CrowderSoup

A website about technology and life.

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Aaron Crowder

Hi, I'm Aaron Crowder. Or—if you know me online—CrowderSoup.

Father of two, Software developer, and lover of the open web. I like to take things apart (and sometimes even put them back together). I can frequently be found tinkering with some bit of code in my spare time.

Pronouns: He/Him, They/Them

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I keep sharing links to my blog, so I figured I’d update my blog to let you leave comments on it too. Now theres native commenting, with a real data model, clean front-end forms, and a simple moderation flow in the admin. Spam is filtered early with Akismet and Turnstile, so my comments aren’t flooded with AI bots.

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Crosing all my fingers and toes that this works! I'm really wanting to be able to participate in these communities while keeping my blog as the source of truth for my content.

(if you're wondering what I'm doing, I'm using Brid.gy to take this from my blog and share here)

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I used to use Hugo, and did for a long time. But sending webmentions was always tricky! Eventually I broke down and just built my own blogging platform lol.

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This looks awesome! I have thought about building something like that before. Nice work 🎉

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