manually generating RSS feeds so I can have separate ones for different kinds of posts

Setting up a "notes" feed

Short posts, thoughts, and interesting things from around the web — it's like Twitter but I own all my posts!

Blog Tag Game

Tumblr-style tag game about blogging—I'd love if you join in!

Static Site Generators Are Nice

Making it easier to blog, and to use my site instead of social media

Receiving Webmentions, Part 1

Setting up my blog to receive Webmentions

RSS Is Nice

My process of adding RSS to my blog, my rediscovery of how nice RSS is, and some music blogs I've been enjoying

Do Read the Comments

A writeup of using Netlify serverless functions and Supabase to code a comments section on a static site

Hello World!

An introduction to this blog and what I plan to do with it