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A Comprehensive Guide to PADD: Your Personal Aggregation Display Dashboard
Aaron Crowder

If you spend any time in the IndieWeb community, you've probably heard of feed readers; tools that let you follow blogs and websites without being beholden to any single platform. PADD (Personal Aggregation Display Dashboard) is one such reader, built by me with the IndieWeb philosophy at its core. I've been using it daily and wanted to walk through everything it offers. What Is PADD? PADD is a Microsub-compatible feed reader and social reader. The name says it all: it's a personal aggregati...

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So... #PADD is getting "Notifications". If your microsub server has a notifications channel then PADD will automatically treat them as such!

I realized that part of the #Microsub spec calls for a notifications channel when I was adding a microsub server to my blog software. So naturally if my blog was going to publish it, I figured my reader should consume it naturally.

Seriously, I am having so much fun building this stuff.

Aaron Crowder

Never thought I'd be thinking about building a shader in WebGL so that I can post fancily edited photos to my blog from my phone using a Star Trek themed web app I made.

Just #IndieWeb things I guess, lol

ps, how good does PADD look??

Aaron Crowder

PADD Gets a Big Upgrade
Aaron Crowder

I've been busy! There's a big batch of improvements landing in PADD today. It touches pretty much every part of the app so I'm writing this post to walk y'all through it. First though, I want to give a disclaimer: I'm building this stuff primarily for myself (not you, sorry). I want a good way to quickly post to my own site and read the blogs I care about. PADD is my attempt at that. If it turns out to be useful to other people, that's great. If not? Well, then at least I have a reader I like...

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Building all my own tools for posting to my website and sharing content on the internet was easily the best thing I've done in years. #IndieWeb all the things!!

Aaron Crowder